- "This new John Butcher release on the Tapeworm cassette label features two distinct works from the legendary Brit improvisor, the first (on the A-side) capturing a concert recorded last October at L'Eglise Saint-Merri in Paris, featuring unaccompanied tenor and soprano saxophone solo work, the second (on the B-side) taking more of an abstract and intimate feel. This latter piece, titled 'More Of An Urge Than An Idea' merges sax, controlled feedback and piano, all seemingly played simultaneously by Butcher in an act of elaborate, one-man-band style autonomy. Across nearly twenty minutes, Butcher coaxes some incredible sounds from his horn - sustaining deep, resonant tides of feedback tonality, whilst intermittently harmonising or punctuating all this with the subtlest of piano keyings. Through certain stretches you'll even encounter some ear-defying percussive runs; it's extraordinary stuff. In the light of such innovations the A-side's concert recordings could easily seem comparatively humdrum, but in the fine tradition of fellow experimental soloists such as Evan Parker, Butcher's performance is filled with clever melodic developments and ferocious explorations of overtones. The natural reverb of the Church setting further adds to to the power of the document and late into the set, Butcher's staccato, quack-like voicings play off the performance space's acoustics. Trace is quite some album, and certainly one of Tapeworm's most memorable outings to date."
- Boomkat - 2010
Sophie writes piano tunes inspired by the highland landscapes in which she grew up and with which she still has a strong connection. She plays by ear. Streaming from Bandcamp
It is good to be back. We finally got our new broadband connection up and running this morning. What was supposed to be a seamless transition form one provider to another has taken about 18 days! You realise how much you rely on the internet when you haven't got it - simple things like renewing library books, paying bills, buying train tickets, finding a recipe I do on the internet. We live in a small village, certainly not remote, only 4 miles from a large town, but 3G on my ipad is very weak, I just about coped with email as long as there were no attachments, but internet is impossible at home as it takes so long to load anything. We now have everything with one provider - satellite TV, internet, phone line and phone calls, instead of three previously. We are planning to move in the next year, so it will make that easier, and it is saving us about £15 per month too. Now to catch up with lots of music here, as well as sorting out emusic. I did email them about my balance being carried forward, so hopefully that has worked.
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Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Motion Sickness of Time Travel
The link is to Bandcamp but I got it from emusic. Very nice Chinese experimental/ambient. Germanprof, I could see you liking this.
Eta: Brighternow, you should check this out too.
Streaming from The Wire's homepage:
Looking forward to cranking the Vinyl when I get home....
Oops wrong thread... I wasn't listening to that...
Thanks, PLong (I think) for posting this some time back - downloaded for free with some Amazon deal a while back, now finally listening and enjoying.
I've picked up a couple of these Impulse 'two-fers,' they are fun. These albums are from 1975, same year the Koln concert was released
Johnson/Elias/Baron/Lovano - "Swept Away"
Filled in a survey for Polyvinyl records as I am on their mailing list and got this free
Taped it Sundance Channel last night. Excellent photography and editing.
Craig
Steve Beresford Toys, Low Grade Electronics, Sampler, Effects
Anna Homler Vocals, Toys, Objects
Richard Sanderson Toys, Effects, Sampler, Accordion
(url=>amz)
One listen on the day it dropped. Silly me.
The video for "Need You Now" is strange.
Sophie writes piano tunes inspired by the highland landscapes in which she grew up and with which she still has a strong connection. She plays by ear. Streaming from Bandcamp
It is good to be back. We finally got our new broadband connection up and running this morning. What was supposed to be a seamless transition form one provider to another has taken about 18 days! You realise how much you rely on the internet when you haven't got it - simple things like renewing library books, paying bills, buying train tickets, finding a recipe I do on the internet. We live in a small village, certainly not remote, only 4 miles from a large town, but 3G on my ipad is very weak, I just about coped with email as long as there were no attachments, but internet is impossible at home as it takes so long to load anything. We now have everything with one provider - satellite TV, internet, phone line and phone calls, instead of three previously. We are planning to move in the next year, so it will make that easier, and it is saving us about £15 per month too. Now to catch up with lots of music here, as well as sorting out emusic. I did email them about my balance being carried forward, so hopefully that has worked.
Bandcamp are previewing tracks from this, due out Oc1, this will be the reason I will unhold my E Music account for a month
I'd never really listened to the BEP until Will.i.am was on the Voice. I am now catching up on their back catalogue via my library.
Free download from Noisetrade