Pleq and Marihiko Hara - The Dawn Came Behind The Fog
"The five tracks on this 20 minute EP begin somewhat quirkily with One Last Dream Of Being On This Universe which includes DIY hammering and a bit of bottle smashing mixed with vinyl crackle, glitchy sounds and some panning processed piano. Having recovered from this enigmatic opener the next three tracks explore a more familiar experimental landscape of subtle hisses, electrical interference, vinyl crackle, processed piano meanderings, plucked strings and breathy white-noise washes over lightly textured drone backgrounds. The final track Place And Time Beyond The Mind has a dystopian air with a quiet piano and rain soaked intro descending slowly into chaos as the piano notes become ever more discordant and doom laden while being chopped up by rattling tin sounds, blips and other electrical noise.
The EP as a whole is pleasantly devoid of melody and familiar musical structures with the more unusual bookend tracks surrounding a gentle experimental ambient core that recalls the sound of Marihikos much praised Nostalghia release on the Audiomoves label back in 2010."
- More @ Savaran Music and Sound. - Marihiko Hara @ Emusers.
Not music! The draw for the European Nations Football Finals (Soccer) takes place in a few minutes. England and Denmark are both represented in the last 16 for the summer tournament in Poland and the Ukraine in JUne. What a summer of sport we have coming up - this and the Olympics in London! (I couldn't get any tickets though)
Limousine to the guillotine - Richness is obscene ! F.S.Blumm:
"King of Pling", Master of the "Bricolage-Sound" on Bass Luca Fadda
Man on the Horn, Man on the Wah-Wah and Whammy-Pedal Alessandro Coronas (Alessandro & Aaron)
Mr. Unpredictable Supersonic-Speed-Champion on Drums
- With remixes by Tied & Tickled trio, Jason Forest, Guido Möbius and Thomas Knak (aka: Opiate and member of Future 3 and System) http://www.quasidubdevelopment.com/#!
- Much recommended for all the dubheads out there !
When you said Dub, my first thought was that I would never have associated F. S. Blumm with Dub...but I can hear the continuity with his previous release with Luca Fadda. Mastered by Nils Frahm I see (that other dub great).
Thanks for the Marihiko Hara and pleq link too - will be getting that.
I grabbed this today and on repeat for the 3rd. time, and yes Jonah, this IS very nice and much much more than that:
ICEBREAKER 'Distant Early Warning'
" 'Distant Early Warning' was recorded in New York and London, and Casey Rice (known for his work with Liz Phair, Tortoise, Ben Lee, Joan of Arc, Isotope 217 and many others) mastered it.
This is the first full length from Icebreaker* (who are x Piano Magic members), and follow up to the critically acclaimed split 7inch with London's Piano Magic (on the French label Debut).
'Distant Early Warning' takes us on a tour of a militarized border, where a radar defense system waits in the silence of the arctic. The imagery is a series of snapshots of the distant early warning system listening stations in the northern Canada and Alaska which were used by NATO during the cold war. 'Distant Early Warning' is program music (a concept album) that they have called 'music for an accidental apocalypse', or rather, an 'ode to the cold war'."
- Aestethics - October 1999. - http://www.natoarts.com/icebreaker/index.html
ETA: There seems to be two (at least) Icebreakers on the eMu page.
The other is releasing on Cantloupe records and performs works by Louis Andriessen, David Lang, Michael Gordon Philip Glass etc.
- In other words an ensemble that smells like Bang on a Can. http://www.icebreaker.org.uk/
This is a really good album - Urlaub auf Balkonien by krill.minima - and was a freebie from Thinner netlabel before the demise of the same. Not sure if it's available now except on dodgy blogs.
