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Surgery 403: Colin Stetson

To fill out the rest of June, while I recover from surgery, ironically, it is time for a triptych of veteran spotlights. First up is the youngest (I think) of the trio: Saxophonist and composer Colin Stetson. Always busy, Stetson's most recent work has included a collaborative album with Greg Fox and Trevor Dunn as well and the soundtrack to the Netflix series Something Very Bad is Going to Happen. Enjoy the spotlight!

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Colin Stetson, Greg Fox, Trevor Dunn - Nethering (Envision/2026)

Colin Stetson - When were were that what wept for the sea (Bandcamp/2023)

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.1 (Aagoo/2011)

Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory (Kartel Music/2017)

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.3: To See More Light (Constellation/2013)

Ex Eye - Ex Eye (Relapse/2017)

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.2: Judges (Constellation/2011)

Colin Stetson's Slow Descent - Slow Descent (Flying Tigers Music/2003)

 

Track Listing

 

Colin Stetson, Greg Fox, Trevor Dunn - Moleman [0:00]

Colin Stetson - Passage [4:44]

Colin Stetson - Tiger Tiger Crane [7:59]

Colin Stetson - Between Water and Wind [11:05]

Colin Stetson - What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? [17:19]

Ex Eye - Xenolith; The Anvil [20:48]

Colin Stetson - A dream of water [24:35]

Colin Stetson's Slow Descent - For Fear of What's to Come [28:04]

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Surgery 402

There's an argument for Summer starting right as June appears, though it's also locally the time where the temperature swings about 30 degrees from day to night to day. In that frame of mind I thought I'd dig into the digital catalog for a clutch of appropriately moody "summer" songs. Enjoy.
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Six Organs of Admittance - Time Is Glass (Drag City)

Strom Noir - Urban Blues (Zoharum)

Milieu - Colortone (Milieu Music)

Imbogodom - Metafather (Thrill Jockey)

The Sly and Unseen - Summer Passes / Evidence Of Fractures (Rural Colours)

Library Tapes - Sun Peeking Through (Auetic)

The Declining Winter - The Waning Mill Chronicles (Self-release)

 

Track Listing

 

Six Organs of Admittance - Summer's Last Rays [0:00]

Strom Noir - All Summer in a Day [6:45]

Milieu - Summer Friends [11:51]

Imbogodom - Summer Fungus [15:32]

The Sly and Unseen - Screaming Through Summer Skies [18:39]

Libary Tapes - End of the Summer [23:44]

The Declining Winter - Summer Circuit [26:32]

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Surgery 401

Aho Ssan - The Sun Turned Black (Subtext Records)

One Leg One Eye - Crone (AD93)

Boduf Songs - Selected Instrumental Works (Bluesanct)

I'A'V - Volatile Poem (Discrepant)

Arctic Diva - Circled Green (Scorpio Red)

Gaspard Claus - Cells (InFiné)

 

Track Listing

 

Aho Ssan - 100 Suns Pt. II [0:00]

One Leg One Eye - What I Shall Follow I Shall Hunt [7:16]

Boduf Songs - Das Liebetodesdrang Pt. 4 [11:11]

I'A'V - Echoes [15:24]

Arctic Diva - Circle's End [18:57]

Gaspard Claus - Désir des astres [23:19]

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Surgery 400

As is our usual way, milestone episodes are spotlight episodes. For 400 the spotlight falls on Matt Christensen. A steady presence within the confines of Surgery with both his solo work and as part of Zelienople, he has been especially prolific of late, so we've been listening and marvelling and in a sharing mood. So enjoy!

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Zelienople - Show Us The Fire (Immune Recordings/2015)

Zelienople - Hold You Up (Miasmah/2020)

Matt Christensen - I Know What The Fight Is (Morc Tapes/2017)

Zelienople - His/Hers (Type/2007)

Matt Christensen - Honeymoons (Miasmah/2016)

Zelienople - Everything is Simple (Shelter Press/2024)

Zelienople - Bachelor's Grove (Self-Released/2004)

Matt Christensen - A Cradle in the Bowery (Under the Spire/2011)

Zelienople - The World Is A House On Fire (Type/2012)

Matt Christensen - Coma Gears (Bathetic/2011)

Matt Christensen - Constant Green (Miasmah/2021)

 

Track Listing

 

Zelienople - Blue Sands [0:00]

Zelienople - Just an Unkind Time [4:23]

Matt Christensen - Sweet Child, I'll Fix You [9:12]

Zelienople - Family Beast [14:38]

Matt Christensen - Honeymoons [23:54]

Zelienople - Hold in My Hands [29:34]

Zelienople - Untitled(5) [33:42]

Matt Christensen - Someday I Won't Matter [39:15]

Zelienople - The Real Devil [45:07]

Matt Christensen - California [50:29]

Matt Christensen - It's Not Hard to Love Everyone [54:27]

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Surgery 399

If you're listening to this on the day it drops I am currently on the fourth and last day of getting my mind blown at the 42nd edition of the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville. This episode features a taste of the artists I'll have or will be seeing at the festival this year. Enjoy.

