^ordered the LP. It bugged me that it was the only SYR I didnt have on vinyl (the ones that are available on vinyl). Can't wait!

I think every SYR has been very interesting, they're certainly not releases that are intended to be played on your jukebox at a family shindig or what have you...

well no, but SYR1 and 2 are rather accessible me thinks.

There's a Thurston / Mats Gustaffson release coming soon on Smalltown Supersound, according to an advert in The Wire.

that's cool and all. But...

yall are kinda hard to please. wonder if Mr Ibold got his bike yet. whether you liked the Eternal or not, you might enjoy reading
http://thequietus.com/articles/01524...track-by-track

Okay, what if I say that 3rd Original Silence is on the forthcoming list too?

meh

SY related 2010:
D-W/L-SS / JBe split 7" Sixgunlover
Interference Interference 2LP The Social Registry
Lee Ranaldo / Jim O’Rourke / Christoph Heemann Bloomington, Indiana / Autumn LP Streamline
The Hat City Intuitive A Ticket For Decay LP Ecstatic Peace!
The High Confessions Turning Lead Into Gold With The High Confessions CD/2LP Relapse
Confusion Is Sex LP Original Recordings Group
EVOL LP Original Recordings Group
Hits Are For Squares 2LP Geffen
VA - Does your cat know my dog? LP three:four records
VA - All Kinds Of People Love Burt Bacharach
Kim Gordon - The Noise Paintings Book Ecstatic Peace Library
Kim Gordon Performing / Guzzling book Rizzoli
Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer Drift Hasselt DVD Taping Policies
Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer Water Days book + CD Dis Voir
Lee Ranaldo Against Refusing Book Water Row Books
Singer/Ranaldo & Gordon/Moore Sensational Fix Zine #4/#5

Upcoming:
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Thurston Moore In Silver Rain With a Paper Key Book + 2x7” Ecstatic Peace Library

Did I miss anything?

@Blunderbuss: What Issue/page? I browsed through the two latest issues, but I couldn't find it.

there's also the T. Moore SUICIDE FOR ACOUSTIC GUITAR thing that was just announced.

what about the Graffiti Composition performance from MOMA with Lee et al...didn't that just come out?

It appears so! Had no idea about that. Thanks! (Amazon)

Also, i forgot about this.

What is this if I may ask you? And when it will be able to buy/hear?

http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=40873

My Cat Is An Alien w/ Ramona Ponzini & Lee Ranaldo - All Is Lost In Translation


Release date: November 9, 2010
Label: Atavistic

 

Presumably recorded in Verona, the night before the Sensational Fix opening in Bolzano.


http://www.amazon.com/Translation-Al...760431&sr=8-31

Anyone got this? Care to give a brief review?

i got it..though i suck at reviews...true it was recorded october 8 2008 - interzona,verona,italy...very spacey and drone filled...2 tracks 1-38m...2-19m....like i said i suck at reviews or articulating most things...but it's a decent listen...dig it

Out Now!

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN with RAMONA PONZINI & LEE RANALDO 'All Is Lost In Translation' CD / DL (ATAVISTIC, USA - ALP196CD)

"Bella Italia avant garde meets Sonic-Youth guitar guru!
The Brothers Opalio return with their second collaborative album for Atavistic. This time MY CAT IS AN ALIEN have teamed up with RAMONA PONZINI (vocals/Japanese percussion, and LEE RANALDO
(guitars/bells/vocals) for a 2008 session, captured live in Verona, Italy. Like the extant MCIAA tapestry of international collaborations, 'All Is Lost In Translation' continues their spectacular latter-day exploration of the outer reaches, and further defines their well-earned role as alchemical auteur-artists." (label info)

Maurizio Opalio - electric guitar, percussion Roberto Opalio - wordless vocalizations, electric guitar, space toys, alientronics Ramona Ponzini - vocals, lyrics taken from Yosano Akiko's poems, Japanese wind chimes & hand percussion Lee Ranaldo - lyrics and vocals, electric guitar, bells Cover artwork by Roberto Opalio
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Read THE WIRE review by Ken Hollings - The Wire #323 January 2011

"Despite the drug-fuelled paranoia suggested by their adopted name, Maurizio and Roberto Opalio show a quiet concentration in the pursuit of their loose electronic aesthetic. This reunion with longtime collaborator Ramona Ponzini and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo is a case in point. They first played together in June of 2008, joined onstage by New Zealand Noise artist Michael Morley for a set released on CD as 'Sensational Fix'. On 8 October of that same year the quartet reconvened in Verona for a second concert together, and the results are the two taut excursions presented here.
The Opalio brothers show a rare gift for opening up a space for possibilities during their performances, and the resultant interplay of electric guitars, effects pedals, metallic percussion, battery-operated sci-fi toys and distracted vocals shows Ponzini and Ranaldo responding in kind. In some respects, the combination of Ponzini's Japanese wind chimes and handheld percussion with Ranaldo's distinctive guitar stylings only serve to duplicate the mutant Krautrock lurking at the heart of My Cat Is An Alien's explorations of sound - the familiar slashing, glimmering cosmic tones are extended, broken up and deepened by their contributions. It is actually as vocal performers that they bring this four-way exchange into focus.
Ponzini's called repetition of lines composed by Japanese feminist poet Akiko Yosano, counterbalanced by Ranaldo's own repeated allusions to violent misunderstandings, bring an impassive edge to the collective playing.
'All is lost in translation', Ranaldo exclaims in the second of these untitled sequences before returning once again to the obsessive refrain 'She kicked me in the head', which recurs throughout the set.
Drug-fuelled paranoia as rarely been expressed so neatly."
(Ken Hollings)

Thank you. Ordered that and the new Ulrich Krieger + Ranaldo + Licht + Barnes one