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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Recently unearthed music from the Cecil Taylor Unit Live at the Kimo Theater, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Vinyl release on Black Editions Archive

Back of the vinyl cover showing “Cecil Taylor unit”

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you @maryhalvorson.bsky.social and Sylvie Courvoisier for coming to New Mexico and putting on an INCREDIBLE show last night. It was my daughter’s first music show and wow, what a doozy. She’ll never forget this one. One of those shows I wish I had recorded start to finish.

A stage with two people. One seated with a microphone (Mary) and another at a piano (Sylvie). A young fan sits in the foreground in the audience

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Let’s goooooooo! Hearing the new @mike-eagle.bsky.social x Kenny Segal early >>>>>>

A white turntable with a vinyl copy of DOOMED! by Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal. The vinyl is blue and red with black splatter.

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’m going to be in Chicago toward the end of August for a week. I need recs for venues where I can catch some cool music. @intlanthem.bsky.social I know y’all got the scoop. Tap me in! I’m down with any type of left field music but my fave to see live is creative improvised instrumental type.

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This was my son’s first CD. Went out and got him a new CD so he can spin Happy Today

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I am *hyped* to find a record shop in New Mexico carrying @intlanthem.bsky.social. Picked up a few records and watched a screening of the Jeff Parker ETA IVtet film at No Logo Records. Incredible album and great shop. I will be back. Next, we just gotta get the IVtet to come here for a show!

A record shop display with the new Jeff Parker album, with a screening of the film in the background projected on a white sheet

IARC promo flyer showing locations that will screen the Jeff Parker IVtet film, with a location in Santa Fe, NM circled

3 records, 2 cassettes, and a CD on a table

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

My Fly or Die shirt prompted a couple conversations about jaimie branch today at the rock gym. Hopefully a couple new listeners to the fly or die universe. Thanks @intlanthem.bsky.social for making sure her legacy lives on! The shirt has been helping me educate the world every time I wear it.

A person standing in a rock climbing gym wearing a black shirt that reads “fly or die” in white letters. The fly or die slogan is a nod to the fly or die series of albums by trumpeter and all-around amazing person, jaimie branch, who tragically passed in 2023.

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Today’s soundtrack for boxing up Christmas decorations. Things got more and more free as the day went on

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

It makes me sad that I’ll soon have to take down this epic holiday light display that we made out of a dead tree stump. I’m tempted to keep the dead tree in place for next year…

A dead tree stump wrapped in ribbon and Christmas lights topped with Santa hats on the dead branches. The picture is taken during the day with blue sky in the background

A dead tree stump wrapped in ribbon and Christmas lights topped with Santa hats on the dead branches. The picture is taken during the night with the lights on

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The final bundle of the IA11 reissue series just touched down and it’s a doozy. 2 of my favorite albums (Fly or Die II and Universal Beings) and a Deplume I hadn’t yet heard but now love. Universal Beings was my introduction to @intlanthem.bsky.social. Excellent choice for the 11th and final album.

Three albums lined up in front of a shelf full of records. The albums, left to right, are Fly or Die II by jaimie branch, universal beings by Makaya McCraven, and To Cy and Lee by Alabaster Deplume

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Since joining Bluesky I haven’t seen any #pizza discourse. I kinda miss the random food arguments at the other place, honestly… So I’m gonna try to kick it off posting my family’s go-to pizza order. We’re traditionalists. So we stick to the main toppings of pepperoni, green chile, and pineapple

Pizza with pepperoni, green chile, and pineapple toppings

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I second this one. It’s actually the only album in my top 20 of 2025 (yes, I had some downtime so I did this) that I don’t have a physical copy of. In no particular order…

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

My pepper plants do not look well but they gave up another harvest. Probably their last. We have not had a frost here yet. It’s rare to be this deep in November and not have a frost.

Mix of red and green chile peppers in a stainless steel pot

A green chile pepper just beginning to transition to red, showing an orange streak down the side. It is hanging on a pepper plant with sickly looking yellow leaves, an indicator it will soon die. Before then, it is giving one last attempt at spreading its seeds for future generations of plants. However, unbeknownst to the plant, I will eat this seed pod. Its efforts at reproduction were futile.

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Next up, jaimie branch’s Fly or Die Live. Jaimie was an incredible innovator and improviser. It really shines on this album. BTW, International Anthem just announced a special reissue of Fly or Die II. Very excited for that

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I’m holed up sick, but music is the healing force of the universe, so I’m spinning lots of music to get better. First up, Ruler Rebel by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah. The first in the centennial trilogy. Taking the next step in his stretch music philosophy.

