XHM #631 - "Only feels like it's raining forever" (2023 January 09)

Exploding Head Movies

As we crawl into 2023 properly, we pay tribute to Seattle composer Norm Chambers (1972-2022), who recorded ambient music under various aliases. We'll focus on his score to the 2017 documentary Graphic Means amongst other bleepy bits, eulogies, quality tunes from 2022 and a taste of the music already out in the new year. 1. Reindeer: 2023 (Reindeer, 2014) self-released 2. Esmerine: Entropy - Incantation/Radiance/The Wild Sea (Everything was Forever Until It was No More, 2022) Constellation 3. The Velvelettes: Lonely, Lonely Girl Am I (The Velvelettes, 1965) Motown 4. Sérgio Mendes: Ciudade Grande [w.Pelé] (Pelé OST, 1977) Atlantic 5. Ashra: Sunrain (New Age of Earth, 1976) Isadora 6. Manuel Göttsching: E2-E4 [excerpt] (E2-E4, 1981) Inteam/MG-Art 7. John Carroll Kirby & Laraaji: Dawn of New Day (Dance Ancestral, 2022) Stones Throw 8. Baris Manço: 2023 (2023, 1975) Yavuz Plak 9. Dora Jar: Bumblebee (2022) Made of Elves/Island 10. Pom Poko: Enduro Corner (This is Our House EP, 2022) Bella Union 11. Hipnosis: Theme for a New Year (Hipnosis, 1984) ZYX 12. Kelela: Washed Away (Raven, 2023) Warp 13. Lil Yachty: Poland (2022) Quality Control 14. Vincent Parker: The Pier (For Nothing Tho..., 2021) self-released 15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Burning (Cool It Down, 2022) Secretly Canadian 16. Aiko Tomi: Fit (2022) Tominaga 17. Molly Lewis: Mirage (Mirage EP, 2022) Jagjaguwar 18. Busty & the Bass: All the Things I Couldn't Say to You (2022) Arts & Crafts 19. Yo La Tengo: Fallout (This Stupid World, 2023) Matador 20. Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena: Didn't See the Comet (West Kensington, 2022) Three Lobed 21. Khotin: Fountain, Growth [w.Tess Roby] (Release Spirit, 2023) Khotin Industries 22. Best Fern: Way Inside (Earth Then Air, 2023) Backward/Redeye 23. Nick Schofield: Mirror Image (Glass Gallery, 2020) Backward 24. Marc Canham & Duotone: Parallel Worlds (Black Mass EP, 2022) Sound of Solar 25. Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble: Regnanten Sempiterna (Officium, 1994) ECM New Series 26. Jürgen Müller: Jenseits des Stromes (Science of the Sea, 2011) Digitalis 27. Jürgen Müller: Traumfolge Einer Qualle (Science of the Sea, 2011) Digitalis 28. Norm Chambers: Sargasso (Seaside Resonance, 2021) Hotham Sound 29. Norm Chambers: Linotype Theme (Graphic Means OST, 2017) self-released 30. Norm Chambers: Line Screen (Graphic Means OST, 2017) self-released 31. Norm Chambers: Index (Graphic Means OST, 2017) self-released 32. Cub\cub: Red Tarn (2022) self-released 33. M Mucci: An Ending - 2022 Pt. 2 (An Ending - 2022, 2022) Tall House [e-mail] twitter.com/hundredaire www.citr.ca/exploding-head-movies