As I look into it a little more, it looks like this Schubert collection is full of Bis recordings too - this one by the Arion Trio is also available from Bis.
Just been out in my car - I know their thermometers are not that accurate, but -4C here, but just received an email from a friend living in Bologna, Central Italy, where it is already -10C and they are predicting -17C overnight - in Italy!!
ANDREA BELFI - WEGE (experimental release from Room40; streaming the sample track.)
The album is built around a cyclic electro-acoustic system, through which Belfi has developed a complex musical network of possibilities.
With this electro-acoustic system, influenced in part by Steve Reichs Pendulum Music, Weges four pieces revolve around spiraling interconnections of synthesizer, feedback and drums. Belfi explains further:
This device creates feedbacks on two drums on my drum kit, and I can modify it by stopping and stretching the drum skins with hands and various kinds of sticks, mallets and brushes, and/or by filtering the feedback with an a modular synthesizer.
Greg, as you're searching out jazz, you really should get some Charlie Parker, and you could do a lot worse than this 10 disc set, so I linked to Amazon UK - looks to be about £10. I floundered for a log time looking for good Charlie Parker 'albums', until I realized that his best stuff was all recordered for '78s. Anyway this has a ton of stuff, all of it great and the sound quality's fine to my ears, for stuff from the '40's; the important thing to me is that it's not over-aggressively cleaned up, which I think sounds worse than a bit of static. The great thing about this is that you get a lot of other great players on these sessions like Dizzy, Miles, Bud Powell and Max Roach, just to name some of the big ones. I thought I'd mention it too because we do seem to have a bit of overlap in tastes.
Thanks amclark - yes often our tastes do overlap, and I'll certainly check out the Charlie Parker. Having spent £25 earlier today ordering the 25 CD set, it'll have to wait a few weeks - too much music on my credit card at once tends to lead to questions/comments! I'll also look in our main library, which does have some jazz CDs.
Having found out last night that Jackie Leven had died and having a snow day away from work today I'm going through all of Jackie's albums on Spotify and making a playlist.
- "All sounds sourced from a performance for church organ, piano and tape recorders, recorded live at the Grunewaldkirche, Berlin on June 12th 2009.
Contains fragments of the compositions 'A Hunger Artist' and 'Marc's Descent'.
- Thanks to Uwe Behrens, Monique Recknagel, Danny Saul, Nils Frahm, Dustin O'Halloran, Anne Müller and Wim Maesschalck."
Chimes of Freedom - 4CDs of Dylan Covers, currently Pete Townsend, Corrina, Corrina. There is some great music on this set, quite a few bands that I do not know. Highlight so far is Patti Smith, Drifter's Escape. Lowlight, Miley Cyrus, You're Gonna Make me Lonesome. Actually, I have not played that track yet, I am just assuming it is a lowlight, assuming there is any light there at all.
/Edit - Miley does a pretty good job, actually. Her song is better than Lenny Kravitz (Rainy Day Women), but then I like Gonne Make me Lonesome better anyway.
- Music for the season - It was minus 11 celcius last night.
- "Maggi Paynes soundworlds invite the listeners to enter the sound and be carried with it, experiencing it from the inside out in intimate detail. The sounds are almost tactile and visible.
The music is based on location recordings, with each sound carefully selected for its potentialits slow unfolding revealing delicate intricaciesand its inherent spatialization architecting and sculpting the aural space where multiple perspectives and trajectories coexist. You need good speakers, some space in your schedule, and a mind-body continuum willing to resonate with Paynes electroacoustic journey, but then it will take you to places that other music cant reach.
From the sounds of dry ice, space transmissions, BART trains, and poor plumbing she immerses the listener in a world strangely unfamiliar."
- Innova 2010.
MAGGI PAYNE - "Composer of electronic music, flutist, video artist, and recording engineer, Maggie Payne is known for the elegance and complexity of her sounds. Her awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation ... Her work has been performed at Sonic Circuits IV, Next Wave Festival, eXstatic Project (Australia), Prix Ars Electronica, SoundCulture '96, Siggraph, Bourges ... She has been Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
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As I look into it a little more, it looks like this Schubert collection is full of Bis recordings too - this one by the Arion Trio is also available from Bis.
