CD was on sale for $6.99. An absolute classic that was not in my collection, and now I have it lossless. Another good reason to go the brick and mortar route.
I discussed these folks briefly on MiG, but I can't stress how enough how great this album is, especially for a band that has only really exited for less than a year. If you at all like synth based music, get this album.
Yes! Both Schepps and Flinner work with Jazz elements. Moreover, it sounds like something Grisman would have conceived of in his earlier days. ETA: I think that the material and the interplay of classical and folk make it sound like an Old Timey version of European folk music.
Only downloaded this recently - it has been removed from bandcamp since. Enjoying what I've heard of Panabrite so far. I wish there were a brick and mortar near here that might have cheap copies of what I might want...just ordered two CDs for $33 from Experimedia. (Not that I really mind supporting Experimedia - it's sort of an online brick and mortar in a way, run by one guy). In Bergen last Friday I had an hour free so I asked my host if there were any good record stores. He consulted some friends and told me there was one that had credibility and we walked across town - to find that it had been gutted by a recent fire and was closed.
Why, I wonder, has no online music vendor tried to develop an interface for the sale section that imitates the experience of flipping through vertically stored records. Ought to be possible.
I found early emusic to be a great substitute for real stores; better even, because I not only could find, but was forced into more off the beaten track stuff. Lately my emusic purchases seem to mirror my used cd purchases; a lot of old stuff from major labels.
That Schiff album of Bartok's music is nice! An interesting sideline on the interplay between classical and folk music is the Hungarian folk ensemble Muszikas' The Bartok Album, where some of the original old phonograph recordings of the original voices of the countryside folk that Bartok recorded on his field trips with Kodaly can be heard, followed by Muszikas' performance of excerpts of Bartok's compositions, followed by Muszikas' own interpretations of them. Quite rawer than the Schiff album, but a very interesting project. Read about it here.
That Andy Clausen album is on Table&Chair label, which AAJ will be featuring on the dotd pretty soon. A track from each of the albums on their label, which range from straight-ahead to electronic/atmospheric to thrash/rock jazz.
The Brian Charette on Maxey's new album has an album coming out (or maybe it's out right now) called "Music for Organ Sextette" that is really really good. We'll be featuring a track from it as the AAJ dotd soon, but you can access it now through Brian's AAJ musician profile.
Just finished: Theo Bleckmann "Hello Earth! The Music of Kate Bush" - just brilliant; makes me fall in love with Bush's music all over again.
Matt Ulery "By a Little Light"
-Not due out until late June on the Greenleaf label. Absolutely sublime. The kind of mix of jazz and classical (with just a little folk slipped in) that appeals to me like Benjamin Koppel's work. It's a double cd, and I'm so transfixed by cd #1 that I haven't yet listened to cd #2. Getting this cd was a huge and happy surprise, because I had just discovered Ulery's 2010(?) release called something like Flora.Fauna.Fervor maybe a week ago. I'll be doing reviews of both of those albums TBD/TBA.
Whilst out shopping this morning I discovered a new charity shop with used CDs. Unfortunately, not much of interest to me, but I bought this for £1, a bargain!
- "Ictus is providing a platform in this CD for Italys most surprising composer: Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004). It is a manifesto, a work which expresses his convictions. Although contemporary music as we knew it (from Boulez to Lachenmann) is a closed chapter, this does not mean that from now on we should content ourselves with a peaceful return to order, to neo-classical evenly-spaced colonnades. Insolent in his modernity, Romitelli draws inspiration from the shady universe of psychedelic rock, seizes upon its electronic resonance, its hallucinatory zest, and plunges both into the cauldron of powerful composing of the kind inherited from Gérard Grisey - the art of sculpting the tones according to their natural resonance, until a virtual world of sound emerges where everything co-exists - electronic trickery, acoustic splendor, the very substance of dirty sound.
Romitelli breathes a sense of drama into this new science of total sound which captures the listeners imagination. It is an appeal to Henri Michauxs writings on the effects of mescaline: the uncontrollable ebb and flow of the mind jostled by inner storms, the noise and fury of the world filtered by the highly refined ear. A visionary work."
