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Hope you all had a restful holiday season. Surgery will be moving to Sundays starting on January 9th. Episodes every two weeks as usual. Stay tuned and stay safe.

As promised this show is culled from the artists / labels / releases that we overlooked this year that are featured on this years top 100 list at The Quietus. If time permits there may be a bonus episode next week as a mid-holiday gift... and of course we'll soon enough kick off 2022 with more of the same... and maybe a few mutations.

Marco Shuttle - Cobalt Desert Oasis (Incienso)

Tanz Mein Herz - Quattro (Standard In-Fi)

Angharad Davies - gwneud a gwneud eto / do and do again (All That Dust)

Oliver Leith - 'Me Hollywood' (Another Timbre)

Frog of Earth - Frog of Earth (Wherethetimegoes)

Shackleton - Departing Like Rivers (Woe to the Septic Heart!)

Rien Virgule - La consolation des violettes (Murailles Music)

Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis - May Sounds (Brawl Records)

Aging / Land Trance - Embassy Nocturnes (Tombed Visions)

The Transcendence Orchestra - All Skies Have Sounded (Editions Mego)

Track Listing

Marco Shuttle - Danza de Los Voladores [0:00]

Tanz Mein Herz - A - Tales from the middle of the night [4:50]

Angharad Davies - gwneud a gwneud eto / do and do again (excerpt) [15:43]

Oliver Leith - Grinding Bust Turning [19:18]

Frog of Earth - Newt Dub [24:36]

Shackleton - Something Tells Me / Pour Out Like Water [29:57]

Rien Virgule - La consolation des violettes [42:44]

Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis - We Took Short Journeys [47:22]

Aging / Land Trance - Lights in the Driveway [50:39]

The Transcendence Orchestra - Satsuma Felt Snow [54:20]

This week's podcast is brought to you by the letters "N" and "O." As in "no new music again!" Write it up to (retail) day job holiday stresses or end of year pandemic exhaustion, whichever, but I've dug back into the archives to feature some favourite tracks from the past. Next episode will likely be comprised of a "best of" the overlooked music from the year, traditionally pointed out from perusing The Quietus best of year end lists. Enjoy

Oval - Scis (Thrill Jockey)

The North Sea - Exquisite Idols (Type)

Tujiko Noriko - Shojo Toshi (Editions Mego)

Nonkeen - The Gamble (R&S)

Nivhek - After It's Own Death / Walking in a Spiral Towards the House (W.25th)

Jim O'Rourke - Bad Timing (Drag City)

Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal (Edtions Mego)

M. Ostermeier - The Rules of Another Small World (Tench)

On - Your Naked Ghost Comes Back at Night (DSA)

Off the Sky - It Is Impossible to Say Just What I Mean (Stilll)

Track Listing

Oval - T WI RR O R [0:00]

The North Sea - Cover Me With Knives [5:04]

Tujiko Noriko - Tokyo [10:26]

Nonkeen - Capstan [14:47]

Nivhek - Walking in a Spiral Towards the House [17:37]

Jim O'Rourke - Bad Timing [30:09]

Oneohtrix Point Never - Ouroboros [40:03]

M. Ostermeier - Retreating Night [42:00]

On - Too Many Demons Still Haunt This Land [45:55]

Off the Sky - Cold As Your Eyes Can Be [52:29]

This week's episode is brought to you by the letter "M." The usual process of assembling a new show is gathering interesting tracks over the period of two weeks between shows... lately usually from Bandcamp posts. This week, in a moment of bone-headedness I deleted the current folder of tracks thinking it was the old one... leaving me without anything to mix. So. 

Midaircondo - Curtain Call (Twinseed Recordings)

MKWAJU ensemble - Ki-Motion (WRWTFWW)

Multicast Dynamics - Scandinavia (Denovali)

Mokira - Plee (Mille Plateaux)

Monolake - Ghosts (Imbalance Computer Music)

Memotone - I Sleep, At Waking (Black Acre)

Nico Muhly - Drones (Bedroon Community)

Murcof - Utopia (Leaf)

Roy Montgomery - Scenes from the South Island (Drunken Fish)

Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Structures (Honest Jon's)

Track Listing

Midaircondo - Reports on the Horizon [0:00]

MKWAJU ensemble - Hot Air [3:15]

Multicast Dynamics - Kesto [11:25]

Mokira - Heartexplodes [18:26]

Monolake - Toku [25:03]

Memotone - Stalker [30:49]

Nico Muhly - Drones & Viola Part I (Material in D) [36:38]

Murcof - Muim (Colleen Mix) [40:20]

Roy Montgomery - Rainshadow Near Christchurch [44:40]

Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Structure 3 [49:41]

Nico Muhly - Gift of Fire OST (Bedroom Community)

Arovane - Reihen (12k)

Snowdrops - Inner Fires (Forwind)

Otto A Totland - Companion (Sonic Pieces)

Oliver Doerell / Jawad Salkhordeh - سایه (Sonic Pieces)

Leif - 9 Airs (AD93)

Samsuo - You Probably Think It's the Ocean (Elm Records)

Seaworthy & Matt Rösner - Snowmelt (12k)

David Allred - Driving Through the Aftermath of a Storm on a Clear Day (Dauw)

Miguel Isaza - Flor (Ediciones Éter)

Benjamin Finger - Voice Frames (Whitelabrecs)

Track Listing

Nico Muhly - Meeting [0:00]

Arovane - Ephemen [6:38]

Snowdrops - Elevation [11:36]

Otto A Totland - Companion [19:34]

Oliver Doerell / Jawad Salkhordeh - Sāje Schatten [23:25]

Leif - Every Weather [29:19]

Samsuo - You Probably Think [34:51]

Seaworthy & Matt Rösner - Spencer Creek Pt 1 [39:51]

David Allred - Driving [45:48]

Miguel Isaza - Inflexión [50:25]

Benjamin Finger - Time Gestures [54:56]

This week's episode features work across the career of one of my favourites: David Grubbs. There is recorded material that dates back to 1982 in his first band, Squirrel Bait, when Grubbs was just 15 years old... but for the purposes of this podcast we start a decade later with Gastr Del Sol. It was a batch of cassette promos from Drag City in the early 90s that introduced me to Grubbs and his then recording partner Jim O'Rourke with their album Crookt, Crackt, or Fly. It wasn't like anything I'd heard before, but I was so intrigued I followed it up by searching out his first solo album called Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange released on the equally intriguing label Table of the Elements. Nearly 30 years later I'm still filling in blanks spots in my collection. Hope you enjoy this small sample that is sequenced in chronological order... and because of some odd snafu the track times were lost on the document, but the track progression should be obvious. Thanks!

Gastr Del Sol - The Serpentine Similar (Teenbeat)

David Grubbs - The Thicket (Drag City)

Gastr Del Sol - Camoufleur (Drag City)

David Grubbs - The Coxcomb (Rectangle)

David Grubbs - The Spectrum Between (Drag City)

Loren Connors / David Grubbs - Arborvitae (Hapna)

Grubbs / Gustafsson - Off-Road (Blue Chopsticks)

David Grubbs - An Optimist Notes the Dusk (Drag City)

Belfi / Grubbs / Pilia - Onrushing Cloud (Blue Chopsticks)

David Grubbs - The Plain Where the Palace Stood (Drag City)

David Grubbs - Prismrose (Blue Chopsticks)

David Grubbs - Creep Mission (Blue Chopsticks)

Track Listing

Gastr Del Sol - Eye Street 

David Grubbs - Swami Vivekananda Way 

Gastr Del Sol - A Puff of Dew 

David Grubbs - Avocado Orange 

David Grubbs - Two Shades of Green

Loren Connors / David Grubbs - Blossom Time 

Grubbs / Gufstafsson - Pumpkin Creek 

David Grubbs - Gethsemani Night

Belfi / Grubbs / Pilia - Hermitage

David Grubbs - Abracadabrant

David Grubbs - Nightfall in the Covered Cage

David Grubbs - The C in Certain

Zhalih - They Call (Laaps)

Anthéne - Maritime (Ambientologist)

Dear Stream - Album 001 (Shimmering Moods)

Neve - Isadora (Rusted Tone Recordings)

Open to the Sea - Watering a Paper Flower (Facture)

Cartridge Grain - Sattwa (Krysalisound)

Yttrandet - Yttrandet (Nothern Electronics)

Rival Consoles - Overflow (Erased Tapes)

Sonae - Summer (Laaps)

Crystal Quartez - Sonic Blooming (Beacon Sound)

Track Listing

Zhalih - Visions of Clay [0:00]

Anthéne - Winter Sun [2:41]

Dear Stream - Persona [8:02]

Neve - Vallées [13:30]

Open to the Sea - Shallows of the Black Sea [21:08]

Cartridge Grain - Episode I [25:06]

Yttrandet - Capillary Wave [29:39[

Rival Consoles - Monster [33:59]

Sonae - La Nuit [44:03]

Crystal Quartez - Germination [50:48]

In case you can't tell by the bizarre and garish chicken graphic, this is a "vintage" Surgery Radio episode, originally posted on the old site September 23, 2008. New music resumes in two weeks! Thanks for listening.

Andy Stott - Unknown Exception (Modern Love)

Byetone - Death Of A Typographer (Raster-Noton)

B. Fleischmann - Angst Is Not A Weltanschauung! (Morr Music)

Ragliani - Of Sirens Born (Kranky)

The Alps - III (Type)

Holy Sons - Decline Of The West (Partisan)

Alva Noto - Unitxt (Raster-Noton)

Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern (Raster-Noton)

Agathe Max - This Silver String (Xeric)

Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday (Temporary Residence)

Various - Kalk Seeds (Karaoke Kalk)

Heidi Marie Kjersem - A Killer For That Ache (Rune Grammofon)

Track Listing

Andy Stott - Massacre [0:00]

Byetone - Straight [6:59]

B. Fleischmann - 24.12. [11:10]

Ragliani - Jubilee [14:51]

The Alps - Hallucinations [21:31]

Holy Sons - Kindred Spirit [28:54]

Alva Noto - U_04 [30:46]

Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern #0111 [35:58]

Agathe Max - Black Needle [40:59]

Grails - The Natural Man [47:50]

Wechsel Garland - Tiny Stars [52:24]

Heidi Marie Kjersem - London Bridge [54:52]

Tim Hecker - The North Water (Score) (Lakeshore)

Troth - Oak Corridor (Knekelhuis)

Francisco Sonur - Kind of Happiness (Rusted Tone Records)

Midori Hirano - Soniscope (dauw)

Megan Alice Clune - If You Do (Room40)

Kristof Hahn - Six Pieces (Room40)

Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi - Palimpsests (Shelter Press)

mastroKristo - Departures (Lost Tribe Sound)

Trigg & Gusset - Black Ocean (Preserved Sound)

Nhung Nguyen, Giulio Aldinucci, Offthesky - On Wonders and Things Unseen (Elm Records)

Gallowglas - I dream I see you hit the water, I dream I see you change your mind (Lost Tribe Sound)

Fortresses - Eve (Dragon's Eye Recordings)

Track Listing

Tim Hecker - Our First Whale [0:00]

Troth - When the Rivers Were the Highways [4:55]

Francisco Sonur - To Preserve Her Worlds [7:47]

Midori Hirano - Missing Night [13:35]

Megan Alice Clune - The Swirl of the Void [17:25]

Kristof Hahn - Cape Horn [20:41]

Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi - Simferopol [27:00]

mastroKristo - Waves [29:58]

Trigg & Gusset - Ominous Clouds [34:09]

Nhung Nguyen, Giulio Aldinucci, Offthesky - Waves and Light II [40:06]

Gallowglas - Hostage [47:01]

Fortresses - June [52:28]

Dylan Henner - PSALM005: Amtracks (Phantom Limb)

Bruno Bavota - For Apartments: Songs and Loops (Temporary Residence Ltd)

Razen - Blue Rot (Hands in the Dark)

Adrian Lane - The Fleet (Whitelabrecs)

Kuki Takahara - See-through Remixes (flau)

Chaz Knapp - Organ Drunes Bsides (figureight)

Powell - Piano Music 1-7 (Editions Mego)

Mary Lattimore - Collected Pieces 2015-2020 (Ghostly International)

Scanner - Earthbound Transmissions (Room40)

Space Afrika - Honest Labour (Dais Records)

Earth House Hold - Daybreak Basements and Broken Hearts (ASIP)

Track Listing

Dylan Henner - Exton [0:00]

Bruno Bavota - Apartment Loop #2 [5:53]

Razen - Blue Rot (5th) [12:07]

Adrian Lane - One Changed Summer [16:09]

Kuki Takahara - Chime (Federico Durand Remix) [20:01]

Chaz Knapp - Baby's First Drune [24:07]

Powell - Piano Music #1 [29:34]

Mary Lattimore - We Wave from Our Boats [37:35]

Scanner - Drones Places 02 [41:14]

Space Afrika - Ladybird Drone [47:31]

Earth House Hold - Acid Lies, Ageless Loves [49:51]

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