Supported their Kickstarter and the finished album is taking longer than they expected so they sent out what is essentially an outtakes session first. It's awesome. Includes a couple AFP only songs, a couple half hour Gaiman readings (that were apparently too long for the main disk), and some joint bits. I so can't wait for the full thing.
Hoping For The Invisible To Ignite by Farewell Poetry
If you liked GYBE at all, you owe it to yourself to listen to this album preview. At times it's trying too hard to be deep and important, but it has some truly epic passages (around the 15-16 minute mark it's on fire - wow!). Buying now. Might review it for MiG.
A collective comprised of Parisian musicians and an Anglo-saxon poet and filmmaker, FareWell Poetry is a bold and electrifying project that combines performance film, musical experimentation (drone, post-rock, orchestrated minimalism) and spoken word poetry.
"Welcome to this special Amnesty International download page for the Ben Frost soundtrack to The Invisibles.
This new short film by Gael Garcia Bernal and Marc Silver, details the plight of the tens of thousands of men, women and children who leave their homes in Central and South America each year to travel across Mexico in search of a better life in the USA.
Inspired by the stories of the people who make this journey through Mexico, actor and director Gael García Bernal and director Marc Silver joined forces with Amnesty International to shine a light on the abuses migrants suffer. Told over four parts, the film is a shocking look at a world many people would rather you didnt know about.
Ben Frosts soundtrack offers a stark and emotive backdrop to the film, enhancing the already breathtaking and moving scenes captured as the Invisibles stories unfolds. Were hugely grateful to Ben for donating all proceeds from sales directly to Amnesty International."
It wasn't too long ago I would have scoffed at the idea of purchasing anything by Jerry Garcia or the Grateful Dead (effing hippies).
BT, I know exactly what you mean, but if I was ever going to purchase anything by Jerry it would be one of the Grisman collaborations. I hope everybody who doesn't already own them has checked out the Grisman Tone Poems I and II that are on sale at Amazon, with Tony Rice and Martin Taylor respectively - great albums, though if you're a tone freak you might need the liner notes for which vintage instruments they're playing - yum.
"This disc contains three exquisite driftworks from ENCOMIAST, entitled Havens. Formed from vaporous clouds of guitar, gamelan, shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), violin, vina, voice, flute, and field recordings, Ross Hagen and Megan Garland have stretched these sounds into infinite ribbons of metallic shimmer, twisting and swirling into gorgeous hum. The three tracks on this disc are extended works that range from eleven to twenty-five minutes in length, and drifts within the angelic regions between Andrew Chalk's minimalist explorations, the dream music of Troum (and their predecessor, Maeror Tri), and the bleary melodic smear of My Bloody Valentine. Havens distills the bliss of deep dreams and early morning haze into captured hymns, and is one of ENCOMIAST's finest drone offerings to date."
- http://www.encomiast.com
Blanche - Little Amber Bottles. I am slowly getting all my eMusic purchases moved to Amazon's cloud player and consequently re-discovering some older music I had forgotten about. I listened to this album quite a bit when I got it.
Comments
- Excellent !
Doomtree - No Kings
Now starting:
Dessa - Castor, The Twin
Craig
Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
If our electronic/ambient friends haven't heard this, they need to.
Craig
One of my two purchases from the amazon $4.99 sale; man this is good; rec'd to our psych/psych pop friends.
Adam Kolker - "Reflections"
Sacred Bones strikes again. This one is more noise rock than I'm used to from them, though.
FYI - All the albums I've posted today were snagged on the $4.99 sale. The inlaws gave me some Amazon gift cards and I went hog wild.
Craig
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Thanks BN
Every time amclark2 has posted this album recently I've thought, "I really need to get that." So I did.
Craig
It wasn't too long ago I would have scoffed at the idea of purchasing anything by Jerry Garcia or the Grateful Dead (effing hippies).
Listening via Amazon cloud player...
Supported their Kickstarter and the finished album is taking longer than they expected so they sent out what is essentially an outtakes session first. It's awesome. Includes a couple AFP only songs, a couple half hour Gaiman readings (that were apparently too long for the main disk), and some joint bits. I so can't wait for the full thing.
Craig
Hoping For The Invisible To Ignite by Farewell Poetry
If you liked GYBE at all, you owe it to yourself to listen to this album preview. At times it's trying too hard to be deep and important, but it has some truly epic passages (around the 15-16 minute mark it's on fire - wow!). Buying now. Might review it for MiG.
Craig
BT, I know exactly what you mean, but if I was ever going to purchase anything by Jerry it would be one of the Grisman collaborations. I hope everybody who doesn't already own them has checked out the Grisman Tone Poems I and II that are on sale at Amazon, with Tony Rice and Martin Taylor respectively - great albums, though if you're a tone freak you might need the liner notes for which vintage instruments they're playing - yum.
Craig
Encomiast - Havens
"This disc contains three exquisite driftworks from ENCOMIAST, entitled Havens. Formed from vaporous clouds of guitar, gamelan, shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), violin, vina, voice, flute, and field recordings, Ross Hagen and Megan Garland have stretched these sounds into infinite ribbons of metallic shimmer, twisting and swirling into gorgeous hum. The three tracks on this disc are extended works that range from eleven to twenty-five minutes in length, and drifts within the angelic regions between Andrew Chalk's minimalist explorations, the dream music of Troum (and their predecessor, Maeror Tri), and the bleary melodic smear of My Bloody Valentine. Havens distills the bliss of deep dreams and early morning haze into captured hymns, and is one of ENCOMIAST's finest drone offerings to date."
- http://www.encomiast.com
I don't think The Weeknd will ever be able to match what he's done this year. Craziness.
Craig
Blanche - Little Amber Bottles. I am slowly getting all my eMusic purchases moved to Amazon's cloud player and consequently re-discovering some older music I had forgotten about. I listened to this album quite a bit when I got it.