"This bad boy's subtitled 'A Rework of Gustav Mahler's Symhonic Poem' and that pretty much tells the story: Mahler's 'Titan' (aka 'Symphony No. 1') plays while Petit and chum Kumo sprinkle the classical 99 with their electronic hundreds and thousands. It's certainly a hugely respectful treatment with the original piece always audible and generally quite prominent despite the drones and effects pasted over the top, collage style. The press release mentions 2001 and Forbidden Planet and it's certainly very sci-fi soundtrack-y sounding, particularly when it kicks in with some proper B-movie theremin twiddles. I guess superficially the overall schtick might seem somewhat similar to those Indignant Senility records from a little while back that were based around Wagner's stuff but this is done with a far lighter touch and I'm probably enjoying it more for the fact."
- Norman Records
At first I wasn't all that thrilled with this album, but hearing it again now, I'm not sure why... It must be because it isn't as gloomy as their earlier stuff. Yeah, that's probably it.
Reistu þig Við, Sólin Er Komin Á Loft... by For a Minor Reflection
EITS-style post-rock, pretty well done. Amie find. @Scissorman, you made remember that I downloaded an album by iLikeTrains (or however they write it) quite a while back. Then I discovered I don't have it any more - don't know how it got deleted because I remember liking it. Rats.
@GP: If you DL'd it from eMu, and it really was "quite a while" back, I'm going to take a semi-educated guess here and say it was probably this one:
It's called The Christmas Tree Ship, but it has little to do with Christmas. It's a straight-up instrumental post-rock EP (the only such record they've released), more along the lines of GYBE and Mogwai than Joy Division or whoever else you could compare them to. (The title refers to a ship that went down in the frozen waters of Lake Michigan in 1912, with no survivors. In other words, a typical iLiKETRAiNS lyrical subject.)
Admittedly, I'm not listening to it at the moment myself... Btw, if anyone wants to DL something (for free) by iLiKETRAiNS that is a bit more Christmas-related, there's always their version of Wham!'s hit single, "Last Christmas." It's a bit like Joy Division doing a cover of the Captain and Tennile's "Love Will Keep Us Together" - something I always hoped they would do, but alas, Ian Curtis died before they could record it.
No, I looked at their back catalog, and it was Elegies to Lessons Learnt. It seems not to have been emusic - it's not in my download history (not that it would help me these days if it were). Were they on Amie? Either way, I seem to have lost it. I remember being drawn to the literate lyrics.
January 31, 1970, New Orleans. The night after they were "set up like a bowling pin" and busted for possession in a New Orleans hotel. If you got a warrant, I guess you better come in.
- World music in the contemporary church: "Jazz icon John Tchicai (composer) and lutheran pastor Kristian Høeg (text and idea) are breaking new grounds with the cantata Hymn to Sophia. Joyfully rather than austere the music is exploring the spiritual domain for a postmodern age. Inspired by the Biblical notion of God's Wisdom, Sophia, Tchicai*has weaved a solid fabric of various musical textures: Eastern Orthodox and early Western church music, improvisation, Danish hymns. Transcending barriers of style and tradition a rich blend of materials is presented in a unified vision of new sacred music.
*
The score for Hymn to Sophia was commissioned by The Danish State Art Foundation and written for four classically trained solo singers, a mixed adult choir, a young girls' choir, two marimbas, drum set, contrabass, two violins, bass clarinet dub. sopraninosax, alto clarinet dub. sopranosax.
*
The choreographer and dancer Anna Maija Rolff-Petersen was involved in the preparation for the first performances of Hymn to Sophia in several full churches in Copenhagen in 2001, and a live recording and video-documentary was made. An enhanced CD has been produced with an additional 21 minutes CD-ROM track which highlights the performance in the Church of Messiah, Charlottenlund, Denmark.
*
Five pieces of improvisations led by John Tchicai concludes the CD. This time Tchicai is stretching out in the church on tenor saxophone with Peter Ole Jørgensen (aka. Pere Oliver Jürgens) on percussion and the young composer Frederik Magle aptly using the unsuspected potential of an electro-pneumatic church organ. This is another example of the evolving Danish new sacred music, which makes for a fascinating comparison with the cantata.
