I will. I'm also intrigued as to how the difference will pan out across genres - listening to stuff with acoustic instruments played well - like Miles Davis and Kelly Joe Phelps - I've noticed an immediate attention-catching rise in sound quality even with the old speakers. With some synth pop stuff not so much. I think it's harder for some kinds of synth pop to sound "as if they are being played in the room". I am also wondering if the new equipment will steer my tastes (I am already unsure whether my significant headphone upgrade a couple of years ago was caused by or caused my interest in textural ambient music).
The Canadian Electronic Ensemble - Was founded in 1971. It is the oldest continuous live-electronic group in the world.
Today we take synthesizers for granted. But when the CEE was founded, electronic music could only be heard on tape. The CEE developed a new medium: live electronic music. The synthesizers of the time were enormous and not meant for live performance. Often, the members of the CEE had to design and build their own instruments.
Forty years later, the CEE is still at the forefront of live electronic music.
The CEE first toured Canada in 1975. Their first European tour was in 1979. In the years since, the group has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe and has appeared with the Toronto Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre M
That was Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavillion. I was really enjoying it more than I remembered from last time I listened to it. Sometimes it's nice to give something two years to get over the hype and then just listen for listening's sake. Or something.
I've been on one of those meetingsthis morning that you feel ought to be over in 30 minutes but go on for over two hours because the chair allows people to go well off discussion. So I need this!
@Craig, looking at the personnel for that album, and was surprised to realize there were no synths (though Herbie plays electric piano). My brain was hearing them even though my ears weren't! They do a lot with cymbals, percussion and (ambient!) echoes in the studio to great (spacey) effect.
Bennie Maupin - saxophones, flute, bass clarinet, voice, glockenspiel
Herbie Hancock - acoustic and electric pianos
Buster Williams - bass
Billy Hart - drums (right channel)
Frederick Waits - drums, marimba (left channel)
Bill Summers - percussion
Charles Sullivan - trumpet on "Mappo" and "Excursion"
About right GP!! In a couple of hours we're off to Yorkshire for a few days, so I'd better watch out!! I did hear a news item earlier this weeksaying that the remaining 4 members of MPFC are considering reforming this summer...
GP; I tried not to cheat but it turns out that it's 11+ hours of Mozart - my phone needs to recharge. So it's back to this, that the iPod battery died on lat time.
@amclark2, oh well, congratulations on a brave try. I'm sure I will never get through one of those 99 track classical albums at a sitting. I divided my 99 most essential Gregorian chant into six separate albums and gave them different made up names and cover art.
For the last hour or two I have been listening to Arvo P
Edit - BTW, just noticed Amazon has this 2 disc set for $7.99, a good price, Many Great Companions. Disc 1 is re-do's with Companions, Disc 2 original versions, making this a good sampler for anyone who doesn't have much of her.
An old album I've never heard before, Guided by Voices' King Shit and the Golden Boys. AMG: " King Shit is as engaging as most of GBV's proper albums, and that it is merely a collection of mismatched rarities and outtakes is truly astounding. Made up of material culled from Bee Thousand outtakes... and chunks of the unreleased LPs Back to Saturn X and Learning to Hunt, this is an album that should go over especially well with those fans in love with the Bee Thousand/Alien Lanes incarnation of GBV and the makeshift sonic-collage approach of those records." I've never been a GBV fanatic, but this sounds real good.
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The Art of Steven Staryk, an AmieStreet gem.
Christian Fennesz, Mika Vainio & Christian Zan
The Canadian Electronic Ensemble
- Was founded in 1971. It is the oldest continuous live-electronic group in the world.
Today we take synthesizers for granted. But when the CEE was founded, electronic music could only be heard on tape. The CEE developed a new medium: live electronic music. The synthesizers of the time were enormous and not meant for live performance. Often, the members of the CEE had to design and build their own instruments.
Forty years later, the CEE is still at the forefront of live electronic music.
The CEE first toured Canada in 1975. Their first European tour was in 1979. In the years since, the group has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe and has appeared with the Toronto Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre M
New series, Dave's Picks.
Starting the day in outer space with Bennie. Back in the day, they used actual instruments to make "ambient" music!
Craig
Next album on my "Morning" playlist...also ECM:
@amclark, right, now we know if you post another album in the next 5 hours you're cheating.
I also have a Michael Palin that I apparently haven't scanned.
Craig
Canadian Electronic Ensemble Live at The Arts & Letters Club July 29th 2011
GP; I tried not to cheat but it turns out that it's 11+ hours of Mozart - my phone needs to recharge. So it's back to this, that the iPod battery died on lat time.
For the last hour or two I have been listening to Arvo P
Marcus Fischer - Collected Dust. IIRC, this is a collection of older recordings. Don't like it as much as Monocoastal, which is superb.
Edit - BTW, just noticed Amazon has this 2 disc set for $7.99, a good price, Many Great Companions. Disc 1 is re-do's with Companions, Disc 2 original versions, making this a good sampler for anyone who doesn't have much of her.
Greg Haines & Wouter van Veldhoven - Three Days of Fever
- Oh . . . My . . .God ! ! !
A perennial favorite.