Ricardo Webbens - Analog Mountains - (tube'|226 - 2010)
"The first track of Analog Mountains is Lithospheric, a 22-minute delicate ambient track, filled with vague drones and whispers of glitches. Its quietness could be mistaken as indistinctness, but its this subtleness that gives the track a certain accomplished aura. And then Orogenic abruptly turns the listener to the dark ambient, the noise. The second track is filled with a shadowy static that steadily increases in volume, its glitches are more pronounced and the drones have morphed into more abrasive tones. Though Orogenic might seem a startling change mid-stream, listening to Webbens other work, shows that it is not unexpected. Analog Mountains ends with Epeirogenic, a track more inline with the albums opening though the glitches are replace with field recording fragments and there is the entry of slight, repetitive beats. Webbens work may turn out be challenging to some especially after the ambient beauty of first track, but for this reviewer, it is the demands that Webbens puts on to this listener which makes Analog Mountains so absorbing."
- Acts of Silence.
This fine 1960 album came up in my Clifford Jordan playlist--I list sidemen under 'Comments' in iTunes.
Viewing the album page reminds me that I never got the bonus tracks, will have to do so now. Kinda good that eMu remembers/allows me to complete an album from which I DL'd selected tracks 3+ years ago.
"Blown debris and song shards converge on this jammer by Frank Baugh's Sparkling Wide Pressure. Unlike his usual route, this one's as winding as a double helix on a morning sunrise. Call it what you will."
- Wet Merchants - 2010
"Pieces of memories come flooding back through the smallest openings. The search for an imagined right time and right place. Melody is the last transmitter- the one connection that is not severed. We have come to this realization together."
- Kimberly Dawn Recordings 2011
I'm not generally a fan of vocal jazz standards, but the arrangements, and some playing, by John Dankworth, not long before his death last year make this a class apart from similar albums. Maybe something here for AAJ DOTD, Johanpwll?
Hey, Greg.
I contacted her people awhile back to run a Dankworth track to coincide with an interview AAJ published several weeks ago. They seemed like they wanted to, but I never heard back from them. Meant to follow up, but I've been busy and sometimes get irritated at having to follow up when I was the one making the courtesy call in the first place. I'll shoot them a message tomorrow.
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Ricardo Webbens - Analog Mountains - (tube'|226 - 2010)
"The first track of Analog Mountains is Lithospheric, a 22-minute delicate ambient track, filled with vague drones and whispers of glitches. Its quietness could be mistaken as indistinctness, but its this subtleness that gives the track a certain accomplished aura. And then Orogenic abruptly turns the listener to the dark ambient, the noise. The second track is filled with a shadowy static that steadily increases in volume, its glitches are more pronounced and the drones have morphed into more abrasive tones. Though Orogenic might seem a startling change mid-stream, listening to Webbens other work, shows that it is not unexpected. Analog Mountains ends with Epeirogenic, a track more inline with the albums opening though the glitches are replace with field recording fragments and there is the entry of slight, repetitive beats. Webbens work may turn out be challenging to some especially after the ambient beauty of first track, but for this reviewer, it is the demands that Webbens puts on to this listener which makes Analog Mountains so absorbing."
- Acts of Silence.
Me too, Daniel! I'm glad we, between us all, have made another convert with GP! In fact it is time I played the aforesaid album again
Jari Pitk
Such an underrated album of 60s pop.
Craig
Jari Pitk
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It's not even 10AM and I'm already hitting the club music to shore up my sagging energy levels...I'm going to burn out before lunch at this rate.
This fine 1960 album came up in my Clifford Jordan playlist--I list sidemen under 'Comments' in iTunes.
Viewing the album page reminds me that I never got the bonus tracks, will have to do so now. Kinda good that eMu remembers/allows me to complete an album from which I DL'd selected tracks 3+ years ago.
(url=>amz)
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More Cliff Jordan in chrono order. It is now 1962. This thing is pretty heavy.
(url=>amz)
Struggling to stay awake...
Craig
- Continuing with:
Sparkling Wide Pressure - A Window Opens
"Blown debris and song shards converge on this jammer by Frank Baugh's Sparkling Wide Pressure. Unlike his usual route, this one's as winding as a double helix on a morning sunrise. Call it what you will."
- Wet Merchants - 2010
"Pieces of memories come flooding back through the smallest openings. The search for an imagined right time and right place. Melody is the last transmitter- the one connection that is not severed. We have come to this realization together."
- Kimberly Dawn Recordings 2011
(Ben Folds, Neil Gaiman, Damian Kulash, and Amanda Palmer)
Hey, Greg.
I contacted her people awhile back to run a Dankworth track to coincide with an interview AAJ published several weeks ago. They seemed like they wanted to, but I never heard back from them. Meant to follow up, but I've been busy and sometimes get irritated at having to follow up when I was the one making the courtesy call in the first place. I'll shoot them a message tomorrow.