“I thought … I want to make a kind of music that had the long now and the big here in it. And for me that meant this idea of expanding the music out to the horizons. In terms of space, you were not aware of the edges of the music. I thought, I want to make a music where you just wouldn’t know what was music and what wasn’t. Where it was a plateau …”

– Brian Eno in the 1989 documentary Imaginary Landscapes [via Root Blog/cross-posted at Ballroom Marfa]

Excerpted from Mero’s CAPS LOCK REVIEWS:

WHOA WHOA WHOA CHILL GUY WHAT IS THIS A SCARY MOVIE? THIS IS WILD FRIGHTENING B. IF YOU WANNA SCARE THE SHIT OUT A NIGGA INVITE HIM TO AN ABANDONED HOUSE AND HAVE PANTHA DU PRINCE FAINTLY PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND WHILE THE WIND BLOWS ALL EERILY AND SHIT. *PLAYS OTHER SONG* YO HOLDUP THIS WHOLE ALBUM IS NIGGAS PLAYING BELLS? THIS IS BELL MUSIC? I’M SITTING HERE LISTENING TO “PHOTON” LAUGHIN MY ASS OFF CUZ THIS IS LIKE IBIZA MONK MUSIC B. THIS IS FRANCISCAN MONKS WAS IN IBIZA DRINKING MOLLY WATER JERKIN EACH OTHER OFF UNDER THEIR ROBES TYPE MUSIC B. I FEEL LIKE I SHOULD BE LOOKING AT OVERPRICED JEANS AT SOME BOUTIQUE. “SPECTRAL SPLIT” IS NINTENDO MUSIC FROM SOLOMON’S KEY.

So much more … 

Further reading, Mero on Kendrick Lamar:

THE BEGINNING OF THIS SHIT HAD ME READY TO CATCH SEVERAL BODIES IN COLD BLOOD NOW ALL I WANNA DO IS GIVE THIS NIGGA A HUG AND TELL HIM NOT TO CRY. *REWINDS SONG TO BEGINNING* MAN DOWN WHERE YOU FROM!!! NIGGA!!! FUCK WHO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU FROM MY NIGGA?!?!?! *PUNCHES COMPUTER IN THE FUCKING FACIAL*

As Blues Control, Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho create a righteous blend of space rock, spiritual jazz and New Age music that sounds like little else. The Coopersburg, PA-based duo has been making albums since 2007 for top shelf labels like Siltbreeze, Not Not Fun, Woodsist and Holy Mountain. In 2011 they issued an absolute classic of contemporary cosmic music in collaboration with zither guru Laraaji, best known for his Brian Eno-produced album from 1980,Ambient 3: Day of Radiance. Artist Kathy Rose directed their latest video (see above) for “Opium Den/Fade to Blue.” [Video via artinfo]

They’re on tour now in support of the excellent Valley Tangents album on Drag City, and they’ll be delivering their astral guitar/electronics/keyboard jams for FREE at the Lost Horse this Monday (11 February 2013).

Check out a live performance of “Iron Pigs” on Drag City Limits after the jump …

[cross-posted from the Ballroom Marfa blog]

Ecstatic Camouflage: Backcountry Head Shop on Etsy

Tapestries, scarves, bandanas, wild rags and other textile-based work incorporating the post-landscape photographic collages of Marfa, TX-based artist and Inter-Dimensional Music co-host Daniel Chamberlin.

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Chambo’s Top ID Music Jams from 2012, in alphabetical order:

Actress - R.I.P. 

As we wrote once before … “Less suffocated techno. More shiny fractal ambience. “Shadow from Tartarus” sounds like ice tinkling off the conning tower of Porter Ricks‘ submarine after surfacing in the sparkling glare of Arctic sunlight.”

Anywhere – Anywhere

Mike Watt, Cedric Bixler-Zavala and a dude we’d never heard of from the awesomely named “Liquid Indian” got together for these totally mellow Sandy Bull-inspired astral jams and nobody really said much about it, but it’s amazing.

Ashan – Ancient Forever

Sits next to Stag Hare’s Spirit Canoes, Deep Magic’s Solar Meditations, White Rainbow’s New Clouds and Thoughts on Air’s Mallo Yallo as a stone classic of contemporary New Age. Flutes, guitars and all kinds of jingle-jangling old growth vibes.

Beak> – Beak>>

Serious Neu!-worship from one of the Portishead dudes. ‘Nuff said.