Musicians: James Poke fl, pan-pipes, Rowland Sutherland fl, pan-pipes, Richard Craig as, ts, Bradley Grant as, Dominic Saunders p, kb, Andrew Zolinsky p, kb, David Farmer acc, Darragh Morgan v, Audrey Riley cello, Julian Warburton vibes, marimba, James Woodrow g, Pete Wilson g
"Is it minimal music, trance, pop, contemporary jazz or classical music? Icebreaker blend a number of difficult to categorise musical styles into a gesamtkunstwerk. In their inventive flights of fancy the British band with the exquisite line-up explore areas where most other ensembles fear to tread. This might be because the Icebreaker group, founded by James Poke and John Godfrey in 1989, brought together artists from avant-garde areas in which intellectual definitions of musical positions were obviously meaningless. Two longer compositions - Damian le Gassiks Mad Legs In A Sack and Gordon McPhersons The Baby Bears Bead, and Goldylox, a remix of the preceding track provide listeners with a plethora of musical impressions which directly address their imagination. In a continuous creative process, numerous and highly diverse sequences of impressions emerge, some evoking almost naturalistic landscapes, others, in stark contrast, the jungle of a futuristic metropolis. The piano motif which features in the First Movement of Mad Legs In A Sack is completed by intriguingly beautiful contributions on flute and saxophone, while the melodic passages in the Second Movement, highlight the unity of all twelve musicians in the band playing together. In the Third Movement, a modern jazz improvisation of the piano provides one of the many possible outcomes to this acoustic adventure. The ultra-cool rock-guitar riff intro to The Baby Bears Bed turns into a maelstrom, with the entire band joining in, one after the other, and it surges through an exotic array of musical territories. Such unusual sounds confirm the status of Icebreaker as one of those bands whose extraordinary repertoire will always offer an alternative to the prevailing celebration of elegant boredom."
- Between The Lines - 2001.
...this contains some real delights also. Both of them have a kind of non-invasive fragility, as if they are trying neither to fill all my space nor to leave their tunes going round my head, that I really, really appreciate at the tired end of the day.
Comments
Pleq and Marihiko Hara - The Dawn Came Behind The Fog
"The five tracks on this 20 minute EP begin somewhat quirkily with One Last Dream Of Being On This Universe which includes DIY hammering and a bit of bottle smashing mixed with vinyl crackle, glitchy sounds and some panning processed piano. Having recovered from this enigmatic opener the next three tracks explore a more familiar experimental landscape of subtle hisses, electrical interference, vinyl crackle, processed piano meanderings, plucked strings and breathy white-noise washes over lightly textured drone backgrounds. The final track Place And Time Beyond The Mind has a dystopian air with a quiet piano and rain soaked intro descending slowly into chaos as the piano notes become ever more discordant and doom laden while being chopped up by rattling tin sounds, blips and other electrical noise.
The EP as a whole is pleasantly devoid of melody and familiar musical structures with the more unusual bookend tracks surrounding a gentle experimental ambient core that recalls the sound of Marihikos much praised Nostalghia release on the Audiomoves label back in 2010."
- More @ Savaran Music and Sound. - Marihiko Hara @ Emusers.
Craig
Straight ahead, baby
Limousine to the guillotine - Richness is obscene !
F.S.Blumm:
"King of Pling", Master of the "Bricolage-Sound" on Bass
Luca Fadda
Man on the Horn, Man on the Wah-Wah and Whammy-Pedal
Alessandro Coronas (Alessandro & Aaron)
Mr. Unpredictable Supersonic-Speed-Champion on Drums
- With remixes by Tied & Tickled trio, Jason Forest, Guido Möbius and Thomas Knak (aka: Opiate and member of Future 3 and System)
http://www.quasidubdevelopment.com/#!
- Much recommended for all the dubheads out there !
When you said Dub, my first thought was that I would never have associated F. S. Blumm with Dub...but I can hear the continuity with his previous release with Luca Fadda. Mastered by Nils Frahm I see (that other dub great).
Thanks for the Marihiko Hara and pleq link too - will be getting that.
Beastie Boys - "Hello Nasty"
-In the car, on the way home. Way. Up. Loud.
