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."
This is built up as the track progresses. One of the Amazon reviewers didn't like the lead up to about the 9-minute mark where the main elements of the track begin to be established. There isn't much Kalimba until after the 13 minute mark, although I think some of the earlier sound is processed Kalimba. Also, as far as I know, this review is the most information about this piece that's on the internet. The artist is "0" and the label is "imputor?". There's a lot of interesting-looking stuff there that I'll be exploring.
Amon Tobin and Joe "Doubleclick" Chapman - Two Fingers - (2009, $10)
"Two Fingers are Brazilian beat-adventurer Amon Tobin and Joe "Doubleclick" Chapman. The pair met when Tobin lived in Brighton and bonded over an interest in music that ran way beyond the boundaries of "electronica". In Montreal they applied production techniques associated with UK styles like drum & bass to the template of hip hop. It was an experiment with explosive results. MOBO-winner Sway (now signed to Akon's Konvict label in the US) heard what was brewing he was so taken with it, he flew straight out to Montreal and recorded seven tracks with them, showing a harsher, more serious side to his personality whilst offering wry social commentary on everything from the way young Black men are treated ("What You Know") to crazy girls who do too many pills ("That Girl"). The remaining rhythms were voiced by sometime Missy protege Ms Jade and dancehall legend Ce'Cile. A couple of instrumental rhythms were added and this, the first stage of a continuing project, was complete."
"A haunting homage to the world of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti." "After the critical acclaim of their Neon City EP, Pale Ravine is the long awaited full-length realization of Erik Skodvin and Otto Totlands musical ideals. Taking up where Neon City left off with its epic sound collages and textural soundscapes, Pale Ravine manages to provide a sound altogether more Lynchian and grimly cinematic. Using influences from further back in their lives, the two Norwegian musicians have looked deep into their own family histories to piece together a dusty and nostalgic epic.
Inspired by old silent 8mm film reels, the historical architecture around them and the call of the alluring Norwegian landscape, the duo set out armed with microphones to record whatever they could to capture these feelings. Sounds from battered old records, cash registers, broken machines and a half-dead piano were all blended into the mix to add a warm, homely depth to the recordings. These sounds are most evident in the track Loft, where knocks and wooden creaks give an almost claustrophobic feel to the music. Again on The Clearing a subtle field recording gives the track a rich and involving background and helps build up the mysterious aura before launching a skewed 1930s circus-waltz.
One of the most stand-out influences on Pale Ravine is theatre, or at least the romance of all things theatrical. Not so much theatre in all its pretentious excesses, but the childhood apprehensiveness and the sinister undercurrents. From the muffled ticket booth ambience of Lobby to the solemn dance of White Lake it all appears draped in thick billowing velvet. The dense narrative technique the duo employs is almost like a reverse to a silent film and the soundtrack is provided to be accompanied by the imaginative visuals of the listener.
Pale Ravine is an album which again manages to blend elements of classical music with electronic music, yet there is something decidedly different which sets it apart from the competition. While there are elements that can be compared with contemporaries such as Max Richter, Marsen Jules or Ryan Teague Deaf Center is altogether more other-worldly, darker and ultimately very rewarding."
- Type Records 2005
Manic, somewhat chaotic, angular instrumental rock/post-rock with electronic bits, punk bits, and paranoid science fiction samples about alien invasions. Tends to substitute throwing in everything and the kitchen sink for actual songcraft, but I actually like it - a fun diversion, and only $2.94 at emusic. And they are from Lincolnshire, name a song after Wisbech, and talk about aliens destroying the village of Guyhirn, all of which gains them points in my book.
"Deaf Center is the mysterious project of Norwegian musical masterminds Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland. Old school friends, and both old hands at making solo music, they came together for a holiday in a Norwegian log-cabin and began sampling everything around them. Be it a game of table tennis, an old television broadcast or even friends and relatives having a conversation nothing was safe. Before long the two had crafted a handful of personal, delicate works and so Neon City was born.
An unusual release in the electronica spectrum, instead of relying on synthesis, Neon City prefers to warm itself with pianos and lightly plucked guitars. Deep, long grass and icy branches, burning timbers and secluded mountain haunts are conjured as the sounds breathe over even the casual listener. One cannot help but be won over by the magic of these two most gifted musicians. With their careful respect for space, rather than the essentials of software trickery, Erik and Otto manage to elevate this recording to a state unachieved by most. Somewhere stuck in time, not pinpointed or stereotyped by technological advances, but accessable from all angles. Influenced by the film soundtracks of Cliff Martinez and Yann Tiersen much more than the overworked glitch of Autechre, Neon City is something fresh for tired, dry ears.
We will stop here to kindly thank Erik and Otto for brushing away the dust on their old tape recorder, kicking the snow from their doorsteps and lighting the fires of their imagination. Without this release, the world would surely be a much colder, darker place. As if all this was not enough, Type cohort Keith Kenniff (aka Helios) has stepped in to provide a remix, taking the beauty and simplicity of the original track and adding something entirely his own. Layers of guitar drift over smooth pulsing bass and chopped driving beats, giving us a wonderful, rich listening experience. The sheer genius of Mr. Keith Kenniff has not yet been acknowledged, but this delicately engineered remix is further proof that he is one of the most interesting producers around today."
- Type Records 2004
- Soundcloud
Comments
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."
- Awesome "outside of the box" music.
0 - 1 = kalimba ambient (free)
Highly Recommended.
Playing in Amazon Cloud Player
This is built up as the track progresses. One of the Amazon reviewers didn't like the lead up to about the 9-minute mark where the main elements of the track begin to be established. There isn't much Kalimba until after the 13 minute mark, although I think some of the earlier sound is processed Kalimba. Also, as far as I know, this review is the most information about this piece that's on the internet. The artist is "0" and the label is "imputor?". There's a lot of interesting-looking stuff there that I'll be exploring.
i love this album as much as my wife hates it. and she hates it. ritual is my new, evil jam.
i hope they play it over the miami loudspeakers tomorrow night until jason terry's ears hemorrhage blood.
