Been listening to that Alamaailman Vasarat album that I posted earlier all day - great stuff. Sheer fun. Manic but tuneful lurching between genres, and catchy.
(I think this is another "thanks, Brighternow" from a while back. Sifting the SFL.)
ETA, when I added this to my SFL I recorded its price as $5.53 - it's $3.43 now.
"Some of you might recall last year's Yule album, a special Christmas compilation album with previously unreleased material named after Iceland's notorious 'yule lads'.
This year sees a new edition of Yule, which is free to download exclusively with every purchase made through our web store in December."
Puzzle Muteson Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Nico Muhly Once in Royal David's City
Daníel Bjarnason Spindrift / Montauk in February Remix
Valgeir Sigurðsson Flesh and Wine and Firewood
Ben Frost Stomp / Scanner Remix
Nico Muhly The Holly and the Ivy
Ben Frost The Gravity of Numbers
Daníel Bjarnason Air to Breath / Montauk in February Remix
Sam Amidon How Come That Blood / FM Belfast Remix
Daniel Ogren - "Laponia"
-Not gonna keep posting this image here, but I think this is such a pretty album and I've listened to it once every day since I picked it up a week ago.
I'm still listening to Amy Winehouse - I've got the two CD versions downloaded of both of her first two albums, so 4 hours plus music. Playing like this does show what a great jazz/soul singer she was
It is getting to the point where Soundway could release their kids singing in the Christmas pageant and I would consider buying it. I also got their other new release, "Ifetayo." This one is the same dollar price on eMu and AMZ.
Lionel Marchetti - Sirrus - (Auscultare Research 2001)
A Rewarding Forray Into Musique Concrete.
- "Enter Lionel Marchetti, a fine member of the concrete school, who opts for the spins of the tape machine and processing rather than the laptop. Marchetti's music abstracts sounds at points equal to Schaffear and Luc Ferrari. But an even closer reference point is Stockhausen's "Sans la Soleil" as well as Karlheinz's other abstract works (although that segment of Stockhausens corpus is not strictly speaking musique concrete).
Marchetti's music, however, channels more eclectic sources than Stockhausen's. In Passerele, a fragment of wild organ brings a moment of warmth to a landscape of analog blurbs. Sirrus features some sped-up sounds providing a balance to the darker drones below. At times the album has the feel of a full fledged score, with sounds disengaged from their original source congealing into symphonic structures.
On pieces like Micro-climat, though, Marchetti uses a structure closer to field recordings than the abstract sequences of distortions that make up much concrete. Perhaps Marchetti owes a little to the acoustic-ecology of R. Murray Schafer in that this work sounds more like a study of the acoustics of an environment than a direct abstraction of a symphonic score. But Marchetti seems less worried than Schafer about decorating casual listening environments with a conceptual premise. Sirrus is a complex work, with each segment unfolding into a recurring motif of ambient noises that's ahead of the pack of laptop manipulators.
Marchettis work is hardly a new direction for concrete, but holding Marchetti up to such groundbreaking impositions might be too lofty. Like the clicks-and-cuts punks who see this school as their predecessors, whats important here is that the music on Sirrus is a challenging, rewarding, and engaging experience, just not a new one."
- Dusted Magazine.
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(I think this is another "thanks, Brighternow" from a while back. Sifting the SFL.)
ETA, when I added this to my SFL I recorded its price as $5.53 - it's $3.43 now.
Oh man ! ! ! - I had almost forgotten about this fantastic album, thanks for the reminder GP.
- Just started:
Another Christopher Tignor (the violinist in Wires Under Tension) Project:
- WOW !
Afro Bop Alliance - "Una Mas"
Anthony Branker - "Dialogic"
Adam Cruz - "Milestone"
Stuart McCallum - "Distilled"
Miho Wada - "Para Ti"
NP:
Jacob Karlzon 3 - "The Big Picture"
Erik Charlston - "Essentially Hermeto"
Calexico - "Tool Box"
"Some of you might recall last year's Yule album, a special Christmas compilation album with previously unreleased material named after Iceland's notorious 'yule lads'.
This year sees a new edition of Yule, which is free to download exclusively with every purchase made through our web store in December."
Puzzle Muteson Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Nico Muhly Once in Royal David's City
Daníel Bjarnason Spindrift / Montauk in February Remix
Valgeir Sigurðsson Flesh and Wine and Firewood
Ben Frost Stomp / Scanner Remix
Nico Muhly The Holly and the Ivy
Ben Frost The Gravity of Numbers
Daníel Bjarnason Air to Breath / Montauk in February Remix
Sam Amidon How Come That Blood / FM Belfast Remix
Craig
Daniel Ogren - "Laponia"
-Not gonna keep posting this image here, but I think this is such a pretty album and I've listened to it once every day since I picked it up a week ago.
Craig
It is getting to the point where Soundway could release their kids singing in the Christmas pageant and I would consider buying it. I also got their other new release, "Ifetayo." This one is the same dollar price on eMu and AMZ.
Lionel Marchetti - Sirrus - (Auscultare Research 2001)
A Rewarding Forray Into Musique Concrete.
- "Enter Lionel Marchetti, a fine member of the concrete school, who opts for the spins of the tape machine and processing rather than the laptop. Marchetti's music abstracts sounds at points equal to Schaffear and Luc Ferrari. But an even closer reference point is Stockhausen's "Sans la Soleil" as well as Karlheinz's other abstract works (although that segment of Stockhausens corpus is not strictly speaking musique concrete).
Marchetti's music, however, channels more eclectic sources than Stockhausen's. In Passerele, a fragment of wild organ brings a moment of warmth to a landscape of analog blurbs. Sirrus features some sped-up sounds providing a balance to the darker drones below. At times the album has the feel of a full fledged score, with sounds disengaged from their original source congealing into symphonic structures.
On pieces like Micro-climat, though, Marchetti uses a structure closer to field recordings than the abstract sequences of distortions that make up much concrete. Perhaps Marchetti owes a little to the acoustic-ecology of R. Murray Schafer in that this work sounds more like a study of the acoustics of an environment than a direct abstraction of a symphonic score. But Marchetti seems less worried than Schafer about decorating casual listening environments with a conceptual premise. Sirrus is a complex work, with each segment unfolding into a recurring motif of ambient noises that's ahead of the pack of laptop manipulators.
Marchettis work is hardly a new direction for concrete, but holding Marchetti up to such groundbreaking impositions might be too lofty. Like the clicks-and-cuts punks who see this school as their predecessors, whats important here is that the music on Sirrus is a challenging, rewarding, and engaging experience, just not a new one."
- Dusted Magazine.
Looking forward to the new album that is allegedly in the can.
Craig