Thanks BT you've prompted me to play it again! I like it, but I would say it is not the strongest recording. Several tracks have a jazz vocalist feel to them, perhaps a bit lightweight at times. But also IMO a handful of better tracks in the second half. One review I saw said it was a cross between the Corrs and Jamie Cullum, which seems about right. Given the price I am paying I don't mind if there are a few weaker tracks. We had a new Groupon emusic deal available yesterday - 25 tracks per month for 6 months at £18 overall, which works out at 12p (maybe 15-16 cents?) a track. So I eventually bought 6 sets - considerably cheaper than boosters. I think they are trying to get as many people into emusic before the majors arrive when prices will go up for certain. We've been told they will come 'this year' so I am trying to get as much as I can whilst prices are ridiculously cheap this way.
- As Minus Pilots describes themselves: "sparse bass, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, gentle crackle...
the crackle present on our recordings is due, in the main, to the use of various analogue delay pedals, old basses, our broken four-track cassette tape recorder and most notably our incompetence."
Today's deal at Amazon. Chris Thile is definitely the most hyperactive mandolin player ever. If he dies of a mysterious heart ailment before 40, I won't be surprised.
I prefer this BT - much more traditional, yet with a contemporary feel to it. Her voice could almost be confused with Kate Rushby. One review I read said that Heidi Talbot is as good as Kate Rushby and Eliza Carthy as contemporary female folk singers
Minus Pilots - Boundless Walls - (Nishi - January 13, 2005)
"Eleven tracks of delicate, sweeping ambience relying as much upon the reserved, effects-heavy instrumentation as a series of vague soundbites woven through like the soundtracks to old picture postcards. Boundless Walls is an album of subtle textures and measured restraint, carefully weighing the silences against each ethereal sound as though the music were alchemy. Occasionally their overt minimalism sees our Minus Pilots worryingly at risk of vanishing from the radar altogether, and as of yet they dont quite possess the emotional depth necessary to topple the likes of Labradford from my late-night listening list, but as a peaceful, meditative hour spent alone tracing vague patterns across the ceiling you cant go far wrong. Fans of Jessamine, Flying Saucer Attack and all things Kranky take note: youve just had your next quiet night in arranged for you."
- Collective Zine
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It is amazing how my musical tastes vary during the day. One thing can set off me off in a different direction. John Coltrane has veered into contemporary English folk music by one reference here to something. It often happens that way. And I was listening to Coltane earlier because someone was playing him here yesterday!
Nice free sampler from Autoplate netlabel. Names like Marsen Jules, krill.minima, Off The Sky and Mitchell Akiyama signal the territory. Some really great stuff of a generally peaceful nature (with the occasional incursion of screaming anguish). A search suggests this is not on the free stuff thread - I'll add it for future reference.
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"Four Thousand Holes is a sometimes lush, sometimes fragile, rhythmically complex and technically demanding work for piano and mallet percussion (performed by the extraordinary pianist Stephen Drury and percussionist Scott Deal) and ghostly electronic "auras"electronic sounds created by processing the acoustic instruments sonorities.
Unlike Adams's other works, the pitch material used in Four Thousand Holes is drawn exclusively from Western music's most basic elements: major and minor triads. In this case they are superimposed upon one another in multiple tempo streams, creating a beautiful yet continuously fracturing sound worldfrom splintering glass shards to nearly seismic disturbances.
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There's some good stuff in here. Free. (See this thread)
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It is a Coltrane kind of morning...
I have been playing Beatles Hard Days Night in the car. Now home and nearing the end of
Undoubtedly some jazz will be coming along shortly...
Continuing today's John Coltrane theme....
Shuffling the classical genre via audiogalaxy and my own private cloud. Currently on #882 of 1212 in the genre.
Terrible title, but great live Rahsaan show from 1972. There's a similar Cannonball show on this oddball label, which was available on Amie Street.
- As Minus Pilots describes themselves:
"sparse bass, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, gentle crackle...
the crackle present on our recordings is due, in the main, to the use of various analogue delay pedals, old basses, our broken four-track cassette tape recorder and most notably our incompetence."
Optimal.LP by Shuttle358
Listening to this again finally persuaded me to buy Frame which has been on my SFL for ages but is downloading now.
In the mean time, this has a charm all its own:
Aix by Giuseppe Ielasi
Very nice, thanks!
Today's deal at Amazon. Chris Thile is definitely the most hyperactive mandolin player ever. If he dies of a mysterious heart ailment before 40, I won't be surprised.
I prefer this BT - much more traditional, yet with a contemporary feel to it. Her voice could almost be confused with Kate Rushby. One review I read said that Heidi Talbot is as good as Kate Rushby and Eliza Carthy as contemporary female folk singers
edit: I just discovered the original cover, which I like much better.
Minus Pilots - Boundless Walls - (Nishi - January 13, 2005)
"Eleven tracks of delicate, sweeping ambience relying as much upon the reserved, effects-heavy instrumentation as a series of vague soundbites woven through like the soundtracks to old picture postcards. Boundless Walls is an album of subtle textures and measured restraint, carefully weighing the silences against each ethereal sound as though the music were alchemy. Occasionally their overt minimalism sees our Minus Pilots worryingly at risk of vanishing from the radar altogether, and as of yet they dont quite possess the emotional depth necessary to topple the likes of Labradford from my late-night listening list, but as a peaceful, meditative hour spent alone tracing vague patterns across the ceiling you cant go far wrong. Fans of Jessamine, Flying Saucer Attack and all things Kranky take note: youve just had your next quiet night in arranged for you."
- Collective Zine
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It is amazing how my musical tastes vary during the day. One thing can set off me off in a different direction. John Coltrane has veered into contemporary English folk music by one reference here to something. It often happens that way. And I was listening to Coltane earlier because someone was playing him here yesterday!
Many Things Worth living For - Various Artists
Nice free sampler from Autoplate netlabel. Names like Marsen Jules, krill.minima, Off The Sky and Mitchell Akiyama signal the territory. Some really great stuff of a generally peaceful nature (with the occasional incursion of screaming anguish). A search suggests this is not on the free stuff thread - I'll add it for future reference.
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A Lost Connection by Marconi Union
I like these guys.
(Cold Blue Music - 2011)
"Four Thousand Holes is a sometimes lush, sometimes fragile, rhythmically complex and technically demanding work for piano and mallet percussion (performed by the extraordinary pianist Stephen Drury and percussionist Scott Deal) and ghostly electronic "auras"electronic sounds created by processing the acoustic instruments sonorities.
Unlike Adams's other works, the pitch material used in Four Thousand Holes is drawn exclusively from Western music's most basic elements: major and minor triads. In this case they are superimposed upon one another in multiple tempo streams, creating a beautiful yet continuously fracturing sound worldfrom splintering glass shards to nearly seismic disturbances.
The other work on this CD, and bells remembered , performed by the Callithumpian Consort, is a more introspective piece."
- The composer writes about Four Thousand Holes . . .
- This is brilliant - thanks Karg . . .
(Autoplate netlabel - September 7, 2005)