l-dopa

I went camping in Vermont this weekend. I had never gone camping before, and it was lots of fun, even though on the second day it rained.

At night, my iPod sure came in handy. Here’s a list of which albums got played over the three day trip, with annotations when necessary:

*On the drive up*
* Everything’s Ecstatic (Fourtet)
* Gold (The Fucking Am)
* Hold Your Horse Is (Hella)
* U.F.Orb (Orb)

*First night camping*
* Caravanserai (Santana)
* Band of Gypsies (Jimi Hendrix)
* Entroducing… (DJ Shadow)
* The Prosthetic Cubans (Marc Ribot)
* Panthalassa (Miles Davis/Bill Laswell)
* The Equatorial Stars (Brian Eno/Robert Fripp)
* Maarifa Street (Jon Hassell)

*Second day camping*
* Man About a Horse (Steve Tibbetts)
* Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes (John Fahey)
* Bad Timing (Jim O’Roarke)
* Filles De Kilimanjaro (Miles Davis)
* Lush Life (John Coltrane)^[1]
* Fire Walk with Me Soundtrack (Angelo Badalamenti)
* Dream (U. Srinivas/Micheal Brook)
* The Blue Notebooks (Max Richter)^[2]
* On Land (Brian Eno)

*On the drive back*
* Deadbeat Heros (Doug Stanhope)

~jeff

[1] “Lush Life” is a kind of forgotten Coltrane album, but for my money, it’s one of the best “jazz” jazz albums ever recorded. It’s just perfect.

[2] “The Blue Notebooks” is a modern classical electro-acoustic concept album kinda-sorta about the works of Franz Kafka. It shouldn’t work, but it does. Previously I’ve said that this is the most beautiful modern classical album I’ve ever heard; I now have to append that to say it’s simply the most beautiful album I’ve ever heard *period*.