"The work was inspired by a variety of operatic forms and improvisational approaches including Chinese opera; Indonesian wayang kulit shadow puppetry; Fluxus and Dada; the operas of Tom Phillips, Robert Ashley, John Cage, and Anthony Braxton; and aspects of the work of Cornelius Cardew, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, John Zorn, Frank Zappa, and Sun Ra."
- Rastascan Records.
Aaron Jennings : selectric and acoustic guitars, samplers, software, electronics, etc
Eivind Opsvik: upright and electric bass, drums, keyboards, theremin, drum machines, pump organ, software, etc.
"While blending an electronic palate with arco bass, pump organs, theremin, tape loops, guitar, and a collage of other sounds, "Fløyel Files" resists meandering and maintains the strength of song structure - a rare and successful hybrid of the acoustic and the digital"
- NCM East Records 2005
Cowboy Junkies - Come Sing in my Meadow, 8 song EP for $2.99, digital download from Latent. Pretty typical of the CJ, a bit dark and moody, alot of feedback and guitars. I never thought their name was quite appropriate.
"The new MC Maguire CD, Nothing left to Destroy, is the follow up to Trash of Civilizations (2009) and Meta-Conspiracy (2007). Once again up to 300 tracks of CPU [thats Central Processor Unit to non-computer folk] mayhem, subterfuge, chicanery, skullduggery, and a smidgen of jiggery-pokery are pitted against a virtuosic live soloist, in a to-death-do-us-part showdown. The overall effect is electro-acoustic, ethno-death-metal, versus environmental, classical-fusion-electronica in a UFC cage [not John-] match.
The first piece is a Violin Concerto featuring the musical wunderkind, Ben Bowman. Mr. Bowman soars, bops and weaves over an alternately ominous and ecstatic shrinking/claustrophobic CPU landscape which consists of all things Chinese (including a famous ancient Chinese melody as the cantus firmus). It eventually morphs into the tragic irony of 70s, western, 4 on the floor, disco. In the end its a melancholic commentary on western hegemony.
The second work is a Flute Concerto, featuring the seasoned, uber-virtuoso, Doug Stewart. He nimbly leaps, dodges, and swirls around three mashed George Gershwin songs in a quasi, dirty-thirties dream world. The real raison dêtre of this piece is its hell bent on blurring the numbers 2 and 3 in a beyond-human range of tempos.
MC Maguire is a Toronto based electro-acoustic manipulator who has worked in every medium and genre as a composer/producer/engineer."
- Innova 2011 - MC Maguire Biography
Iibiis Rooge - S/T "Iibiis Rooge is the new superastral duo team bringing together the mysterious High Wolf (Not Not Fun Records, Winged Sun) with the seminal talents of Mr. Neil Campbell, better known these days as Astral Social Club (Fat Cat, VHF, Qbico, Important, Textile, Bottrop-Boy and countless other labels around the globe) and (ex-) member of Vibracathedral Orchestra, A-Band, and other obscure/legendary outfits.
The new self-titled LP is the debut album of the band (dont call it "project") combining modern psychedelic High Wolf jams with the fucked up yet refined electronics and techno-infused beat choppery of the Astral Social Club the result being a lot more then you might have expected from the two, transcending their combined talents into a multicoloured supernova. The strength of the album is an unexpected pop sensibility and airiness, while still being tighter and more consolidated than their regular solo outfits. Even the noisier elements are embedded in loose song structures with a carnivalesque air dominating the whole atmosphere.
While the duos solo outings are often camouflaging any melodies in oodles of electronic noises or lo-fi psych jams and hiss this is a fairly different affair with simple melodic textures always dominating the four tracks. The defibration of structures is still apparent but the music is constantly pulling itself together again. Where the Astral Social Club is sometimes willingly losing himself in electronic soundscapes and the High Wolfs short & sketchy songs are rarely fully formulated by nature, all the positive aspects of their respective works are combined and complemented in Iibiis Rooge.
These gentlemen are the perfect match. A visible proof that (musical) online dating can be a highly prosperous activity."
- Dekorder - 2010.
- You're Welcome GP . . . That was in june: "TORI is a Japanese experimental duo located in Denmark, made of drummer Junichi EBISAWA and programming expert Yohei ASO. Their music consists of the electronic sounds of the computer and a live recording of the drums. The duet aims at making original and innovative music that nobody have ever made, and make many people to listen to it by performing around the world. They also want to adopt the traditional Japanese music in their music so that any listener can feel the Japanese spirit. The theme of the album is "Despair and Hope": "despair" is shown though dark tunes, but the listeners will also feel "hope" throughout "Albatross". To be discovered !"
- Gazul, 2011
I found quite a few sets of klezmer /balkan / gypsy on the Free Music Archive, live sets from the Golden Festival 2010 and 2011. Decent recordings of some pretty mad swrilling music. The picture is the Fishtank Ensemble. They sound like a Klezmer version of Donna the Buffalo.
Comments
This = great album. So infectious I can't sit still while I grade papers. Perpetual motion in a bottle.
"The work was inspired by a variety of operatic forms and improvisational approaches including Chinese opera; Indonesian wayang kulit shadow puppetry; Fluxus and Dada; the operas of Tom Phillips, Robert Ashley, John Cage, and Anthony Braxton; and aspects of the work of Cornelius Cardew, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, John Zorn, Frank Zappa, and Sun Ra."
- Rastascan Records.
- Stream @ Soundcloud. - and mentioned @ the New & Notable releases.
Rich Bennett - "Music for Underwater Supermarkets"
Aaron Jennings : selectric and acoustic guitars, samplers, software, electronics, etc
Eivind Opsvik: upright and electric bass, drums, keyboards, theremin, drum machines, pump organ, software, etc.