Amon Tobin and Joe "Doubleclick" Chapman - Two Fingers - (2009, $10)
"Two Fingers are Brazilian beat-adventurer Amon Tobin and Joe "Doubleclick" Chapman. The pair met when Tobin lived in Brighton and bonded over an interest in music that ran way beyond the boundaries of "electronica". In Montreal they applied production techniques associated with UK styles like drum & bass to the template of hip hop. It was an experiment with explosive results. MOBO-winner Sway (now signed to Akon's Konvict label in the US) heard what was brewing he was so taken with it, he flew straight out to Montreal and recorded seven tracks with them, showing a harsher, more serious side to his personality whilst offering wry social commentary on everything from the way young Black men are treated ("What You Know") to crazy girls who do too many pills ("That Girl"). The remaining rhythms were voiced by sometime Missy protege Ms Jade and dancehall legend Ce'Cile. A couple of instrumental rhythms were added and this, the first stage of a continuing project, was complete."
- The brilliance of Def Center surprises me each and every time . . .
Atra
Deaf Center - Pale Ravine
"A haunting homage to the world of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti."
"After the critical acclaim of their Neon City EP, Pale Ravine is the long awaited full-length realization of Erik Skodvin and Otto Totlands musical ideals. Taking up where Neon City left off with its epic sound collages and textural soundscapes, Pale Ravine manages to provide a sound altogether more Lynchian and grimly cinematic. Using influences from further back in their lives, the two Norwegian musicians have looked deep into their own family histories to piece together a dusty and nostalgic epic.
Inspired by old silent 8mm film reels, the historical architecture around them and the call of the alluring Norwegian landscape, the duo set out armed with microphones to record whatever they could to capture these feelings. Sounds from battered old records, cash registers, broken machines and a half-dead piano were all blended into the mix to add a warm, homely depth to the recordings. These sounds are most evident in the track Loft, where knocks and wooden creaks give an almost claustrophobic feel to the music. Again on The Clearing a subtle field recording gives the track a rich and involving background and helps build up the mysterious aura before launching a skewed 1930s circus-waltz.
One of the most stand-out influences on Pale Ravine is theatre, or at least the romance of all things theatrical. Not so much theatre in all its pretentious excesses, but the childhood apprehensiveness and the sinister undercurrents. From the muffled ticket booth ambience of Lobby to the solemn dance of White Lake it all appears draped in thick billowing velvet. The dense narrative technique the duo employs is almost like a reverse to a silent film and the soundtrack is provided to be accompanied by the imaginative visuals of the listener.
Pale Ravine is an album which again manages to blend elements of classical music with electronic music, yet there is something decidedly different which sets it apart from the competition. While there are elements that can be compared with contemporaries such as Max Richter, Marsen Jules or Ryan Teague Deaf Center is altogether more other-worldly, darker and ultimately very rewarding."
- Type Records 2005
Would You Rather Be Followed By Forty Ducks For The Rest Of Your Life? by Detwiije
Despite the name this is actually rather good guitar post-rock.
Double Handsome Dragons by Double Handsome Dragons
Manic, somewhat chaotic, angular instrumental rock/post-rock with electronic bits, punk bits, and paranoid science fiction samples about alien invasions. Tends to substitute throwing in everything and the kitchen sink for actual songcraft, but I actually like it - a fun diversion, and only $2.94 at emusic. And they are from Lincolnshire, name a song after Wisbech, and talk about aliens destroying the village of Guyhirn, all of which gains them points in my book.
Then:
Ephemera by Tarentel
Kind of sleepy after all that alien drama. Not as compelling as From Bone to Satellite.
I have not played this for a long time - the first B and S CD I bought and still my favourite
Like Seasick Steve and Mark Knopfler earlier, a weekend secondhand purchase
Thanks Scissorman
"Deaf Center is the mysterious project of Norwegian musical masterminds Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland. Old school friends, and both old hands at making solo music, they came together for a holiday in a Norwegian log-cabin and began sampling everything around them. Be it a game of table tennis, an old television broadcast or even friends and relatives having a conversation nothing was safe. Before long the two had crafted a handful of personal, delicate works and so Neon City was born.
An unusual release in the electronica spectrum, instead of relying on synthesis, Neon City prefers to warm itself with pianos and lightly plucked guitars. Deep, long grass and icy branches, burning timbers and secluded mountain haunts are conjured as the sounds breathe over even the casual listener. One cannot help but be won over by the magic of these two most gifted musicians. With their careful respect for space, rather than the essentials of software trickery, Erik and Otto manage to elevate this recording to a state unachieved by most. Somewhere stuck in time, not pinpointed or stereotyped by technological advances, but accessable from all angles. Influenced by the film soundtracks of Cliff Martinez and Yann Tiersen much more than the overworked glitch of Autechre, Neon City is something fresh for tired, dry ears.
We will stop here to kindly thank Erik and Otto for brushing away the dust on their old tape recorder, kicking the snow from their doorsteps and lighting the fires of their imagination. Without this release, the world would surely be a much colder, darker place. As if all this was not enough, Type cohort Keith Kenniff (aka Helios) has stepped in to provide a remix, taking the beauty and simplicity of the original track and adding something entirely his own. Layers of guitar drift over smooth pulsing bass and chopped driving beats, giving us a wonderful, rich listening experience. The sheer genius of Mr. Keith Kenniff has not yet been acknowledged, but this delicately engineered remix is further proof that he is one of the most interesting producers around today."
- Type Records 2004
- Soundcloud
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