I notice that at the end of particular works, there is also a few second pause - something that I remember Bissie talking about on emu boards.
- Featuring David Thomas from Pere Ubu . . .
ANDREA BELFI - WEGE (experimental release from Room40; streaming the sample track.)
Disc 4.
Greg, as you're searching out jazz, you really should get some Charlie Parker, and you could do a lot worse than this 10 disc set, so I linked to Amazon UK - looks to be about £10. I floundered for a log time looking for good Charlie Parker 'albums', until I realized that his best stuff was all recordered for '78s. Anyway this has a ton of stuff, all of it great and the sound quality's fine to my ears, for stuff from the '40's; the important thing to me is that it's not over-aggressively cleaned up, which I think sounds worse than a bit of static. The great thing about this is that you get a lot of other great players on these sessions like Dizzy, Miles, Bud Powell and Max Roach, just to name some of the big ones. I thought I'd mention it too because we do seem to have a bit of overlap in tastes.
But sometimes our tastes don't overlap.
Oh and on that Charlie Parker, there's no track info included, but jazzdisco.org is a great resource for track info.
I don't listen to this album often, but it's so freakin' awesome. Currently playing is Mary Lou Lord with Semisonic's version of "Sugar Sugar".
Craig
Surprisingly enough, after I deleted the tracks I didn't like, this became a much better album.
Then
Gently folky guitar, very nice.
More gentleness.
I'd recommend this one too Greg; if you have Fantasy stuff on emu still, it's a good deal. Also check out Brilliant Corners.
Wow. Good. Free.
Disc 5
- "All sounds sourced from a performance for church organ, piano and tape recorders, recorded live at the Grunewaldkirche, Berlin on June 12th 2009.
Contains fragments of the compositions 'A Hunger Artist' and 'Marc's Descent'.
- Thanks to Uwe Behrens, Monique Recknagel, Danny Saul, Nils Frahm, Dustin O'Halloran, Anne Müller and Wim Maesschalck."
Chimes of Freedom - 4CDs of Dylan Covers, currently Pete Townsend, Corrina, Corrina. There is some great music on this set, quite a few bands that I do not know. Highlight so far is Patti Smith, Drifter's Escape. Lowlight, Miley Cyrus, You're Gonna Make me Lonesome. Actually, I have not played that track yet, I am just assuming it is a lowlight, assuming there is any light there at all.
/Edit - Miley does a pretty good job, actually. Her song is better than Lenny Kravitz (Rainy Day Women), but then I like Gonne Make me Lonesome better anyway.
NP: a compilation of two albums of Renaissance/High Medieval music from the 1990s. $5.19 at emu
- Yeah !
near-perfect dance-pop.
Ominous Seapods, lurking in my AmieStreet directory.
- "Maggi Paynes soundworlds invite the listeners to enter the sound and be carried with it, experiencing it from the inside out in intimate detail. The sounds are almost tactile and visible.
The music is based on location recordings, with each sound carefully selected for its potentialits slow unfolding revealing delicate intricaciesand its inherent spatialization architecting and sculpting the aural space where multiple perspectives and trajectories coexist. You need good speakers, some space in your schedule, and a mind-body continuum willing to resonate with Paynes electroacoustic journey, but then it will take you to places that other music cant reach.
From the sounds of dry ice, space transmissions, BART trains, and poor plumbing she immerses the listener in a world strangely unfamiliar."
- Innova 2010.
MAGGI PAYNE
- "Composer of electronic music, flutist, video artist, and recording engineer, Maggie Payne is known for the elegance and complexity of her sounds. Her awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation ... Her work has been performed at Sonic Circuits IV, Next Wave Festival, eXstatic Project (Australia), Prix Ars Electronica, SoundCulture '96, Siggraph, Bourges ... She has been Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
She is professor and co-director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College".
http://sites.google.com/site/maggipayne/home
Then -
then, this, to recuperate - OMG, this live album is smoking. Thompson is just so good...
and for $5.99 at eMu a right good deal.