Thomas Köner Bargain
Just a heads up on a bargain price (for North America at least) on Daikan by Thomas Köner. Didn't seem to quite fit elsewhere, not being new or free or bandcamp.
It's a 55 minute, one-track album, and Amazon.com at the moment are selling it as a single track, so the whole album for 99c. ($5.99 on eMusic)
This was one my best Amiestreet finds - I think I got the whole thing for about 50c. It is a very minimalist, rather dark piece of music, needs to be listened to as a whole piece I think, preferably with good headphones in a darkened room. I lack the skill or vocabulary to pinpoint how a piece in which there is apparently so little going on can at the same time be so brooding and compelling of one's attention - I find it hard to stop listening to it once I start. The basic elements are a deep, rumbly drone that keeps shifting in subtle and satisfying ways, some recurring slight washes of static, and an intermittently repeated percussive sound that sounds as if it has been slowed down about as far as possible, leaving you waiting in anticipation of the next strike, like some huge, subliminally deep gong being struck underground with a tone akin to a distant rumble of thunder. It manages to be at once tranquil yet slightly threatening, static yet in constant motion. If you're in a location where you are allowed to buy from amazon.com and have an ear for ambient minimalism, this is a real bargain.
It's a 55 minute, one-track album, and Amazon.com at the moment are selling it as a single track, so the whole album for 99c. ($5.99 on eMusic)
This was one my best Amiestreet finds - I think I got the whole thing for about 50c. It is a very minimalist, rather dark piece of music, needs to be listened to as a whole piece I think, preferably with good headphones in a darkened room. I lack the skill or vocabulary to pinpoint how a piece in which there is apparently so little going on can at the same time be so brooding and compelling of one's attention - I find it hard to stop listening to it once I start. The basic elements are a deep, rumbly drone that keeps shifting in subtle and satisfying ways, some recurring slight washes of static, and an intermittently repeated percussive sound that sounds as if it has been slowed down about as far as possible, leaving you waiting in anticipation of the next strike, like some huge, subliminally deep gong being struck underground with a tone akin to a distant rumble of thunder. It manages to be at once tranquil yet slightly threatening, static yet in constant motion. If you're in a location where you are allowed to buy from amazon.com and have an ear for ambient minimalism, this is a real bargain.
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- ....or maybe you had him in his evening wear.
(After all, I was rather surprised to learn recently that