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There's been buckets of ink already spilled about 1980's Stone Age cassette culture and spinner dial broadcasting to warrant a Penguin size tome, and may much more pour forth. For now, here are my digital contributions. Caveatz tho’~~~~Air check playbacks of my 18-22 year old self are characterized by a superficially outsized air personality, elitist nods to the imagined cognoscenti and strained analysis accompanied by lame one-liners. I sound like an ESPN announcer (more so on WMUA than WPRB or WMFU)~~~~But even though there’s nothing as immediate and tasteful as the meat sliced by the original Pat Benatar band, the selections were choice then and remain so now, yes?~~~ No?~~~ Love is a battlefield!~~~~~All shows at 320 kbps, chopped into proper MP3s with lovingly detailed labeling~~~~Download Qs: leftofleftofthdial@gmail.com

Thursday, January 12, 2012

2010 again? Why not? A 2010 appreciation of Sabbath Assembly's 'Restored To One'


THE SABBATH ASSEMBLY Restored To One (The Ajna Offensive - 2010)

From 2010: ATPJR understands the No Neck Blues Band can be difficult, and I’m not talking about the music.  Dogged to the last, if not periodically surfacing for air they would’ve killed each other years ago. And the art of surfacing has yielded some sweet bulbs indeed, personal faves being D. Charles Speer, TEST, Malkuth, the lamented Suntanama, K. Salvatore, [and Decimus!] and now, Sabbath Assembly. Restored to One sounds like nothing less than Dave Nuss' collaborative ode to his restive spiritual quest, which is as serious as his life, make no mistake. Superficially akin to those Xian psych sides of yore, these are nine Process hymns exquisitely rendered, with Jex Thoth up front tapping the source. The 21st best present I sent to my own ears in 2010? Sabbath Assembly’s Restored to One! Come together, right now, over me.


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