This is one of those albums that as a very cash-challenged teenager I badly wanted but never managed to buy, and then somehow never got back around to. I still have enough nostalgia for the desire for it that I really want to like it and download it. But streaming it now I find that I really only like the tracks I already have (the ones that appear on later compilations). That seems sad.
Perhaps a day for reflecting on changes - just got back from a trip to Detroit for the US citizenship interview.
If you need some Turkish pop from Guvera...I have one brilliant track from this artist found on Amiestreet and was curious...now I discover NPR put her in a list of the 50 great voices...
Quiet today, I suppose the celebrations are taking up time. Normal work day here today, just very wet, a journey that should have taken less than an hour took three hours this morning, through floods slowing traffic down. So I played Benjamin koppel's Polar Explorer to keep me going!
Having a slow day after a very, very hectic few days. We'll cook in a little while. No relatives within 3,000 miles and no students coming round this year (last year we had a bunch of Asian grad students over for the spectacle of a British family showing them how they think Americans do thanksgiving).
Listening to various tracks on Guvera...some Sezen Aksu, some Ben Webster, some Vladislav Delay.
Thanatoloop & Har - El Retrato
released 11 November 2012
Michel Leroy: Analogue electronics, Synths, Tapes, Tormenta, Percussion, Bike Wheel, Voice and Mix
Har: Guitars with six and more strings, Bass and Stick
Constanza Lagos: Flute
Manuel Rubilar: Master Jesse Peper: Artwork
- "This is an album where a mostly live recorded electronics, voices and percussions (just two takes), was finished with the amazing space guitar and bass of Har, a veteran musician wich I know through thier amazing work in the underground psych prog band Christus and the Cosmonaught, and also his amazing solo work. Also Constanza Lagos from Un Festin Sagital, add some crucial flutes on this album.
This is NOT the typical drone album, here from extreme but non self indulgent minimalism, you can go through some kind of post industrial free jazz, to avant-prog-pop, to musique concrete and well... just listen please."
- Michel Leroy (aka Thanatoloop)
In conjunction with my previous post. - "Scot Solida's spacey electronics and guitars contributed by a musician named Har form much of the backbone of the album, with additional support from a few other players. Solida tells the story through a combination of shorter tracks and epics consisting of several disparate sections that are deftly layered so that they flow together naturally. I like this album, but I do wish that Solida would cut loose a little more. From reading the list printed on the jacket of the vast array of equipment used in this recording, I expected it to get pretty wild in places and was surprised with the amount of restraint exercised here. The title track heads in an untamed direction but stops short of the sensory overload I had anticipated. "Modulating Between Faith & Knowledge" also takes a step in that direction with its exploratory electronics, but it peaks early and drifts during its second half. Perhaps the somber subject matter keeps things at an even keel. Even so, the pace is fairly uniform throughout the disc, and I wouldn't have minded more of a dramatic shift or two in places. Nevertheless, it's an intriguing album with impeccable production and well worth the effort of settling in to unravel its mysteries."
- Brainwashed - 2007
From my best of 2012 list:
(Name your price @ Bandcamp)
Hallucination of Beauty
Kathrine Kaspersen Violin, vokal
Kristoffer Vilsgaard Guitar, vocal
Simon Toftdahl Bass, vocal
Kasper Resen Orgel, percussion
Jacob Jensen Drums
Christian Sinding Søndergaard Guitar, vocal
- "Danish sextet, Tales of Murder and Dust, was formed in 2007 with the desire to play noisy and cool rock music. Drawing on inspirations from especially surf music and film scores from classic Spaghetti Westerns, the band quickly gained the attention of the Danish press. When the band released their first EP in 2009, called Peyote, Tales of Murder and Dust was critically praised for their slow and dreamy soundscapes with attention to folk-like details.
Tales of Murder and Dust have spend the years following Peyote honing its musical expression even further, approaching a much more shoegazing sound, while supporting artists such as The Black Angels, Crystal Stilts, Wooden Shjips, and The Blue Angel Lounge.
On the 20th of March 2012 Tales of Murder and Dust finally released their long awaited debut album: Hallucination of Beauty is an awesome thought-through record in the name of noise rock and shoegaze, yet with an increasingly obvious psychedelic touch, not least in the instrumentation, which often focuses on strings, percussion and sitar."
- http://talesofmurderanddust.net http://www.last.fm/music/Tales+of+Murder+and+Dust
Comments
@ amclark 2:
Thoroughly enjoying this . . . Thank you very many !
ETA: The comparison i mentioned to Volcano The Bear fits nicely to the first track, but not the rest.
