What are you listening to right now? (#10 - For everything, everything, everything)

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    I can't remember whether it was Kargatron or Jonah who first recommended Matthew Halsall to me - but, whoever, I am glad they did. I played most of this on the way into work this morning. If you'd told me that the second track Together was a recently found rarity of Miles Davis from the Kind of Blue era I would have believed you - it is that good IMO.

    Now playing

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    He has a new album out in ten days or so. Samples are already on Amazon - brilliant!!
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  • @greg your post reminded me about Halsall. He was in my SFL, but his albums always seemed pricey. Will need to see if he's on Spotify.
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    So much great stuff from Domino drip; I can hardly keep up.
  • greg:
    I can't remember whether it was Kargatron or Jonah who first recommended Matthew Halsall to me - but, whoever, I am glad they did. I played most of this on the way into work this morning. If you'd told me that the second track Together was a recently found rarity of Miles Davis from the Kind of Blue era I would have believed you - it is that good IMO.
    Definitely Jonah - the Halsall/Birchall Gondwana crew just plays too close to the style that you mention for my tastes - too much Miles, too much Trane - the original era is enough for me.
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    "Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) celebrated a big birthday in 1998. She would have been 900 years old. A remarkable person of any era (she befriended popes, wrote herbal textbooks, ran a nunnery, and had mystical visions), she also left her mark on music history. The first piece of music by a composer whose non-“Anonymous” name we know, was written by Hildegard (a woman!). She even invented modulation in dramatic music, half a millennium before the idea caught on.

    One of her dozens of radically individualistic compositions, the Ordo Virtutum, was chosen for updating by a team of New York artists appropriately named the Hildegurls: Eve Beglarian, Lisa Bielawa, Kitty Brazelton, and Elaine Kaplinsky. These all-rounder, singing/composing/acting women, took one act each of the music drama and recast it in late 20th century Downtown terms. Their 70-minute Electric Ordo Virtutum premiered at the 1998 Lincoln Center Festival with American Opera Projects directed by ace producer (and Einstein on the Beach original cast member) Grethe Barret Holby.

    Hildegard’s ecstatic chant melodies sung in Latin are woven throughout but now surrounded by more modern stuff than was available in 12th century Germany: electronic keyboards, samplers, electric guitars, and dazzling lighting and staging: (replete with red lights, smoke, and devilish scenes of binding, rape, etc.). The story depicts the soul’s struggle with Satan himself. Dozens of personified virtues appear and ensure that the former vanquishes the latter.

    - Innova 2008
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    Amazon is runnning a sale on selected X5 comps, so I bit in this one. About 70% of this is worthwhile, with excellent performances of the Slavonic Dances, pieces for Violin and Piano, and the Symphonies.
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    Thanks, amclark2 (I had never heard of this artist but went with your "Wow, this is great" and a mention by Doofy I think and am really enjoying it) and the new Guvera for the credits!!
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    I was reading an article about Tame Impale over the weekend. They are due over here soon, with a new CD out in a week or so, so I thought I'd revisit this.
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    Download free
    American beatmaker duo Dayspired drop their "Wrapped In Sound" EP for Dusted Wax Kingdom. Prepare yourself for a lovely sound journey with additional late summer mood, arranged with refined jazzy samples, ambient background sounds
    and moving drum breaks.
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    I've played the Ellie Goulding album a couple of times now. Next up something completely different!

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  • Out and about today

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    This is free at Noisetrade

    followed by

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    then

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    Thanks Lowlife
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    This is brilliant stuff. One of the year's best.

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    Also very good indeed - many thanks BN!

    At the moment, emusers is lagging badly for me in Chrome. All the other sites I have open in Chrome are working normally and emusers is working in Firefox, but when I try to use emusers in Chrome I keep having to wait after typing every three characters for the display to catch up.
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    I had to switch: the Arianna Savall album was too gentile for my mood.
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    One of the best recommendations I've had since being an emuser!
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    Streaming from Bandcamp (in Crome, for unknown reasons IE keeps stopping and won't start again unless i refresh.)
    BTW, Emusers works perfect in IE.
    - Browsers works in mysterious ways . . .

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    Two People In A Room - Wrapped In Plastic

    - More about Ren
  • Well I do have some chocolate chip cookies on my desk that I am trying to resist clearing, so that's probably it.
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