I posted this a couple of years ago, but it is such an excellent recording . . .
Radian - Live at WFMU, June 8 2011
"Tune
in as Vienna's Radian pay their first visit to WFMU in nearly a decade!
15 years into their career the trio of Stefan Nemeth, Martin Brandlmayr,
and John Norman continue to shapeshift with off-kilter rhythms, buzzing
static, high-frequency modulation, and microscopic grooveriding. ~Daniel Blumin
"To invent a category for this album, the first thing which comes to mind is offbeat suburban rock opera. Turner wants to make the Greek gods recognizable to modern audiences,
so he depicts them with modern personalities. We are supposed to
sympathize with their perspectives and see a little bit of ourselves in
them."
Recommended if you like: Allen Touissant, Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtracks, Randy Newman, modern retelling of Greek myths
Summary: Charming suburban rock opera with mythical overtones
I'm sorry. I couldn't resist. All of Monk Turner's albums are free and downloadable (and all are brilliant and interesting).
A few years ago I reviewed his concept album called Kaleidoscope, vowing to describe each tracks and the album itself in exactly 6 words. Here is that review:
White. Ebullient vocals bursting ahead –with piano. Blue. Nonsequitur lyrics, skipping outside, lightly, saxily. Fuchsia. Joyful Jingle about an unpronounceable word. Marron, Chic, catchy madcap Euro-lounge nonsense. Beige . Encomium to Blandness. Uncontroversial neutrality — hurrah! Deep sea blue … Lullaby for the forlorn. Waltzing Alone. Chartreuse: Jazzy sensual investigations: Peculiar! Sexy! Gross! Zymenchlora — moody & somewhat lugubrious long tones…. Silver — being 2nd Best ain’t so bad. Gray – Slow, Sullen warbling. Strange, pretty singing. Bistre — glistening, enigmatic lyrics transforming into — what? Purple — Slow Wistful duet on AM Radio. Solid Gold. Great 80s car commercial, retro slacks. Cerulean. Happy-go-lucky wistful upbeat duet. Yellow. Cool, sassy female. Totally fbomb-worthy! Green. hazy postmodern multilingual sampling. Choppy unpredictabilities! Tan. Self-Assured Recitative about graham crackers. Magenta. Pondering, wondering, elusive strumming. Is it….?
In summary: quirky songs (with outbursts of poetry)
@icareifyoulisten 's mixtape, still available but probably not for much longer: - The first track is invalid. Track 7 is Michel Banabila, Oene van Geel – Vleugels - from the amazing Music for viola and electronics II album. (How could I forget that when I made my 2015 list ?)
"Last year we were asked to write a tune for the Bond movie Spectre. Yes we were. It didn’t work out, but became something of our own, which we love very much. As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it."
Don't fret Googled the obvious and yes the mix is on the Awesome Tapes From Africa blog as you might imagine. If you don't know said blog or it's cd licensed re-issues get there immediately. Do not pass go; do not collect £200. You'll thank me (and Doofy) for it.
February 19 - 2014 composer-vocalist Lesley Flanigan joined Brooklyn-based performance-art rockers People Get Ready
as part of Kaufman Music Center's 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival. The
evening included the premiere of a new collaborative vocal composition
as well as sets from both Flanigan and the band.
Zavoloka
is a stage name of Kateryna Zavoloka - sound artist, experimental
electronic music composer, performer and graphic designer from Kyiv
city, Ukraine.
Zavoloka
mainly explores digital and analogue synthesis and combines them with
recorded herself Ukrainian ancient folk songs and different instruments.
Her music consists of intensive varied sound motions and unexpected
combinations piped into carefully controlled electronic flows.
Zavoloka
collaborated with: Kotra (UA), Mark Clifford of Seefeel (UK),
Feldermelder (CH), AGF (DE), Anders Dahl (SE), Andrea Pensado (AR/USA),
she was invited by Aphex Twin (UK) to support his audiovisual shows,
frequently works and playing live with Laetitia Morais (PT) visual
artist and has took part in many different international cross-genre art
projects, music for sculpture and art pavilion, installations, videos,
soundtracks for films and other.
These sound research examples will be send to space by NASA integrated in the OSIRIS-REx Mission in September 3, 2016.
MISSION TO BENNU The
first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth,
addressing multiple NASA Solar System Exploration objectives.
