Talking of albums hard to take at a single sitting, I just listened to O by Oval all the way through. It continues to grow on me, I really like it quite a bit, but 70 tracks of it is rather a lot of that kind of music to digest all at once in one sitting. I think I will have to break it down into sections for future consumption.
Did you sleep BN? Your last post was only 4 hours or so ago!
- No, - I occasoionally work long and odd hours these days . . .
Notes: - "Following the critically acclaimed Frog's Eye, Big Grenadilla/Mumbai marks the second Cantaloupe Music collaboration between composer/clarinetist Evan Ziporyn and Gil Rose's Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP). It is also the second time that Evan has teamed up with world-renowned tabla player Sandeep Das - a member of the Silk Road Ensemble - thus forging together a non-western master musician with a premiere western orchestra.
Founder and longtime member of of the Bang on a Can All-Stars and founder of the Gamelan Galak Tika, Evan Ziporyn creates music at the crossroads of genre and culture. Having avoided the standard classical orchestra for most of his career, Evan came around to viewing the western orchestra as a world music ensemble - a reliquary of folk instruments and practices, rebuilt and retuned to play together; something that was constantly evolving - and he wanted to be a part of the evolution, to bring more outside elements in. An album that could have been titled "Outsider Concertos", Big Grenadilla and Mumbai have done just that: two works written for orchestra featuring non-orchestral instruments.
Commissioned and premiered by the American Composers Orchestra in 2006, Big Grenadilla features Evan Ziporyn on bass clarinet and is named for the wood from which clarinets are made and the "big" orchestra, magnifying and framing. Wanting to highlight and amplify what he likes to do best on his instrument, Evan calls the piece "an attempt at ancestor worship, on two levels: the instrument dreams of its living, rooted reality, with the orchestra playing the role of its environs."
A concerto for tabla - Indian hand drums - and string orchestra, Mumbai is a memorial to and meditation on the terrorist bombings in that city in 2008. Soloist Sandeep Das is given "complete freedom and no freedom" - the underlying rhythmic structure of the tabla is intricate and inflexible, but the nuances and specifics of his solo part are up him. He is backed up by a full percussion section, which implores a mixture of rhythms and applications of percussive textures and both are set against the harmonically resonant body of a string orchestra. Mumbai was commissioned by BMOP and premiered on May 27, 2011."
- Cantaloupe Music - http://www.ziporyn.com/
- " A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away », those canonical words could be inscribed into Egyptologys grand works frontispiece. Built one block after another using antediluvian rhythm boxes and synthesizers, from the sub low frequencies deep down in the foundations up to the high frequencies skimming the tails of comets, The Skies could also be the sonic illustration of a science-fiction narrative which took place thousands and thousands years ago Olivier Lamm (O.Lamm) and Stéphane Laporte (Domotic, Centenaire) were already well known for their post-electronica and avant-pop explorations among the Active Suspension/Clapping Music collective in the early 2000s. For Egyptology, they decided to pool their love for the mighty white noise sound and vintage electronic instruments (Roland SH101, Roland MC 202, Korg MS10, Korg 700s Mini, Yamaha CS-15, Juno 106, Roland JX3P, Prophet 600, Philicorda ) while cultivating their differences.
Concocted over a long period of time in their own home-studios, their erudite mixtures emulsify glimmering chants and synthetic dusts of overdriven sounds on magnetic tape, like hieroglyphs were written on modern day papyrus.
Musical sequel (or prequel) to a very ancient narrative of things to come, The Skies harmonizes the memorial sounds of our electronic godfathers (Joe Meek, Isao Tomita, Mort Garson, Vangelis, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop) through the eyes and heart of a child (synthetic music from French TV shows of the 70s) and builds them into an parascending trip which is less retrofuturistic or retromaniacal than conscious of the past, the present and the future which co-exist in all great epics."
- Clapping Music.
Found this on Bandcamp NYOP, this is a real goodie, fine blues rock with some of the most wicked Hammond organ playing I have heard in a real long time.
Rocking the Lowlife mansions this morning.
nervous, jittery blues guitar, somewhat menacing lyrics (e.g., the hard-to-forgive lyrical vibe of good morning little schoolgirl). still, awesome disc.
It's not often I discover an artist by having supper with them. But Jill Phillips and her husband Andy Gullahorn played a small show for a faculty retreat in Texas at which I was one of the invited speakers, and I ended up getting to chat with them for a while over meals. They are from Nashville. This is not my usual genre, but their acoustic show was honest, thoughtful and touching, their explanations of the experiences behind the songs brought them alive, and they are great people with good voices and interesting things to say, making their own way after less than positive early experiences with bigger label record deals. Give them a listen. I'd describe the music as thoughtful singer/songwriter pop/rock. Kez, it occurred to me during the concert that you might well like them.
