Kay-loong-meu-tuk (The begining of the End of the End of the begining of the End) - track 169 from:
THE COMPLETE VORTEX VAULT RECORDINGS : REMASTERED by Andrew Liles
At home in Eastern Europe and New York City, Ana Milosavljevic (aka ANA) is a musical dual citizen. Reflections features her broad talents as violinist, composer, and commissioner of new works all by women with at least one foot in both regions.
Ana has been acclaimed by The Strad as an imaginative artist willing to think big and by New Music Connoisseur as a virtuoso performer with a wonderful mix of technique, sensitivity and passion. This multi-talented Serbian native and Manhattan-based artist has performed stunningly from Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, to Cornelia Street Café, and many points in between.
She is a pioneer at fusing elements of traditional Balkan music with other imagined soundworlds, often in collaboration with dance, theater, or visual projections. The music is colorful, sensual, edgy, and spiritual, often all at once. In addition to two of her own works, the CD includes works written for her by some of the more boundary-blurring composers around. From Serbian songs to a Belgrade soundscape, Buddhist chant to a bull-roarer, a dervish monastery to a New York dance club, artists with roots in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia will take you on a guided tour of the new geography.
REFLECTIONS represents my dual musical citizenship through the sonic experiences of my native Serbia and my current hometown New York. Each work results from collaborations with dance and visual artists, composers, performers, and technicians whove made similar journeys. We consider our artistic creations platforms for processing and making sense of our life changes, bridging the old and the new as we move from one location to another.
The CD title refers to both the mental act of reflection of contemplation, meditation, self-discovery and the physical act of reflection, what you reflect out to the world after having taken it in. Through this music I aim to reflect and to share thrilling and unforgettable moments of love, happiness, sadness, regrets and no-regrets, hope, peace, harmony, and gratitude, and, most importantly, how I came to find my home in my heart.
ANA
- Innova.mu
I'm a big fan of some of Stokes' releases...others move me less. So far, unfortunately, this new one is falling more in the latter category. Still trying to get it to grow on me.
ETA I think it;s that he seems (to my ear) to almost alternate with releases between more experimental/moody/ambient impulses and what sounds to me more like easy listening/light instrumental synth pop. This seems more like the latter, and those are not usually my favorites of his. "Colonies" is the most appealing track to me so far.
Expectations can color listening so much. I feel like I listened to quite a few things today that didn't quite rise to my hopes. Then I turned to this with lower expectations - haven't always warmed to the few things I've heard from Lawrence English. But this is really good.
"Live recording from May 2009. Recorded at Musraramix Festival, Musrara, Jerusalem, Israel. This is a high quality desk recording with no audience sound."
Not gonna win any summer album competitions. Surreal on spotify: imagine yourself lost in the arctic, no sound but subterranean rumbles and creaking glaciers, desolation to the horizon, then suddenly Fleetwood Mac start playing...scared the life out of me.
Boomkat has the three CD box set reissue of Permafrost, Nunatak and Teimo on sale...it's tempting me.
There is a new version of this album for less ($4.40) than the $5.99 version its appearance prompted me to complete - sung in Gaelic, and very nice as long as you don't mind Gaelic.
Comments
A little twee for my tastes, but it's not bad.
Craig
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WHITE RAINBOW - GNARCHIVES VOLUME 1
- Kindly recommended by Germanprof a while ago . . . Thanks !
Kay-loong-meu-tuk (The begining of the End of the End of the begining of the End) - track 169 from:
THE COMPLETE VORTEX VAULT RECORDINGS : REMASTERED by Andrew Liles
- Awesome !
Nice.
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The Air-Conditioned Nightmare ;-)
OK in limited doses.
- (Innova October 26, 2010)
At home in Eastern Europe and New York City, Ana Milosavljevic (aka ANA) is a musical dual citizen. Reflections features her broad talents as violinist, composer, and commissioner of new works all by women with at least one foot in both regions.
Ana has been acclaimed by The Strad as an imaginative artist willing to think big and by New Music Connoisseur as a virtuoso performer with a wonderful mix of technique, sensitivity and passion. This multi-talented Serbian native and Manhattan-based artist has performed stunningly from Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, to Cornelia Street Café, and many points in between.
She is a pioneer at fusing elements of traditional Balkan music with other imagined soundworlds, often in collaboration with dance, theater, or visual projections. The music is colorful, sensual, edgy, and spiritual, often all at once. In addition to two of her own works, the CD includes works written for her by some of the more boundary-blurring composers around. From Serbian songs to a Belgrade soundscape, Buddhist chant to a bull-roarer, a dervish monastery to a New York dance club, artists with roots in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia will take you on a guided tour of the new geography.
REFLECTIONS represents my dual musical citizenship through the sonic experiences of my native Serbia and my current hometown New York. Each work results from collaborations with dance and visual artists, composers, performers, and technicians whove made similar journeys. We consider our artistic creations platforms for processing and making sense of our life changes, bridging the old and the new as we move from one location to another.
The CD title refers to both the mental act of reflection of contemplation, meditation, self-discovery and the physical act of reflection, what you reflect out to the world after having taken it in. Through this music I aim to reflect and to share thrilling and unforgettable moments of love, happiness, sadness, regrets and no-regrets, hope, peace, harmony, and gratitude, and, most importantly, how I came to find my home in my heart.
ANA
- Innova.mu
Linernotes
ANA website
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So very good.
I'm a big fan of some of Stokes' releases...others move me less. So far, unfortunately, this new one is falling more in the latter category. Still trying to get it to grow on me.
ETA I think it;s that he seems (to my ear) to almost alternate with releases between more experimental/moody/ambient impulses and what sounds to me more like easy listening/light instrumental synth pop. This seems more like the latter, and those are not usually my favorites of his. "Colonies" is the most appealing track to me so far.
Loyal Eyes Betrayed The Mind by Gifts From Enola
This has great energy. Recommended for Brighternow's little yellow man.
Andrew Liles - LIVE IN JERUSALEM
"Live recording from May 2009. Recorded at Musraramix Festival, Musrara, Jerusalem, Israel. This is a high quality desk recording with no audience sound."
- Excellent !
- Everyone on this board needs this album - Its just so f'''''' brilliant !
- An EP from this available for streaming on Bandcamp
This is quite delightful. And free.
Then...
They go together rather well actually. And no pigs harmed in the process.
- Top shelf "comedy pop" !
Not gonna win any summer album competitions. Surreal on spotify: imagine yourself lost in the arctic, no sound but subterranean rumbles and creaking glaciers, desolation to the horizon, then suddenly Fleetwood Mac start playing...scared the life out of me.
Boomkat has the three CD box set reissue of Permafrost, Nunatak and Teimo on sale...it's tempting me.
There is a new version of this album for less ($4.40) than the $5.99 version its appearance prompted me to complete - sung in Gaelic, and very nice as long as you don't mind Gaelic.
- That last track . . . Wow !
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