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

New Tortoise arriving just in time for the mood boost I really needed! The blue ‘seamount axial’ vinyl is even better than it looked online. Another gem from Tortoise and IARC

A picture of a white turntable with a blue vinyl record for the album Touch by the band Tortoise. The album cover is a scorpion that blends into a sketched face…honestly don’t know how to describe the album cover any better than that

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Travels took me through Phoenix, so I stopped at @stinkweeds.com and the In Groove, two of my fave record shops in the country. Picked up some gems from Low, Charles Tolliver, Angel Bat Dawid, Marc Johnson, and Morton Subotnick. @intlanthem.bsky.social has their own section at Stinkweeds now!

A picture of a row of LPs at Stinkweeds, Phoenix with a divider labeled “International Anthem”

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Seeing all these semi trucks jamming up the road, burning a bunch of fuel makes me wonder if there’s a better way to transport cargo? Like maybe a single truck could pull a bunch of the cargo containers? And since there’s so many of them, maybe give them their own road.

A picture of an interstate road with hundreds of semi trucks. The semi trucks outnumber passenger vehicles roughly 5:1

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

To celebrate the announcement of Mercy — the new collaborative album from Armand Hammer and the Alchemist — I am spinning my pride and joy. My deluxe edition of Haram with an alternate cover (thankfully)

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I made a move 2 hours after the album announcement and still missed out on one of the vinyl variants. I was bummed to miss it but happy to see AH got people hyped like that

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

New arrival: Hyperglyph, the excellent new album from Chicago Underground Duo. Via @intlanthem.bsky.social, the label that doesn’t miss

A picture of a vinyl copy of Hyperglyph on a white turntable. Amber colored vinyl. The record cover shows two men in front of a restaurant

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Here’s how summer 2025 has gone in New Mexico. In Albuquerque, the Rio Grande is entirely dry in spots. In the Sandia Mtns, the east slope — the side that gets the most rain — has acres of dry, dead/ dying pine trees. Maybe I’m old fashioned, but this doesn’t seem good.

A dumped chair in the dry river bed of the Rio Grande

Up close image of cracked clay in the dry riverbed of the Rio Grande

The eastern slope of the Sandia Mountains. Circled in red are large areas of brown pine trees, indicative of dead or dying trees

A dead cottonwood tree in the Rio Grande bosque

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I am sooo happy with how the Flow soundtrack vinyl turned out. Well worth the 5 month wait. The wax is beautiful. The styling on the sleeves is cleverly done (you can change the cat eyes by rotating the inner sleeves). Nice touches all around. This is epitomizes the appeal of vinyl. Via Mondo.

The Flow soundtrack vinyl on white record player. The vinyl is blue and green swirl. The LP jacket is a painting of a cat face

Up close of the flow soundtrack vinyl, showing the blue and green swirl

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Beautiful night for some baseball

A picture of isotopes park baseball field from behind home plate, first base side. Sunset is shining in between the left field wall and the bottom of monsoon clouds, with the Sandia mountains in the background over right center. The stands are sparsely populated

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Man what a good idea. My fave minor league hat here. The Albuquerque Isotopes have an alt identity, the Green Chile Cheeseburgers, and within that one of the alt logos is a chile pepper roaster. Super niche regional reference

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Amazing album! The obi strip description is perfect and says it better than I can. “Tellurian psychedelic fantasia of old familiar folklore and avant-garde blues seduces and inoculates with the irreverence and joy of free music”.

A close up image of the obi strip from Ben LaMar Gay’s “Yowzers” with a purple LP in the background. Obi strip reads “Tellurian psychedelic fantasia of old familiar folklore and avant-garde blues seduces and inoculates with the irreverence and joy of free music”.

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The only thing better than coming home from work travel is coming home to a stack of new LPs and getting to hear the new Ben LaMar Gay and Defcee/ Parallel Thought albums before their release dates. It is gonna be an @intlanthem.bsky.social summer. Horizons and Yowzers are perfect summer albums

A stack of 5 cardboard mailers used to ship vinyl LPs. Two have International Anthem branded tape and one Backwoodz Studioz

Six vinyl LPs lined up on a burnt orange couch. The albums are
Resavoir x Matt Gold - Horizon
Ben LaMar Gay - Yowzers
Swans - Birthing
K-the-I x Kenny Segal - Genuine Dexterity
billy woods - GOLLIWOG
Defcee x Parallel Thought - Other Blues

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

ASMS has an exhibit on Dragonfly, the planned mission to Titan. A cool example of using mass spectrometry to interrogate other worlds, hopefully shedding light on origins of life +. Dragonfly will be one of the coolest things to happen in my lifetime. cc @planetdr.bsky.social made me think of you!

