Brighternow, or anyone else who has this...when I play this the first track seems very quiet, not just in musical style but in terms of the production sounding muted or without presence or force. It always makes me check the volume on my iPod - it sounds as if the volume for the track is lower than the ones that follow. Do you find this also? Is it meant to be that way or is it a funny file?
Solid album by the way - still getting to know it. Nothing yet is exciting me quite as much as a couple of the tracks on Night Walks did/do, but there's plenty that I'm really liking.
- Bandcamp streaming: - "Pierre Favre, the great pioneer of the European jazz scene, the tone-colour-painter among the Jazz drummers, presents two duo-CDs with young musicans: with Samuel Blaser on trombone and Philipp Schaufelberger on guitar.
The three musicans have a refined sense for the right tone, for what fits together, for a clear design. «Vol à Voile» and «Albatros» create spaces of sound and worlds of rhythm for a series of intense dialogues, that venture into largely unknown grounds, sometimes far off from established routines of improvisation."
With rhe amazing Patrick Q.Wright on violin: Recorded in the Silverman's flat in walthamstow on a rented studio.
Those responsible:
The Silverman: keys
Patrick Q.Wright: violins, machines
Graham Whitehead: keys
Stret Majest Alarme: guitars,machines
Edward Ka-Spel:vox,keys
Jason Salmon:bass
Hans Meijer: sax and sonix
LEGENDARY PINK DOTS 1986 - "The review said it all........
"There's a market for this kind of thing and I suspect it exists on a remote part of the coast of Sardinia".For years ,The Dots felt the same way.Was this ambitious album
the ultimate sacrifice on the altar of artistic tension? Ladies and gentlemen , I give you "Medieval Industrial music" or how about a small piece for home-made orchestra and drum machine?
- Now after remastering the album it feels like one of the best albums The Dots ever made.I confess it had been slowly growing.
It was our first album under contract for the Play it Again Sam label and were they ever nervous when we delivered the master...
They shouldn't have been, this one stands the test of time...at least for me."
- Edward Ka-Spel.
Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Matt Lux, Brian Keigher, Jonas Munk (aka. Manual), Jakob Skott.
- "Chicago Odense Ensemble is a unique collaboration that came together in the winter of 2008 while danish musicians Jonas Munk and Jakob Skøtt stayed in Chicago. Through mutual friends a studio session was arranged for the two to improvise and lay down ideas with some of Chicagos finest improvisers, including members of Tortoise and Chicago Underground Collective."
- released 11 April 2011 - Bandcamp
@Doofy, what do you search for on Guvera to find that Jam sessions set? I already tried under Norman Granz, The Complete..., and several track titles...
Prof, I know, I think I'd previously concluded it wasn't there. Search on one of the song titles (eg, Funky Blues), hit enter, then click on the song title. Whole album then shows up.
The "hit enter" thing is the key to making invisible stuff show up. Similar explorations show that the whole JATP set (136 tracks!) is there as well.
GP . . .
I can to some extend see what you are saying, the track starts very muted but slowly evolves to full scale treble and bass and towards the end goes back to the muted sound. The level sounds very much the same to me as the other tracks.
Listening closely to this gave me the impression that there's more to the first track than a 256 VBR can handle. My winamp shows almost constantly a peak of 320 kbps.
I'd love to listen to this album in FLAC or WAW (cd quality)
- In any case, the first track is a perfect overture to an excellent album.
Wait, everyone has this one, right? The opening track, 'Future Man,' is the music that comes into my head when I feel like I need to settle down and think.
Cymatic Scan by Bill Laswell and Tetsu Inoue. Streaming on Guvera (where the album is mistitled "monochromatic scan" after the track name - it's really a single hour long track split into six equal segments, a standard Fax label tactic, though this one's not on Fax).
This is the only Tetsu Inoue on Guvera I think, and one of the relatively few ambient/experimental records. Having said that, this particular title is not for the faint-hearted or those lacking perseverance. Very much abstract dark/isolationist ambient.
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Brighternow, or anyone else who has this...when I play this the first track seems very quiet, not just in musical style but in terms of the production sounding muted or without presence or force. It always makes me check the volume on my iPod - it sounds as if the volume for the track is lower than the ones that follow. Do you find this also? Is it meant to be that way or is it a funny file?
