My goodness, this is gorgeous. Amazing. Thanks again, BT. Those who haven't checked the 7digital sale thread yet, there are many, many worse ways to spend $2.49.
Edit - this shows what a strong singing voice Adele has, compared to when she is speaking. No wonder she has had voice problems over the last few months. Will I buy it - no! Nothing that is not on either 19 or 21, or sung any differently for that matter
The Beatles - Alternative Bootleg Let It Be - for some reason I got some sort of bug that made me want to hear Let it Be outtakes and extras - found this and it satisfies the bug. Gave it a good virus scanning before playing though. I don't feel bad - I've given the Beatles and their estates lots of money.
@greg, check out the provenance of this one, below.
Flitting between delicate yet immersive soundscapes and acoustic instrumentation, Tens approach is a road well trod yet there is something that lifts this duo a notch or two above the rest. Their latest release Lowlands is a tribute to the natural sounds of The Fens, beginning life as a barely perceptable found sound drone that brings to mind a cold winter breeze before opening out into the gentle melancholy of Low Cloud, comprising sparse piano, cello and the continuing drifting soundscape.
I was not at all a big fan of growing up in the bottom right-hand corner of Lincolnshire in a small town. Now I'm starting to get old enough that music from there adds a surprising touch of nostalgia to my natural astonishment that there are people from there who make interesting music. This is rather nice. And it's about The Fens!! Streamable at bandcamp. (For some reason it has totally different cover art on bandcamp and at emusic).
Daniel Menche, Jana Winderen, Philip Jeck, Philip Marshall, Michael Esposito - You Are Not Alone II
"The second in a series of reworkings of Sohrab material by artists showing solidarity to his cause... all label and artist money goes towards the fund for his appeal against refusal to be granted political asylum in Germany..."
- Touch Records.
Thanks GP, I'm currently streaming it - the Fens rarely get a mention in anything cultural, but no surprise there . (Graham Swift's Waterland does come to mind though)
Edit - I'm liking it GP. I tried to download it but got into the infamous loop at emusic, even though I succesfully downloaded the Jordi album this morning!
Actually, now that I look back he's been linking emusers in those posts too. I was caught up with his great tagline in several posts: "@ Bandcamp - A site that works like a dream!" - interspersed between all the complaints about emusic not working. I've given us a couple of mentions too.
"Good Fridge" - great album title.
ETA: Not as sold on this as his more recent stuff - but the last track is worth a listen.
Once or twice a month I link to our New & Notable releases thread over at the, for the most part BN driven New & Notable Arrivals thread. But I haven't directly encouraged to join Emusers, - It somehow doesn't feel right to do so. (don't ask me why).
@BN I have it right at the top of my download-next list after snagging Nils Frahm's 'Felt' this morning and the new Tarwater over the weekend. Right now I feel caught between my standard desire to space out my downloads so I don't pine for something new too soon and spend too much extra money, the desire to postpone downloading until the emusic site is somewhat reliable, and the desire to spend all my credit right now in case the emusic site is a pile of smoking ruins next time I visit and I can't get stuff. Really not sure what strategy to take.
Imagine someone not particularly gifted at singing or timing repeatedly singing to themselves "I want to be a little fishy, yes I do, yes I do" over the top of a synth sequence vaguely reminiscent of "I feel love" and you've imagined how this album opens. (Did Fehlmann influence The Books?) Jugendsünden, I think. And whatever label/distributor put these collections together couldn't be bothered to spell his name right - it's wrong at all the outlets.
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miami heat, meet rashad lewis (and -- hoping against hope -- steve nash?).
Thanks for the rec @BadThoughts, great music for a rainy cold afternoon.
My goodness, this is gorgeous. Amazing. Thanks again, BT. Those who haven't checked the 7digital sale thread yet, there are many, many worse ways to spend $2.49.
Thanks for this and other recs BT
Streaming from Guardian website
Edit - this shows what a strong singing voice Adele has, compared to when she is speaking. No wonder she has had voice problems over the last few months. Will I buy it - no! Nothing that is not on either 19 or 21, or sung any differently for that matter
I was not at all a big fan of growing up in the bottom right-hand corner of Lincolnshire in a small town. Now I'm starting to get old enough that music from there adds a surprising touch of nostalgia to my natural astonishment that there are people from there who make interesting music. This is rather nice. And it's about The Fens!! Streamable at bandcamp. (For some reason it has totally different cover art on bandcamp and at emusic).
Daniel Menche, Jana Winderen, Philip Jeck, Philip Marshall, Michael Esposito - You Are Not Alone II
"The second in a series of reworkings of Sohrab material by artists showing solidarity to his cause... all label and artist money goes towards the fund for his appeal against refusal to be granted political asylum in Germany..."
- Touch Records.
- Sohrab @ Emusic.
- Sohrab @ Touch.
Thanks GP, I'm currently streaming it - the Fens rarely get a mention in anything cultural, but no surprise there . (Graham Swift's Waterland does come to mind though)
Edit - I'm liking it GP. I tried to download it but got into the infamous loop at emusic, even though I succesfully downloaded the Jordi album this morning!
One of Jonah's threads at the other place inspired me to play this. I noticed that every contributor to the thread at that point was an emuser!
Has anyone posted over there (this time) that folks interested in discussing actual music should come over here?
It's a '90s music day for me today.
Craig
Craig
"Good Fridge" - great album title.
ETA: Not as sold on this as his more recent stuff - but the last track is worth a listen.
Once or twice a month I link to our New & Notable releases thread over at the, for the most part BN driven New & Notable Arrivals thread. But I haven't directly encouraged to join Emusers, - It somehow doesn't feel right to do so. (don't ask me why).
ETA: I'm almost halfway through first listen of:
- It is a "must have".
Craig
Imagine someone not particularly gifted at singing or timing repeatedly singing to themselves "I want to be a little fishy, yes I do, yes I do" over the top of a synth sequence vaguely reminiscent of "I feel love" and you've imagined how this album opens. (Did Fehlmann influence The Books?) Jugendsünden, I think. And whatever label/distributor put these collections together couldn't be bothered to spell his name right - it's wrong at all the outlets.