loving the hell out of this new lotus plaza album. and it has a song called dusty rhodes! whether it's about the 80s wrestler i have no idea -- but i like it.
GP . . . You are bound to fall in love with Domotic's first two albums. Really mindblowing albums and the reason why I have followed Clapping Music/Active Suspension closely ever since they were released:
- "Close, But Not Too Close" sees Willenbring develop on the gorgeous palette of tones explored on his acclaimed debut "Someone, Somewhere Else". As with Willenbrings debut, "Close, But Not Too Close" is all about time in both its broadest and most discrete sense. There is a deliberation present in its composition that makes for a level of engagement far beyond any easy notion of what ambient music is or should be.
The album opens with the elegiac organ drones of Im Looking Forward To Your Funeral, immediately setting the scene for this shadow filled, introspective, eight-song opus. The track showcases Willenbrings masterful balance of passage and destination. The wonderfully received single Oh, Most is submerged in icy washes of guitar, under which piano and bass meet in a rhythmic valium struggle. A plaintive cyclical piano line leads My Ghostly Fingers before being joined by vacillating Mellotron flute lines as if Satie had fallen to dream. The classical guitar lines in The Burrow literally dig into your subconscious, from where a warm yet unearthly Mellotron acts as a kind of embrocation.
For All The Strays would have sounded perfectly at home on Willenbrings debut with its dry, pure electric guitar tones, delicately placed piano chords in the foreground and smears of drone threatening in the distance. This bridging of melody and texture, of form and formlessness, time and time again draws the listener into territory that is at once unknown yet intimately familiar a place that is as marked by notions of transformation as it is by melancholy."
- Hidden Shoal Recordings 2009.
@ Lowlife. . .http://mayasolovey.bandcamp.com/ (url)http:// . . . . . (/url) with these: [], instead of ()- This is a very interesting lineup:
Todd Sickafoose, Erik Friedlander and others . . .
More BC streaming:
- Somewhere Someone Else is a work of muted radiance. Sounds of piano and guitar wash in and out of recognition, providing a kind of dislocated comfort. The album slowly breathes in and out with an undeniable melancholic warmth, like a sad dream you dont want to wake from. Traversing some of the post ambient territories of peers such as Windy and Carl, The Dead Texan and Labradford, Somewhere Someone Else manages to carve its own unique sonic and emotional landscape."
- Hidden Shoal Recordings 2007.
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loving the hell out of this new lotus plaza album. and it has a song called dusty rhodes! whether it's about the 80s wrestler i have no idea -- but i like it.
Loved the first album - love this.
Craig
Thanks, brighternow.
Then
Both free, both good.
Egyptology - The Skies
- I grabbed it from eMu, - Excellent post electro stuff in Clapping Music style. . .
- And he has a quite funny website: http://askfordomotic.free.fr/
NP: Ask For Tiger . . .
Another free one. Brooding.
Melodic songs similar to the Johnathan Wilson Gentle Spirit release.
NYOP on Bandcamp
http://themissingseason.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-summer
I'm spending this part of the morning playing Miles Davis CDs
So http://themissingseason.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-summer or The Missing Season
Thanks for the recommendation, I'm downloading as I type
Good to have you here contributing, by the way!
- Bandcamp streaming:
- "Close, But Not Too Close" sees Willenbring develop on the gorgeous palette of tones explored on his acclaimed debut "Someone, Somewhere Else". As with Willenbrings debut, "Close, But Not Too Close" is all about time in both its broadest and most discrete sense. There is a deliberation present in its composition that makes for a level of engagement far beyond any easy notion of what ambient music is or should be.
The album opens with the elegiac organ drones of Im Looking Forward To Your Funeral, immediately setting the scene for this shadow filled, introspective, eight-song opus. The track showcases Willenbrings masterful balance of passage and destination. The wonderfully received single Oh, Most is submerged in icy washes of guitar, under which piano and bass meet in a rhythmic valium struggle. A plaintive cyclical piano line leads My Ghostly Fingers before being joined by vacillating Mellotron flute lines as if Satie had fallen to dream. The classical guitar lines in The Burrow literally dig into your subconscious, from where a warm yet unearthly Mellotron acts as a kind of embrocation.
For All The Strays would have sounded perfectly at home on Willenbrings debut with its dry, pure electric guitar tones, delicately placed piano chords in the foreground and smears of drone threatening in the distance. This bridging of melody and texture, of form and formlessness, time and time again draws the listener into territory that is at once unknown yet intimately familiar a place that is as marked by notions of transformation as it is by melancholy."
- Hidden Shoal Recordings 2009.
Thanks Lowlife - see link above
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Review from the site:
"Here's a rarity: An original voice who really is original! Drawing inspiration from all over the map, Maya Solov
Todd Sickafoose, Erik Friedlander and others . . .
More BC streaming:
Just streaming a couple of tracks I like, so download approaching. Thanks again Lowlife
I MUST listen to this more often . . .