Oh, I almost forgot about this one...Letting the iPod run this afternoon. This was a popular pick around here back in the good old Amie Street days. AAJ review
"Prosa marks the first collaboration between Marihiko Hara and Tomas Phillips.
Utilizing a diverse range of instrumentation, both electronic and acoustic, Prosa is as still as it is dynamic. Its formation (a transcontinental process, through the post) was an exercise of patience and concerted application alike. Thematically (but indirectly), Prosa shares a space with writers whose palette wavers between existential crisis, awkward distance, and snapshots of emotional expenditure (e.g. Jean-Philippe Toussaint) and with certain "quiet" descriptions found in classical Japanese literature. Phillips and Haras mutual effort to treat sounds as words, and otherwise abstract music as narrative yields a composition that can be viewed as a whole or digested in chapters. The duos confident choice to display sentimentality alongside a detached abstraction (thus referencing the sensibilities of such labels as 12k, Raster-Noton, and 4AD) makes for a captivating listen that will appeal to fans of modern classical, electronic and acoustic experimentation, and contemporary ambient.
Tomas Phillips is a composer, novelist, and teacher whose sound work focuses on improvisational performance and minimalist through-composition. He began composing electronic music in the early 1990s and has since created music for installations and collaborations in dance and theatre. He lives in the US, where he teaches literature at North Carolina State University.
Marihiko Hara is a composer residing in Kyoto, Japan and a representative of the artist collective, Rimacona-lab. He composes self-reflective music that explores our relationship with sound and values the strength of silence. Marihiko is a member of Rimacona, a pop group with female vocalist Natsuko Yanagimoto."
- http://www.tenchrec.com/TCH02.html.
"This is the first physical release from the Iranian Black Metal horde known as Aras, as well as Ragnarok Records first release. The title translates to "Epic of Sorrow" and it is just that. Prepare for the oncoming storm..
Benjamim Koppel - "Adventures of a Polar Expedition"
-I feel like I've listened to this so often that I've reached a max allowable postings on the image, but I can't help it. I probably use the word sublime too often when describing music; if I were required to only ever use that word in one instance to describe one album, it would be this one.
On a side note, we will be featuring at least three free tracks on AAJ from three different Benjamin Koppel albums in December or January. One with an album he made with Miroslav Vitous, another he made with Bill Stewart & Larry Goldings, and one he made with Charlie Mariano. There may be a fourth, from a new release, but I'm working out those details now. It will be wonderful opportunity to get a decent listen to one of the better musicians who straddles both jazz and classical genres.
Playing now:
Nils Frahm - "Felt"
-Ugly cover, beautiful album. Frahm is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Thanks again to Brighternow for pointing me to his soundcloud page, where I was able to give Frahm and excellent listen. I had one sole track of Frahm's purchased months ago sitting forgotten in my iTunes library and never followed up on my intention of investigating his music more. But the link to that Wintermusik album (and the various others on that page) has got me searching Frahm's stuff down. Very pretty ambient piano, perfect for the coming winter months.
Cheers.
P.S. Doofy, I hadn't heard that I Am Wind (or whatever it was called) with Steven Lugerner in it. Those tracks were interesting, not a sound I'm particularly into these days, but I'll bookmarking it for when I am. It sounded pretty good.
For those who like whatever genre this is (emusic says "Jazz"; I'd settle for something like "experimental ambient clarinet"), I just picked this up for 99 cents and you can too. It's interesting and nice. Clarinet and electronics improvised while watching movies of glaciers.
"Alphaxone is a music notion from Iran Formed in 2008 by IX, who have polished a exprimental of sound. Somewhere between Dark Ambient, Exprimental and Abstract music. IX, as a cluster of galaxies, created the multi-instrumentalist music. Also IX plays the loops, effects, analog and synth and is also deeply connected to any sound processing source accents He formed the first album of Elliptical Mono-X was released 2008 on Amduscias Records. that second album, Nucleus MS-106 was released in 2009. Now that last album, Processes of Actual Space is a impressible of space music was released in 2010. IX
- Reverbanation.
- It's really surprising to me that there seem to be a versatile (underground ?) music scene in a country like Iran.
"Sleeping on Lotus Ashes is Sebastian Prelar's mobile sound laboratory which carefully examines experimental, acousmatic and electroacoustic music derived from mangled field recordings and self oscillating sound artifacts of all kinds. This principle of crushing and transforming soundbits so they gain a new identity within a new context led to the album title "Crushed Identity". There are some resemblences inherent to the tape splicing work of Musique Concr
"Iranian composer and multi-instrumentalist Salim Ghazi SAEEDI first appeared a few years back as one of the core members of the metal band Arashk, which now has a total of four productions to its name. "Iconophobic" is his first solo album, and was issued in the summer of 2010.
