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Wurmpth Furdber

@purelava.bsky.social

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Music teacher. High Five. Half of microtonal rock duo Body Breaks. Member of Quinton Barnes' Black Noise Ensemble. Suns fan. Montrealer. IG: @mattlegroulx All of my music is at: https://phonautographrecords.bandcamp.com

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨New on Phonautograph🚨

The follow-up to the first Four Way Hips album. This one's not recorded to a four-track, though.

Electronic with some Brazilian twists and big beats. I think it's a fun record.

If you like Cluster's Zuckerzeit this may be up your alley:

Fists Of Eden, by Four Way Hips

11 track album

phonautographrecords.bandcamp.com

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 39m

A Montreal institution:

World Cafe @worldcafe.bsky.social · 1h

Montreal record producer Howard Bilerman has worked with Leonard Cohen, Arcade Fire, Godspeed You! Black Emperor & others. For our Sense of Place: Montreal series Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks w/ him about those and the studio he co-founded. www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

Meet the producer behind some of Montreal's finest records : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast

Howard Bilerman went from taping punk shows as a teen to co-founding Hotel2Tango, one of Montreal's most iconic recording studios.

www.npr.org

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musicdocumentaries.bsky.social @musicdocumentaries.bsky.social · 9h

The profile photo of this account is a still from this film of Charles Mingus drinking a glass of milk while smoking a cigarette.

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 10h

Essential:

musicdocumentaries.bsky.social @musicdocumentaries.bsky.social · 10h

Here's a great documentary about bassist, composer, innovator Charles Mingus:

youtu.be/knPGsa3B4D4?...

Charles Mingus - Triumph Of The Underdog

YouTube video by Markus Breuss

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 12h

I got lucky with Cool Struttin', it was in the used CD bin!

Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 12h

Ah, that's too bad. I'm in Montreal. The record stores are pretty good and the thrifting can be excellent.

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 19h

The work continues on Jackie McLean's Capuchin Swing. Finally working on tonguing and arpeggio fingerings. Getting my guitar fingers to be sax fingers.

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Ethan Iverson @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social · 23h

Happy Birthday to Sphere. All the jazz greats knew what they were doing, but Thelonious Monk REALLY knew what he was doing. It was Precise. iverson.substack.com/p/tt-442-bri...

TT 442: Brief Overview: Thelonious Monk on Record

October 10 is Sphere's Birthday

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 23h

Some sources say the 10th, others 11th, so let’s just celebrate the magnificent Fred Hopkins, who was born around this time of October in 1947, all weekend. Play some Air! Or any of the many other recordings he made such significant and memorable contributions to. (📸Tom Copi).

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, I haven't explored further. I'll have to check it out.

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 21h

Compared to the wisdom teeth I need to have removed it'll be a piece of cake, lol.

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 21h

A pretty common lunch at my place is a noodle soup with fried tofu puffs. The broth is a dashi/doenjjang base. This variation has sauerkraut which gives it a great tanginess but you can throw anything in here and it'll be great.

Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 21h

Hugo Largo, an underappreciated band.

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 1d

A+ hard bop.

Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 1d

Cool, what's the Romanian LP?

Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 1d

Reissues. Yeah, we've got some good stores here!

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 1d

Dreading doing this myself cause I know the results are gonna be baaaaaad but I also refuse to admit that I can't see anything.

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 1d

Tippin' The Scales is straight up hard bop while Let Freedom Ring is kind of modal/extended form stuff. What's nuts is that Tippin' was recorded five months AFTER Freedom in 1962. Tippin'ssounds like it could have come out three or four years earlier.

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 1d

Here are Jackie McLean's liner notes for Let Freedom Ring:

Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 1d

Adorable.

Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 1d

I had one goal today and it was to come home with more Jackie McLean than I had when I left. Thanks @caseyabrams.bsky.social for reminding me that Jackie's on Cool Struttin'.

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 1d

Either stuff that I thrifted but can't keep or stuff that I'm getting rid of to make room for stuff I thrifted. Mostly jazz and music from various parts of the world.

Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 1d

Alright, got some stacks to take in to the record store. Let's see what this gets me.

A bag of LPs and a bag of CDs to trade in at the record store

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 2d

Cool.

Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 2d

Cage is God.

Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 2d

Doing God's work.

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