Solid album by the way - still getting to know it. Nothing yet is exciting me quite as much as a couple of the tracks on Night Walks did/do, but there's plenty that I'm really liking.
Gorgeous.
Followed by (streaming)"
Six full sets from Loop Collective's Upload Festival. Each set is at least 30 minutes long. I'm currently listening to Kit Downes' set. NYOP
- "Pierre Favre, the great pioneer of the European jazz scene, the tone-colour-painter among the Jazz drummers, presents two duo-CDs with young musicans: with Samuel Blaser on trombone and Philipp Schaufelberger on guitar.
The three musicans have a refined sense for the right tone, for what fits together, for a clear design. «Vol à Voile» and «Albatros» create spaces of sound and worlds of rhythm for a series of intense dialogues, that venture into largely unknown grounds, sometimes far off from established routines of improvisation."
Recorded in the Silverman's flat in walthamstow on a rented studio.
Those responsible:
The Silverman: keys
Patrick Q.Wright: violins, machines
Graham Whitehead: keys
Stret Majest Alarme: guitars,machines
Edward Ka-Spel:vox,keys
Jason Salmon:bass
Hans Meijer: sax and sonix
LEGENDARY PINK DOTS 1986
- "The review said it all........
"There's a market for this kind of thing and I suspect it exists on a remote part of the coast of Sardinia".For years ,The Dots felt the same way.Was this ambitious album
the ultimate sacrifice on the altar of artistic tension? Ladies and gentlemen , I give you "Medieval Industrial music" or how about a small piece for home-made orchestra and drum machine?
- Now after remastering the album it feels like one of the best albums The Dots ever made.I confess it had been slowly growing.
It was our first album under contract for the Play it Again Sam label and were they ever nervous when we delivered the master...
They shouldn't have been, this one stands the test of time...at least for me."
- Edward Ka-Spel.
followed by
Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Matt Lux, Brian Keigher, Jonas Munk (aka. Manual), Jakob Skott.
- "Chicago Odense Ensemble is a unique collaboration that came together in the winter of 2008 while danish musicians Jonas Munk and Jakob Skøtt stayed in Chicago. Through mutual friends a studio session was arranged for the two to improvise and lay down ideas with some of Chicagos finest improvisers, including members of Tortoise and Chicago Underground Collective."
- released 11 April 2011 - Bandcamp
This is probably my top free find of the year - although it was recorded several years ago - thanks to whoever discoverd it first
Blissfully abstract Fugazi.
Tropical surf electronica by someone in Moscow. Quite nice actually.
Guvera, but the first time around.
Craig
Guvera. Yep, the whole thing.
I've started listening to my album of the year contenders - this will be somewhere quite high up
Smashing Pumpkins - Machina II
Certainly top ten for the year for me
ETA:
The "hit enter" thing is the key to making invisible stuff show up. Similar explorations show that the whole JATP set (136 tracks!) is there as well.
(url=>amz)
Review:
Trying out more mainstream MPB (although Maria Beth
GP . . .
I can to some extend see what you are saying, the track starts very muted but slowly evolves to full scale treble and bass and towards the end goes back to the muted sound. The level sounds very much the same to me as the other tracks.
Listening closely to this gave me the impression that there's more to the first track than a 256 VBR can handle. My winamp shows almost constantly a peak of 320 kbps.
I'd love to listen to this album in FLAC or WAW (cd quality)
- In any case, the first track is a perfect overture to an excellent album.
See the RIP thread.
@ Brighternow, thanks, yes, I wonder too if it's not an ideal MP3 track. I like it too.
Wait, everyone has this one, right? The opening track, 'Future Man,' is the music that comes into my head when I feel like I need to settle down and think.
Cymatic Scan by Bill Laswell and Tetsu Inoue. Streaming on Guvera (where the album is mistitled "monochromatic scan" after the track name - it's really a single hour long track split into six equal segments, a standard Fax label tactic, though this one's not on Fax).
This is the only Tetsu Inoue on Guvera I think, and one of the relatively few ambient/experimental records. Having said that, this particular title is not for the faint-hearted or those lacking perseverance. Very much abstract dark/isolationist ambient.