"Abandoned words between debris. Pieces of parget and tiles. Tea cups and piano ivories. Tiles, wire and burned circuits. Fragments of a speech and a beer without gas on the bottom of the glass. Nerves, skin, teeth, sinews, eyes and ears thrown away in the melted gold of dawn. Let explode space and time as in a bubble of glowing material. Upturned body like a huge tortoise buckler. Ghost sounds under the floor. Our head is a big red flower, bleeding on the Hong Kong sidewalks. A girl pick it up. Hands pushed on the ears. No one is listening to the dead leaves blues."
@elwoodicious - Karan Casey has the voice of an angel and you are a liar if you say otherwise
Amen, brother! My all-time Casey favorite is her version of "The Song of Wandering Aengus" on her Songlines album. Thanks for posting because it reminded me that I never picked up her Ships of the Forest CD from 2008. Got it now in my wishlist for future purcase soon.
Running a close race with Casey for pure angelic sound is Connie Dover. I still, after all these years, am amazed at her album If Ever I Return. Her French singing of the song "La Fontaine" is one of the prettiest of anything I have ever heard - also "Ned of the Hill," "Who Will Comfort Me" and "Fear an Bhata" on that album are amazing. And her version of the song "Holland Handkerchief" is beautiful, and the lyrics to that one will really knock you down.
Just bought! Cost me £4 on Tune Tribe in UK.If anyone in the UK or Europe is interested, it is this price until 7.00pm BST or 20.00 CET along with twenty ot thirty other albums by female artists/bands
Close on the heels of his fine, free-jazz duo album with percussionist Javier Carmona, young saxophonist Mark Hanslip makes a powerful impact on the second album by British group Twelves (formerly Twelves Trio, but now including alt-rock guitarist Rob Updegraff). The group once sounded somewhere between late-50s Sonny Rollins and free-bassist William Parker's straighter threesomes. Now they suggest, among many things, Joe Lovano's encounters with John Scofield, with the odd Bill Frisellian detour. Staccato, metallic-chord themes alternate with Hanslip's soft countermelodies; guitar and sax themes evaporate into drifting improv. On the uptempo Kerfuffle, the best track on the set, Hanslip's signature mix of cool school melodic seamlessness and Wayne Shorterish hesitancy spins over abrasive guitar chords, Riaan Vosloo's solid bassline and Tim Giles's lateral snare patterns. Though Mr Zero could perhaps use an edit, the contrast between Updegraff's rugged guitar solo and Hanslip's patient tenor development grips attention. Twelves have a real this-is-what-we-do presence and casual virtuosity to match.
Possibly my last post on this thread for a couple of weeks. We have a family Christening over the weekend, and then a couple of days later we are off to Italy until Easter to get some sun after the British winter. I might get a few minutes on Monday or Tuesday to come on-line, but less likley with my wife off work!
@greg Italy until Easter sounds fantastic. The family and I are headed to the Outer Banks for 7 days starting next Saturday. My first vacation longer than 3 days in the last decade.
@elwoodicious - just looked at the link- it sounds a really amazing place. It's only now, when we are nearing retirement that we can actually afford the holidays we'd have liked when we were younger! Over there you have the advantage of not having to travel abroad to get to some great places. I was telling some of my students today (I teach geography to undergrads and post grads wanting to become teachers of children upto 11) that Boston is actually nearer to London than it is to LA. Enjoy the break. My biggest problem whilst I'm playing this album is deciding what music should go onto my ipod - obviously somethings that my wife will listen to when we play through speakers - but also things I want to paly while sitting at Gatwick for two plus hours on my headphones. But if you hear that Mount Etna is erupting next weekend it is because we plan to go up it then...
