The next two episodes present a reflective and seemingly required "best of the decade" retrospective. It seems appropriate in this case as Surgery Radio joined the Podbean platform on January 19th, 2010 with episode 92 and featured tracks by two of the artists also included in this episode: Oren Ambarchi and Peter Broderick. That is what I came to realize about this ten year stretch of the show; that there were artists like Ambarchi and Broderick, Mark Nelson, Bill Orcutt, Oval, and so on that were carried in from the first chunk of 00s and some from the 90s. Others like Raime, Noveller, Demdike Stare have emerged fully in this d...
The next two episodes present a reflective and seemingly required "best of the decade" retrospective. It seems appropriate in this case as Surgery Radio joined the Podbean platform on January 19th, 2010 with episode 92 and featured tracks by two of the artists also included in this episode: Oren Ambarchi and Peter Broderick. That is what I came to realize about this ten year stretch of the show; that there were artists like Ambarchi and Broderick, Mark Nelson, Bill Orcutt, Oval, and so on that were carried in from the first chunk of 00s and some from the 90s. Others like Raime, Noveller, Demdike Stare have emerged fully in this decade and risen to prominence. The other element that defines the decade in my mind is the rise of many excellent boutique labels that provide homes to artists, both established and just starting out, giving them a framework to support the strange and beautiful music this podcast thrives on.
This is a double size podcast that will be followed on January 6th with a second part... so a decade summarized in four hours. Obviously incomplete, but at least a serviceable rough sketch of what we loved.
Bill Orcutt - Odds Against Tomorrow (Palilalia) // 2019
Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (Blackest Ever Black) // 2012
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Beileid (Pias) // 2011
Multicast Dynamics - Scandinavia (Denovali) // 2015
Oval - Popp (Uovoo) // 2014
Porya Hatami & Arovane - Kaziwa (Time Released Sound) // 2016
Mark Templeton - Gentle Heart (Graphical) // 2017
Brambles - Charcoal (Serein) // 2012
Tujiko Noriko - My Ghost Comes Back (editions Mego) // 2014
Noveller - Glacial Glow (Saffron) // 2011
Ben Frost - A U R O R A (Traffic) // 2014
Chihei Hatakeyama - Ghostly Garden (Own Records) // 2010
Jasper TX - An Index Of Failure (Handmade Birds) // 2013
Benoît Pioulard - Hymnal (Kranky) // 2013
The Declining Winter - Home For Lost Souls (Home Assembly) // 2015
Bvdub - One Last Look At The Sea (Sweat Lodge Guru) // 2011
Oren Ambarchi - Hubris (editions Mego) // 2016
William Basinski - The Deluge (Temporary Residence) // 2015
Hauschka - Abandoned City (City Slang) // 2014
Aaron Martin - Comet's Coma (Eilean Rec) // 2014
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the end of time (History Always Favors the Winners) // 2016
James Blackshaw & Lubomyr Melnyk - The Watchers (Important) // 2013
Pan•American - A Son (Kranky) // 2019
Antonymes - There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay (Hibernate) // 2013
Peter Broderick - Partners (Erased Tapes) // 2016
Track Listing
Bill Orcutt - The Sun and its Horizon [0:00]
Raime - Soil and Colts [3:38]
Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Zombies Never Die (Blues) [9:09]
Multicast Dynamics - Routa [16:25]
Oval - sa [22:10]
Porya Hatami & Arovane - Uun [26:20]
Mark Templeton - Cab Lights [30:00]
Brambles - Such Owls As You [32:59]
Tujiko Noriko - Yellow of You [38:13]
Noveller - Entering [44:16]
Ben Frost - Secant [45:55]
Chihei Hatakeyama - Voices [50:49]
Jasper TX - In All Your Blinding Lights [54:21]
Benoît Pioulard - Excave [59:43]
The Declining Winter - It is Intensely Sad [01:03:35]
Bvdub - A Sisyphean Silence [01:05:55]
Oren Ambarchi - Hubris 2 [01:13:55]
William Basinski - The Deluge (The Denouement) [01:15:48]
Hauschka - Who Lived Here? [01:21:52]
Aaron Martin - A Narrow Clearing [01:26:34]
The Caretaker - The loves of my entire life [01:28:58]
James Blackshaw & Lubomyr Melnyk - Haftorang [1:32:56]
Pan•American - Sleepwalk Guitars [01:41:31]
Antonymes - Falling [i] [01:45:02]
Peter Broderick - In a Landscape [01:48:23]