Black Dice – Mr. Impossible

As we wrote back when … “more music in the same vein as Sunburned Hand of the Man and Boredoms’ resinous noise vibrations. Accurately described by P4K as sounding “like a couple of fun-loving dudes trying to get a party started, but their voices have been ripped from their throats and packed together into a single gooey, wholly unintelligible ball.”

Blues Control – Valley Tangents

Hot off their blissed-out zither-heavy collabo with OG New Age legend Laraaji, these two goners return with a mellow New Age/Space Rock/Spiritual Jazz thing that doesn’t really sound like anything else out there right now. They’re due in Marfa for what should be a legendary Monday night at Lost Horse on February 11.

Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland – Black is Beautiful

Cribbing from the Quietus review cuz they nailed it:

“Blunt and Copeland’s work is like hearing rival stereos from adjacent apartments, thumping cars and treble-heavy earbuds, while finding our way within the labyrinthine metropolitan maze. Its erratic rhythmic and harmonic arrangements are akin to the upheaving asphalt that city folk walk on, through diversely inhabited neighbourhoods, over cobblestone streets, between graffitied walls of concrete and brick, around crumbling cloverleaf overpasses and into dead ends, above crooked rooftops, down diagonal fire escapes and spiral staircases, piloting the cleaved strata of competing and contested histories.”

Julia Holter – Ekstasis

Genuinely ecstatic tunes that bring to mind Laurie Anderson and Linda Perhacs (with whom Holter has collaborated). A welcome entry in a new genre of music currently owned by Holter and fellow traveler Julianna Barwick, which Diplo describes as sounding “like Care Bears making love.”

Monopoly Child Star Searchers – The Garnet Toucan

While his former Skaters-partner James Ferraro continues to provide the ideal score to surfing through R-U-IN?S-affiliated Tumblrspace, Spencer Clark gives us more percolating aquarium soundtracks exploring the role of parrots and toucans as “mediators between human and nature.” Yes.

Panabrite – Soft Terminal

What if Boards of Canada were only taking inspiration from NFB’s Cousteau catalog?

Prince Rama – Top Ten Hits of the End of the World 

A genre-hopping kaleidoscope of a record that has our friends from Prince Rama making sounds described variously as “ABBA-worship,” “frat-boy dub,” “Ariel Pink goes Bollywood,” “[a] hybrid of pagan and New Age sounds”, and our favorite, “too many crayons.” Only haters complain about too many crayons.

Pulse Emitter, Date Palms, Expo 70, Faceplant  - 4 Way Split

A inspired range of expansive head music that encompasses bass-heavy plankton mating calls; West Coast cruising music by way of Carnatic drones; choogly candlelit doom and “the modular hessian noise trance project” from one half of Peaking Lights.  The best primer to 2012′s American underground kosmiche scene one could hope for.

Reedbeds – Fervent Pitches

An ideal soundtrack for wetlands-restoration projects.

Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras and The Congos - Icon Give Thank

“Nyabinghi drone gospel perfect for the next Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church picnic.”

Ursprung – Ursprung

As regular listeners of ID Music know, Chambo is a sucker for anything with noodling guitars and chimes, so this collaboration between top bell-ringing boss Pantha du Prince’s Hendrik Weber and kraut-guitar practitioner Stephan Abry was definitely gonna see some heavy rotation.

Voices From The Lake – Voices From The Lake

Ambient electronic music of the classic Aphex/Gas school, beloved to the expensive stereo-owning graphic designer-types who populate the Resident Advisor message boards (who are well worth listening to once you can decipher the techno/trance/house jargon).

A condensed version of this list can be found here. Thanks for listening. Stay tuned throughout 2013 for more “New Age Radio … Without All The Rules.” Only on 93.5FM, Marfa Public Radio.

An ID Music scout searches the frozen wastes of the Davis Mountains for fresh snowflake jams (image by Robert McCall, via endthymes)

ID Music agrees that “Those Who Live For Love Will Live Forever,” and we thank our friends in Prince Rama for reminding us of such things.

Chambo, Hollander and the ID Music team preparing the KRTS studios for the November broadcast (via EYERTH)

Join us this Sunday, 4 November 2012 for our monthly transmission of classic New Age, contemporary Earth-psych and other forms of outer-limits/inner-mind music.

We’re live on KRTS from 9-11pm (CST). If you’re in Far West Texas, listen at 93.5FM. Stream worldwide at http://marfapublicradio.org/