- "Kane Ikin (b.1982) is an Australian musician based in Melbourne who is a solo artist on 12k. Ikin is also known as one half of Solo Andata alongside Paul Fiocco whove released critically acclaimed albums on Hefty, Deisre Path, and 12k. He records everything through and onto old technology aged analog consoles, reel-to-reel tape and all heard through a hazy science fiction filter.
David Wenngren (b. 1981) is a musician based in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Projects include Library Tapes (Sonic Pieces and Kning Disk), Below Juneau, Murralin Lane (12k) and Le Lendemain (with Danny Norbury). He has also collaborated with Peter Broderick on "A Summer Beneath The Trees" (Make Mine Music) and in 2011 with Christopher Bissonnette (Kranky) for the album The Meridians of Longitude and Parallels of Latitude released on Home Normal."
From half way in: This sounds just great and not so far apart from my previous post.
New to me ... This is a single-disc collection from their 2nd season, focused on Coltrane. It's on Nonesuch - there's a similar season 1 disc (Ornette). Bobby Hutcherson was in the Collective for both of these, which is why I was interested in getting them. I found "2" at a great price on eBay.
I'll put this here since I mentioned it above...earlier I was getting emusers and only emusers slowing to a crawl in Chrome. This evening, on a different computer and different internet connection, when I try to open the New and Notable Releases thread in Chrome I get this message:
www.emusers.org contains content from www.aquariumdrunkard.com, a site known to distribute malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site.
Google has found malicious software may be installed onto your computer if you proceed. If you've visited this site in the past or you trust this site, it's possible that it has just recently been compromised by a hacker. You should not proceed, and perhaps try again tomorrow or go somewhere else.
We have already notified www.aquariumdrunkard.com that we found malware on the site. For more about the problems found on www.aquariumdrunkard.com, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page.
The thread opened fine in Internet Explorer.
Is Chrome being silly for me (on two computers) or is something wrong that's triggering it? Anyone else seeing anything?
I'm using Safari and have had no problem so far today, but I'll check out that thread in a few minutes. I've just been downloading several albums (my new internet connection seems to work quite fast in the early morning, but slows down during the day as more users log on, so I download first thing now!) This is the first to play
Thanks choiceweb0pen0. I couldn't decide whether to download or not earlier today, this will help. First few tracks seem fine to me, a development on from the first album
You might often wonder what would possess people to write a concept album. Handy then that the driving force behind The Magnetic North has a ready made reason as to why hes devoted a whole record to the magic and mysteries of one of Britains northernmost points.
Erland Cooper, the man behind folk-rockers Erland & The Carnival, already has strong ties to the Orkney Islands as he grew up there, but the inspiration for this collection of songs came from a particularly vivid dream the singer experienced. Cooper claims that an Orkney resident who killed herself in the Seventies visited him in his sleep and told him to record an album about his homeland and the mythologies that surround it, even going so far as to hand him a list of track titles and some of the music at the same time. Whether its a tall tale or not will surely never become clear (if it is, surely she deserves a writing credit?) but its a fitting introduction to a truly beguiling record.
As Erland & The Carnival, Coopers traditional songs occasionally feel crammed into a more modern setting, whereas here the setting seems much more fitting. Thats not to say that its all Gaelic language and Wicker Man folk theres actually quite a modern feel to Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North thanks to some subtle keyboards, drums and samples, with Ward Hill combining the sound of a choir of Orkney residents with a simple synthesised beat. Its more the pace and the gentle spookiness of the record, which was recorded in various places on the Islands and seems to have captured the particular pace of life there in its music.
Its also probably got a lot to with the main musical counterbalance on the record provided by singer and multi-instrumentalist Hannah Peel. Hers is the first voice you hear, a haunting wordless sigh on the opening track Bay Of Skall, before she duets with Cooper on High Life, probably the standout track on the album. Backed by dark, swooping strings, the two sing a beautiful, disquieting melody, and you can imagine the bleakness and the beauty of the Orkneys immediately.
Like the Islands themselves, vocals on Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North are sparse, allowing the music that surrounds them to breathe, adding to that sense of capturing the place itself in the atmosphere. In some ways, the album is more like a soundtrack to a film than a traditional collection of songs. When the more traditional song structures of tracks like Netherton's Teeth (The Brothers) do arrive, the record is all the richer for it. Its difficult to pick out individual tracks though, as each seems to feed into the wider whole, creating a particular sense of place and mood.
In many ways, this recalls another album that captures a particular side of Scotlands character, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins Diamond Mine. Like that record, The Magnetic North seem to take you to another place entirely with what seems like very simple ingredients subtle, dare-I-say tasteful instrumentation, and languid, slowly infectious melodies. The Magnetic North are never going to get the party started or kick a live audience into gear, but on this evidence they have an unnerving ability to transport you to a bleak but beautiful part of the country. If that sounds like your cup of tea, I would definitely suggest climbing aboard.