THE MISSION: The
OSIRIS-REx Mission seeks answers to questions that are central to the
human experience: Where did we come from? What is our destiny?
OSIRIS-REx is going to Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid that records the
earliest history of our Solar System, and will be bringing a piece of it
back to Earth. Bennu may contain the molecular precursors to the origin
of life and the Earth’s oceans. Bennu is also one of the most
potentially hazardous asteroids and has a relatively high probability of
impacting the Earth late in the 22nd century. OSIRIS-REx will determine
Bennu’s physical and chemical properties, which will be critical for
future scientists to know when developing an impact mitigation mission.
OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to launch in September and travel to the asteroid Bennu. The #WeTheExplorers
campaign invites the public to take part in this mission by expressing,
through art, how the mission’s spirit of exploration is reflected in
their own lives. Submitted works of art will be saved on a chip on the
spacecraft.
Paris,
1914. On the eve of the Great War that would devastate Europe, Erik
Satie composed Sports et divertissements, twenty brief pieces for piano
to accompany a series of drawings by the artist Charles Martin. He
accompanied them with pithy bits of text reflecting his Dadaist
approach. Because of the war, the album combining the drawings, the
musical pieces, and the texts was not published until a decade later in
1923. Today, one century later, Quartetski has taken up the challenge of
interpreting Satie’s musical pieces much as he did Martin’s initial
drawings.
Quartetski Does Satie is above all an effort to
illustrate, to embellish, and to color this fascinating series of
compositions. The pieces are interspersed with sonic explorations, which
build on Satie and Martin's original themes.
- "Granada Doaba explores the broad roots and divergent branches of flamenco hip-hop. Inspired by the religious convivencia of Al-Andalus, the album features 16 musicians from around the world who all currently live in Granada, Spain.
Spain’s history of multicultural confluence dates back to the early morning of mankind. Andalusia, the birthplace of flamenco and southernmost region of Spain, sits at the crossroads of Europe, Africa and the New World. Until the Christian reconquista of Granada in 1492, southern Spain was known as Al-Andalus, a Muslim Empire that controlled Andalusia for 800 years.
Flamenco is Andalusian Gypsy music and dance with a diverse history of Arab, Jewish, Indian and Afro-Latin influences. As a result of convergent paths of immigration, rhythms from around the world have come together in Andalusia, where they evolved into an indigenous musical culture: flamenco."
I check out the Live Jazz Lounge periodically. Loads of live jazz recordings there; they vary in interest and quality but I am thoroughly enjoying the Ron Carter "Foursight" recordings posts there. Really excellent, laid back extended pieces. Really great stuff, excellent sound quality.
Over the years there have been some pieces of music that I have made specially for compilation projects or have ended being released only as part of a compilation album. As time passes I look back at this music and find the context it was originally put in often feels a bit random now. So I have put together this new album called Randoms that brings together this music in a different way. The oldest track here is Field from 1996, the first Four Tet track ever released on Leaf Records Invisible Soundtracks compilation. The most recent is Gillie Amma I Love You which was made for a charity project called BOATS in 2013. All the tracks here have been released before and I am sure some internet searching will give you the full details if you are interested. Thank you to everyone who originally commissioned and released this music. The artwork for this was made by Jason Evans.
We’re honored to present you the new album called 'Vantdraught 4' of the Kuba
Kapsa Ensemble – again including a wonderful artwork created by Kahn &
Selesnick. In line with this new full length we’re offering the first album of
the ensemble for free download for two weeks.
- Here's my writeup on the Classical N&N from about a year ago:
-
"The first part of the "Vantdraught" series is called "Vantdraught 10"
written for ten classical instruments - 4 violins, 2 violas, cello,
vibraphone, marimba and piano. The music is largely based on a
repetition of individual melodic motifs, which are also
quite multithreaded within a given composition. Vibraphone, piano and
marimba are written in a “push-pull” combination, being the rhythmical
base for every piece, while strings are instantly “questioning and
answering” each other whether being supportive to the rhythm or used for
the presentation of themes. The common feature of every composition is
symmetry, which has been applied to almost every aspect - rhythm,
harmony, motifs and themes. The first four pieces of "Vantdraught 10",
which are inspired by the works of classical minimalists and early 20th
century composers, have been recorded in December 2014 with musicians
from renowned Polish ensembles such as Neoquartet and Kwartludium at the
concert studios of Radio Gdansk. "Vantdraught 10·Vol.1" will be
released on Denovali Records in April 2015. For Vol. 2, which is
following up, Kuba Kapsa will present a rather asymmetrical approach to
voice leading and rhythm."