Exactly!We do the same, have done for years. But as we've approached 60 we know that we will never visit all the places, do all the things on our ever increasing list unless we actually start. That's why we started having longer over Easter holidays 2 or 3 years ago. I also remember seeing somewhere that whilst generally much of the rest of West Europe tend to get a few more days holiday than us a year, you get considerably less than we do
Listening to a rather psychedelic Last.FM station, and this gem came up: Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies, American Metaphysical Circus, track, Kalyani. Just a bit out there.
People like to write them off as just "video artists", but they actually make some catchy music. Not as good as Oh No, but I think I may still pick it up.
Nice nice soul/R&B album I got free from Amie. The only reason that I don't really miss Amie is that if it was still around I'd still be furiously downloading stuff and miss out on listening to things like this and like that Piek & Flap which was really incredible.
Delayed gratification: was sitting a couple of hours ago in a conference center lobby in Texas doing email, with my tolerance gradually eroding for the sugary, tinkly muzak being piped into the environment, no doubt designed to be relaxing but I am sure capably of driving me certifiably insane with prolonged exposure, thought to myself, if I get the ipod out and put the earphones in, someone is bound to come and talk to me, got the ipod out, started playing some Deadbeat, opened this page to post on this thread...and a minute into the first track a colleague sat down next to me and started a conversation. So, now, later, back at the hotel room: New World Observer by Deadbeat (Amazon)
Good album.
Two-event weekend. Have to be at the airport at 5 a.m. tomorrow to head to New Jersey for the second.
@greg: The Outer Banks are OK if you like huge sand dunes, endless beaches, and lighthouses. If you love those things the Outer Banks are fantastic.
One of the reasons those waters were so treacherous was the Wreckers who would tie lanterns on their donkeys and lead them along the beach at night. Passing ships would think they were other ships and get too close to shore. @elwoodicious: I guess you're driving? If so you will pass within 10 miles of my house. Toot your horn as you pass Exit 152 on I95 in VA.
It took me a while, but I'm finally beginning to really like this Teen Dream album by Beach House. Unfortunately, you can't really see it unless you turn the contrast up really high on your monitor.
Been listening to this one this week. It's one of my best emusic finds and is on my 'desert island' list. "Moments of Truth" was my introduction to this band, which had escaped my notice entirely back in their heyday in the '70s. The album was recorded in 2007 and it is without their trademark electric violin player, a former classical violinist with the Scottish National Orchestra. I raved about "Moments of Truth" on the emu message board some time back and someone replied to my post, pointing out their live album, "Suicide - Live in Berlin" recorded in the late '90s, which included the band's older songs and featured the original electric violin guy. I downloaded 3 tracks from it and I've been listening to that one, too: emusic link
The 3 tracks I downloaded were "Two Timin' Rama," "To See You," and "Circus" and they are some very, very fine examples of just plain good ol' rock and roll with some amazing electric violin contributions. I wish I had picked up more tracks from this one! I also just ordered from Amazon their old album from the '70s, "The Machine That Cried" because I wanted to hear more of that violin.
Being in the electric violin mode got me to thinking about this one I've had for a long time and I've been really enjoying the title track 1 and especially track 2 "We Will Not Be Lovers," which I think is pretty much the epitome of electric fiddling!
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Karan Casey has the voice of an angel and you are a liar if you say otherwise.
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Staying in the 90's.
Getting my lute on. From the iTunes/Naxos mega-deal.
"Abandoned words between debris. Pieces of parget and tiles. Tea cups and piano ivories. Tiles, wire and burned circuits. Fragments of a speech and a beer without gas on the bottom of the glass. Nerves, skin, teeth, sinews, eyes and ears thrown away in the melted gold of dawn. Let explode space and time as in a bubble of glowing material. Upturned body like a huge tortoise buckler. Ghost sounds under the floor. Our head is a big red flower, bleeding on the Hong Kong sidewalks. A girl pick it up. Hands pushed on the ears. No one is listening to the dead leaves blues."
Chicks rock. Especially those who are married to Paul Westerberg.
Craig
Nice--swinging, avant-garde bass clarinet trio with Monkeqsue touches. Very nice.
