Jürg Freys music is puzzling. A member of the experimental music collective Wandelweiser think of a more philosophical Bang on a Can, with much quieter marathons Frey creates art that baffles in its constant equivocation between softness and silence. This is a typical approach of Wandelweiser, if Wandelweiser could ever be thought of as typical.
Filed under Bobo Stenson Quartet at Guvera, Jan Garbarek elsewhere. Seems to be widely regarded as one of Garbarek's best from what I can glean from discussion boards.
Assorted tracks from (courtesy of G) -
Just got about 2 dozen of the long Album Only's to start with. The 10:12 version of How High The Moon has clipping issues.
Some of the tracks sound like they were taken from vinyl possibly with slight surface scratch but tolerable. Some good music here though.
Another from the Rolling Stone Brasil list of important free releases of 2012:
Tata Aeroplano's S/T. Not as strong as some of the other albums in the list, but there's still some good writing and a great vintage sound.
*** Not the actual cover, but that of a single drawn therefrom.
@Plong42, surely at least a goodly portion of it.
Seems to me there's a zone in Garbarek's stuff that he sometimes errs from to one side of or another - kind of between aimless on the one hand and new-age-ish schmaltzy on the other. I liked quite a bit of 'It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice', but then the track "Mission" suddenly goes all Kenny G-like and elevator-ish, which put me off.
- "Jason Swinscoe of The Cinematic Orchestra has long been intrigued by the link between vision and sound. From TCOs re-soundtracking of Man With A Movie Camera, through his soundtrack to an imaginary film, Ma Fleur, to his bands name itself, Swinscoe has continued to pick away at the issues and emotions found at this intersection. With In Motion #1 he continues this process by inviting some of his favourite musicians and producers to provide soundtracks to or musical re-imaginings of seminal work by great avant-garde film-makers.
Responding to visuals which run from René Clairs surrealist classic "Entracte" (The Cinematic Orchestra) right up to Peter Tscherkasskys Outer Space (Dorian Concept & Tom Chant), the musicians wrote for and worked with a string quartet to create music of remarkable emotional reach. The results are so vivid, so complex yet immediate, that they can be enjoyed as freestanding pieces in their own right.
The first of a series of releases curated by Jason Swinscoe for Motion Audio, the artists involved run from LA-based pianist Austin Peralta, through the Grey Reverend in New York, to Dorian Concept in Austria and Tom Chant and the other members of TCO in London".
- http://www.cinematicorchestra.com/
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G.
Nigel Ayers & Randy Greif - Build A Poison Fire
- "Almost glittering dreamscapes...organic electronics, scrambling cold toeholds into some of the more vertiginous areas of non-linear music."
Filed under Bobo Stenson Quartet at Guvera, Jan Garbarek elsewhere. Seems to be widely regarded as one of Garbarek's best from what I can glean from discussion boards.
B
A Christmas gift.
Just got about 2 dozen of the long Album Only's to start with. The 10:12 version of How High The Moon has clipping issues.
Some of the tracks sound like they were taken from vinyl possibly with slight surface scratch but tolerable. Some good music here though.
Tata Aeroplano's S/T. Not as strong as some of the other albums in the list, but there's still some good writing and a great vintage sound.
*** Not the actual cover, but that of a single drawn therefrom.
Still drinking deeply from the Jan Garbarek catalog at Guvera. A few more to go...
Em
A compilation of recent singles by Least Carpet. Free at BC.
Asva - Presences Of Absences
G@G.
(More Garbarek at Guvera).
GP & I are accounting for all the Garbarek played in West Michigan this month....
Seems to me there's a zone in Garbarek's stuff that he sometimes errs from to one side of or another - kind of between aimless on the one hand and new-age-ish schmaltzy on the other. I liked quite a bit of 'It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice', but then the track "Mission" suddenly goes all Kenny G-like and elevator-ish, which put me off.
- Did someone say super hot ?
GU! (Yes, BigD)
Jari Pitk
Jari Pitk
BC
- "Short ambient drone album by finnish Jari Pitk
- "Celestial drone ambient Album by Suomi project Jari Pitk
G.
- "Jason Swinscoe of The Cinematic Orchestra has long been intrigued by the link between vision and sound. From TCOs re-soundtracking of Man With A Movie Camera, through his soundtrack to an imaginary film, Ma Fleur, to his bands name itself, Swinscoe has continued to pick away at the issues and emotions found at this intersection. With In Motion #1 he continues this process by inviting some of his favourite musicians and producers to provide soundtracks to or musical re-imaginings of seminal work by great avant-garde film-makers.
Responding to visuals which run from René Clairs surrealist classic "Entracte" (The Cinematic Orchestra) right up to Peter Tscherkasskys Outer Space (Dorian Concept & Tom Chant), the musicians wrote for and worked with a string quartet to create music of remarkable emotional reach. The results are so vivid, so complex yet immediate, that they can be enjoyed as freestanding pieces in their own right.
The first of a series of releases curated by Jason Swinscoe for Motion Audio, the artists involved run from LA-based pianist Austin Peralta, through the Grey Reverend in New York, to Dorian Concept in Austria and Tom Chant and the other members of TCO in London".
- http://www.cinematicorchestra.com/