-
"Kuba Kapsa is a Polish pianist and composer being the leader of the
avant-jazz combo Contemporary Noise Sextet (2006-2014). Beyond that he
is a renowned composer for film and theater plays. His latest venture is
the first of a sophisticated series of projects of modern classical
music bearing the common title "Vantdraught".
Comments
Radian - Live at WFMU, June 8 2011
I posted a longish review of this album:
"To invent a category for this album, the first thing which comes to mind is offbeat suburban rock opera. Turner wants to make the Greek gods recognizable to modern audiences, so he depicts them with modern personalities. We are supposed to sympathize with their perspectives and see a little bit of ourselves in them."
Recommended if you like: Allen Touissant, Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtracks, Randy Newman, modern retelling of Greek myths
Summary: Charming suburban rock opera with mythical overtones
A few years ago I reviewed his concept album called Kaleidoscope, vowing to describe each tracks and the album itself in exactly 6 words. Here is that review:
White. Ebullient vocals bursting ahead –with piano.
Blue. Nonsequitur lyrics, skipping outside, lightly, saxily.
Fuchsia. Joyful Jingle about an unpronounceable word.
Marron, Chic, catchy madcap Euro-lounge nonsense.
Beige . Encomium to Blandness. Uncontroversial neutrality — hurrah!
Deep sea blue … Lullaby for the forlorn. Waltzing Alone.
Chartreuse: Jazzy sensual investigations: Peculiar! Sexy! Gross!
Zymenchlora — moody & somewhat lugubrious long tones….
Silver — being 2nd Best ain’t so bad.
Gray – Slow, Sullen warbling. Strange, pretty singing.
Bistre — glistening, enigmatic lyrics transforming into — what?
Purple — Slow Wistful duet on AM Radio.
Solid Gold. Great 80s car commercial, retro slacks.
Cerulean. Happy-go-lucky wistful upbeat duet.
Yellow. Cool, sassy female. Totally fbomb-worthy!
Green. hazy postmodern multilingual sampling. Choppy unpredictabilities!
Tan. Self-Assured Recitative about graham crackers.
Magenta. Pondering, wondering, elusive strumming. Is it….?
In summary: quirky songs (with outbursts of poetry)
Simon’s Slow Music from Africa Vol. 2 mixtape
- The first track is invalid.
Track 7 is Michel Banabila, Oene van Geel – Vleugels - from the amazing
Music for viola and electronics II album.
(How could I forget that when I made my 2015 list ?)
Radiohead - Spectre
"Last year we were asked to write a tune for the Bond movie Spectre.
Yes we were. It didn’t work out, but became something of our own, which we love very much.
As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it."
Here is the direct download link
Currently free at Google Play. I think I might be having a flashback...
Craig
Lesley Flanigan and People Get Ready
- In 128 kbps.
Dissonanze 03 | Zavoloka
Nice, dreamlike, ambient, free at the FMA
@kargatron, there's a live Necks recording posted here.
@brighternow, there's a live Plaistow recording there too.
@everyone, bunch of other new stuff too.
Free at the Live Jazz Lounge.
From Emuser's @rolandkuit ; :
Sarah Davachi - Qualities of Bodies Permanent
Roland VP-330 synthesizers / Baroque cello, flute / Mellotron M400
- released April 21, 2015 as name your price.
http://quartetski.com/quartetskiFour Tet- Randoms NYOP Bandcamp
credits
Direct download : www.bit.ly/v10freedl
- Here's my writeup on the Classical N&N from about a year ago:
Very much recommended !
I was looking at this on emusic but it turns out WFMU has it free, with some background info:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/12/cambodian-rocks.html
They also have a link to this other Cambodian comp.:
http://thehorsedrawnzeppelin.blogspot.com/2007/02/cambodian-60s-music.html?m=1
(And while I was goofing around looking for stuff I also found this other Thai blog which is kind of an "Awesome Tapes From Thailand":
http://monrakplengthai.blogspot.com/?m=1 )
Think I'll double post this to free stuff...