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I am in Baltimore for the ASMS conference, so of course I had to stop in for an Orioles game! Beautiful ballpark

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

New arrival: Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette It’s up there with his best work ever (Labor Days, Impossible Kid) and the limited edition vinyl is crazy. I don’t think I’ll have the nerve to break open the door on the cover for a few years, tho…

Black hole superette on a white record player. The vinyl is blue. The record cover shows a convenience store

Card reading giving instructions on how to open embedded doors on the record cover

Blue swirl transparent vinyl held up to a light

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Wildfire smoke is decimating our otherwise immaculate air quality here in New Mexico. On the left is a typical view of the mountains from my home. On the right is the view from a few minutes ago. And it’s actually improved since this morning! This used to be rare, but it happens a lot now.

A clear view of a New Mexico mountain range showing excellent visibility from about 10 miles away, with rocky details and snow being visible. This is a typical view (whenever it’s not so windy as to create a dust storm)

A view of the same New Mexico mountains, but with visibility deteriorated by smoke. Only the outline of the mountains is visible.

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Swans - Birthing This may be the best Swans yet. There isn’t a single song that reaches the highs of, say, Apostate or Bring the Sun/ Toussaint L’Ouverture, but the entire album is so consistently exceptional in a way no other Swans is. There is no low point here.

Screenshot of the Apple Music depiction of the album Birthing by Swans, which is a brown cover with a large black circle in the center.

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Just arrived: No School by @gregdavismusic.bsky.social aka Asterisk. Incredible producer album featuring some of my favorite indie emcees. Nice touch to the physical is the * and ** to indicates sides 1 & 2. Little touches like that are why I collect physical records.

Vinyl copy of the album No School by Asterisk, with the cover sitting next to a white turntable with a black vinyl disc

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Peak living. Two days up in the mountains, no cell service.

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Listening to Moor Mother this Mother’s Day morning. This is a collaboration with metal band sumac. Spectacular. My wife and I’s favorite of shared-like albums this year. (I’m surprised Moor Mother didn’t migrate to Bluesky)

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

True nerds watch Star Wars on mute while listening to Brubeck on 5/4

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Diving in to the ultimate 5/4 experience

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The vinyl presentation for the amazing Did You Enjoy Your Time Here? is as beautiful as the music. I love the color scheme. Everything about this project is perfect. It even matches the artwork in my office (which is covering a hole in the shed my home office is in…) Thanks @premrock.bsky.social

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Counting down: two weeks until GOLLIWOG!!!

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Is there any other pro sports franchise that so quickly went from one of the best to one of the worst logos as the Grizzlies did? Their current logo isn’t terrible in that it looks bad, but it’s so uninteresting and unremarkable that it has to be considered one of the worst

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Getting this spring Sunday kicked off right with some Paul Winter. Common Ground, one of the og modern “new age”/ world albums. Fusing nature sounds with jazz, folk, and orchestral arrangements.

A white record player displaying a black vinyl LP and the album cover for Paul Winter’s Common Ground. The album cover shows a distorted rainbow, a whale, a wolf, a bald eagle, and clouds

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I recently hit a career milestone, so to pat myself on the back I splurged on the colored vinyl of one of my all-time favorite albums. jaimie branch - Fly or Die Live Recorded Jan 2020 in Switzerland. Stunning piece of improvisational brilliance from a beautiful soul

Picture of the Fly or Die Live album, with a disc on a white record player and the album cover next to it. The disc is a colored variant with red and blue streaks.

Up close of the album cover, which reveals text written in a transparent but shiny font. The text can only be read when the light catches it right. The cover says the album name (Fly or Die Live) while the back has the tracklist with the same style font.

The inside of the album jacket, showing a collage of image of various promotional materials, pictures of the band members and other people

Up close image of the vinyl disc. The disc is translucent with streaks of red and blue

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Spring is in full swing here in the US southwest. Hard to believe it was just snowing this past weekend. Amazingly, one of my kale plants survived the winter despite a couple nights where it got down to 3 F (-16 C).

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Snow day! Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Top albums for March were the incredible releases from @premrock.bsky.social and @danielbachman.bsky.social. Both albums are easily two of my favorites of the 2020s

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LEVITATOR @microlevitator.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

My dome zone has grown to the point I had to get a new shelf just for IARC records.

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