*
The CD Hymn to Sophia has been warmly recommended by Rector Peter Danstrup, Rythmic Music Conservatory, and Rector Steen Pade, The Royal Danish Academy of Music."
- Magle Forums
- http://www.calibrated.org/ - (2005)
The Chiara String Quartet, one track free today. I liked it so I bought it along with their Triptych composed by Robert Sirota (only $1.47). For fans of avantgarde string quartet, very Kronos Quartet-esque.
Vultures (Quartet) vs. Ampersand - ST "Vultures is an improvising quartet from London, England; consisting of Daniel Beattie, Matt Chilton, Will Connor and Anthony Donovan. Working across the fields of music, visual art and film, its members take influence from industrial, post-rock, free-jazz, avant-classical and noise, to create a new hybrid that seems somehow to be organically formed.
This CD, entitled Vultures vs. Ampersand, boasts ambient, dark, and industrial sounds that recall Italian Futurism in two half hour long tracks that highlight the unusual instrumentation and varied musical backgrounds of the two projects.
Ampersand, led by artist and musician Stephen Oldfield, builds and performs with giant metallic structures created in his Deptford home. Along with the sound sculptures, Ampersand uses missile shell casings, corrugated iron sheets, and a dismantled piano as well as radios, detuned electric bass, and enhanced electronics.
Vultures Quartet for this recording features prepared zither, a Korg synthesizer, metal percussion, bowed cymbals, and house hold objects such as pot lids, a wok, table legs, and a CD rack. Many of the acoustic sounds made by the quartet were manipulated and reintroduced into the composition through the live computer processing of member Matt Chilton.
- http://www.borninmind.com/ - A miniature record label - 2010
The Craft by Blackalicious
Happy hip hop. (My very limited patience for misogyny and boasting makes my hip hop listening fairly selective. These guys are fun.) [Edit: this came out in 2005. Why are the tracks .79 on emusic?]
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Steve Hindalong - Skinny
At first I wasn't all that thrilled with this album, but hearing it again now, I'm not sure why... It must be because it isn't as gloomy as their earlier stuff. Yeah, that's probably it.
Reistu þig Við, Sólin Er Komin Á Loft... by For a Minor Reflection
EITS-style post-rock, pretty well done. Amie find.
@Scissorman, you made remember that I downloaded an album by iLikeTrains (or however they write it) quite a while back. Then I discovered I don't have it any more - don't know how it got deleted because I remember liking it. Rats.
It's called The Christmas Tree Ship, but it has little to do with Christmas. It's a straight-up instrumental post-rock EP (the only such record they've released), more along the lines of GYBE and Mogwai than Joy Division or whoever else you could compare them to. (The title refers to a ship that went down in the frozen waters of Lake Michigan in 1912, with no survivors. In other words, a typical iLiKETRAiNS lyrical subject.)
Admittedly, I'm not listening to it at the moment myself... Btw, if anyone wants to DL something (for free) by iLiKETRAiNS that is a bit more Christmas-related, there's always their version of Wham!'s hit single, "Last Christmas." It's a bit like Joy Division doing a cover of the Captain and Tennile's "Love Will Keep Us Together" - something I always hoped they would do, but alas, Ian Curtis died before they could record it.
Now listening to:
Various Artists - Hope is NOt Lost (free download)
(it has a makunouchi bento track, among others)
January 31, 1970, New Orleans. The night after they were "set up like a bowling pin" and busted for possession in a New Orleans hotel. If you got a warrant, I guess you better come in.
Love the new Low disc; gorgeous -- truly stunning -- vocal harmonies.
"Jazz icon John Tchicai (composer) and lutheran pastor Kristian Høeg (text and idea) are breaking new grounds with the cantata Hymn to Sophia. Joyfully rather than austere the music is exploring the spiritual domain for a postmodern age. Inspired by the Biblical notion of God's Wisdom, Sophia, Tchicai*has weaved a solid fabric of various musical textures: Eastern Orthodox and early Western church music, improvisation, Danish hymns. Transcending barriers of style and tradition a rich blend of materials is presented in a unified vision of new sacred music.
