Streaming John Mayer's new album Born and Raised from itunes UK. This is a first for me, streaming an entire album pre-release from itunes. Certainly worth a listen for those in the UK whilst it is still there.
A Start On Such A Night Is Full Of Promise is a set of compositions and instrumental songs inspired by the first crossing of Greenland made by an expedition led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen in 1888. Overcoming enormous odds and great hardships, the expedition successfully crossed Greenland from east to west. Upon the groups triumphant return to Norway, Nansen was declared a hero and the expeditions achievement inspired the formation of the Norwegian Geographical Society. Nansen wrote a detailed and highly entertaining account of the expedition titled The First Crossing of Greenland that was first published in 1890. I happened upon an English translation of the book published in 1895 and upon reading it was very struck by the long passages where Nansen eloquently and movingly describes the landscapes he is in. I have a great love of the outdoors, having spent time in Norway, The Faeroe Islands, Iceland and Scotland, in the last few years. In Nansens writing I identified a similar passion to my own for mountainous landscapes and wilderness. I felt that the widescreen nature of the music I wanted to write for The Mountaineering Club Orchestra complimented and expressed this feeling, so I decided to write a set of pieces that programmatically tracked Nansens expedition across Greenland. Each composition is stand alone, and there is no leitmotif writing. Instead each piece is an expression of how I felt reading the relevant passage of the book.
This is NYOP at Bandcamp really haunting music has been a regular on my list for some time now
i like this ^^^^^^ (the A Start On Such A Night Is Full Of Promise disc)
everything in it (so far, at least) seems predictable, e.g., expected chord changes and how the pieces ascent until they resolve, but it's all well done, and it is haunting music.
Hmmm. I'm enjoying this a ton. But we do have significantly different tastes. This is my first Pere Ubu album actually; before I only ever had Terminal Tower:
Which opens with Heart of Darkness/30 Seconds Over Tokyo/Final Solution, and is a pretty awesome place to start.
Which I didn't pay nearly enough attention to when I first got it. Oh download overload syndrome! But I feel like I'm starting to recover a bit with emu mostly out of my system.
@ ac2: Pere Ubu is amazing and so is some of David Thomas' solo projects. Many years ago he had a Danish backing band he gathered every time he payed Denmark a visit. - Even Davids body language was in it self an amazing study - I mean, the lightness he could move around with his way too many kilos, - Fantastic !
(actually i do like some pere ubu, but it's typically the later-career stuff, which is poppier. and i do like a lot of punk and atonal music; pere ubu just isn't for my ears).
So this is a new album of unused tunes from Woody Shaw's 1978 "Stepping Stones" live sessions. Checking to see if there's also been a newly discovered Shakespeare play, or something like that. Stumbled across this at a good price [mispriced?] at CD Universe.
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The Unexpected One, avant garde percussion. Banging on things.
A Start On Such A Night Is Full Of Promise is a set of compositions and instrumental songs inspired by the first crossing of Greenland made by an expedition led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen in 1888. Overcoming enormous odds and great hardships, the expedition successfully crossed Greenland from east to west. Upon the groups triumphant return to Norway, Nansen was declared a hero and the expeditions achievement inspired the formation of the Norwegian Geographical Society. Nansen wrote a detailed and highly entertaining account of the expedition titled The First Crossing of Greenland that was first published in 1890. I happened upon an English translation of the book published in 1895 and upon reading it was very struck by the long passages where Nansen eloquently and movingly describes the landscapes he is in. I have a great love of the outdoors, having spent time in Norway, The Faeroe Islands, Iceland and Scotland, in the last few years. In Nansens writing I identified a similar passion to my own for mountainous landscapes and wilderness. I felt that the widescreen nature of the music I wanted to write for The Mountaineering Club Orchestra complimented and expressed this feeling, so I decided to write a set of pieces that programmatically tracked Nansens expedition across Greenland. Each composition is stand alone, and there is no leitmotif writing. Instead each piece is an expression of how I felt reading the relevant passage of the book.
This is NYOP at Bandcamp really haunting music has been a regular on my list for some time now
Crash Ensemble - David Crowell - Young Magic - Lawton Hall - Loney, Dear - Brooklyn Rider - Thad Anderson - Ben Russell
everything in it (so far, at least) seems predictable, e.g., expected chord changes and how the pieces ascent until they resolve, but it's all well done, and it is haunting music.
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Which opens with Heart of Darkness/30 Seconds Over Tokyo/Final Solution, and is a pretty awesome place to start.
Which I didn't pay nearly enough attention to when I first got it. Oh download overload syndrome! But I feel like I'm starting to recover a bit with emu mostly out of my system.
Stefano Scodanibbio @ Emusers
you like pere ubu. i like los del rio.
Boris - New Album
Beach House - Bloom
Craig
How is that Craig? I bought it off 7dig, but haven't had a chance to download yet.
I'm always torn on whether I want a band to progress or just stick with what they do best, but thus far I think Beach House made the right decision.
Craig
An early eMu purchase for me....
So this is a new album of unused tunes from Woody Shaw's 1978 "Stepping Stones" live sessions. Checking to see if there's also been a newly discovered Shakespeare play, or something like that. Stumbled across this at a good price [mispriced?] at CD Universe.