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Forteana, Hauntology, Odd Music, Weird Fiction, and Cultural Curiosities.
Carl Orff & Gunild Keetman – Music For Children (Schulwerk) [Trunk Records. 2013]

A collection of instructional pieces designed for early music education. The selections are drawn from a pair of LPs originally released in 1958.

#musicsky #hauntology
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Blurt – Smoke Time [Moving Target. 1987]

Jagged skronk that alternates between Beatnik cool and seriously wired hysteria. I dearly love the music of Blurt.

#musicsky
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Krampus vs Cads!
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Delia Derbyshire And Elsa Stansfield – Circle Of Light (Original Electronic Soundtrack) [Trunk Records. 2016]

Subtle electronic sounds and environmental recordings. It's a lovely listening experience.

#Hauntology #Musicsky
December 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
December 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Richard Littler. Discovering Scarfolk: For Tourists & Other Trespassers. Penguin. 2014

An epistolary novel about Daniel Bush & his search for his missing sons, Joe and Oliver. They vanished in Scarfolk, a town that may or may not exist in our reality where the 1970s perpetually loop.

#hauntology
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Dummy Run – Ice Cream Headache [Hot Air. 1997]

Rapid fire cut-ups and drum'n'bass rhythms.

Dummy Run is/was Andrew Sharpley and Nic Birmingham, and Matt Wand produced the album.

A Stock, Hausen and Walkman-related project.

#Musicsky
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Raymond Pettibon
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Selten Gehörte Musik – Münchner Konzert Mai 1974 [Edition Hansjörg Mayer. 3xLP. 1975]

Free improvisation from artists/writers/musicians/etc., Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, and Oswald Wiener. Those sharp-eyed among you will spot ...

#musicsky #unusualmusic
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
No more rock and roll!
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Curver – Sjö [Ullabjakk. 1997]

Splendid noisy guitar post-punk, which may appeal to fans of Atomizer-era Big Black and Loop.

"Birgir Örn Thoroddsen. Icelandic musician, producer, engineer, visual artist, and one-half of experimental electric band Ghostigital."

#musicsky #unusualmusic
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I have made it awkward...
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Matt Wand – Hands Of Hair [Hot Air. 2020]

The latest addition to my Stock, Hausen, and Walkman library.

Samples drawn from old-timey music, surface noise, whirrs, clicks, and other unidentified sounds make for an unusual listening experience.

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November 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Various – Masse Mensch [Selektion. 1982]

One of the earliest, and one of the best art music/avant-weirdness collections.

The opening track by Laughing Hands is particularly good.

#musicsky
October 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Serge Gainsbourg / Jean-Claude Vannier – Les Chemins De Katmandou (ost) [Finders Keepers Records. 2017]

Currently spinning.
October 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hintermass – The Apple Tree [Ghost Box. 2016]

A collaboration between Jon Brooks (The Advisory Circle, Cafe Kaput, King of Woolworths, a.o.) and Tim Felton (Broadcast, Seeland).

The album is a wander through electronic fields and folk reminiscences in liminal spaces.

#Musicsky #Hauntology
October 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
John L. and Adamah – Lonesome In Overdrive [Green Tree Records. 1996]

Psychedelic trance music that travels the spaceways alongside Kalacakra and the Third Ear Band. It's so very enjoyable. I can't get enough of this sort of thing.

#krautrock #psychedelia
October 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Chuck Wendig. The Staircase in the Woods. 2025

The concept caught my attention, like doorways appearing where they shouldn't, the idea of stand-alone staircases in isolated locales captures the uncanniness of liminal spaces.
October 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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October 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Stuff is going to happen. Be prepared.
October 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
George Melly
October 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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October 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM