Katharsis Mar. 25 '12

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Beaten By Them - Damp Sky 3 - People Start Listening (Logicpole)
Nils Frahm - Said and Done - La Blogotheque, Les Soirees De Poche, January 14, 2012 (La Blogotheque)
Aaron Martin (reworked by Nicola Ratti) - Reed Tunnel - Stitched in Fire (False Records)
Fennesz + Sakamoto - 0330 - Flumina (Touch Tone)
Maps and Diagrams - Groghe (Fort) - The Town Beneath the Sea (Nomadic Kids Republic)
Philip Jeck - Thirtieth/Pilot Reprise - An Ark for the Listener (Touch)
Mohammad - Malad Van - Spriti (Antifrost)
Mirroring - Cliffs - Foreign Body (Kranky)
Willamette - Images D'une Longueur de Cheveux - Always in Postscript (Own Records)
Windy and Carl - Nature of Memory - We Will Always Be (Kranky)
Christina Vantzou (remixed by Isan) - Homemade Mountains - No 1 Remixes (Kranky)
Oren Amabarchi - Salt - Audience of One (Touch)
Nils Quak - Pg. 4 - Elegy for Seaweed (Clothbound Recordings)
Leyland Kirby - The Arrow of Time - Eager to Tear Apart the Stars (History Always Favours the Winners)
Lawrence English - Figure's Lone Static - Kiri No Oto (Touch)
Kane Ikin - Short Wave Fade - Contrail (12K)
Praveen (w/ Benoît Pioulard) - King - 12 Lights (Ghostly International)
Princeton - To the Alps - Remembrance Of Things To Come (Hit City)
I Break Horses - Pulse - Hearts (Bella Union)
Royal Canoe - Caught in a Loop - Extended Play (Self-Released)
Bahamas - Never Again - Barchords (Brushfire)
Autistici - Vocal Chords - Amplified Presence (Home Normal)

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Katharsis Mar. 18 '12

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National Skyline - Bloom - Bliss & Death (Adventure Broadcasting)
Southpacific - Built to Last - Constance (Turnbuckle)
Slowdive - Crazy for You - Pygmalion Demos (Creation)
Foreign Cinema - Velvet Sky - Palace Of Fine Junk b/w Velvet Sky 7" (Vibraphone)
A Place To Bury Strangers - So Far Away - Onwards to the Wall (Dead Oceans)
Jesu - Dead Eyes - Silver EP (Hydra Head)
Simon Scott - Radiances - Bunny (Miasmah)
School of Seven Bells - Lafaye - Ghostory (Vagrant/Ghostly)
Windy and Carl - Remember - We Will Always Be (Kranky)
Capsula - Under the Woods - In The Land Of Silver Souls (Krian)
Lee Randaldo - Angles - Between The Times & The Tides (Matador)
Bloody Knives - Stare Into Your Eyes - Blood (Bandcamp)
From The Mouth Of The Sun - Pools of Rust - Woven Tide (Experimedia)
Gareth Dickson - This is the Kiss - Quite A Way Away (12K)
RF & Lili De La Mora - Fences - Eleven Continents (Rowing at Sea)
Aus - Mayonaka No Sukima - Curveland (Moteer)
Dan Joseph - Trio II - Dreams of Seven (Dendroica Music)
Nicolas Bernier - Line (c) - Strings.Lines (Cronica)
Implex Grace - Capricia - Only Light to Clear Away (Distance Recordings)
Ensmeble, et. al. - Threnody (Goldmund cover) - Sounds of Others (Bandcamp)
Princeton - Holding Teeth - Remembrance Of Things To Come (Hit City)
Fourcolor - Bleach Black - As Pleat (12K)

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Katharsis Mar. 11' 12

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Archers of Loaf - Harnessed in Slums - Vee Vee (Merge)
Disappears - Joa - Pre-Language (Kranky)
Girls Against Boys - Disco 666 - House of GVB (Touch & Go)
Retribution Gospel Choir - I'm A Man - The Revolution EP (Sub Pop)
Chris Brokaw - King Ferdinand - Red Cities (Atavistic)
Logh - The Smoke Will Lead You Home - A Sunset Panorama (Hydrahead)
Office of Future Plans - Abandon - Office of Future Plans (Dischord)
Ilyas Ahmed - Skin in Circles - With Endless Fire (Immune)
Glenn Jones - The Great Pacific Northwest - The Wanting (Thrill Jockey)
Josephine - Two Headed River - You Are Perfect Today (Digitalis)
Egsun - The Ocean Near You - Worth Wasting Time (Somehow Ecstatic)
Ólafur Arnalds - Edalaus II - For Nihon (Unseen Music)
Praveen - Trapped - 12 Lights (Ghostly International)
Orcas - A Subtle Escape - Orcas (Morr Music)
Mirroring - Mine - Foreign Body (Kranky)
Low Roar - Patience - Low Roar (Tonequake)
Lowercase Noises - Migratory Patterns - Migratory Patterns (Self-Released)
Lanterns On The Lake - Tricks - Gracious Tide, Take Me Home (Bella Union)
Jacaszek - As Each Tucked String Tells - Glimmer (Ghostly International)
Dirty Three - Rain Song - Toward the Low Sun (Bella Union/Drag City)
Spartak - The Waves to the Rails - Verona (Low Point)

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Katharsis Mar. 4 '12

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Lambchop - Nice Without Mercy - Mr. M (Merge)
Bahamas - Lost in the Light - Barchords (Brushfire)
Tindersticks - Medicine - The Something Rain (Constellation/City Slang)
Eric Chenaux - Dull Lights (White or Grey) - Guitar and Voice (Constellation)
The Low Anthem - Maybe So - Smart Flesh - Outtakes (Nonesuch)
Laura Gibson - Milk-Heavy, Pollen-Eyed - La Grande (Barsuk)
Jessie Baylin - Yuma - Little Spark (Thirty Tigers)
Monty Adkins - Torn Mosaic - Fragile.Flicker.Fragment (Audiobulb)
Damien Jurado - Maraqopa - Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
Nils Frahm - Old Thought Felt (Erased Tapes)
Elfin Saddle - Boats - Devastates (Constellation)
Paper Beat Scissors - Rest Your Bones - Paper Beat Scissors (Forward)
Richard Ginns - Point Dunes - Sea Change (Slow Flow)
Dirty Three - Sometimes I Forget You've Gone - Toward the Low Sun (Bella Union)
The Nocturnes - London Town - Aokigahara (Bandcamp)
Thalassing - Ophion Resounds - Thalassing (Clay Pipe Music)
Josef van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch - Continuation of the Last Judgment - Concerning the Entrance to Eternity (Important)
Nick Jonah Davis - The Narrow Bridge - Of Time and Tides (Tompkins Square)
Gareth Dickson - Happy Easters - Quite A Way Away (12k)
Orcas - Carrion - Orcas (Morr Music)
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters - Amoxicillin - Underrated Silences (Bureau)
School of Seven Bells - Reappear - Ghostory (Ghostly International)
Simon Bainton - Baroque Begins at Home - Sun Settings (Hibernate)

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Katharsis Feb. 26 '12

Chris Reimer 1986-2012

Heartbreaking news

Chris was an amazing artist, and a great guy. He accomplished a lot in his 26 years and we can take heart in the fact that he was able to tour the world doing what he loved: playing awesome music with friends. He will be missed by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. Read more about him here

This week's show was a tribute to Chris. I first met him in 2005 when he played live on my show with Beneath These Idle Tides and again in 2006 with Azeda Booth. Over the years I saw him play a few times around town with Azeda Booth, with Women, and as a solo artist. I always enjoyed catching up with him at these and other local shows. He was very gracious, down-to-earth, and humble; a super guy.

I am privileged to have known him, however briefly/peripherally, and to have been impacted by his considerable musical talent.

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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Women - Eyesore - Public Strain (Flemish Eye)
Azeda Booth - Landscsape (with Grass) - Live on Katharsis Oct. 9 '06
Beneath These Idle Tides - Untitled - Live on Katharsis Aug. 8 '05
Chris Reimer - Benelux - Eye Spy (Flemish Eye Compilation) (Flemish Eye)
Esmerine - Why She Swallows Bullets and Stones - Aurora (Madrona Records)
Tiny Vipers - Dreamer - Life on Earth (Sub Pop)
Greg Haines - Snow Airport - Slumber Tides (Miasmah)
Peter Broderick - Asleep - http:\\www.itstartshear.com (HUSH/Bella Union)
Gareth Dickson - Noon - Quite a Way Away (12K)
Orcas - Arrow Drawn - Orcas (Morr Music)
A Whisper in the Noise - Sad, Sad Song - To Forget (Exile on Mainstream)
Sleepingdog - Horse Lullaby - With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields (Gizeh Records)
Marsen Jules - Birkengeflüster - Golden (Genesungswerk)
Oren Ambarchi - Fractured Mirror (Ace Frehley cover) - Audience of One (Touch)
Mark Kozelek - Duk Koo Kim (10" version) - The Finally LP (Caldo Verde)
Ryan Teague - Shadow Play - Field Drawings (Village Green)
From The Mouth Of The Sun - The Crossing - Woven Tide (Experimedia)

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Katharsis Feb. 19 '12

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Sharon Van Etten - Kevin's - Tramp (Jagjagjuwar)
Loom - Wholesome - Epyllion (Self-Released)
Damien Jurado - Life Away from the Garden - Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
Cold Specks - Holland - Holland (Arts & Crafts)
Mark Lanegan Band - St. Louis Elegy - Blues Funeral (4AD)
Birds of Passage - Disaster of Dreams - Winter Lady (Denovali Records)
Damian Valles - Taxa - Skeleton Taxa (Drifting Falling)
Crooked Fingers - The Hatchet - Breaks In The Armor (Merge)
Piiptsjilling - Ferware (Worn Down) - Wurdskrieme (Experimedia)
The Field Register - Dreams - Miles Distant - Eastern Shore (Ships at Night)
Hammock - Sora - For Nihon (Unseen Music)
Shearwater - Insolence - Animal Joy (Sub Pop)
Lowercase Noises - Persistence - Migratory Patterns (Self-Released)
Colin Kenniff Featuring Hollie Kenniff - Wind and Distance - For Nihon (Unseen Music)
Peter Broderick - Colin - http://www.itstartshear.com (Bella Union/HUSH)
Andrew Bird - Desperation Breeds... - Break it Yourself (Mom+Pop/Bella Union)
Alog - Et Besøk - Unemployed (Rune Grammofon)
Amiina - Púsl - Puzzle (Sound of a Handshake)
1982 - 03:52 - Pintura (Hubro)
Beans - Moon - Inner Cosmosis (Foreverbad)
Beans - Earth - Inner Cosmosis (Foreverbad)

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Katharsis Feb. 12 '12

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Marion Williams - The Day is Past and Gone - The Gospel Sound (Disc 2) (Columbia)
Tindersticks - A Night to Still - The Something Rain (City Slang/Constellation)
Mark van Hoen - Holy Me - The Revenant Diary (Editions Mego)
Xela - Recitation - Exorcism (Self-Released)
Clinker + Blake Carrington - Dust Flights, Mirror Softly and Moan - Iron: Dragon's Eye Sixth Anniversary (Dragon's Eye Recordings)
Windy & Carl - Fainting in the Presence of the Lord - We Will Always Be (Kranky)
Larkian & Yellow 6 - Sequences Inversees - Offtempo (Basses Frequences and three:four records)
Bry Webb - Get You Up in Peace - Provider (Idee Fixe)
Fennesz + Sakamoto - 0402 - Flumina (Touch)
Slow Six - This is Your Last Chance (Before I Sleep) - Private Times In Public Places (Western Vinyl)

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