Bandcamp streaming: - "Avant Media supports the production and performance of collaborative artistic projects.
The Avant Music Festival is an annual festival of experimental music from the last 100 years and today. Hosted by The Wild Project in the East Village, the annual festival focuses on the work of contemporary composers, putting their work in an evolutionary context."
Finished up K'Naan, which I enjoyed. Moving on to...
Thanks, Plong42 - I have never heard of this/know nothing about it, but I like it a lot. I see there is quite a bit more by this artist on Guvera. Any tips on where to go next if I really like this one?
ETA, liking this a very great deal, actually; thanks again!
@Germanprof - so far I have downloaded 1.01 GB of Terje Rypdal from Guvera since the credit reboot. Double Concerto is "now playing" (to stay on topic) and is excellent. Some are more Jazz/Fusion, others are symphonic. I enjoy Vossabrygg, Op.84 as well.
Descendre; Double Concerto _ 5th Symphony; Eos; Lux Aeterna; Odyssey; Q.E.D; Skywards; Terje Rypdal; Undisonus; Vossabrygg, Op.84; Waves; What Comes After; Whenever I Seem Far Away
Just back home from Christmas shopping,ugh.. It wasn't too bad when I started at 9.30 am, but by the time I left the shopping centre (Central MK for those who know the UK) there were far too many people there for me. We did much on-line for which I am grateful, but sometimes you just need to look before you buy!
Streaming from Karlrecords @ Bandcamp: - "After the path-setting METHOD OF DEFIANCE album INAMORATA where he brought together cutting-edge drum&bass producers (Paradox, Enduser, Submerged, Black Sun Empire a.o.) and avantgarde / jazz masters such as John Zorn, Craig Taborn, Herbie Hancock or Toshinori Kondo the visionary, versatile pioneer LASWELL picked out some of his combatants for an audacious follow-up. Young finnish FANUs syncopated rhythms and sharp breaks prove him the Art Blakey of drum&bass, his feverish beats are an ideal playground for Laswells growling, hard-driven yet funky bass attacks. NowJazz trumpet players NILS PETTER MOLVAER and GRAHAM HAYNES accentuate the albums psychotic heat, while P-funk keyboard wizard BERNIE WORRELL takes care this meeting of musical masters called LOGDE is a solid weapon for the dance floor!
All titles and the ancient alchemist signs of the excellent artwork by John Brown refer to the fraternal organisations of freemasonry and their lodges."
Karlrecords/Bandcamp again: Released 06 August 2010
- "In a previous century GUSTAV MAHLER - whose 150th anniversary on july 7th is being celebrated this year - composed a symphony named "Titan". Created in search of a work that echoed industrialism and society in the nineteenth century. PHILIPPE PETIT believed that even if firmly rooted into Classical it was announcing what Contemporary music would become so it sounded natural to recontextualize, add new flavours by having something constantly modern in there. Philippe began work on a recording of the original symphony - re-editing, time-stretching, distorting, filtering. He then sent the result to JONO PODMORE aka KUMO as a backing track who began work with his theremin and electronics by identifying areas he could enhance or develop or even alienate further from their original form, and then set to work improvising and layering new material into the piece, mindful of the collage aesthetic in Mahler's work. Jono sent the results to Philippe who began mixing both works and further processing the result.
In a way reminiscent of "2001, A Space Odyssey" offering romantic music in an ultra modern design which set the orchestra in a new space... A little bit as if Bernhard Herrmann had scored the glorious "Forbidden Planet" sci-fi classic, listening to the soundtrack, the Titan you're heading for is Saturn's biggest moon!
May the stars be with you. . . . .