- "The members of the band were originally in the quartet Cyann & Ben. When singer Cyann quit the band early in 2008, the remaining three members renamed themselves Yeti Lane and guitarist/keyboard player Ben Pleng took over on vocals.[1] The name comes from records by two of their favourite groups, Yeti by Amon Düül II and "Penny Lane" by the Beatles.[2] Their eponymous debut album was released in France in 2009, and in the UK the following year. Shortly after the album's release, Loïc Carron (aka LoAc) also left the band, leaving Pleng and Charlie Boyer (aka Charlie to carry on as a duo. The band altered their musical direction, moving away from indie pop to a more experimental "shoegazing" psychedelic rock sound. The first fruits of the duo was the Twice EP, released in May 2010 and featuring a re-recorded version of the track on their debut album. Their second full length album, The Echo Show, is released on 5 March 2012."
- Wiki
- http://yetilane.com/ - Emusic
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can't listen to it all in a single sitting, tho.
which just arrived at emusic. best album of 2009.
Notes:
- "Following the critically acclaimed Frog's Eye, Big Grenadilla/Mumbai marks the second Cantaloupe Music collaboration between composer/clarinetist Evan Ziporyn and Gil Rose's Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP). It is also the second time that Evan has teamed up with world-renowned tabla player Sandeep Das - a member of the Silk Road Ensemble - thus forging together a non-western master musician with a premiere western orchestra.
Founder and longtime member of of the Bang on a Can All-Stars and founder of the Gamelan Galak Tika, Evan Ziporyn creates music at the crossroads of genre and culture. Having avoided the standard classical orchestra for most of his career, Evan came around to viewing the western orchestra as a world music ensemble - a reliquary of folk instruments and practices, rebuilt and retuned to play together; something that was constantly evolving - and he wanted to be a part of the evolution, to bring more outside elements in. An album that could have been titled "Outsider Concertos", Big Grenadilla and Mumbai have done just that: two works written for orchestra featuring non-orchestral instruments.
Commissioned and premiered by the American Composers Orchestra in 2006, Big Grenadilla features Evan Ziporyn on bass clarinet and is named for the wood from which clarinets are made and the "big" orchestra, magnifying and framing. Wanting to highlight and amplify what he likes to do best on his instrument, Evan calls the piece "an attempt at ancestor worship, on two levels: the instrument dreams of its living, rooted reality, with the orchestra playing the role of its environs."
A concerto for tabla - Indian hand drums - and string orchestra, Mumbai is a memorial to and meditation on the terrorist bombings in that city in 2008. Soloist Sandeep Das is given "complete freedom and no freedom" - the underlying rhythmic structure of the tabla is intricate and inflexible, but the nuances and specifics of his solo part are up him. He is backed up by a full percussion section, which implores a mixture of rhythms and applications of percussive textures and both are set against the harmonically resonant body of a string orchestra. Mumbai was commissioned by BMOP and premiered on May 27, 2011."
- Cantaloupe Music - http://www.ziporyn.com/
Egyptology - The Skies - Also on Emusic.
Shannon Lyon: Sorrow and Solitude
Found this on Bandcamp NYOP, this is a real goodie, fine blues rock with some of the most wicked Hammond organ playing I have heard in a real long time.
Rocking the Lowlife mansions this morning.
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Liking this a lot. From the small featured Naxos sale at eMu - see Freshly Dropped thread.
Browsing along led to this gem I already had -
nervous, jittery blues guitar, somewhat menacing lyrics (e.g., the hard-to-forgive lyrical vibe of good morning little schoolgirl). still, awesome disc.
Number 9. Number 9. Number 9.
- And:
It's not often I discover an artist by having supper with them. But Jill Phillips and her husband Andy Gullahorn played a small show for a faculty retreat in Texas at which I was one of the invited speakers, and I ended up getting to chat with them for a while over meals. They are from Nashville. This is not my usual genre, but their acoustic show was honest, thoughtful and touching, their explanations of the experiences behind the songs brought them alive, and they are great people with good voices and interesting things to say, making their own way after less than positive early experiences with bigger label record deals. Give them a listen. I'd describe the music as thoughtful singer/songwriter pop/rock. Kez, it occurred to me during the concert that you might well like them.
See above. This one's more acoustic with some country roots.
Amber Lions are:
Toni Ruiz: Guitars
Valerio Cosi: sax, flutes, electronics, drums, found sounds and strategies
Fernando, Josè, Artemì: guitars
Charlie: percussions
Alexander MacLachlan: acoustic guitar
- "The members of the band were originally in the quartet Cyann & Ben. When singer Cyann quit the band early in 2008, the remaining three members renamed themselves Yeti Lane and guitarist/keyboard player Ben Pleng took over on vocals.[1] The name comes from records by two of their favourite groups, Yeti by Amon Düül II and "Penny Lane" by the Beatles.[2] Their eponymous debut album was released in France in 2009, and in the UK the following year. Shortly after the album's release, Loïc Carron (aka LoAc) also left the band, leaving Pleng and Charlie Boyer (aka Charlie
- Wiki
- http://yetilane.com/ - Emusic
The 2nd disc is the best for me