- "Alexander Turnquist is a guitarist/composer who uses his 12 string acoustic finger-style approach in creating very dramatic and emotionally engaging music. Turnquist started playing at a young age with an experimental approach from the onset, and has always held to the use of the acoustic guitar as the driving force and foundation in his compositions. In addition to his guitar playing he cleverly writes into his compositions accompaniment in the form of mallet percussion instruments, strings, and piano. Turnquist's first full length "Faint at the Loudest Hour" was released in 2007 on VHF records, his first fully realized album of solo pieces and analogue electronic experimentations. In 2009 he released "As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color", which was a critical turning point from him just being a capable instrumentalist but a distinctive composer, signaling key changes and melodic developments with subtle accompaniment. Turnquist has toured extensively throughout the United States and in Europe. Now he is set to release his third full length solo album on VHF records entitled "Hallway of Mirrors" out on May 17, 2011. "Hallway of Mirrors" is a continuation of the territory he entered into on "As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color", although on "Hallway of Mirrors" the compositions are driven with a very concise energy, heavily patterned and completely acoustic. Recorded in a large room with natural reverb, the album is an interplay of harmonic resonance and instrument sustain."
- http://alexanderturnquist.com/ - Emusic.
(The spotify ads and I between us keep plumbing new depths of genre-lurch: Stockhausen's Nachtmusik straight into a country song by some guy called David Nail. Not one of music history's greatest segues.)
ETA: I am neither a Stockhausen expert nor a Pink Floyd expert: surely it is more than coincidence that this Stockhausen suite from 1968 contains the piece "Setz die Segel zur Sonne" (set the sail towards the sun) and Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets from, er, 1968 includes the track "Set the controls for the heart of the sun". Is this a known borrowing or was there a third, common source?
Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek - Blank Grey Canvas Sky
"This beautiful collaboration features two of the most prolific talents from the current experimental scene, both with reputations of leviathan proportions. For this release, Machinefabriek, based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Peter Broderick, based in Berlin, Germany (although constantly on the road) set out to push each others limits, and to explore new areas within their own creativity.
The resulting album is a delicately crafted one, with Machinefabriek and Broderick virtuosically combining instrumental compositions, drone, and heartfelt soundscapes with song structures and vocals. Or as Peter Broderick himself put it: "We tried a lot of different things on this album, pushing ourselves to explore new areas... And for me the result is the collection of music I feel most proud of so far."
- Fang Bomb - 2009.
@ GP, RE: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
- (another Waters composition) is a space rock number which was first performed with Barrett in 1967. The success of the track was such that it remained in their live set-list until 1973 where it appeared in a greatly extended form. Waters later performed the track during solo concerts from 1984 present. Waters borrowed the lyrics from a book of Chinese Poetry from the Tang Dynasty, like Barrett had used in Chapter 24". (source).
"Anders Brødsgaard (b. 1955) is a rare compositional talent and a strong, richly faceted voice in Danish musical life. His major one-movement orchestral work Galaxy is constructed as one long hypnotic spiral motion, taking place in a zone of weightlessness, in unpredictable patterns and soft collisions. Coupled with the extremely diverting Monk's Mixtures for small orchestra, Galaxy offers the full view of a composer who draws on his heritage and at the same time is constantly on his way towards new horizons.
- Dacapo Records 2010.
Nice find GP, Thank you . . .
- The album pricing is back @ eMu, it wasn't there yesterday. One of the countless bugs, I guess.
- Strange ?, yes as the other old school albums are; This is avantgarde with a capital A from a most brilliant ensemble.
Maybe my imagination is running away with me, but I sense some Pink Floyd "Set the controls . . ." frequency on the last track.
-Beautiful! Lining up a track for a feature date with the AAJ dotd.
Juan Andres Ospina - "BBB: Bogota, Barcelona, Boston"
Oh. My. God. Fans of Guillermo Klein should take note. And by "take note", I mean go out and buy this album now. Also, will be participating in the dotd.
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He's always been a hell of a singer, and still is.
- Not bad . . . Not bad at all ! ! !
