Photo by Yuya Peco Takeda
Joe is a multidisciplinary artist that runs the label MOSS ARCHIVE out of Worcester, and is a member of Looks Realistic and Gay Shapes. He also releases solo material under the Bastian Void and Homeowner aliases.
This list was originally posted on my label’s blog a few days ago. I’ve never made a ‘best of’ list before, but I found the process of digging back over the year for highlights to be very a positive, almost therapeutic experience. A lot of cool things happened this year, and a lot of great music came out. I’m thankful for all of it. This is what makes life worth living! So, in no particular order, here are my favorite things that happened in 2014.
– New Year’s Day Firehouse Noise Brunch
– YDLMIER50 Comp + Show
– Belarisk, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Jake Meginsky at Deep Thoughts JP
– Brattleboro with Sam Gas Can and Peter’s Window
– Giant Claw at the Firehouse
– 3 hour set with Gay Shapes in Southbridge
– Ende Tymes Festival
– Mark Fell at Waterworks Museum, Boston
– New England Underground Music Festival w/ Mickey O’Hara
– Valerio Tricoli & Werner Dafeldecker at Goethe-Institut Boston + beers after
– North Adams Halloween show w/ JB, O’Hara, Foam trio & Cruudeuces
– Sam Gas Can live at distant castle!!
– Jean-Claude Risset “Music From Computer”
– Alan Gesso “Abraxas”
– Aphex Twin “Syro”
– Zerfallt “Jaegel Spit”
– Yves Malone “Ebony Sunrise”
– Steve Roach “Structures From Silence”
– Hunted Creatures “Mogollan Rim”
– Joel Van Droogenbroeck Reissues
– Akos Rozmann “12 Stations” 7xCD
– SND Reissues
– Valerio Tricoli “Miseri Lares”
– Pulse Emitter 2xCD
– Madalyn Merkey “Valley Girl”
– Le Revelateur “Extreme Events”
– Phinery
– Sam Gas Can “I Sat Around Today”
– Panabrite “Pavilion”
– Brett Naucke “Transparency”
– Quicksails / Headboggle split
– Ayurvedic Tapes + TVE + LEAN
– Three Legged Race “Rope Commercial Vol. 1”
– Mutable Instruments “Peaks”
– New Age Old Tyme Wrestling in Hadley
– Making VA/A + the old studio on the river
– Apsara Restaurant, Fall River
– Neil deGrasse Tyson in Worcester
– Richard D. James interview for Noyzelab
+ Bonus Tracks!
– Jodorosky’s Dune & The Incal
– Sabrina Ratte DVD and book
– Tusk & Tango In the Night
– New studio setup:
