I've just bought a big booster to clear some of my backlog of Saved items, really with the aim of giving up emusic membership in a month or two, as I am getting so frustrated with it at the moment. I think if we got Guvera, that would certainly be the end for me.
BT - this one is produced by Mickey Hart and features David Grisman. I like this sort of odd allmusic review for it:
The Light of the Spirit is one of Kitaro's best CDs. Perhaps it is because Mickey Hart co-produced, or perhaps Kitaro asked Hart to co-produce because it is so good. It doesn't really matter if either of those is the reason; this is just an awesome CD. Kitaro's specialty has always been the symphonic synth and this is no exception. He augments that synth with several guest musicians on a variety of ambient instruments. This is truly ambient music, albeit on the new age side of that style. The vocal accompaniment by Lynn Ray and Jeannie Tracy counts as instrumental as well. The sound design treats the wordless vocals as an extra sound to incorporate. David Jenkins contributes a smoking electric guitar that gives this rock & roll textures as well. This disc stands proudly with work by Constance Demby, Vangelis, Suzanne Ciani, and Dean Evenson as some of the best adult contemporary instrumental new age music.
I was a big fan of their first few albums but lost interest when Chiastic Slide hit (even though "Cichli" is one of my favorite songs of their). With BN posting about them nonstop lately I figure it's time to check what I've been missing. I like this album so far.
Three Legs Duck / Bandcamp - "Jude Cowan Montague solicits the appeal of such arcane/experimental sound artisans as Daniel Johnston and most recently David Lynch. Many times eco-friendly and almost authoritative in their approach, Jude's songs find loose classification somewhere between Dadaist MicroKorg manifestos and what could be construed as contemporary folk temperament; that is to say, certain influences such as the folk rebirth during the late 60's (made popular by such denizens as electric Bob Dylan etc.) have fostered a significant effect on the lyrics, laying the bridged gap down brick by brick in her songs . . . . ."
Northern Spy / Bandcamp
- From the guy with A Crimson Grail for 400 electric guitars - "Rhys Chatham has trail-blazed a course through late 20th century music, equally aplomb in post-minimalist composition as he is in punk. Not since Roebling laid his span across the East River has there been an artist who builds bridges in both how we hear music and how we can appreciate art. His latest album, Outdoor Spell, is a further document in that direction. Here has has eschewed 100 guitars, or even himself playing a single guitar, for the trumpet and voice, both electrified and dry. It is an Earthquake Island for the 21st century, tugging at the corners of new ideas, taking in forms endemic to a shared imagination and renewing the beauty there."
I visited Canyon de Chelly a few years back. The experience seemed like a modern parable. We drive into the desert, spent an hour climbing down the canyon side, hiked along the canyon by a dry riverbed, until deep in the canyon we reached some remains of an ancient Native American settlement.
There were some Native Americans sitting by the side of the trail selling jewelry, apparently miles from anywhere.
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I've just bought a big booster to clear some of my backlog of Saved items, really with the aim of giving up emusic membership in a month or two, as I am getting so frustrated with it at the moment. I think if we got Guvera, that would certainly be the end for me.
Gu!
Strange timing, amc. Gu!
I found this in a record store this morning at £8.40 in their closing down sale. The irony is that I could have downloaded for £4.75!
BC
How is the Silk Road?
(The Beatles Complete On Ukulele)
Brokeback - Brokeback and the Black Rock
Grimes - Halfaxa
Autechre - Exai
I was a big fan of their first few albums but lost interest when Chiastic Slide hit (even though "Cichli" is one of my favorite songs of their). With BN posting about them nonstop lately I figure it's time to check what I've been missing. I like this album so far.
New album from The Green Kingdom - Dustloops : Memory Fragments.
ETA, this seems like a slight departuer for The Green Kingdom - more rhythms. Worth a listen.
I've forgotten how to make those album covers.
I'll try to link something up.(later)
Time to look.
Good night....
- "Jude Cowan Montague solicits the appeal of such arcane/experimental sound artisans as Daniel Johnston and most recently David Lynch. Many times eco-friendly and almost authoritative in their approach, Jude's songs find loose classification somewhere between Dadaist MicroKorg manifestos and what could be construed as contemporary folk temperament; that is to say, certain influences such as the folk rebirth during the late 60's (made popular by such denizens as electric Bob Dylan etc.) have fostered a significant effect on the lyrics, laying the bridged gap down brick by brick in her songs . . . . ."
- From the guy with A Crimson Grail for 400 electric guitars
- "Rhys Chatham has trail-blazed a course through late 20th century music, equally aplomb in post-minimalist composition as he is in punk. Not since Roebling laid his span across the East River has there been an artist who builds bridges in both how we hear music and how we can appreciate art. His latest album, Outdoor Spell, is a further document in that direction. Here has has eschewed 100 guitars, or even himself playing a single guitar, for the trumpet and voice, both electrified and dry. It is an Earthquake Island for the 21st century, tugging at the corners of new ideas, taking in forms endemic to a shared imagination and renewing the beauty there."
- Not so good, but acceptable sound. Recommended anyway because of some mindblowing Alvin Lee solos.
ETA: WOW ! - (track 7 - Help Me)
The full four discs of this are on Guvera.
Dueling Native American flutes. I can see GP shaking his head from thousands of miles away.
There were some Native Americans sitting by the side of the trail selling jewelry, apparently miles from anywhere.
They accepted Visa.
Jon Hassell - Aka / Darbari / Java
Guvera.