Q2 Music Album of the Week for December 2, 2013. This audio will be available for one week only.
Released by: Chandos
Release/catalogue number: 5129
Release date: Oct 16, 2013
Q2 Music Album of the Week for December, 23, 2013. This audio will be available for one week only.
Released by: Harmonia Mundi
Release/catalogue number: 907488
Release date: Nov 12, 2013
Dammit! I didn't notice that Broderick album until just now. Float was what first drew me to Broderick, and still remains my second favorite recording of his.
I'm assuming its going to be a new release soon (if not already; hafta check that right now, actually).
Q2 Music Album of the Week for January 6, 2014. This audio will be available for one week only.
Released by: Bridge Records
Release/catalogue number: 9405
Release date: Dec 10, 2013
- "In the liner notes for his latest album, "Notes to Self," Paul Lansky the Princeton-based electronic music pioneer and onetime Radiohead reference describes its five pieces as originating "from a different toolkit in my composer's workshop" and "later-in-life adventures in music that needs no electricity." That, of course, refers to his gradual shift away from the complex electronic works with which he's made his name over the last four decades."
- "Part monodrama, part song-cycle, part opera, Voices from the Killing Jar crosses a volatile musical landscape populated by a series of female protagonists, among them housewives and teenagers and mothers and daughters, innocents and tragic heroines and femmes fatales. From Madame Bovarys passionate whirlwind of delusion, to Lady Macduffs terrified lullaby, to Clytemnestras hypnotic and deadly rage, each one is brought to vivid and unforgettable life as composer/performer Kate Sopers mercurial voice traces a path through their stories. Written for the Wet Ink Ensemble, Voices is designed to maximally exploit the artistic range of ensemble members Ian Antonio, Erin Lesser, Alex Mincek, Joshua Modney, Sam Pluta, and Eric Wubbels, carrying the listener through sound worlds as complex and diverse as the characters that inspired them."
The California composer Michael Pisaro has not lacked for recordings lately, with three superb CDs to his name in 2013 on Gravity Wave, a label he helps to run. But I keep returning to this as-yet unreleased recording of a November 2013 concert in Columbia, S.C., in which Mr. Pisaros close collaborator Greg Stuart leads a 30-member ensemble in a patient, unpredictable, exceedingly beautiful mingling of simple structures, improvised textures and field recordings.
Pisaro is a prominent composer in the electroacoustic/field-recording/improvisation scene these days. Much of his music is released on his label Gravity Wave (and that site has lots of info about pieces). He also has three excellent collaborations on Erstwhile.
If there are any dreampop fans out there, Pitchfork is streaming Moon, the new debut album by Snowbird, a duo consisting of ex-Cocteau Twins bass player Simon Raymonde and singer Stephanie Dosen, a solo artist (until now at least) who sounds just enough like Elizabeth Fraser to get people like me interested, and who also makes knit caps and bracelets for the gnomes 'n' unicorns set. It's a good record, but it isn't going to make anyone forget Robin Guthrie.
Very much hoping Blue Note puts the new Brian Blade Fellowship album on NPR First Listen. I think they've been doing that for all their new releases lately. I know the Kris Bowers was up and the Ambrose Akinmusire and the, hm, whatshisname, the vocalist with the funny but sensible winter hat... his album, that was up there, too. Porter! Gregory Porter.
Anyways, looking forward to the new Blade Fellowship album. #BigTime
Hey, you're right. I just saw a couple interviews where he mentions surgery. My guess is he keeps it now, even after he heals up. I mean, it really is a signature thing, y'know? But disfigurement aside, it really makes sense if you live somewhere that gets a real winter. Hm, actually, I'm not sure where Porter lives. That hat would totally suck if he's a Miami resident.
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Released by: Chandos
Release/catalogue number: 5129
Release date: Oct 16, 2013
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Released by: Harmonia Mundi
Release/catalogue number: 907488
Release date: Nov 12, 2013
I'm assuming its going to be a new release soon (if not already; hafta check that right now, actually).
Thanks for the heads-up, though.
Cheers.
Released by: Bridge Records
Release/catalogue number: 9405
Release date: Dec 10, 2013
Released by: New Focus Recordings
Release/catalogue number: 144
Release date: Jan 28, 2014
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ETA: Luke Gullickson's Back Porch Requiem for John Fahey is pretty awesome. (among others)
Michael Pisaro: asleep, forest, melody, path (for field recording and live performance, 2013)
My friend Steve Smith writes: See also SCHC Music Students Catch the Ear of New York Times.
Pisaro is a prominent composer in the electroacoustic/field-recording/improvisation scene these days. Much of his music is released on his label Gravity Wave (and that site has lots of info about pieces). He also has three excellent collaborations on Erstwhile.
Released by: Dux
Release/catalogue number: 0966
Release date: Jan 28, 2014
Dux @ music
Via MPR.
Continues to bring to mind 60s pop, and continues to be absolutely lovely.
Craig
Released by: Orange Mountain Music
Release/catalogue number: 0089
Release date: Sep 3, 2013
https://soundcloud.com/indierockmag/bbs-coltre-sidea/s-r5xfH
https://soundcloud.com/indierockmag/bbs-manto-sideb/s-r5xfH
- B/B/S/ (Aidan Baker + Erik K. Skodvin + Andrea Belfi),
- Wow !
Wow, this is good. I've liked all their stuff, but this takes it up a notch.
Craig
Released by: Signum
Release/catalogue number: 367
Release date: Jan 1, 2014
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Aeon Records | Released 11/5/13
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Craig
Released by: Cantaloupe Music
Release date: Mar 25, 2014
Released by: Cantaloupe Music
Release/catalogue number: 21097
Release date: Mar 25, 2014
Anyways, looking forward to the new Blade Fellowship album. #BigTime