@BT - prog rockish, yeah. The older stuff is more I hesitate to say more refined(?), less crossover. Silk Road would be one album I'd rec. I see G.s got something called Best of Silk Road - try that. There's some Oscar Peterson Trio with Herb Ellis I just posted on the G. Thread, and BTW that Herb Ellis/Joe Pass you posted about was probably one of the first five jazz guitar CDs I ever bought - good stuff.
The Canadian Electronic Ensemble - "Was founded in 1971. It is the oldest continuous live-electronic group in the world.
Today we take synthesizers for granted. But when the CEE was founded, electronic music could only be heard on tape. The CEE developed a new medium: live electronic music. The synthesizers of the time were enormous and not meant for live performance. Often, the members of the CEE had to design and build their own instruments.
Forty years later, the CEE is still at the forefront of live electronic music. Now using mostly laptop computers the CEE often pushes new technology to the limit. With various software based synthesizers the CEE is able to deploy all of todays and yesterdays most advanced synthesis techniques often concurrently. Standard instruments are also used, but keeping with the ensembles penchant for anything electronic they are usually not heard without some kind of processing.
The CEE first toured Canada in 1975. Their first European tour was in 1979. In the years since, the group has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe and has appeared with the Toronto Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal.
From 1974 until 2003 the CEE presented its own Toronto concert series. This became a major venue for new electroacoustic works by composers from Canada and abroad. The series presented artists from every province in Canada, as well as international artists from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. Over the past 40 years, the CEE has aided the creation of over one hundred new compositions, most of which have been premiered by the CEE.
Today, the CEE continues its tradition of performing live improvised electronic music and performs several times a year mostly around the Toronto area." http://www.canadianelectronicensemble.com
Too bad Guvera does not have the two album-only tracks on this one.
Eon by Richard Beirach.
ETA: this was pleasant, but I like Elm a lot better; something about that one has me captivated.
A good pair of recent albums by Barber, a Spanish guitarist. "Calima" verges into that New Age territory at times, but that may be just because it's beautiful.
Beirach is one of those names that I've seen many times but never really looked into his work, will be interested to explore. For example, didn't realize he's on Dave Liebman's "Lookout Farm," which is a favorite of mine.
Listening to this totally by accident. Had "hubris" by Beirach playing, left my office, got into a conversation with a colleague, and as Guvera trundled blindly on through albums called "Hubris" it's now playing this. Hubris by Slivovitz. Reviews seem lukewarm, and the AAJ review is probably right to say "A certain weakness in the compositional department leads, perhaps inevitably, to a feel generated by a group of obviously highly competent musicians jamming", but I'm finding some of it rather enjoyable. I like the track Errore di Parallasse.
ETA on the Beirach Hubris, it was nice, but I still like Elm better! It can be disappointing in terms of later digging when the first album you discover in an artist's discography turns out to be by far your favorite. (It's the Stephen Donaldson experience, like how nine volumes into the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the first volume is still my favorite, with ever diminishing returns on repeatedly renewed anticipation). We'll see if that's the case here.
It can be disappointing in terms of later digging when the first album you discover in an artist's discography turns out to be by far your favorite.
I agree with this feeling, but think it's important to note that this is probably strongly dominated by selection effect rather than happenstance, in that a first-album-heard is more likely to remain the favorite than other albums in any sequence. That effect can be very common when discussing with others the favorite album in a series, in my experience.
@kargatron, Yes, I thought about that when I was writing the comment above. The first album comes with the joy of discovery; the second one with the burden of living up to the first experience. Though perhaps that's not always a sufficient explanation. There's also the factor that one might hear about a band's most accomplished album first...
K-Salvatore - Tsar Ova Elk - "Jason Meagher (No Neck Blues Band, Black Dirt Studio) and Pat Murano (No Neck Blues Band, Decimus) have sporadically been releasing material as K-Salvatore since 1995. The sparse and disturbing electronics captured on this LP, their first since 2006, reflect the dark and cold of the winter's night on which they were created."
"Been a long time since we heard from K-Salvatore, an offshoot of The No-Neck Blues Band that features Pat Murano (Decimus/Key Of Shame et al) and Jason Meagher (Coach Fingers/Black Dirt Studios) so this fantastic new studio album, recorded at Black Dirt, is a welcome reminder of their alchemical prowess: released in a run of only 300 copies on Muranos own Kelippah label, Tsar Ova Elk presents a confusing minimalist soundworld that touches on aspects of The New Blockaders and The Godz - lots of creaking, scraping and moaning while generating a heady keyboard/electronics/wah-wah basement jam vibe that trades Dead C-circa Driver UFO-style atmospherics for the kind of lost-in-space feel that would combine the free-floating esoterics of classic Taj Mahal Travellers with what sounds like a Haunted House sound F/X LP. Indeed, if Kosugi and co had been more attuned to the sound of twisted metal and droning electro-chorales and if they were more into jamming in abandoned factories and claustrophobic grain silos than beaches and mountaintops, this might be the kind of rusty free music soundtrack they wouldve scored for concrete monoliths and poor strong factories. Either way this is exemplary cultic Industrial drone that should appeal to fans of communal Japanese tonefloat (Taj Mahal Travellers/East Bionic Symphonia/Group Ongaku/Marginal Consort) as well as fans of Xpressway, Broken Flag, Ferial Confine et al. Highly recommended!"