Playing one of my top finds in 2012 with the volume turned all the way up:
Asva - Presences Of Absences
- "Intention. The thing I'd always felt deep down about Asva recordings was that sense of... Intention. Good as they have been they rang hollow, as if the truth of what nature born those tracks was hidden behind a venear of having to 'be' a definable thing, genre specific, a way to 'belong' somewhere in the midst of other musics. The intention behind Presences Of Absences has been to make something real and unbiased, an honest effort at reproducing what is Asva's nature as a band and as individuals. Not heavy in the traditional sense of 'heavy' but emotive and powerful, not quirky, not elusive or exclusive, but a different breed entire. Presences Of Absences is about sincerity, goodwill and compassion, honesty, hard work and in the deepest sense, thanks and reflection at the end of the day. It's a discussion in music utilizing traditional elements (liturgical, plain chant, tintinnabuli*** musics, folk and gospel musics, acoustic organ and wind instruments, etc) and contemporary electric instrumentation and playing methods to expose our shared origins, our pasts, presents and futures and the common thread passing through our relationships to all of it... Presences Of Absences is a big work.
P of A began as a singularly personal project. I had envisioned creating a solo work and had recorded the basis for these tracks (Reed and electric organs, electric bass and guitar, bells) over the course of perhaps a hundred and fifty early morning sessions in my rehearsal room. As the concept grew and after a lot of deliberation I realized that involving other creative minds to form a true collaborative we could, together, could push P of A into a whole new arena with considerable added dimension. Greg Gilmore, Toby Driver, and Jake Weller are musicians and composers of whom I have long admired and feel possess an intuitive sensitivity towards music and who-like myself- are not afraid of exposing themselves as truly individual voices unencumbered by any need to 'be' anything namable. Presences Of Absences speaks the naked truth about it's creators and ultimately about us as people."
- G. Stuart Dahlquist (aka. Asva) - Feb 2011 @ Important Records
- "T.C.O. aka Mirco Magnani is a music composer and video artist, actually he lives and works in Berlin, member and composer of Minox, Technophonic Chamber Orchestra and 4Dkiller, he was co-founder of the independent label Suite inc., producer for various label's projects (Enfantronique, Dubital, Miss Q Lee, Krisma, etc.), has worked in studio and live with Steven Brown and Blaine Reininger from Tuxedomoon, Lydia Lunch, Nobukazu Takemura, Murcof, Daedelus, The Gentle People, etc."
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- "Avant Media supports the production and performance of collaborative artistic projects.
The Avant Music Festival is an annual festival of experimental music from the last 100 years and today. Hosted by The Wild Project in the East Village, the annual festival focuses on the work of contemporary composers, putting their work in an evolutionary context."
Just saw this in an Amazon list of Albums You May Have Missed for the year.
Another Guvera download.
Thanks, Plong42 - I have never heard of this/know nothing about it, but I like it a lot. I see there is quite a bit more by this artist on Guvera. Any tips on where to go next if I really like this one?
ETA, liking this a very great deal, actually; thanks again!
Liking this too. Also Guv.
Info @ Emusers
This has gone missing off my itunes (and computer), but it is still on my ipad, so I'm playing it there before that goes AWOL too.
Descendre; Double Concerto _ 5th Symphony; Eos; Lux Aeterna; Odyssey; Q.E.D; Skywards; Terje Rypdal; Undisonus; Vossabrygg, Op.84; Waves; What Comes After; Whenever I Seem Far Away
Just back home from Christmas shopping,ugh.. It wasn't too bad when I started at 9.30 am, but by the time I left the shopping centre (Central MK for those who know the UK) there were far too many people there for me. We did much on-line for which I am grateful, but sometimes you just need to look before you buy!
- "After the path-setting METHOD OF DEFIANCE album INAMORATA where he brought together cutting-edge drum&bass producers (Paradox, Enduser, Submerged, Black Sun Empire a.o.) and avantgarde / jazz masters such as John Zorn, Craig Taborn, Herbie Hancock or Toshinori Kondo the visionary, versatile pioneer LASWELL picked out some of his combatants for an audacious follow-up. Young finnish FANUs syncopated rhythms and sharp breaks prove him the Art Blakey of drum&bass, his feverish beats are an ideal playground for Laswells growling, hard-driven yet funky bass attacks. NowJazz trumpet players NILS PETTER MOLVAER and GRAHAM HAYNES accentuate the albums psychotic heat, while P-funk keyboard wizard BERNIE WORRELL takes care this meeting of musical masters called LOGDE is a solid weapon for the dance floor!
