New album called Lights, streaming from Bandcamp, very good indeed
Lights is Honeys most accomplished work to date, demonstrating a progression in his talent and skill in composing.
Following on from this years well received Underneath The Stars album, Good Weather For An Airstrike has expanded his sound to create Lights, a blissful album combining processed guitars, dreamy strings, piano, synths, drums, lulling drones and subtle field recordings.
Lights is a substantial release full of wonderful soundscapes that mix perfectly ambient, electronic, post-rock and neo-classical sounds.
Unfamiliar with this label in general, but it features quite a nice batch of Canadian new music/jazz releases (including Peggy Lee's latest that Jonah's been shopping). Quite pleased to discover them.
Both a recommendation and a buyer beware: this is gorgeous choir work, only four tracks, based on medieval pilgrimages. There is one really nasty squelch, unfortunately, at the very beginning of the first track, long before the music starts in. Only 4 tracks at Guvera.
From Allmusic:
The Roman Catholic pilgrimage from Roncevalles to Santiago de Compostella is the inspiration for Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles (2005), a work for a cappella choir on a libretto by Robert Dickinson, assembled from original texts and excerpts from the medieval Codex Calixtinus. There is a profound, meditative quality to this piece that devotees of the music of John Tavener or Arvo P
Another Guvera find; this one took a few days to complete, but is worth it. If anybody's interested search for Jimmy Giuffre 3, and it comes up under albums.
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New album called Lights, streaming from Bandcamp, very good indeed
Lights is Honeys most accomplished work to date, demonstrating a progression in his talent and skill in composing.
Following on from this years well received Underneath The Stars album, Good Weather For An Airstrike has expanded his sound to create Lights, a blissful album combining processed guitars, dreamy strings, piano, synths, drums, lulling drones and subtle field recordings.
Lights is a substantial release full of wonderful soundscapes that mix perfectly ambient, electronic, post-rock and neo-classical sounds.
Great wake-up music.
Glad to see East Coasters checking in on the other thread - don't know if we have any Manhattanites...?
I think Big-D might be NYC or close to it; Elwood's not that far either maybe?
Unfamiliar with this label in general, but it features quite a nice batch of Canadian new music/jazz releases (including Peggy Lee's latest that Jonah's been shopping). Quite pleased to discover them.
http://www.fondoftigers.com/
Thank you once again, Guvera
Both a recommendation and a buyer beware: this is gorgeous choir work, only four tracks, based on medieval pilgrimages. There is one really nasty squelch, unfortunately, at the very beginning of the first track, long before the music starts in. Only 4 tracks at Guvera.
From Allmusic:
The album is a sort of melange of Folk, Americana, and Rock, which is a nice change of pace for me.
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Thanks, BT. That squelch sounds easily removable.
Thanks Guvera. And thanks various emusers for pointing this out.
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Another Guvera find; this one took a few days to complete, but is worth it. If anybody's interested search for Jimmy Giuffre 3, and it comes up under albums.