- Cypres Records.
- Exerpts.
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Nas - Illmatic
CD was on sale for $6.99. An absolute classic that was not in my collection, and now I have it lossless. Another good reason to go the brick and mortar route.
Craig
Polica - Give You the Ghost
I discussed these folks briefly on MiG, but I can't stress how enough how great this album is, especially for a band that has only really exited for less than a year. If you at all like synth based music, get this album.
Craig
Another brick and mortar find. I love doing the store with my smart phone - it's great to be able to pull up some reviews to help making choices.
At BN: You are welcome, too. I hope I pegged you right.
Currently: Jake Schepps' An Evening in the Village
Recommended by BT, well worth getting - classics/jazz guitar overlap?
Only downloaded this recently - it has been removed from bandcamp since. Enjoying what I've heard of Panabrite so far. I wish there were a brick and mortar near here that might have cheap copies of what I might want...just ordered two CDs for $33 from Experimedia. (Not that I really mind supporting Experimedia - it's sort of an online brick and mortar in a way, run by one guy). In Bergen last Friday I had an hour free so I asked my host if there were any good record stores. He consulted some friends and told me there was one that had credibility and we walked across town - to find that it had been gutted by a recent fire and was closed.
Why, I wonder, has no online music vendor tried to develop an interface for the sale section that imitates the experience of flipping through vertically stored records. Ought to be possible.
That Andy Clausen album is on Table&Chair label, which AAJ will be featuring on the dotd pretty soon. A track from each of the albums on their label, which range from straight-ahead to electronic/atmospheric to thrash/rock jazz.
@Doofy
The Brian Charette on Maxey's new album has an album coming out (or maybe it's out right now) called "Music for Organ Sextette" that is really really good. We'll be featuring a track from it as the AAJ dotd soon, but you can access it now through Brian's AAJ musician profile.
Just finished: Theo Bleckmann "Hello Earth! The Music of Kate Bush" - just brilliant; makes me fall in love with Bush's music all over again.
NP: Joel Harrison "Search" - Exhilarating!
Really nice mix from ambientblog. Going to have to check out the sources of some sections.
-Not due out until late June on the Greenleaf label. Absolutely sublime. The kind of mix of jazz and classical (with just a little folk slipped in) that appeals to me like Benjamin Koppel's work. It's a double cd, and I'm so transfixed by cd #1 that I haven't yet listened to cd #2. Getting this cd was a huge and happy surprise, because I had just discovered Ulery's 2010(?) release called something like Flora.Fauna.Fervor maybe a week ago. I'll be doing reviews of both of those albums TBD/TBA.
Panabrite, Illumination. Streaming from Bandcamp via ex.fm.
Whilst out shopping this morning I discovered a new charity shop with used CDs. Unfortunately, not much of interest to me, but I bought this for £1, a bargain!
- "Ictus is providing a platform in this CD for Italys most surprising composer: Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004). It is a manifesto, a work which expresses his convictions. Although contemporary music as we knew it (from Boulez to Lachenmann) is a closed chapter, this does not mean that from now on we should content ourselves with a peaceful return to order, to neo-classical evenly-spaced colonnades. Insolent in his modernity, Romitelli draws inspiration from the shady universe of psychedelic rock, seizes upon its electronic resonance, its hallucinatory zest, and plunges both into the cauldron of powerful composing of the kind inherited from Gérard Grisey - the art of sculpting the tones according to their natural resonance, until a virtual world of sound emerges where everything co-exists - electronic trickery, acoustic splendor, the very substance of dirty sound.
Romitelli breathes a sense of drama into this new science of total sound which captures the listeners imagination. It is an appeal to Henri Michauxs writings on the effects of mescaline: the uncontrollable ebb and flow of the mind jostled by inner storms, the noise and fury of the world filtered by the highly refined ear. A visionary work."
- Cypres Records.
- Exerpts.
via mTraks - it's been great for new jazz, can't bring myself to stop the subscription.
amclark, great call on the Tyner, I'll get to that later!
Working my way through the Plaistow discography. Wow. So. Very. Good.
Sunny Murray Quintet