All titles and the ancient alchemist signs of the excellent artwork by John Brown refer to the fraternal organisations of freemasonry and their lodges."
- ETA: Brilliant !
Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose by Beth Jeans Houghton
This appeared on the year-end best of of Les Inrocks. I'm enjoying it so far.
G.
Released 06 August 2010
- "In a previous century GUSTAV MAHLER - whose 150th anniversary on july 7th is being celebrated this year - composed a symphony named "Titan". Created in search of a work that echoed industrialism and society in the nineteenth century. PHILIPPE PETIT believed that even if firmly rooted into Classical it was announcing what Contemporary music would become so it sounded natural to recontextualize, add new flavours by having something constantly modern in there. Philippe began work on a recording of the original symphony - re-editing, time-stretching, distorting, filtering. He then sent the result to JONO PODMORE aka KUMO as a backing track who began work with his theremin and electronics by identifying areas he could enhance or develop or even alienate further from their original form, and then set to work improvising and layering new material into the piece, mindful of the collage aesthetic in Mahler's work. Jono sent the results to Philippe who began mixing both works and further processing the result.
In a way reminiscent of "2001, A Space Odyssey" offering romantic music in an ultra modern design which set the orchestra in a new space... A little bit as if Bernhard Herrmann had scored the glorious "Forbidden Planet" sci-fi classic, listening to the soundtrack, the Titan you're heading for is Saturn's biggest moon!
May the stars be with you. . . . .
Terje Rypdal - Lux Aeterna. Five long tracks, lush and evocative. Thanks again to Guvera.
Asva - Presences Of Absences
- "Intention. The thing I'd always felt deep down about Asva recordings was that sense of... Intention. Good as they have been they rang hollow, as if the truth of what nature born those tracks was hidden behind a venear of having to 'be' a definable thing, genre specific, a way to 'belong' somewhere in the midst of other musics. The intention behind Presences Of Absences has been to make something real and unbiased, an honest effort at reproducing what is Asva's nature as a band and as individuals. Not heavy in the traditional sense of 'heavy' but emotive and powerful, not quirky, not elusive or exclusive, but a different breed entire. Presences Of Absences is about sincerity, goodwill and compassion, honesty, hard work and in the deepest sense, thanks and reflection at the end of the day. It's a discussion in music utilizing traditional elements (liturgical, plain chant, tintinnabuli*** musics, folk and gospel musics, acoustic organ and wind instruments, etc) and contemporary electric instrumentation and playing methods to expose our shared origins, our pasts, presents and futures and the common thread passing through our relationships to all of it... Presences Of Absences is a big work.
P of A began as a singularly personal project. I had envisioned creating a solo work and had recorded the basis for these tracks (Reed and electric organs, electric bass and guitar, bells) over the course of perhaps a hundred and fifty early morning sessions in my rehearsal room. As the concept grew and after a lot of deliberation I realized that involving other creative minds to form a true collaborative we could, together, could push P of A into a whole new arena with considerable added dimension. Greg Gilmore, Toby Driver, and Jake Weller are musicians and composers of whom I have long admired and feel possess an intuitive sensitivity towards music and who-like myself- are not afraid of exposing themselves as truly individual voices unencumbered by any need to 'be' anything namable. Presences Of Absences speaks the naked truth about it's creators and ultimately about us as people."
- G. Stuart Dahlquist (aka. Asva) - Feb 2011 @ Important Records
Birds & Presences of Absences @ Youtube . . .
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Then some Purcell andHandel from the Big Baroque Box.
- "T.C.O. aka Mirco Magnani is a music composer and video artist, actually he lives and works in Berlin, member and composer of Minox, Technophonic Chamber Orchestra and 4Dkiller, he was co-founder of the independent label Suite inc., producer for various label's projects (Enfantronique, Dubital, Miss Q Lee, Krisma, etc.), has worked in studio and live with Steven Brown and Blaine Reininger from Tuxedomoon, Lydia Lunch, Nobukazu Takemura, Murcof, Daedelus, The Gentle People, etc."