"While blending an electronic palate with arco bass, pump organs, theremin, tape loops, guitar, and a collage of other sounds, "Fløyel Files" resists meandering and maintains the strength of song structure - a rare and successful hybrid of the acoustic and the digital"
- NCM East Records 2005
Third time through. Great album, lots of whomping and thumping.
Cowboy Junkies - Come Sing in my Meadow, 8 song EP for $2.99, digital download from Latent. Pretty typical of the CJ, a bit dark and moody, alot of feedback and guitars. I never thought their name was quite appropriate.
Then:
Food - Thomas Strønen, Iain Ballamy, Nils Petter Molvaer, Christian Fennesz - Quiet Inlet
Marcel Saegesser - Last Place (Left)
-electronica-drone with accordion and bass violin accompaniment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlyvs_plgu4
"The new MC Maguire CD, Nothing left to Destroy, is the follow up to Trash of Civilizations (2009) and Meta-Conspiracy (2007). Once again up to 300 tracks of CPU [thats Central Processor Unit to non-computer folk] mayhem, subterfuge, chicanery, skullduggery, and a smidgen of jiggery-pokery are pitted against a virtuosic live soloist, in a to-death-do-us-part showdown. The overall effect is electro-acoustic, ethno-death-metal, versus environmental, classical-fusion-electronica in a UFC cage [not John-] match.
The first piece is a Violin Concerto featuring the musical wunderkind, Ben Bowman. Mr. Bowman soars, bops and weaves over an alternately ominous and ecstatic shrinking/claustrophobic CPU landscape which consists of all things Chinese (including a famous ancient Chinese melody as the cantus firmus). It eventually morphs into the tragic irony of 70s, western, 4 on the floor, disco. In the end its a melancholic commentary on western hegemony.
The second work is a Flute Concerto, featuring the seasoned, uber-virtuoso, Doug Stewart. He nimbly leaps, dodges, and swirls around three mashed George Gershwin songs in a quasi, dirty-thirties dream world. The real raison dêtre of this piece is its hell bent on blurring the numbers 2 and 3 in a beyond-human range of tempos.
MC Maguire is a Toronto based electro-acoustic manipulator who has worked in every medium and genre as a composer/producer/engineer."
- Innova 2011 - MC Maguire Biography
- My two cents: WOW !
On New World
"Beno
Plastikman - Artifakts (BC) . . .(aka. Richie Hawtin).
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Iibiis Rooge - S/T
"Iibiis Rooge is the new superastral duo team bringing together the mysterious High Wolf (Not Not Fun Records, Winged Sun) with the seminal talents of Mr. Neil Campbell, better known these days as Astral Social Club (Fat Cat, VHF, Qbico, Important, Textile, Bottrop-Boy and countless other labels around the globe) and (ex-) member of Vibracathedral Orchestra, A-Band, and other obscure/legendary outfits.
The new self-titled LP is the debut album of the band (dont call it "project") combining modern psychedelic High Wolf jams with the fucked up yet refined electronics and techno-infused beat choppery of the Astral Social Club the result being a lot more then you might have expected from the two, transcending their combined talents into a multicoloured supernova. The strength of the album is an unexpected pop sensibility and airiness, while still being tighter and more consolidated than their regular solo outfits. Even the noisier elements are embedded in loose song structures with a carnivalesque air dominating the whole atmosphere.
While the duos solo outings are often camouflaging any melodies in oodles of electronic noises or lo-fi psych jams and hiss this is a fairly different affair with simple melodic textures always dominating the four tracks. The defibration of structures is still apparent but the music is constantly pulling itself together again. Where the Astral Social Club is sometimes willingly losing himself in electronic soundscapes and the High Wolfs short & sketchy songs are rarely fully formulated by nature, all the positive aspects of their respective works are combined and complemented in Iibiis Rooge.
These gentlemen are the perfect match. A visible proof that (musical) online dating can be a highly prosperous activity."
- Dekorder - 2010.
Sunna Gunnlaugs - "The Dream"
Just got turned on to her music. She has a huge bandcamp page...
http://sunnagunnlaugs.bandcamp.com/album/the-dream
Gonna see about getting her on the AAJ dotd.
Personnel for The Dream:
Sunna Gunnlaugs - piano
Loren Stillman - alto saxophone
Eivind Opsvik - bass
Scott McLemore - drums
Looks like she has a kickstarter project going. Don't know what that's about yet.
This has become one of my favorite jazz albums, at least from its era (80s). Thoughtful, mature, just this side of "modal."
Billy's cover of the song "John Coltrane" is really nice.
I'm surprised more people don't cover that song. It's powerful and haunting.
w/ Kenny Burrell
;-)
Odd.
(Thanks Brighternow quite a while back I think.)
"TORI is a Japanese experimental duo located in Denmark, made of drummer Junichi EBISAWA and programming expert Yohei ASO. Their music consists of the electronic sounds of the computer and a live recording of the drums. The duet aims at making original and innovative music that nobody have ever made, and make many people to listen to it by performing around the world. They also want to adopt the traditional Japanese music in their music so that any listener can feel the Japanese spirit. The theme of the album is "Despair and Hope": "despair" is shown though dark tunes, but the listeners will also feel "hope" throughout "Albatross". To be discovered !"
- Gazul, 2011
I found quite a few sets of klezmer /balkan / gypsy on the Free Music Archive, live sets from the Golden Festival 2010 and 2011. Decent recordings of some pretty mad swrilling music. The picture is the Fishtank Ensemble. They sound like a Klezmer version of Donna the Buffalo.