@BT - about Olney's 'Omar's Blues.' Give it a chance to soak in and see what you think. The reason I call it brilliant is not only because of the diversity of styles contained in the tracklist, but the clever arrangement of the overall concept, based very loosely on the 11th century Persian philosopher/poet, Omar Khayy
Music From Home by a Canadian group called John Jenkins' Small Town Revival
One of the very last emusic downloads I got before I quit - at the time I was less picky on what I downloaded since it had come down to a situation of either use them or lose them - turned out to be a very worthwhile download.
I saw cafreema mention it, but no one else (though I may have missed it), but I am digging the shit out of the new Metric album Synthetica. Enough to buy the cd (cheap!), which, with pop stuff, generally only do with my favorite bands. I find it addictive, have listened to it often without tiring of it. They used to remind me too much of Garbage (who I liked in the heyday), so I didn't pay much attention, but now they kinda sound like how I want Garbage to sound, and I love it.
Also, Metric's supercool in offering their entire discography on soundcloud!
Matthew Sansom (laptop) with John Butcher (saxophone), Rhodri Davies, (harp), and Mark Wastell (tam tam), combining live instruments with modified samples, generative methods, live sampling and improvisation
Thanks for that Sansom pointer, bn, I'm familiar with all but Sansom. Butcher's a particular favorite. I've presented Butcher several times, and the Butcher/Davies duo once.
You are welcome . . . As you may (or may not) remember I didn't like Butcher at all when you presented him to me a long time ago @ the old experimental thread. That has changed.
BTW:
I found another one including Butcher:
- I have not yet listened to this, though.
NP: New stuff from Camomille (the label that released Rinbo by the Bento boys)
kargatron - That Metric album is fantastic. They seem to step it up with each disc.
Since hearing that the Olympic opening ceremony would be a salute to British culture and would actually play Sex Pistols "God Save the Queen" (which I find surprising on a couple levels. 1) That they'd play it with the Queen actually there; and 2) that the Pistols would let it be played at something like this), it's been going through my head. So:
Thereafter I think today may be a British music day. Probably keep the punk rolling next with some Clash and then go back to Beatles/Stones and forward to Blur/Oasis throughout the day. Maybe throw some Burial in there too.
Talibam! repurposing Swing Lo Magellan. When I was younger, I lived in a small town, and the best radio station was about 100 miles away. Sometimes I couldn't pick it up clearly, but I'd listen anyway, because it was the best. This reminds me of that. I haven't listened to Magellan, which makes this weirder.
Just finishing up Let Me Tell You About The Blues:New York, which I hadn't jumped on quickly enough when those $4.40 Fantastic Voyage sets were at eMu before a bunch of them got yanked. Got the CD box from Amazon other seller MovieMars-CDs for pretty small money, and it is a great freaking collection. BT and I had pondered what the New York angle to the collection was back then. Apparently in the 20's and 30's before there were more regional recording studios a lot of artists from around the country had to travel to the Big Apple to record here, so the geographical thread connecting them is more where they recorded than where they were from. Anyhow I'd give this one five stars - outstanding material from a wide variety of styles.
@BT, Oh, OK, again :-). Sorry, slow on the uptake today (general lack of sleep this week and a dozen time zones of jetlag). Yes, Germans are like everyone prone to hybrid linguistic borrowings, though they do generally manage to join, say, a singular article to a singluar noun in doing so (Das Handy....but Das Hobos?)
Streaming on bandcamp. Have also been listening to a bunch of this guy's tracks on soundcloud, a number of which can be downloaded from there. There's some really lovely material lurking in here.
Stunning show, the National Health Service, the whole range of music, dance, culture and the finale the youth lighting the flame, it was fantastic. I really hope the rest of the world got some of the flavour and humour. One brilliant bit was seeing Frank Turner singing I Belive in the pre show
Even the Queen got in on the fun, the closing ceromony is also supposed to be as mad and brilliant as well.
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Amazon has this tagged as "Dance & DJ", which is hilarious. I'd like to see someone dance to Köner.
Thanks, bremble. Better than I thought it would be: aggro-Heroes era Bowie. I wouldn't have paid much more than free for it, though.
$.99 at amazon today.
Followed by
The Jane Sibrrey album is available on her websiye for a free download along with all her other albums, some really good stuff there.
Music From Home by a Canadian group called John Jenkins' Small Town Revival
One of the very last emusic downloads I got before I quit - at the time I was less picky on what I downloaded since it had come down to a situation of either use them or lose them - turned out to be a very worthwhile download.
You can stream the album here.
Very nice when you're in the mood for melodic, laid-back music. Best track on the album, without a doubt - "A Penny for the Band."
Amazon link
Oh, shoot - that amazon link doesn't have any soundclips. Catch "A Penny for the Band" video on Muchmusic here. Great, great song.
Also, Metric's supercool in offering their entire discography on soundcloud!
BTW:
I found another one including Butcher:
- I have not yet listened to this, though.
NP: New stuff from Camomille (the label that released Rinbo by the Bento boys)
Since hearing that the Olympic opening ceremony would be a salute to British culture and would actually play Sex Pistols "God Save the Queen" (which I find surprising on a couple levels. 1) That they'd play it with the Queen actually there; and 2) that the Pistols would let it be played at something like this), it's been going through my head. So:
Thereafter I think today may be a British music day. Probably keep the punk rolling next with some Clash and then go back to Beatles/Stones and forward to Blur/Oasis throughout the day. Maybe throw some Burial in there too.
Craig
Talibam! repurposing Swing Lo Magellan. When I was younger, I lived in a small town, and the best radio station was about 100 miles away. Sometimes I couldn't pick it up clearly, but I'd listen anyway, because it was the best. This reminds me of that. I haven't listened to Magellan, which makes this weirder.
Among the coolest jazz albums to come out lately, if you ask me.
(Of course, that only resolves the contraction.)
Too much music? Forgot I had this...
Interesting avant-garde jazz: dissonant, but not aggressive. NYOP
House of Low Culture - Submarine Immersion Techniques vol. 1
Free EP by Oval - thanks Brighternow (you should maybe cross-post it to the free stuff thread), nice stuff.
Then:
and now moving on to:
ETA, this last one is mixed bag, an uneven debut from a few years back, but track 5 is pretty good.
Streaming on bandcamp. Have also been listening to a bunch of this guy's tracks on soundcloud, a number of which can be downloaded from there. There's some really lovely material lurking in here.
- Thanks GP
Even the Queen got in on the fun, the closing ceromony is also supposed to be as mad and brilliant as well.