Per German Prof's post, I also got a security warning on Aquarium Drunkard a while ago. Haven't noticed any probs with Chrome performance, but perhaps I should scan, especially on the old XP "music computer." I certainly follow AD and have DL'd many a track from there.
Meanwhile,
Got this in the new Guvera gold rush, but then realized they were missing a 10+ track...something to watch out for on Guvera. Fortunately, it was available (for 1.99) at Amazon.
ETA: Same warning when going to the 'New and Notable' thread
@Doofy, a search says there is a recent Aquarium Drunkard link on that thread, posted by you. Presumably Chrome is just worried about the presence of that link?
Yes, that's probably right - and probably when I got that warning. That was quite a few weeks ago; I'm guessing Chrome will give the all-clear once AD responds to their notification. Will shortly do a malware scan on the computer from which I DL'd those tracks...
@GP - yes certainly folk. Bellowhead are rightly regarded, IMO, as England's leading folk band, certainly reflected in album sales and audiences. They combine two traditional English music styles - folk singing with brass bands. (I'm deliberately using the term English, rather than British/UK, as Celtic music is a different, but connected, genre, within a different tradition/style)
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Checking out that Kane Ikin guy on Bandcamp:
At Amazon for $2.99. Seems like I have listened to Jack Johnson alot more that last.fm thinks I have...
New to me ... This is a single-disc collection from their 2nd season, focused on Coltrane. It's on Nonesuch - there's a similar season 1 disc (Ornette). Bobby Hutcherson was in the Collective for both of these, which is why I was interested in getting them. I found "2" at a great price on eBay.
You can listen to it on NPR through today.
The thread opened fine in Internet Explorer.
Is Chrome being silly for me (on two computers) or is something wrong that's triggering it? Anyone else seeing anything?
Thanks choiceweb0pen0. I couldn't decide whether to download or not earlier today, this will help. First few tracks seem fine to me, a development on from the first album
Drowned in Sound Review
You might often wonder what would possess people to write a concept album. Handy then that the driving force behind The Magnetic North has a ready made reason as to why hes devoted a whole record to the magic and mysteries of one of Britains northernmost points.
Erland Cooper, the man behind folk-rockers Erland & The Carnival, already has strong ties to the Orkney Islands as he grew up there, but the inspiration for this collection of songs came from a particularly vivid dream the singer experienced. Cooper claims that an Orkney resident who killed herself in the Seventies visited him in his sleep and told him to record an album about his homeland and the mythologies that surround it, even going so far as to hand him a list of track titles and some of the music at the same time. Whether its a tall tale or not will surely never become clear (if it is, surely she deserves a writing credit?) but its a fitting introduction to a truly beguiling record.
As Erland & The Carnival, Coopers traditional songs occasionally feel crammed into a more modern setting, whereas here the setting seems much more fitting. Thats not to say that its all Gaelic language and Wicker Man folk theres actually quite a modern feel to Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North thanks to some subtle keyboards, drums and samples, with Ward Hill combining the sound of a choir of Orkney residents with a simple synthesised beat. Its more the pace and the gentle spookiness of the record, which was recorded in various places on the Islands and seems to have captured the particular pace of life there in its music.
Its also probably got a lot to with the main musical counterbalance on the record provided by singer and multi-instrumentalist Hannah Peel. Hers is the first voice you hear, a haunting wordless sigh on the opening track Bay Of Skall, before she duets with Cooper on High Life, probably the standout track on the album. Backed by dark, swooping strings, the two sing a beautiful, disquieting melody, and you can imagine the bleakness and the beauty of the Orkneys immediately.
Like the Islands themselves, vocals on Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North are sparse, allowing the music that surrounds them to breathe, adding to that sense of capturing the place itself in the atmosphere. In some ways, the album is more like a soundtrack to a film than a traditional collection of songs. When the more traditional song structures of tracks like Netherton's Teeth (The Brothers) do arrive, the record is all the richer for it. Its difficult to pick out individual tracks though, as each seems to feed into the wider whole, creating a particular sense of place and mood.
In many ways, this recalls another album that captures a particular side of Scotlands character, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins Diamond Mine. Like that record, The Magnetic North seem to take you to another place entirely with what seems like very simple ingredients subtle, dare-I-say tasteful instrumentation, and languid, slowly infectious melodies. The Magnetic North are never going to get the party started or kick a live audience into gear, but on this evidence they have an unnerving ability to transport you to a bleak but beautiful part of the country. If that sounds like your cup of tea, I would definitely suggest climbing aboard.
Thanks for the reminder on another thread, Lowlife
Meanwhile,
Got this in the new Guvera gold rush, but then realized they were missing a 10+ track...something to watch out for on Guvera. Fortunately, it was available (for 1.99) at Amazon.
ETA: Same warning when going to the 'New and Notable' thread
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Yes, I know it is Phil Collins.... but this is good, very good if you like big bands!
For BT and others (Craig????) I have just discovered that the Guardian are streaming Bellowhead's new album here
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How could I have I lived my life with out hearing this until now?
@Greg, that makes sense. Somehow I don't associate that bombastic brassy stomp with folk.