Catchy heavy metal from Lyon France. Has enough pop elements to appeal to the general rock music afficianado and enough metal fluorishes to succeed on that front too. All of the songs were written by David, who subsequently drafted the other bandmembers to perform them.
Thanks amc2. One of the great things about emusers is that we are all introduced to music that we would not otherwise know about. Liege and Lief takes me back a very long time to a previous era of folk music revival in England. I haven't listened to it in years, I must sort it out, I think I have it somewheree on cassette! If/when Guvera hits the UK it will be on my very long list.
Playing this is like talking to an old friend. I know the words automatically as it is played. It reminds me of journeys to work in my first couple of years as a teacher, where I used to play it on a cassette player.
I've been packing many of my CDs this morning ready for a house move soon (next week, the week after or even the week after that..... who knows? - the vagaries of the English property system!) I came across this which I'd totally forgotten, I think I was bought it as a present several years ago. worth a listen or two
luddite, a family friend is a member of the League of Crafty Guitarists! He is on that album, I think and still plays in a "Guitar Circle" around town.
Is it Country? Latin? Blues? Rock/Pop? It is Texas, I know that.
Well, I started listening to "Circus" by Britney Spears. Amazon inexplicably put it in my cloud collection through that new Auto-Rip thing, obviously having noticed that my collection needed to be made a bit more diverse. I almost deleted it right away, then I thought, you know what, I am very prejudiced against this artist, and it's mostly based on media image and behavior, because I couldn't hum a single one of her songs if my life depended on it. Maybe I should be open-minded and giver her a chance. Maybe the music is not as unutterably putrid as my supercilious side would lead me to expect. So I started listening to "Circus".
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Ugh.
NP:
(Working on my year end top 20 list. Right now this is around 15-20. Keep changing my mind on the order. Alas, Britney did not make the cut.)
So how do you rank an album that you discovered less than a week ago but suspect might be the best release of 2012 but wonder if you are overrating because it is new and wonderful but don't want to underrate just because it's new and wonderful????
BC streaming: Sparkling Wide Pressure - Slowed Down Footage of Farming
released 01 June 2012
- "In five years time, Frank Baugh's work as Sparkling Wide Pressure has reached near cult status within the worldwide experimental scene, with stellar recordings on nearly every underground micro-label out there. Based out of Tennessee, Baugh has mastered the technique of writing homely electronic compositions with a uniquely quaint and rustic charm. On "Slowed Down Footage of Farming," plucked guitar notes bounce across buzzing synths and piano chord stasis, ringing out into silence in sync with the thump of a distant drum machine plodding along. This new full-length may be a dusty photo album full of somber snapshots of desolation and open country, but these songs are far from hopeless. What sets Baugh apart from his peers is his ability to channel the guitar's role as a vessel for personal experience, effectively reframing the blues into a modern and alienated context that only the lonely understand."
- Bridgetown Records
What a great, surprising recording, from a little known New York band, Grupo Los Santos. The band, Paul Carlon on saxophones, Pete Smith on guitar, David Ambrosio on bass and Beaver Bausch on drums are on its third installment and Clave Heart is pretty amazing, a mixture of religious singing and rhythms from Cuba and an absolutely modern Brooklyn jazz sensibility. It is a strange combination at first, because the music seems so right, so authentic in its intent, yet theres nothing traditional or academic about it at all. It all just works right, the group conception, the improvisation, the sound, rough and natural.
Very interesting album thematically linked only by being played on acoustic guitars I guess - when you go from Cephas & Wiggins to Badi Assad it's odd - but it's good music. I unfortunately made the mistake of downloading it at eMu and got all Various Artist tagging and had to use the Amazon listing to manually fix it - is 15 re-tags worth $2.50? I suppose so, since $8.99 is above what I consider OK for MP3s. Really like the album though.
"Amazing album - for me the best organic ambient music I heard this year. I listen to it quite often."
- Home is an album which spans more than 2,000 kilometres, two families and a lifetime of experiences.
Darren Harper and Jared Smyth's collaborative effort examines the spaces they have shaped as husbands, fathers and community members in the two very different towns of Tallahassee, Florida and Nederland, Colorado.
Although the two men have never met, they have produced an album that explores the most intimate corners of their lives.
Through the sounds of tinkling streams, children drumming, warm guitars and crunching ice, the pair have crafted an intensely personal album, which invites us into the parts of the world they have made their own.
This is an album full of warmth, subtlety and power that explores what it means to call somewhere 'home'.
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I have someone to thank for this a long time ago. Elwoodicious maybe?
Not Guvera. It may be there, I don't know, but having been 15 when this came out it was required that I buy it long ago.
Craig
Definitely thanks to Greg!
Playing this is like talking to an old friend. I know the words automatically as it is played. It reminds me of journeys to work in my first couple of years as a teacher, where I used to play it on a cassette player.
I've been packing many of my CDs this morning ready for a house move soon (next week, the week after or even the week after that..... who knows? - the vagaries of the English property system!) I came across this which I'd totally forgotten, I think I was bought it as a present several years ago. worth a listen or two
Buffy Sainte-Marie: great catch, AMC.
Is it Country? Latin? Blues? Rock/Pop? It is Texas, I know that.
...
Ugh.
NP:
(Working on my year end top 20 list. Right now this is around 15-20. Keep changing my mind on the order. Alas, Britney did not make the cut.)
So how do you rank an album that you discovered less than a week ago but suspect might be the best release of 2012 but wonder if you are overrating because it is new and wonderful but don't want to underrate just because it's new and wonderful????
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Slowed Down Footage of Farming
released 01 June 2012
- "In five years time, Frank Baugh's work as Sparkling Wide Pressure has reached near cult status within the worldwide experimental scene, with stellar recordings on nearly every underground micro-label out there. Based out of Tennessee, Baugh has mastered the technique of writing homely electronic compositions with a uniquely quaint and rustic charm. On "Slowed Down Footage of Farming," plucked guitar notes bounce across buzzing synths and piano chord stasis, ringing out into silence in sync with the thump of a distant drum machine plodding along. This new full-length may be a dusty photo album full of somber snapshots of desolation and open country, but these songs are far from hopeless. What sets Baugh apart from his peers is his ability to channel the guitar's role as a vessel for personal experience, effectively reframing the blues into a modern and alienated context that only the lonely understand."
- Bridgetown Records
Read about this at descarga.com: etc
From Guvera
Rec'd by Grzegorz Bojanek on his Bandcamp page:
- Home is an album which spans more than 2,000 kilometres, two families and a lifetime of experiences.
Darren Harper and Jared Smyth's collaborative effort examines the spaces they have shaped as husbands, fathers and community members in the two very different towns of Tallahassee, Florida and Nederland, Colorado.
Although the two men have never met, they have produced an album that explores the most intimate corners of their lives.
Through the sounds of tinkling streams, children drumming, warm guitars and crunching ice, the pair have crafted an intensely personal album, which invites us into the parts of the world they have made their own.
This is an album full of warmth, subtlety and power that explores what it means to call somewhere 'home'.
Ar.
Comes out next week. Previewing at P4K!
One of those albums where my brain supplies the next line just before they sing it.