Currently streaming the entire album on Soundcloud. I'm liking it a lot.
(Andrews') latest record Scrimshaw is his second collaboration with producer Todd Sickafoose (Anais Mitchell, Ani Difranco, Andrew Bird), and tells stories culled from a time off the road, working as a chauffer in Manhattan. Scrimshaw had an April release in Europe and debuted at #1 on the Euro-Americana charts, gathering rave reviews internationally.
Just played Fairytale of New York by Kirstry McColl and the Pogues - I really know Christmas is on the way when I play that. To keep me in the mood I am now playing
- Continuing with these step by step posts about this marvelous album.
Track 4: Ned McGowan - Bantammer Swing - for contrabass flute & orchestra - "The contrabass flute is the larger cousin of the normal flute, sounding two octaves below and taking up four times as much space. Its largely unknown in the classical repertoire, and Bantammer Swing is likely the first ever solo concerto written for it. The piece is a standard concerto form of three movements with a cadenza. That being the case, my main goal as a composer was to try to show off some of its qualities the singing highs, the velvety middles, the rich lows, and also some of its possibilities for extended techniques. Having played the smaller flute for many years before becoming a composer, I was immediately attracted to the low notes on the contrabass flute and the various musical roles possible at the low end of the frequency spectrum.
Regarding the title, I recently moved to a different house after living in a little Amsterdam attic apartment on the Binnen Bantammer Street. I chose the title to commemorate my time there and because most of the voices in Bantammer Swing are the ones developed during that period."
- Ned McGowan from the linernotes.
Streaming on Guvera, link to Amazon, where the first (very creative) customer review ('A Savage Beast Soothed') is that rare and precious thing, a review that helps me to hear the music as I'm listening. I want more of this kind of music review.
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Spongebob holidays in Mumbai.
Reminds me of summer, because this is what you hear around the neighborhood...
Alva Noto: peerless at what he does.
Borrowed from a friend, not sure I would want to download, though, from the first few tracks, as not quite what I'd spend money on!
From the big Jazztet box over at Guvera.
Guv. streaming.
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Nels Andrews - Scrimshaw
Currently streaming the entire album on Soundcloud. I'm liking it a lot.
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Glass House by Gentle Giant
Track 4:
Ned McGowan - Bantammer Swing - for contrabass flute & orchestra
- "The contrabass flute is the larger cousin of the normal flute, sounding two octaves below and taking up four times as much space. Its largely unknown in the classical repertoire, and Bantammer Swing is likely the first ever solo concerto written for it. The piece is a standard concerto form of three movements with a cadenza. That being the case, my main goal as a composer was to try to show off some of its qualities the singing highs, the velvety middles, the rich lows, and also some of its possibilities for extended techniques. Having played the smaller flute for many years before becoming a composer, I was immediately attracted to the low notes on the contrabass flute and the various musical roles possible at the low end of the frequency spectrum.
Regarding the title, I recently moved to a different house after living in a little Amsterdam attic apartment on the Binnen Bantammer Street. I chose the title to commemorate my time there and because most of the voices in Bantammer Swing are the ones developed during that period."
- Ned McGowan from the linernotes.
Ned McGowan with his bass flute:
NYOP, bandcamp
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Streaming on Guvera, link to Amazon, where the first (very creative) customer review ('A Savage Beast Soothed') is that rare and precious thing, a review that helps me to hear the music as I'm listening. I want more of this kind of music review.