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His very close-miked sound still containing a tasteful (i.e. light) amount of reverb is such a recognizable signature...

A true legend, and big coincidence since I discovered yet another of his production a week ago: Zeni Geva's last three LPs. Almost as important as the ubiquitous Dan Swano in my collection:

  $ find -L ~/Music -type f -name album.json -exec jqmusic '.credits | has("Steve Albini")' {} \; -print | awk -F/ '{print $5 " - " $6}'
  Big Black - (1986) Atomizer
  Big Black - (1982) Lungs
  Big Black - (1983) Bulldozer
  Big Black - (1987-1) Headache
  Big Black - (1987-2) Songs About Fucking
  Nine Inch Nails - (1999) The Fragile
  Om - (2007) Pilgrimage
  The Breeders - (1990) Pod
  Nirvana - (1993) In Utero
  The Jesus Lizard - (1990) Head
  The Jesus Lizard - (1989) Pure
  The Jesus Lizard - (1991) Goat
  The Jesus Lizard - (1992) Liar
  The Jesus Lizard - (1994) Down
  Pixies - (1988) Surfer Rosa
  PJ Harvey - (1993) Rid of Me
  Shellac - (1994) At Action Park
  Rapeman - (1988) Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
  Zeni Geva - (1993) Desire For Agony
  Zeni Geva - (1995) Freedom Bondage
  Zeni Geva - (2001) 10,000 Light Years
To actually hear "In Utero" in all its Albini-esque glory, you must find the 2013 20th Anniversary Edition, it's on the 2nd disc.


Zeni Geva deserves more credit, great to see them mentioned. You probably know Neurosis and Melt Banana but those might also be up your alley.

Other noteworthy Albini-engineered bands for me: Oxbow, Low, Whitehouse, Labradford, Burning Witch, Godspeed's U.X.O album. Peter Sotos' Buyer's Market is one of the most insane albums I've ever had the displeasure to listen to, and Albini apparently produced it, although I don't hear any obvious influence.


The Albini-produced Whitehouse albums seem to be underloved because they're a weird transitional period between the group's more famous "wasps fighting" and "broken African robot" sounds, but they're some of the best releases. There's a decadent and sinister competence to them that can't be heard in the earlier buzzier material.


Zeni Geva is such a great band! Maybe you have already seen it, but I've always loved this live cover of 'Model' Kraftwerk by Zeni Geva & Albini - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8R7c7XYmI4.


I'm going to put this here - The Crooked Fiddle Band - a Sydney folk band with major inspiration from Big Black and others had two albums produced by Albini - I couldn't think of a better match:

https://crookedfiddleband.bandcamp.com/album/overgrown-tales https://crookedfiddleband.bandcamp.com/album/moving-pieces-o...


Also, what is this jqmusic executable with the jq style query?


Just a jq wrapper that adds -e and includes some functions

  $ cat ~/bin/jqmusic
  #!/usr/bin/env bash
  
  exec jq -e "${@:1:$(($#-2))}" "include \"music\"; ${@: -2:1}" "${@: -1}" >/dev/null 2>&1
  $ cat ~/.jq/music.jq
  def year: .released | match("[0-9]{4}").string | tonumber;
  def has_genre(str): .genres.primary | any(. == str);
  def match_genre(regexp): .genres.primary | any(match(regexp));
Together with https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/rymscrap to get the actual JSON.


What are you using to generate album.json?


Steve also played with Zeni Geva as Superunit: https://www.discogs.com/release/876551-Zeni-Geva-Steve-Albin...


I will check out Zeni Geva, thanks for sharing!




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