Say, does anyone here have this album? I just listened for the first time since downloading quite a while back - can't even remember from which site, but not emusic - to the track "Untitled with rain" which is listed at 24 minutes. My copy has music for 6 minutes 55 seconds, fades out normally, and then 17 minutes plus of silence. If there's rain then I can't tell it from speaker hiss at max volume. Is this some kind of John Cage moment or is there something wrong here?
Gp, that's the 2nd-to-last track, it appears. Sometimes artists doofily add a "hidden track" via tacking a bunch of silence at the end of the previous track, and the rip knows no difference. Just another reason to hate "hidden tracks", a stupid fucking idea that's afflicted far too many musicians.
Another Amie find. Really enjoying this one. I wouldn't know how to describe it, but the genre tag says "jazz free jazz" which I think works rather well, and solves the old debate of what is and isn't jazz. It's jazz, but it also happens to be free of any jazz. (available at emu).
@kargatron, I figured it must be that, though 17 minutes is a long way to push the hidden track trick. Of course the additional irony here is that the 17 minutes of silence on track 7 make this an "album-only" track at emusic and increase the price of the album by over two dollars!!!! (And what exactly were you hinting about Doofy's role in encouraging this practice?)
[edit] BT, you beat me to it.
eMu also uses hidden tracks to bump up to album pricing
Do you have reason to prefer this explanation over the dumb, automatic ripping of releases with hidden tracks separated with silence? I think their (known, established) lack of internal quality control is more than sufficient to explain that phenomenon, without having to rely on cunning profiteering. All examples of rips that I've seen look exactly consistent with an unadjusted, automatic conversion process.
I agree: pricing is nearly robotic. I just find that hidden tracks, as well as bonus tracks, particularly irksome with regard to album pricing, considering they are, from the consumer's standpoint, extras that don't figure into the normal price of an album.
Link is to the single track download on Amazon for 89 cents - it's an album only track on emusic (19 minutes long). I don't have the rest of the album (yet; not sure if I will - this track works fine as an EP), but this track is an absolute monster. Slow-burn, climactic, cathartic post-rock with ominous narrative. Epic.
And BT I agree totally. $2 for a big chunk of robotically ripped silence is not a great deal. At least there is some kind of rationale for a regular album-only track.
these new burial songs are sick (and i mean this in a good way). same basic sound template, but more uptempo and propulsive. kind of works off the sound he explored in raver (from the untrue album), but these push the sound further into the light. fantastic.
Pure Dynamite - Subtle dynamite from reedman Buddy Terry -- easily one of the most righteous players to work for the Mainstream Records label during its early 70s jazz funk years -- and an artist who really brings a wider-ranging, Strata East-like sensibility to this set! Buddy plays tenor, soprano sax, and flute on the date -- really stretching out on long, extended tracks recorded in the company of some very hip players -- including Eddie Henderson and Woody Shaw on trumpets, Kenny Barron and Joanne Brackeen on electric and acoustic piano, Stanley Clarke on bass, Billy Hart and Lenny White on drums, and Airto and Mtume on percussion! Most tracks build up slowly, with a nicely organic sensibility -- egged on by long, stretching solos from Buddy
- More Frank Baugh aka. Sparkling Wide Pressure: Think I Feel Clear Now - (released 11 July 2009)
Released by Maggot Valley. Thanks to the amazing Scott Johnson.
My apologies to anyone who followed the ghostcapital link to mediafire. I scanned it several times without results, but I trust amclark had issues with the download. Cajun Music MP3s has been around a long time and is an excellent source if you don't mind old 78s.
"LAYMAR, are a Manchester institution. If you've not seen them yet then you need to punch yourself directly in the throat. This is some of the most intense and dark electronic music that's ever been produced anywhere. Watching them is like having some kind of out of body experience where you feel like your head is been violated and educated at the same time."
- Event Promoter. http://www.laymar.co.uk/
"Never, never, fall into the trap of judging a band by their album covers, otherwise you might dismiss the superb, sublime and all together magnificent Laymar as some kind of 1980s Scandinavian sub-death metal outfit when in fact they're iLiKETRAiNs chilled out cousins, the post-rock equivalent of the best massage you've ever had." MusicOMH
OK, I'll add it to my "to complete" SFL folder. I was worried that I maybe had the best track already and the rest might be a letdown. I actually decided to dedicate this month's emu funds to completing things I had partially downloaded - if I don't do that consciously the lure of the novel keeps leapfrogging them. Completed Koen Holtkamp's solo outing and passages by Maserati today. So now on to:
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What Day It Is (2009)
(sigh !)
(url=>amz)
Say, does anyone here have this album? I just listened for the first time since downloading quite a while back - can't even remember from which site, but not emusic - to the track "Untitled with rain" which is listed at 24 minutes. My copy has music for 6 minutes 55 seconds, fades out normally, and then 17 minutes plus of silence. If there's rain then I can't tell it from speaker hiss at max volume. Is this some kind of John Cage moment or is there something wrong here?
Another Amie find. Really enjoying this one. I wouldn't know how to describe it, but the genre tag says "jazz free jazz" which I think works rather well, and solves the old debate of what is and isn't jazz. It's jazz, but it also happens to be free of any jazz. (available at emu).
[edit] BT, you beat me to it.
Link is to the single track download on Amazon for 89 cents - it's an album only track on emusic (19 minutes long). I don't have the rest of the album (yet; not sure if I will - this track works fine as an EP), but this track is an absolute monster. Slow-burn, climactic, cathartic post-rock with ominous narrative. Epic.
And BT I agree totally. $2 for a big chunk of robotically ripped silence is not a great deal. At least there is some kind of rationale for a regular album-only track.
- Great "intelligent power pop" - Thanks Kargatron.
(Not available in Europe)
these new burial songs are sick (and i mean this in a good way). same basic sound template, but more uptempo and propulsive. kind of works off the sound he explored in raver (from the untrue album), but these push the sound further into the light. fantastic.
Early Cajun records by Cleoma and Joseph Falcon.
http://npmusic.org/artists.html#joefalcon
http://ghostcapital.blogspot.com/2010/04/cleoma-alcon-family.html
Free debut EP from indie R&B act. Very good.
Craig
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A very nice indie poppy thingy from Amie. (available at amazon)
Jazz from Amie.
(freeform.org)
$2.67 at amazon.
Think I Feel Clear Now - (released 11 July 2009)
Released by Maggot Valley. Thanks to the amazing Scott Johnson.
You need the whole album, trust me !
- Thank You.
- 3 CAD each. . . Hmmmm ?
- Next:
Followed by:
- Singles, both free @ Soundcloud.