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@jspacewoman.bsky.social

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Portland, Oregon jazz and avant garde | the beauty of the mundane mom of two boys | cat woman | enthusiast I love finding records and listening to them 🖤 https://bandcamp.com/lunaonthegrass

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Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · Nov 17

What’s on the record shelves? Music I love to share. Most of you know already, but for new folks..
✨✨✨✨ Free jazz Kosmische Avantgarde Deep Listening French folk/pop Italian minimalism Brazilian  David Berman  Arthur Russell Music made by nuns Sahel Japanese ambient Cosmic country/folk and more ✨✨✨✨

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 21h

All the classics today, I see.

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 1d

Same! ❤️

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 1d

This one came to me via a friends and family discount :) and I’m very grateful for that!

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 1d

It’s an MR-1 and it’s wonderful. I just got it a few months ago and so happy to finally have a good cassette player!

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 1d

Something is faulty in my system and I don’t have time to troubleshoot it for a couple weeks so it’ll be cassettes from now until whenever, lol

Blue Valentine is the sixth studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on September 5, 1978, on Asylum Records.

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you ❤️

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Thank you!

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Thank you ❤️

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earthsl.bandcamp.com/album/angels...

Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light I, by Earth

earthsl.bandcamp.com

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 2d

My first child is moving 958 miles away in a few days. To LA. To Laurel Canyon. I am beyond excited about it and so very proud of him. I cried for a week and then we celebrated for a week. Today we packed and I cried a little less. Parenting is just all joy and sadness, intertwined, forever

My son when he was three, running on the beach in Oregon.

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 2d

Mood

Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I is the sixth full-length studio album by the band Earth, released on Southern Lord Records. Cello is introduced as a new instrument, along with the usual ones being used since the album Hex. Dylan Carlson describes the album as more melodic and riff oriented. The second part of the album was released in 2012. The album illustrations were created by Stacey Rozich.

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 3d

Revisiting

Emergency Third Rail Power Trip is the debut album by American rock band Rain Parade, released in 1983. It is one of the most prominent records in the Paisley Underground movement of the 1980s.

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll explore this further. Thank you!

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, I love her so I’m not too critical here, lol

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 3d

Not recommending this record even for fans of the artist, but it’s kinda sweet for a grey Saturday morning

Françoise Hardy en Anglais, 1968

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 5d

I bet! lol

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 5d

I was just listening to the Necks! 🙌 youtu.be/UMueDWG86JU?...

The Necks NTS Live at Cafe Oto

YouTube video by NTS

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 5d

I totally get that. 💜 And there are parts of it that I can never stop thinking about. But my brain can’t help comparing it to Altman’s Short Cuts in terms of character development (mostly) and I know that’s not fair or right but I think that’s why I don’t ever fully get on board with it

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh nice! I don’t know the Blue Lake project, but the Borges and Riley are big favorites. Glad you’re enjoying all of those!

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 5d

12/12/R

“Carambolage never set out to be a "girl band" but they were one of the first German new wave bands whose members were all female. The punk alliance comprising Britta Neander, Elfie-Esther Steitz and Angie Olbrich emerged organically from the environs of Ton Steine Scherben, friends united by a common interest in musical experimentation. Britta's passion for the drums ignited in 1974 in Fresenhagen, North Frisia, where she played percussion for Ton Steine Scherben. R.P.S. Lanrue's little sister Elfie-Esther was an obvious candidate. Angie, a child from the streets who joined the commune in 1972, completed the line-up. Carambolage surfed on their very own "North Frisian Wave" -- an epithet dreamed up for their distinctive sound. Shortly before her death in 2004, Britta was interviewed by music journalist Tine Plesch and described how the "girls gang" gave them the freedom to experiment and come up with "these really funny, filthy lyrics". There is a childish, subversive charm to the songs, emboldened by the realization that "we could fool around as much as we wanted." Their sound was not the only aspect of the group which resulted from experimental tinkering. Keen to have their own space, away from a male-dominated environment, they used cardboard and carpets to build their own practice room inside an old grain silo.

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 8d

Heading east through Hollywood, there are always points in which the Harvest Moon appears to be gigantic. It’s one of my favorite things. People on walks have stopped to photograph it. I’ve pulled my car over to sit for a while and gaze upon it. So beautiful. 🌕

Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social · 8d

A few years after we graduated I was randomly window shopping at a music store in Manhattan and recognized him. He worked there. We caught up for a few minutes and he invited me to come hear him play, which was right at the beginning of that part of his life, I think. Funny, in a city of millions.