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Darius Jones - Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (Aum Fidelity)

Beast - Cetus (Bandcamp)

Abdou Gouband Warelis - Hammer, Roll and Leaf (Relative Pitch)

Eric Chenaux Trio - Delights of My Life (Constellation)

Mativetsky, Amiri & Pagé - Metamorphose (Fifth House Records)

Amirtha Kidambi Elder Ones - New Monuments, Live in Vilnius (Fernflower Records)

أحمد [Ahmed] - Play Monk (Otoroku)

Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution Live (Noise Precision Library)

 

Track Listing

 

Darius Jones - Affirmation Needed [0:00]

Beast - Cetus [8:34]

Abdou Gouband Warelis - Roll the Hammer [18:29]

Eric Chenaux Trio - These Things [23:22]

Mativetsky, Amiri & Pagé - Metamorphose [29:14]

Amirtha Kidami Elder Ones - Third Space [34:15]

أحمد [Ahmed] - Epistrophy [44:48]

Rafael Toral - excerpt 1 (First Long Space) [52:12]

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Surgery 398

Kreng - Wormhole (Miasmah)

Lawrence English - The Rest is My Ghost (Room40)

Neuro... No Neuro - MemLoss (Audiobulb)

Federico Durand - La Manzana Mágica (12k)

Kassel Jaeger - Sub Re (Shelter Press)

Sulk Rooms - Songs of the Soil (Quiet Details)

dav - cosas simples (éter)

 

Track Listing

 

Kreng - Marilyn's Milk [0:00]

Lawrence English - Sodium Vapour Halo (alone) [3:59]

Neuro... No Neuro - Peoplethings [8:27]

Federicton Durand - Netherlands 1959 [11:45]

Kassel Jaeger - a shell, a bell, a spell (from Sub Re) [15:41]

Sulk Rooms - Pay Your Debts to the Mire [21:16]

dav - bichito de páramo [24:54]

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Surgery 397

Yana Pavlova + Pavel Milyakov - Thrill (Psy X)

Kevin Richard Martin - Blue Loops (Bandcamp)

Arovane & Taylor Deupree - Enth (Laaps)

michael scott dawson & anthéne - broadcast colours (Home Normal)

Noveller - I Am the Weather (Experimentia)

Six Organs of Admittance - Six Organs of Admittance featuring The Six Organs Olive Choir (Island House Recordings)

Calibre - Tricklemore Sea (Signature)

Fax + Braulio Lam - Mixed Signals III (Dragon's Eye Recordings)

 

Track Listing

 

Yana Pavlova + Pavel Milyakov - Healing Sun [0:00]

Kevin Richard Martin - Ambient Blue [3:35]

Arovane + Taylor Deupree - Gaun [6:24]

michael scott dawson + anthéne - braided stream [9:52]

Noveller - Divining Dance [15:04]

Six Organs of Admittance - Game of Shared Wins [18:36]

Calbre - Tricklemore Sea [22:02]

Fax + Braulio Lam - Serifa [25:06]

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Surgery 396

Cate Kennan - Shadows (kranky)

F.S. Blumm - Wellen Formen (Bureau B)

Lasus - Conjure (Phantom Limb)

inrain - Rise (Music from Memory)

Euan Dalgarno - Cliff Workshop (Bytes)

Emily A. Sprague - Double Moon (RVNG Intl)

Daniël Jolan - Sublime Lenteur (Lost Tribe Sound)

 

Track Listing

 

Cate Kennan - Devil's Hour [0:00]

F.S. Blumm - While Leaving [2:53]

Lasus - Groundwork [6:02]

inrain - Sleep [9:09]

Euan Dalgarno - Catterline (feat. Claire Shanley-Ing) [14:31]

Emily A. Sprague - Double Moon [18:10]

Daniël Jolan - Ressac II [20:26]

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Surgery 006

A crazy week of prep and rolling out for Record Store Day have made assembling a new episode nigh impossible!! Nigh, I tell you! Instead please enjoy this classic episode from the dark recesses of early years. Yes there is a typo in the graphic! No, there are no track timings! But it is presented with much love. Eagle eyed folk will notice that the last time we put up a "vintage" episode was back in December of last year -- episode 004 -- and now I'm skipping 005. This is because I have this fearful memory of having used it before somewhere back in the archives. If not, we'll add it in next time that life interrupts art. Enjoy.

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Koji Asano - Sanctuary on Reclaimed Land (Solstice)

BJ Nilsen - Fade to White (Touch)

Keith Fullerton Whitman / Greg Davis - Yearlong (Leaf)

Keith Fullerton Whitman - Multiples (kranky)

Klaxon Guele - Grain (Ambiances Magnetiques)

Pita - Get Off (Hapna)

Johann Johannson - Virdulegu Forsetar (Touch)

Akira Rabelais - ...Bendediction, Draw (Orthlorng Musork)

Loscil - "First Narrows" (Live on CBC)

Various - SpireL Live at St. Pierre Cathedral (Touch)

--->Fennesz - "Live in la Petite Chappelle, Morning."

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Surgery 395

Love is Yes - Ghost and More Ghosts (Kit Records)

Phloe - Les Idées (Seil Records)

Aspetuck - Immersion (A Strangely Isolated Place)

Ital Tek - Mind Abandon (Planet Mu)

Phantom Horse - Primal Forms (Umor Rex)

 

Track Listing

 

Love is Yes - Ghost Thirteen [0:00]

Phloe - Le Départ [3:17]

Aspetuck - Hit Me With Your Pet Shark [10:42]

Ital Tek - The Ice is Thin [18:29]

Phantom Horse - Umbra-Mechanik [23:07]

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