Not enough credits on Guvera...
Amen, brother! My all-time Casey favorite is her version of "The Song of Wandering Aengus" on her Songlines album. Thanks for posting because it reminded me that I never picked up her Ships of the Forest CD from 2008. Got it now in my wishlist for future purcase soon.
Running a close race with Casey for pure angelic sound is Connie Dover. I still, after all these years, am amazed at her album If Ever I Return. Her French singing of the song "La Fontaine" is one of the prettiest of anything I have ever heard - also "Ned of the Hill," "Who Will Comfort Me" and "Fear an Bhata" on that album are amazing. And her version of the song "Holland Handkerchief" is beautiful, and the lyrics to that one will really knock you down.
Just bought! Cost me £4 on Tune Tribe in UK.If anyone in the UK or Europe is interested, it is this price until 7.00pm BST or 20.00 CET along with twenty ot thirty other albums by female artists/bands
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This was the prescription to my fever.
From a review in the Guardain today 8th April
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/07/twelves-the-adding-machine-review
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Possibly my last post on this thread for a couple of weeks. We have a family Christening over the weekend, and then a couple of days later we are off to Italy until Easter to get some sun after the British winter. I might get a few minutes on Monday or Tuesday to come on-line, but less likley with my wife off work!
This is extraordinary brilliant !
- Thanks to Kargatron.
Swell Maps - International Rescue
I love post punk.
Craig
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Another of my top 3 most important albums...
Listening to a rather psychedelic Last.FM station, and this gem came up: Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies, American Metaphysical Circus, track, Kalyani. Just a bit out there.
People like to write them off as just "video artists", but they actually make some catchy music. Not as good as Oh No, but I think I may still pick it up.
Nice nice soul/R&B album I got free from Amie. The only reason that I don't really miss Amie is that if it was still around I'd still be furiously downloading stuff and miss out on listening to things like this and like that Piek & Flap which was really incredible.
New World Observer by Deadbeat (Amazon)
Good album.
Two-event weekend. Have to be at the airport at 5 a.m. tomorrow to head to New Jersey for the second.
One of the reasons those waters were so treacherous was the Wreckers who would tie lanterns on their donkeys and lead them along the beach at night. Passing ships would think they were other ships and get too close to shore.
@elwoodicious: I guess you're driving? If so you will pass within 10 miles of my house. Toot your horn as you pass Exit 152 on I95 in VA.
- Gorgeous ! ! !
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Moments of Truth by String Driven Thing
Been listening to this one this week. It's one of my best emusic finds and is on my 'desert island' list. "Moments of Truth" was my introduction to this band, which had escaped my notice entirely back in their heyday in the '70s. The album was recorded in 2007 and it is without their trademark electric violin player, a former classical violinist with the Scottish National Orchestra. I raved about "Moments of Truth" on the emu message board some time back and someone replied to my post, pointing out their live album, "Suicide - Live in Berlin" recorded in the late '90s, which included the band's older songs and featured the original electric violin guy. I downloaded 3 tracks from it and I've been listening to that one, too:
emusic link
The 3 tracks I downloaded were "Two Timin' Rama," "To See You," and "Circus" and they are some very, very fine examples of just plain good ol' rock and roll with some amazing electric violin contributions. I wish I had picked up more tracks from this one! I also just ordered from Amazon their old album from the '70s, "The Machine That Cried" because I wanted to hear more of that violin.
Being in the electric violin mode got me to thinking about this one I've had for a long time and I've been really enjoying the title track 1 and especially track 2 "We Will Not Be Lovers," which I think is pretty much the epitome of electric fiddling!
Fisherman's Blues by The Waterboys
Amazon link
youtube link (Fisherman's Blues)
youtube link (We Will Not Be Lovers - Live
At first I didn't like this as much as the singles, but it's steadily growing on me.
Then:
(Fennesz - Black Sea)