Hedge & Donna LIVE San Diego Sports Arena 1971, a particularly obscure release by an obscure folk duo from a very long time ago. Any H&D fans here?
- From 1967.
- "Alexander Turnquist is a guitarist/composer who uses his 12 string acoustic finger-style approach in creating very dramatic and emotionally engaging music. Turnquist started playing at a young age with an experimental approach from the onset, and has always held to the use of the acoustic guitar as the driving force and foundation in his compositions. In addition to his guitar playing he cleverly writes into his compositions accompaniment in the form of mallet percussion instruments, strings, and piano. Turnquist's first full length "Faint at the Loudest Hour" was released in 2007 on VHF records, his first fully realized album of solo pieces and analogue electronic experimentations. In 2009 he released "As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color", which was a critical turning point from him just being a capable instrumentalist but a distinctive composer, signaling key changes and melodic developments with subtle accompaniment. Turnquist has toured extensively throughout the United States and in Europe. Now he is set to release his third full length solo album on VHF records entitled "Hallway of Mirrors" out on May 17, 2011. "Hallway of Mirrors" is a continuation of the territory he entered into on "As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color", although on "Hallway of Mirrors" the compositions are driven with a very concise energy, heavily patterned and completely acoustic. Recorded in a large room with natural reverb, the album is an interplay of harmonic resonance and instrument sustain."
- http://alexanderturnquist.com/ - Emusic.
Not for the faint of heart.
(The spotify ads and I between us keep plumbing new depths of genre-lurch: Stockhausen's Nachtmusik straight into a country song by some guy called David Nail. Not one of music history's greatest segues.)
ETA: I am neither a Stockhausen expert nor a Pink Floyd expert: surely it is more than coincidence that this Stockhausen suite from 1968 contains the piece "Setz die Segel zur Sonne" (set the sail towards the sun) and Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets from, er, 1968 includes the track "Set the controls for the heart of the sun". Is this a known borrowing or was there a third, common source?
blowing my mind today.
Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek - Blank Grey Canvas Sky
"This beautiful collaboration features two of the most prolific talents from the current experimental scene, both with reputations of leviathan proportions. For this release, Machinefabriek, based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Peter Broderick, based in Berlin, Germany (although constantly on the road) set out to push each others limits, and to explore new areas within their own creativity.
The resulting album is a delicately crafted one, with Machinefabriek and Broderick virtuosically combining instrumental compositions, drone, and heartfelt soundscapes with song structures and vocals. Or as Peter Broderick himself put it: "We tried a lot of different things on this album, pushing ourselves to explore new areas... And for me the result is the collection of music I feel most proud of so far."
- Fang Bomb - 2009.
Bigger images after the emusic revamp!
I've never heard a U2 album that I disliked, but this is the last one that I actively liked.
Just been playing this in the car - a great live recording, as I was there!
"Anders Brødsgaard (b. 1955) is a rare compositional talent and a strong, richly faceted voice in Danish musical life. His major one-movement orchestral work Galaxy is constructed as one long hypnotic spiral motion, taking place in a zone of weightlessness, in unpredictable patterns and soft collisions. Coupled with the extremely diverting Monk's Mixtures for small orchestra, Galaxy offers the full view of a composer who draws on his heritage and at the same time is constantly on his way towards new horizons.
- Dacapo Records 2010.
Nice find GP, Thank you . . .
- The album pricing is back @ eMu, it wasn't there yesterday. One of the countless bugs, I guess.
- Strange ?, yes as the other old school albums are; This is avantgarde with a capital A from a most brilliant ensemble.
Maybe my imagination is running away with me, but I sense some Pink Floyd "Set the controls . . ." frequency on the last track.
Dave Chisholm - "Calligraphy"
-Beautiful! Lining up a track for a feature date with the AAJ dotd.
Juan Andres Ospina - "BBB: Bogota, Barcelona, Boston"
Oh. My. God. Fans of Guillermo Klein should take note. And by "take note", I mean go out and buy this album now. Also, will be participating in the dotd.
Speck - You Still Alone - (Passage PASS020 2011)