I'm just not "getting" this, though to be fair I am ridiculously tired. It's just hitting my ear as terribly busy and crowded and I can't find the storyline at all. Feel free to tell me what I should be hearing.
Now:
OK, it may be totally philistine to compare Jaco Pastorius unfavorably to The Boats, but one thing that I really appreciate about the latter is the sense I get that each sound has been gently set in place.
GP - I borrowed Jaco Pastorius' Punk Jazz (a double CD 'anthology') from my local library about 18 months ago. I played it once, and other than maybe a couple of tracks, did not like it at all. I've still got it on itunes and haven't been back to it. Since then I've started to develop a much wider interest in jazz and I've intended to go back to it. Maybe I'll do so soon. Currently playing: (and recommended GP)
"Ritual is Solo Andatas third full-length album and also the inaugural release for the Buffalo-based label, Desire Path Recordings. Consists of four glorious sonic topographies that are altogether spellbinding, eerie, visceral and energetic. Ritual, similar to Solo Andatas self-titled album on 12k, is fundamentally made up of organic sounds, such as primitive gongs, bells and bowls, wildlife and environmental recordings, sacred chants, the vibration of human cancerous cells, cleavers, and prepared piano. These four pieces seem to work toward a repetition or ritual between disparate elements so as to transport us, via a magical spell, to dense otherworldly habitats. In fact, the title of the twenty-minute piece Incantare translates as to chant (a magical spell upon), which derives from in, into, unto and cantare, to sing. For the eight-minute piece Carving, there exists a ritualistic image similar to that of Kafkas In the Penal Colony, where an intricate carving device inscribes the Condemned prisoners sentence onto his flesh. The whole affair of Ritual is bound to leave listeners mesmerized by its vividness and bewitched by its intensity."
- Desire Path Recordings 2009 - Soundcloud.
Solo Andata is: - "Paul Fiocco (b. 1984) and Kane Ikin (b. 1982) live and work out of separate states in Australia. Solo Andata began in 2006 with their debut album Fyris Swan on Chicago label Hefty records. Paul lives in Perth, Western Australia, and is a graduate in philosophy. Kane lives in Melbourne, Victoria, and is a graduate in sound from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Solo Andatas compositions are created through the collaboration of sound from organic materials, field recordings, and instruments."
- 12K - http://www.solo-andata.com/
For some reason I find this stuff irresistible, though I realize many people are able to resist it just fine. In fact I got the John McGlaughlin collab for Christmas. That one was characterized by my wife, who can tolerate large servings of free jazz skronking, as "a bunch of noise."
There are grains of truth in the suggestion that, in moving, you may find yourself in or out of some ones favour. But, listen to the slow, delicate, even introspective background: some breeze, some chimes, some distant thunder as each focal point remains a lament.
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.
Listen to this (e.g. track 4) and then listen to, say, Uoon 1 from Vrioon and you get a very clear sense of what Alva Noto brought to the Alva Noto/Ryuichi Sakamoto partnership.
It was Jonah who introduced me to Nat Birchall, GP. To me it is jazz with an edge. You might be interested in a thread I started aking for jazz suggestions to help me get into jazz.
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I'm just not "getting" this, though to be fair I am ridiculously tired. It's just hitting my ear as terribly busy and crowded and I can't find the storyline at all. Feel free to tell me what I should be hearing.
Now:
OK, it may be totally philistine to compare Jaco Pastorius unfavorably to The Boats, but one thing that I really appreciate about the latter is the sense I get that each sound has been gently set in place.
Sorry, no help with Jaco here; I've never tried it yet.
Thanks for pointing this out GP. Very interesting.
Craig
Solo Andata - Ritual
"Ritual is Solo Andatas third full-length album and also the inaugural release for the Buffalo-based label, Desire Path Recordings. Consists of four glorious sonic topographies that are altogether spellbinding, eerie, visceral and energetic. Ritual, similar to Solo Andatas self-titled album on 12k, is fundamentally made up of organic sounds, such as primitive gongs, bells and bowls, wildlife and environmental recordings, sacred chants, the vibration of human cancerous cells, cleavers, and prepared piano. These four pieces seem to work toward a repetition or ritual between disparate elements so as to transport us, via a magical spell, to dense otherworldly habitats. In fact, the title of the twenty-minute piece Incantare translates as to chant (a magical spell upon), which derives from in, into, unto and cantare, to sing. For the eight-minute piece Carving, there exists a ritualistic image similar to that of Kafkas In the Penal Colony, where an intricate carving device inscribes the Condemned prisoners sentence onto his flesh. The whole affair of Ritual is bound to leave listeners mesmerized by its vividness and bewitched by its intensity."
- Desire Path Recordings 2009 - Soundcloud.
Solo Andata is:
- "Paul Fiocco (b. 1984) and Kane Ikin (b. 1982) live and work out of separate states in Australia. Solo Andata began in 2006 with their debut album Fyris Swan on Chicago label Hefty records. Paul lives in Perth, Western Australia, and is a graduate in philosophy. Kane lives in Melbourne, Victoria, and is a graduate in sound from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Solo Andatas compositions are created through the collaboration of sound from organic materials, field recordings, and instruments."
- 12K - http://www.solo-andata.com/
Craig
On Greg's rec...enjoying it so far, thanks.
For some reason I find this stuff irresistible, though I realize many people are able to resist it just fine. In fact I got the John McGlaughlin collab for Christmas. That one was characterized by my wife, who can tolerate large servings of free jazz skronking, as "a bunch of noise."
Thanks, BN. Interesting.
- The last track (album only) is out of this world.
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.
Really like this. Kind of like Dirty Three.
Listen to this (e.g. track 4) and then listen to, say, Uoon 1 from Vrioon and you get a very clear sense of what Alva Noto brought to the Alva Noto/Ryuichi Sakamoto partnership.