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Just ordered a copy of Lee Ranaldo's All The Stars in the Sky (60 euro...). It's a commissioned work for an installation by Dutch artist Zeger Reyers presented during Art Rotterdam. The installation consists of a turntable on which the almost completely etched Ranaldo LP continuously plays. The record player is covered with real mushrooms. The idea is that the growing mushrooms influence the sound and the sounds influence the growth of the mushrooms. Have a picture of the installation if needed. Ed.

Originally Posted by Moshe

The tradition goes on!
After the 2005, 2006 and 2007 predictions, here is a thread
which will try to foresee all sonic related releases in the coming year.

Some of the items are confirmed and some are only rumored.
Here is a legend that can help you know how solid the information on every single item is:

!= Confirmed
#= probably will happen this year
?= I dreamed I dream

* Items in red have been added to the list during 2008.
* items with a green star have been already released.
* prediction for 2008 release was wrong.


Sonic Youth

* Sonic Youth - New album?
* Sonic Youth - Hits Are For Squares (CD, Hear Music)!
* Sonic Youth - SYR 7 - J'Accuse Ted Hughes+ Unreleased studio session (12”, SYR)!
* Sonic Youth- SYR 8 – The nosiest of all syr’s!!! (CD?, SYR)!
* Sonic Youth - Soundtracks Box Set (SYR) ?#
* Sonic Youth - Screaming Fields of Sonic Love (DVD)#
* Sonic Youth - Mater-Dick (Goofin?)?

Various Sonics

* Gordon/Olson/Moore/Young/Shelly/Dilloway - Live in Denver (CDR, Ecstatic Peace) #
* Thurston Moore/Kim Gordon/Leslie Keffer (Cassette, Ecstatic Peace)!
* Rhys Chatham – Guitar Trio is My Life (2 ot of 3 CD featuring Kim, Lee and Thurston, Table of Elements/Radium, out March 4th)!
* Mirror/Dash (Ecstaic Peace?)?


Kim

* Free Kitten (Ecstatic Peace, spring release)!
* Yoshimio - Yunnan Colorfree (CD+DVD, Commons)!

Steve

* Steve Shelly/Mike watt/Enrique Morente (SYR?)?

Lee

* Lee Ranaldo – Yes the solo album is in the works! (Ecstatic Peace)#
* Lee Ranaldo - (CD, Three Lobed Oscillation III subscription series)!
* Lee Ranaldo/Marina Rosenfeld/Nels Cline – Out Trios (CD, Atavistic)?
* Lee Ranaldo - All the Stars in the Sky (12", ?)!

Thurston

* Thurston Moore - Sensitive/Lethal (CD, No Fun Productions, out on April 10th)!
* The Bark Haze - One for Merz (CD, Three Lobed Oscillation III subscription series)!
* The Bark Haze/ Traum – Monolith 2 ( CD/LP, Music Fellowship)!
* College Girls Gone Wild (CDR, Ecstatic Peace)#
* Original Silence – The Second Original Silence (CD, Smalltown Superjazzz, early 2008)!
* Original Silence – The Third Original Silence (LP or Cassette, Smalltown Superjazzz)!
* Thurston Moore/Prurient (CD?, Hospital Prudctions?)?
* Thurston Moore/Jad Fair/Yamantaka Eye (CD?, Ecstatic Peace)?
* Diskaholics Anonymous Trio –S/T reissue (CD, Smalltown Superjazzz)!
* Chris Habib - Diskaholics Anonymous Trio (DVD, Ecstatic Peace?)?
* Thurston Moore (7" in 10 singles box set, Ecstatic Peace)#
* The Thing - Now and forever (3 CD+DVD featuring a live recording with Thurston, Smalltown Superjazzz)!
* The Bark Haze - Basement Psychosis (Cassette, Ecstatic Peace)!
* Thutston Moore/Paul Flaherty - Slither (2) (7" on the Bored Fortress Club, Not Not Fun)!
* Dream/Aktion Unit - Live in Victoriaville Festival (CD, Victo)?
* Richard Kern - Extra action ( soundtrack for DVD, MDV)!
* Haruomi Hosono Strange Song Book - Tribute to Haruomi Hosono 2 (2CD+DVD)!
* Thurston Moore - Live from SoHo (mp3, iTunes)!
* Thurston Moore - 3 (Ecstatic Peace)?


Books

* David Browne - Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth
(Hardcover, Da Capo Press, May 26, 2008)!

* Thurston Moore & Byron Coley - No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980 (Hardcover, Abrams Image, June 1, 2008)!

* Peter Wild (Editor)-The Empty Page: Fiction Inspired by "Sonic Youth"
(Paperback, Serpent's Tail, 27 Mar 2008)!

* Steve chick - Bad Moon Rising
(Omnibus Press, March 2008)#?

* V.A. Black Noise: A tribute to the late Steven Parrino (contributions by Thurston and Kim, Hard cover boxset, June 2007)!


Exhibition:

* Lieu international des Formes Emergentes de Saint Nazaire Musueum and
Museïon de Bozano are co-producingt he first international exhibition dedicated to Sonic Youth.
Collaborations engaged by the band with visual artists, directors, poets or performers
will be in the limelight.


Happy new year!