If you enjoy the thought of encountering compositions with distinct influences from the Middle East and Iran, blending classical music, folk music and rock, spiced with a few metal touches, Salim Ghazi Saeedi has created a must-have CD in the shape of "Iconophobic". Always seeking, always adventurous, experimental and challenging, his creations may not be the most mainstream-oriented around, but are also far removed from the avant-garde parts of any musical universe. Highly recommended, particularly to an open-minded art rock audience."
- Progarchives.
- Seconding Germanprof's Peter Scherer rec: I grabbed this album a year ago and had forgotten all about it. . . If only I could remember how I found out about it in the first place (a rec. here maybe ?)
Prompted by this I searched for Don Li and found this one: Don Li - A Portrait of Edith Piaf
Don Li - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Piano, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Programming
"Artistic sincerity is immediately sensed by the soul even without any kind of educational background or socio-cultural awareness Piaf sang for the soul of the world and thus became the embodiment of artistic sincerity.
The current composition of Don Li which incorporates Edith Piafs voice was created 44 years after her death. It doesnt feature the mighty voice of Piaf singing as we believe we know it from her chansons; in Don Lis composition we encounter the fragile Piaf looking for answers in interviews with her voice oscillating between scrutiny and conviction.
With regard to the ballet production "La Sincérité" by the dancing ensemble of the Stadttheater Bern I searched the Edith Piaf archives for speech fragments which were suitable for an adaptation in form and content. Don Li has proven one thing with his composition: Piaf sings! even when she talks!
Piafs words with their characteristic rhythm and tune are the musical foundation of this work. Meticulously translated into the language of music, Piafs words make her the creator and soloist of a never-before-heard composition of interview poetry.
She would have called this composer from Bern in the middle of the night: "Don, I want you to compose another song for me right now I want more of this!"
- Franticek Klossner, Bern 2008 - Tonus Music
My two cents: "spoken words" in a "Different Trains" (Steve Reich) kind of way . . . Brilliant !
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The whole thing...the crazy funk organ from space, the lineup, the cover art, the hat. I just love it.
for a silent space by Marihiko Hara @bandcamp.
Oh, I almost forgot about this one...Letting the iPod run this afternoon. This was a popular pick around here back in the good old Amie Street days. AAJ review
With thanks to Daniel and the 0.49 thread.
Tomas Phillips & Marihiko Hara - Prosa
"Prosa marks the first collaboration between Marihiko Hara and Tomas Phillips.
Utilizing a diverse range of instrumentation, both electronic and acoustic, Prosa is as still as it is dynamic. Its formation (a transcontinental process, through the post) was an exercise of patience and concerted application alike. Thematically (but indirectly), Prosa shares a space with writers whose palette wavers between existential crisis, awkward distance, and snapshots of emotional expenditure (e.g. Jean-Philippe Toussaint) and with certain "quiet" descriptions found in classical Japanese literature. Phillips and Haras mutual effort to treat sounds as words, and otherwise abstract music as narrative yields a composition that can be viewed as a whole or digested in chapters. The duos confident choice to display sentimentality alongside a detached abstraction (thus referencing the sensibilities of such labels as 12k, Raster-Noton, and 4AD) makes for a captivating listen that will appeal to fans of modern classical, electronic and acoustic experimentation, and contemporary ambient.
Tomas Phillips is a composer, novelist, and teacher whose sound work focuses on improvisational performance and minimalist through-composition. He began composing electronic music in the early 1990s and has since created music for installations and collaborations in dance and theatre. He lives in the US, where he teaches literature at North Carolina State University.
Marihiko Hara is a composer residing in Kyoto, Japan and a representative of the artist collective, Rimacona-lab. He composes self-reflective music that explores our relationship with sound and values the strength of silence. Marihiko is a member of Rimacona, a pop group with female vocalist Natsuko Yanagimoto."
- http://www.tenchrec.com/TCH02.html.
This is brilliant - Thanks Germanprof . . .
Free on bandcamp for an email. Dreamy soundscape, "found" voices, trippy. Very much a painting with sound.
Then...
It's beyond me why this has not had a digital release. It's flawed, even cheesy in places, but it has moments of quirky pop genius.
This is so beautiful.
Aras - Hemaseye Andooh
"This is the first physical release from the Iranian Black Metal horde known as Aras, as well as Ragnarok Records first release. The title translates to "Epic of Sorrow" and it is just that. Prepare for the oncoming storm..
rockin' my world now.
Recent mTraks purchase (I know, but it's easier to point to emusic).