This is another Guvera , and wow, I'm loving this!
BN: yeah, it seems to bend a lot throughout the tracks...
Another great one from guess where.
Info @ New & Notable Classical Albums
And another.
Streaming from Bandcamp
Horse Feathers - Cynics New Year
Not from Guvera, but fits well with other stuff scanned today.
This is one of those albums that as a very cash-challenged teenager I badly wanted but never managed to buy, and then somehow never got back around to. I still have enough nostalgia for the desire for it that I really want to like it and download it. But streaming it now I find that I really only like the tracks I already have (the ones that appear on later compilations). That seems sad.
Perhaps a day for reflecting on changes - just got back from a trip to Detroit for the US citizenship interview.
If you need some Turkish pop from Guvera...I have one brilliant track from this artist found on Amiestreet and was curious...now I discover NPR put her in a list of the 50 great voices...
Beautiful music.
Info @ Emusers
ETA: http://www.alexanderberne.com/ - Hit this link and lovely music will come out of your speakers and great art will meet your eyes !
Now playing Dave brubeck Take Five
Listening to various tracks on Guvera...some Sezen Aksu, some Ben Webster, some Vladislav Delay.
- And:
- From Denmark . . .
Thanatoloop & Har - El Retrato
released 11 November 2012
Michel Leroy: Analogue electronics, Synths, Tapes, Tormenta, Percussion, Bike Wheel, Voice and Mix
Har: Guitars with six and more strings, Bass and Stick
Constanza Lagos: Flute
Manuel Rubilar: Master
Jesse Peper: Artwork
- "This is an album where a mostly live recorded electronics, voices and percussions (just two takes), was finished with the amazing space guitar and bass of Har, a veteran musician wich I know through thier amazing work in the underground psych prog band Christus and the Cosmonaught, and also his amazing solo work. Also Constanza Lagos from Un Festin Sagital, add some crucial flutes on this album.
This is NOT the typical drone album, here from extreme but non self indulgent minimalism, you can go through some kind of post industrial free jazz, to avant-prog-pop, to musique concrete and well... just listen please."
- Michel Leroy (aka Thanatoloop)
- "Scot Solida's spacey electronics and guitars contributed by a musician named Har form much of the backbone of the album, with additional support from a few other players. Solida tells the story through a combination of shorter tracks and epics consisting of several disparate sections that are deftly layered so that they flow together naturally. I like this album, but I do wish that Solida would cut loose a little more. From reading the list printed on the jacket of the vast array of equipment used in this recording, I expected it to get pretty wild in places and was surprised with the amount of restraint exercised here. The title track heads in an untamed direction but stops short of the sensory overload I had anticipated. "Modulating Between Faith & Knowledge" also takes a step in that direction with its exploratory electronics, but it peaks early and drifts during its second half. Perhaps the somber subject matter keeps things at an even keel. Even so, the pace is fairly uniform throughout the disc, and I wouldn't have minded more of a dramatic shift or two in places. Nevertheless, it's an intriguing album with impeccable production and well worth the effort of settling in to unravel its mysteries."
- Brainwashed - 2007
Streaming on Guvera
(Name your price @ Bandcamp)
Hallucination of Beauty
Kathrine Kaspersen Violin, vokal
Kristoffer Vilsgaard Guitar, vocal
Simon Toftdahl Bass, vocal
Kasper Resen Orgel, percussion
Jacob Jensen Drums
Christian Sinding Søndergaard Guitar, vocal
- "Danish sextet, Tales of Murder and Dust, was formed in 2007 with the desire to play noisy and cool rock music. Drawing on inspirations from especially surf music and film scores from classic Spaghetti Westerns, the band quickly gained the attention of the Danish press. When the band released their first EP in 2009, called Peyote, Tales of Murder and Dust was critically praised for their slow and dreamy soundscapes with attention to folk-like details.
Tales of Murder and Dust have spend the years following Peyote honing its musical expression even further, approaching a much more shoegazing sound, while supporting artists such as The Black Angels, Crystal Stilts, Wooden Shjips, and The Blue Angel Lounge.
On the 20th of March 2012 Tales of Murder and Dust finally released their long awaited debut album: Hallucination of Beauty is an awesome thought-through record in the name of noise rock and shoegaze, yet with an increasingly obvious psychedelic touch, not least in the instrumentation, which often focuses on strings, percussion and sitar."
- http://talesofmurderanddust.net
http://www.last.fm/music/Tales+of+Murder+and+Dust
- Still streamable @ NPR
Many thanks to Germanprof for pointing this out . . .