How did my music library know I needed to hear some George Clinton this late in the afternoon? George asks the musical question, Do Fries Come with That Shake?
@BT, no had not seen that, thanks. Have been very out of touch with things musical for several weeks, but tomorrow I will be back in my own time zone for the first time in over a month and will start catching up.
Murmer - We Share A Shadow - "Murmer is the pseudonym for Patrick McGinley, a man with several passports which have taken him to many a foreign land in search of found sounds of the unsettled, the forgotten, the mysterious, and the beautiful. His field recordings of activated environments (e.g. resonant industrial spaces, windswept telephone lines, bowed branches, gasping ventilator systems, etc.) originate from all of the locations where he has traveled; yet, the documentation of these sounds is the not the terminus of McGinley's work. He is far more interested in extracting a particular emotional, transcendent, or metaphysical kernel from those sounds, and then recontextualizing that germinated sound into sympathetic compositions of magnificent dronemusik.
We Share A Shadow continues where Murmer left off with the exceptional Husk album (in collaboration with Jonathan Coleclough), in spiraling his manipulated field recordings as a slow revelation of the environmental sonorities that undeservedly go unnoticed each and every day. Singing frequencies of a bowed piece of metal undulate against a grey tapestry of rain and rasping insects. Golden overtones from shimmering drones quell what agitated textures reside in McGinley's active field recordings, rendering the aggregate sound a nocturnal opiate with considerable potency.
As Murmer, Patrick McGinley has produced a handful of releases on ICR, Ground Fault, Drone Records, and Absurd; and he has performed in venues both large and small across North America and Europe. He is also the host the Framework radio show on Resonance FM, dedicated to the consecration of field recordings and their use in composition."
- The Helen Scarsdale Agency - 2007
The perfect accompaniment for reading the Springsteen book mentioned on the Reading thread. Probably the best recorded show by Bruce and the E Street Band, ever. For my money the best live performance by any rock band ever, although my lack of balance and objectivity in this area is well known.
Both volumes of this wonderful collaboration have just been re-released on Rhino. More than just a one-off 'all-star' combo because this group played together for a little while, having been put together for an album of standards by, of all people, Chaka Khan.
Free/NYOP at Noise Trade. I'm giving this a try since many people at Mandolin Cafe love this. (Too many guys go goo goo over them, especially Eva Holbrook, in the "cute chicks are playing instruments" way.)
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Murmer - We Share A Shadow
- "Murmer is the pseudonym for Patrick McGinley, a man with several passports which have taken him to many a foreign land in search of found sounds of the unsettled, the forgotten, the mysterious, and the beautiful. His field recordings of activated environments (e.g. resonant industrial spaces, windswept telephone lines, bowed branches, gasping ventilator systems, etc.) originate from all of the locations where he has traveled; yet, the documentation of these sounds is the not the terminus of McGinley's work. He is far more interested in extracting a particular emotional, transcendent, or metaphysical kernel from those sounds, and then recontextualizing that germinated sound into sympathetic compositions of magnificent dronemusik.
We Share A Shadow continues where Murmer left off with the exceptional Husk album (in collaboration with Jonathan Coleclough), in spiraling his manipulated field recordings as a slow revelation of the environmental sonorities that undeservedly go unnoticed each and every day. Singing frequencies of a bowed piece of metal undulate against a grey tapestry of rain and rasping insects. Golden overtones from shimmering drones quell what agitated textures reside in McGinley's active field recordings, rendering the aggregate sound a nocturnal opiate with considerable potency.
As Murmer, Patrick McGinley has produced a handful of releases on ICR, Ground Fault, Drone Records, and Absurd; and he has performed in venues both large and small across North America and Europe. He is also the host the Framework radio show on Resonance FM, dedicated to the consecration of field recordings and their use in composition."
- The Helen Scarsdale Agency - 2007
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Bought with my $2 MP3 credit...Enjoying it.
- Sylvain Chauveau's David Sylvian'ish voice is just perfect for these great DM songs . . .
An 'oldie but goodie' from the AAJ free mp3 of the day - Essentially an album-length track.
Today's deal at eclassical.
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Such a good day for digging in my collection, haven't heard this album in some two years.
Brand spanky-new multi-culti delights. Really hits that Afro/Latin/Caribbean sweet spot!
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Making a bad morning better.
Both volumes of this wonderful collaboration have just been re-released on Rhino. More than just a one-off 'all-star' combo because this group played together for a little while, having been put together for an album of standards by, of all people, Chaka Khan.
McCoy Tyner - Inception. Only $2.94 on eMu.
This album is just plain brilliant.
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A Church to Fit Our Needs by Lost in the Trees (a local band from Chapel Hill--sort of Jonsi doing Simon and Garfunkel)
Free/NYOP at Noise Trade. I'm giving this a try since many people at Mandolin Cafe love this. (Too many guys go goo goo over them, especially Eva Holbrook, in the "cute chicks are playing instruments" way.)