- "This mix is intended as a tribute to Raymond Murray Schafer and various pioneering aspects of his oeuvre have been included: Soundscape and Acoustic Ecology, vocal and choral music, orchestral and chamber music with echoes of Ives, Webern and Shostakovitch, outdoor music performed in the open, graphic scores and spoken word. A track by Hildegard Westerkamp, Murray Schafers close associate in the World Soundscape Project, 1973-80, is also included, as well as sound poetry by his friend bp Nichol, whose death inspired the String Quartet n°4 in 1989.
Psych! Did listen to the samples though (it's the #2 download from Gralin Music at eMu - a Django comp led to to look at them) - truly scary and deeply disturbing.
One of my acquisitions from the Amazon Xmas binge - I like very much, but have to listen with headphones or play when the wife's not home because one whiff of the pipes and she'll roll her eyes, mutter something under her breath and go watch a shopping channel in the other room.
I've been streaming Kleefstra - Pruiksma - Kleefstra from Soundcloud . . . One one hand, intriguing . . . on the other, shere's something about the vocals that puts me off.
- And it's the same thing with the related project Piiptsjilling (pronounced 'peep-chilling') with Mariska Baars and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek)
Now Playing:
- A Renaldo & The Loaf remix project, more about this later . . .
- "It is fair to say that the culmination of the cubist art of Georges Braque is creation of pictures with collages of unexpected elements, such as sand, iron, wood, etc. Using many different materials, the artist concentrated harmony in a single form. Media artists of the "Collage" project are author of "Aatdushi"compilation series, Oomkah Dee, and musician Black Sky Chant, earlier known as Bedroom Bear, who made a number of drone ambient releases before. Each of two artist has its own way of creation of the certain image. Oomkah connects home listening on the background with piano plays, remembers passages from the French emigrants' poetry and adds the voice of Korean diva to it. 19 tracks found a room in a 30 minutes period. United music layers multiply troubled emotional background. There are totally different colors in a Black Sky Chant's half-hour journey. He is using dim lo-fi and drone to literally press the listener against the hot ground and then, in the middle of "Collage", to dip into a lake's water. This is how the journey stays in the memory for a long time."
I am thoroughly surprised but this album has great stuff - old-timey western swing/C&W , humorous/risque type songs, great playing. Who'd a thunk? Well, the picture did get my attention so I guess it was an effective strategy. eMu.
Streaming the first single from the forthcoming Orcas album - that's Benoit Pioulard and Rafael Anton Irisarri. Pretty stuff. Those who like shoegazey things should take a listen. Reminds me a lot of Slowdive/Pygmalion in feel.
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This must be one of my most played albums, great to have on in the background when I am trying to concetrate on work.
Craig
Listening via Amazon CloudPlayer.
Matthew Dear - Headcage
Nice little EP.
Craig
Includes covers of The Clash, Dylan, and Rancid. Fantastic.
Craig
- Assembled by Continuo (from Ubuweb.com)
- "This mix is intended as a tribute to Raymond Murray Schafer and various pioneering aspects of his oeuvre have been included: Soundscape and Acoustic Ecology, vocal and choral music, orchestral and chamber music with echoes of Ives, Webern and Shostakovitch, outdoor music performed in the open, graphic scores and spoken word. A track by Hildegard Westerkamp, Murray Schafers close associate in the World Soundscape Project, 1973-80, is also included, as well as sound poetry by his friend bp Nichol, whose death inspired the String Quartet n°4 in 1989.
Raymond Murray Schafer @ Emusers
Good stuff - thanks, Brighternow.
Brighternow, have you heard this one? Right up your street, I would think. Experimental/improv with Frisian poetry.
Raveonettes Live at Roskilde Festival 2011
- Totally mindblowing performance by Sharin, Sune & Co.
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Steve Roach - Proof Positive. Background to the last 50 pages of Muramaki's Wind-up Bird Chronicle.
A Chicago band.
Then
Oliveray are Nils Frahm and Peter Broderick. Really rather lovely. Jonah, you like Frahm and Broderick - you'd probably enjoy this too.
I keep re-discovering albums I bought on eMu years ago as I transfer them to Amazon's cloud.
Psych! Did listen to the samples though (it's the #2 download from Gralin Music at eMu - a Django comp led to to look at them) - truly scary and deeply disturbing.
- ETA.
One of my acquisitions from the Amazon Xmas binge - I like very much, but have to listen with headphones or play when the wife's not home because one whiff of the pipes and she'll roll her eyes, mutter something under her breath and go watch a shopping channel in the other room.
- David Eugene Edwards crying his heart out, backed up by high voltage rock . . .
Craig
Thanks, Brighternow - made a note of this quite some time back when you were recommending it. Finally bought it. Fun.
I've been streaming Kleefstra - Pruiksma - Kleefstra from Soundcloud . . . One one hand, intriguing . . . on the other, shere's something about the vocals that puts me off.
- And it's the same thing with the related project Piiptsjilling (pronounced 'peep-chilling') with Mariska Baars and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek)
Now Playing:
- A Renaldo & The Loaf remix project, more about this later . . .
Oomkah / Black Sky Chant - Collage
- "It is fair to say that the culmination of the cubist art of Georges Braque is creation of pictures with collages of unexpected elements, such as sand, iron, wood, etc. Using many different materials, the artist concentrated harmony in a single form. Media artists of the "Collage" project are author of "Aatdushi"compilation series, Oomkah Dee, and musician Black Sky Chant, earlier known as Bedroom Bear, who made a number of drone ambient releases before. Each of two artist has its own way of creation of the certain image. Oomkah connects home listening on the background with piano plays, remembers passages from the French emigrants' poetry and adds the voice of Korean diva to it. 19 tracks found a room in a 30 minutes period. United music layers multiply troubled emotional background. There are totally different colors in a Black Sky Chant's half-hour journey. He is using dim lo-fi and drone to literally press the listener against the hot ground and then, in the middle of "Collage", to dip into a lake's water. This is how the journey stays in the memory for a long time."
Streaming the first single from the forthcoming Orcas album - that's Benoit Pioulard and Rafael Anton Irisarri. Pretty stuff. Those who like shoegazey things should take a listen. Reminds me a lot of Slowdive/Pygmalion in feel.