*
The score for Hymn to Sophia was commissioned by The Danish State Art Foundation and written for four classically trained solo singers, a mixed adult choir, a young girls' choir, two marimbas, drum set, contrabass, two violins, bass clarinet dub. sopraninosax, alto clarinet dub. sopranosax.
*
The choreographer and dancer Anna Maija Rolff-Petersen was involved in the preparation for the first performances of Hymn to Sophia in several full churches in Copenhagen in 2001, and a live recording and video-documentary was made. An enhanced CD has been produced with an additional 21 minutes CD-ROM track which highlights the performance in the Church of Messiah, Charlottenlund, Denmark.
*
Five pieces of improvisations led by John Tchicai concludes the CD. This time Tchicai is stretching out in the church on tenor saxophone with Peter Ole Jørgensen (aka. Pere Oliver Jürgens) on percussion and the young composer Frederik Magle aptly using the unsuspected potential of an electro-pneumatic church organ. This is another example of the evolving Danish new sacred music, which makes for a fascinating comparison with the cantata.
*
The CD Hymn to Sophia has been warmly recommended by Rector Peter Danstrup, Rythmic Music Conservatory, and Rector Steen Pade, The Royal Danish Academy of Music."
- Magle Forums
- http://www.calibrated.org/ - (2005)
Glorious nostalgia. Richard Burton sounds as good as ever.
For all the albums inspired by Spirit of Eden, this one actually sounds like it.
Gnarchives vol. 1 by White Rainbow, currently $5:
The Chiara String Quartet, one track free today. I liked it so I bought it along with their Triptych composed by Robert Sirota (only $1.47). For fans of avantgarde string quartet, very Kronos Quartet-esque.
Vultures (Quartet) vs. Ampersand - ST
"Vultures is an improvising quartet from London, England; consisting of Daniel Beattie, Matt Chilton, Will Connor and Anthony Donovan. Working across the fields of music, visual art and film, its members take influence from industrial, post-rock, free-jazz, avant-classical and noise, to create a new hybrid that seems somehow to be organically formed.
This CD, entitled Vultures vs. Ampersand, boasts ambient, dark, and industrial sounds that recall Italian Futurism in two half hour long tracks that highlight the unusual instrumentation and varied musical backgrounds of the two projects.
Ampersand, led by artist and musician Stephen Oldfield, builds and performs with giant metallic structures created in his Deptford home. Along with the sound sculptures, Ampersand uses missile shell casings, corrugated iron sheets, and a dismantled piano as well as radios, detuned electric bass, and enhanced electronics.
Vultures Quartet for this recording features prepared zither, a Korg synthesizer, metal percussion, bowed cymbals, and house hold objects such as pot lids, a wok, table legs, and a CD rack. Many of the acoustic sounds made by the quartet were manipulated and reintroduced into the composition through the live computer processing of member Matt Chilton.
- http://www.borninmind.com/ - A miniature record label - 2010
Sparkling Wide Pressure - For All From Lucy
- Magic ! - (and free @ Bandcamp)
- He's so goooooood !
:-)
The Craft by Blackalicious
Happy hip hop. (My very limited patience for misogyny and boasting makes my hip hop listening fairly selective. These guys are fun.) [Edit: this came out in 2005. Why are the tracks .79 on emusic?]
Import label Muddy Waters collection.
Currently:
The perfect background music to writing a pissy memorandum of law.
Craig
I just decided I'm going to send this album as a gift to Clarence Thomas. Anybody know what e-mail he uses for his iTunes account?
Meanwhile,
, via Guvera.
C'mon
Inspired to go through some rarely listened acquisitions.
jason corder & beta2agonist - further to find closer
Lovely stuff.
Bought used out of curiosity; Muddy's "what the fuck is this shit" expression on the back cover about sums it up.