Benjamim Koppel - "Adventures of a Polar Expedition"
-I feel like I've listened to this so often that I've reached a max allowable postings on the image, but I can't help it. I probably use the word sublime too often when describing music; if I were required to only ever use that word in one instance to describe one album, it would be this one.
On a side note, we will be featuring at least three free tracks on AAJ from three different Benjamin Koppel albums in December or January. One with an album he made with Miroslav Vitous, another he made with Bill Stewart & Larry Goldings, and one he made with Charlie Mariano. There may be a fourth, from a new release, but I'm working out those details now. It will be wonderful opportunity to get a decent listen to one of the better musicians who straddles both jazz and classical genres.
Playing now:
Nils Frahm - "Felt"
-Ugly cover, beautiful album. Frahm is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Thanks again to Brighternow for pointing me to his soundcloud page, where I was able to give Frahm and excellent listen. I had one sole track of Frahm's purchased months ago sitting forgotten in my iTunes library and never followed up on my intention of investigating his music more. But the link to that Wintermusik album (and the various others on that page) has got me searching Frahm's stuff down. Very pretty ambient piano, perfect for the coming winter months.
Cheers.
P.S. Doofy, I hadn't heard that I Am Wind (or whatever it was called) with Steven Lugerner in it. Those tracks were interesting, not a sound I'm particularly into these days, but I'll bookmarking it for when I am. It sounded pretty good.
"Alphaxone is a music notion from Iran Formed in 2008 by IX, who have polished a exprimental of sound. Somewhere between Dark Ambient, Exprimental and Abstract music. IX, as a cluster of galaxies, created the multi-instrumentalist music. Also IX plays the loops, effects, analog and synth and is also deeply connected to any sound processing source accents He formed the first album of Elliptical Mono-X was released 2008 on Amduscias Records. that second album, Nucleus MS-106 was released in 2009. Now that last album, Processes of Actual Space is a impressible of space music was released in 2010. IX
- Reverbanation.
- It's really surprising to me that there seem to be a versatile (underground ?) music scene in a country like Iran.
"Sleeping on Lotus Ashes is Sebastian Prelar's mobile sound laboratory which carefully examines experimental, acousmatic and electroacoustic music derived from mangled field recordings and self oscillating sound artifacts of all kinds. This principle of crushing and transforming soundbits so they gain a new identity within a new context led to the album title "Crushed Identity". There are some resemblences inherent to the tape splicing work of Musique Concr
"Iranian composer and multi-instrumentalist Salim Ghazi SAEEDI first appeared a few years back as one of the core members of the metal band Arashk, which now has a total of four productions to its name. "Iconophobic" is his first solo album, and was issued in the summer of 2010.
If you enjoy the thought of encountering compositions with distinct influences from the Middle East and Iran, blending classical music, folk music and rock, spiced with a few metal touches, Salim Ghazi Saeedi has created a must-have CD in the shape of "Iconophobic". Always seeking, always adventurous, experimental and challenging, his creations may not be the most mainstream-oriented around, but are also far removed from the avant-garde parts of any musical universe. Highly recommended, particularly to an open-minded art rock audience."
- Progarchives.
Emusic
Jacob Karlzon 3 - "The Big Picture"
Prompted by this I searched for Don Li and found this one:
Don Li - A Portrait of Edith Piaf
Don Li - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Piano, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Programming
"Artistic sincerity is immediately sensed by the soul even without any kind of educational background or socio-cultural awareness Piaf sang for the soul of the world and thus became the embodiment of artistic sincerity.
The current composition of Don Li which incorporates Edith Piafs voice was created 44 years after her death. It doesnt feature the mighty voice of Piaf singing as we believe we know it from her chansons; in Don Lis composition we encounter the fragile Piaf looking for answers in interviews with her voice oscillating between scrutiny and conviction.
With regard to the ballet production "La Sincérité" by the dancing ensemble of the Stadttheater Bern I searched the Edith Piaf archives for speech fragments which were suitable for an adaptation in form and content. Don Li has proven one thing with his composition: Piaf sings! even when she talks!
Piafs words with their characteristic rhythm and tune are the musical foundation of this work. Meticulously translated into the language of music, Piafs words make her the creator and soloist of a never-before-heard composition of interview poetry.
She would have called this composer from Bern in the middle of the night: "Don, I want you to compose another song for me right now I want more of this!"
- Franticek Klossner, Bern 2008 - Tonus Music
My two cents: "spoken words" in a "Different Trains" (Steve Reich) kind of way . . . Brilliant !
Holly Lane by Clem Leek. I'm wanting to like this, but the sound is just a little too saturated for my mood right now.
Bram Weijters - "Trio Plus Strings and a Clarinet"