Never heard that one. Prog rock compilation?
eClassical's Advent Calendar selection of the day
Earlier:
The Black Saint by Billy Harper
Freedom Row by Oliver Schroer
American Ballads I by Pete Seeger
ICEBREAKER 'Distant Early Warning'
" 'Distant Early Warning' was recorded in New York and London, and Casey Rice (known for his work with Liz Phair, Tortoise, Ben Lee, Joan of Arc, Isotope 217 and many others) mastered it.
This is the first full length from Icebreaker* (who are x Piano Magic members), and follow up to the critically acclaimed split 7inch with London's Piano Magic (on the French label Debut).
'Distant Early Warning' takes us on a tour of a militarized border, where a radar defense system waits in the silence of the arctic. The imagery is a series of snapshots of the distant early warning system listening stations in the northern Canada and Alaska which were used by NATO during the cold war. 'Distant Early Warning' is program music (a concept album) that they have called 'music for an accidental apocalypse', or rather, an 'ode to the cold war'."
- Aestethics - October 1999. - http://www.natoarts.com/icebreaker/index.html
ETA: There seems to be two (at least) Icebreakers on the eMu page.
The other is releasing on Cantloupe records and performs works by Louis Andriessen, David Lang, Michael Gordon Philip Glass etc.
- In other words an ensemble that smells like Bang on a Can.
http://www.icebreaker.org.uk/
Markus Pesonen Hendectet - "Hum"
Country Road X - "From Seed to Stone"
Thank you amclark2. Quite good.
Craig
This is a really good album - Urlaub auf Balkonien by krill.minima - and was a freebie from Thinner netlabel before the demise of the same. Not sure if it's available now except on dodgy blogs.
Musicians: James Poke fl, pan-pipes, Rowland Sutherland fl, pan-pipes, Richard Craig as, ts, Bradley Grant as, Dominic Saunders p, kb, Andrew Zolinsky p, kb, David Farmer acc, Darragh Morgan v, Audrey Riley cello, Julian Warburton vibes, marimba, James Woodrow g, Pete Wilson g
"Is it minimal music, trance, pop, contemporary jazz or classical music? Icebreaker blend a number of difficult to categorise musical styles into a gesamtkunstwerk. In their inventive flights of fancy the British band with the exquisite line-up explore areas where most other ensembles fear to tread. This might be because the Icebreaker group, founded by James Poke and John Godfrey in 1989, brought together artists from avant-garde areas in which intellectual definitions of musical positions were obviously meaningless. Two longer compositions - Damian le Gassiks Mad Legs In A Sack and Gordon McPhersons The Baby Bears Bead, and Goldylox, a remix of the preceding track provide listeners with a plethora of musical impressions which directly address their imagination. In a continuous creative process, numerous and highly diverse sequences of impressions emerge, some evoking almost naturalistic landscapes, others, in stark contrast, the jungle of a futuristic metropolis. The piano motif which features in the First Movement of Mad Legs In A Sack is completed by intriguingly beautiful contributions on flute and saxophone, while the melodic passages in the Second Movement, highlight the unity of all twelve musicians in the band playing together. In the Third Movement, a modern jazz improvisation of the piano provides one of the many possible outcomes to this acoustic adventure. The ultra-cool rock-guitar riff intro to The Baby Bears Bed turns into a maelstrom, with the entire band joining in, one after the other, and it surges through an exotic array of musical territories. Such unusual sounds confirm the status of Icebreaker as one of those bands whose extraordinary repertoire will always offer an alternative to the prevailing celebration of elegant boredom."
- Between The Lines - 2001.
Really enjoyed this one. Then:
...this contains some real delights also. Both of them have a kind of non-invasive fragility, as if they are trying neither to fill all my space nor to leave their tunes going round my head, that I really, really appreciate at the tired end of the day.
Now playing a Laura Marling CD free with a newspaper yesterday
Taking me back to when I became a teenager!
Amazon UK deal of the week for £3.99 - how could I resist?