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The Canadian Electronic Ensemble
- "Was founded in 1971. It is the oldest continuous live-electronic group in the world.
Today we take synthesizers for granted. But when the CEE was founded, electronic music could only be heard on tape. The CEE developed a new medium: live electronic music. The synthesizers of the time were enormous and not meant for live performance. Often, the members of the CEE had to design and build their own instruments.
Forty years later, the CEE is still at the forefront of live electronic music. Now using mostly laptop computers the CEE often pushes new technology to the limit. With various software based synthesizers the CEE is able to deploy all of todays and yesterdays most advanced synthesis techniques often concurrently. Standard instruments are also used, but keeping with the ensembles penchant for anything electronic they are usually not heard without some kind of processing.
The CEE first toured Canada in 1975. Their first European tour was in 1979. In the years since, the group has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe and has appeared with the Toronto Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal.
From 1974 until 2003 the CEE presented its own Toronto concert series. This became a major venue for new electroacoustic works by composers from Canada and abroad. The series presented artists from every province in Canada, as well as international artists from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. Over the past 40 years, the CEE has aided the creation of over one hundred new compositions, most of which have been premiered by the CEE.
Today, the CEE continues its tradition of performing live improvised electronic music and performs several times a year mostly around the Toronto area."
http://www.canadianelectronicensemble.com
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Just not enough time to listen to all of the awesome new music and all of the awesome old(ish) music.
Richard Beirach, George Mraz & Jack DeJohnette, Elm.
Third time through since yesterday. Marvelous.
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On random.
Craig
Meanwhile, some more-recent ECM (incomplete on Guv):
Gu!
Too bad Guvera does not have the two album-only tracks on this one.
Eon by Richard Beirach.
ETA: this was pleasant, but I like Elm a lot better; something about that one has me captivated.
Richard Beirach, Hubris.
Solo on this one. Guvera.
A good pair of recent albums by Barber, a Spanish guitarist. "Calima" verges into that New Age territory at times, but that may be just because it's beautiful.
Beirach is one of those names that I've seen many times but never really looked into his work, will be interested to explore. For example, didn't realize he's on Dave Liebman's "Lookout Farm," which is a favorite of mine.
This album will never stop being awesome.
Craig
Gu!
Listening to this totally by accident. Had "hubris" by Beirach playing, left my office, got into a conversation with a colleague, and as Guvera trundled blindly on through albums called "Hubris" it's now playing this. Hubris by Slivovitz. Reviews seem lukewarm, and the AAJ review is probably right to say "A certain weakness in the compositional department leads, perhaps inevitably, to a feel generated by a group of obviously highly competent musicians jamming", but I'm finding some of it rather enjoyable. I like the track Errore di Parallasse.
ETA on the Beirach Hubris, it was nice, but I still like Elm better! It can be disappointing in terms of later digging when the first album you discover in an artist's discography turns out to be by far your favorite. (It's the Stephen Donaldson experience, like how nine volumes into the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the first volume is still my favorite, with ever diminishing returns on repeatedly renewed anticipation). We'll see if that's the case here.
Gu-blues.
Just right to listen to with headphones before going to bed in a conference centre room!
K-Salvatore - Tsar Ova Elk
- "Jason Meagher (No Neck Blues Band, Black Dirt Studio) and Pat Murano (No Neck Blues Band, Decimus) have sporadically been releasing material as K-Salvatore since 1995. The sparse and disturbing electronics captured on this LP, their first since 2006, reflect the dark and cold of the winter's night on which they were created."
"Been a long time since we heard from K-Salvatore, an offshoot of The No-Neck Blues Band that features Pat Murano (Decimus/Key Of Shame et al) and Jason Meagher (Coach Fingers/Black Dirt Studios) so this fantastic new studio album, recorded at Black Dirt, is a welcome reminder of their alchemical prowess: released in a run of only 300 copies on Muranos own Kelippah label, Tsar Ova Elk presents a confusing minimalist soundworld that touches on aspects of The New Blockaders and The Godz - lots of creaking, scraping and moaning while generating a heady keyboard/electronics/wah-wah basement jam vibe that trades Dead C-circa Driver UFO-style atmospherics for the kind of lost-in-space feel that would combine the free-floating esoterics of classic Taj Mahal Travellers with what sounds like a Haunted House sound F/X LP. Indeed, if Kosugi and co had been more attuned to the sound of twisted metal and droning electro-chorales and if they were more into jamming in abandoned factories and claustrophobic grain silos than beaches and mountaintops, this might be the kind of rusty free music soundtrack they wouldve scored for concrete monoliths and poor strong factories. Either way this is exemplary cultic Industrial drone that should appeal to fans of communal Japanese tonefloat (Taj Mahal Travellers/East Bionic Symphonia/Group Ongaku/Marginal Consort) as well as fans of Xpressway, Broken Flag, Ferial Confine et al. Highly recommended!"
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