I forgot how good this is! I don't remember where I downloaded it, but it's a real treat that Guvera has it (as opposed to $18 for mp3 or $44 for CD on Amazon).
- "Just over one hour and five minutes, Harley Gabers I Saw My Mother Ascending Mount Fuji (2009, for Tape and processed Violin and Alto Flute) offers proof of musics power to transport (the listener) in ways generally associated with film and literature. Fujis Kaidan-like atmospherethe Japanese world of ghosts and spiritsunfolds slowly in its process of uncovering and revealing a deeper and different spirit world in what might be termed a spiritual journey: The ascension and transformation of the human spirit into pure energy expressed in the form of both musical and non-musical sounds. . . .
. . . .With I Saw My Mother Ascending Mount Fuji, Gaber has returned to music composition. This new work is at once a processing of untimely deaths in his family and a reconsideration of earlier compositionsMichi for solo violin (1972) and Chimyaku for solo alto flutewhich, in their processed and altered form and in conjunction with an entirely new tape part, project a new level of insight into the essential spiritual nature of sound and its physicality; . . .both transcendentally abstract and distinctly human, as the composer puts it. The ascension of Mount Fuji is a meditative journey, a spiritual odyssey perhaps, as real as it is imagined or metaphoric. The composer, however, leaves those distinctions for each listener to decide for him or herself."
- Edited from Innova Recordings - Soundcloud
Well, I just realized that I talk a lot like Dolly.
Dolly Parton
Better Get To Livin'
Yep, better get to doin' somethin'.
I'll listen to some tunes and think about it.
@Brighternow By the way, I believe I first heard about Charles Atlas from Germanprof over at emusic a long time ago. I really do have some catching-up to do on so many of the threads on these boards. I'll ponder on that one for a bit and see how that works out.
- "Harley Gaber (1943-June, 2011) does harrowing yet peaceful like no one else. His richly sonorous spectral drones sweep the soul along on its darkest night towards a dawn forever just beyond reach.
His last voyage, In Memoriam 2010, is a postscript or coda to the end of the world. Beginning with an apocalyptic tempest and (re)building from there, the album reveals shards of culture and humanity and finds a healing balm in enduring memory. It is an altogether fitting commemoration to the end of the world. For Gaber, 2010 was a tumultuous year, and this album in memory of it traces his attempts to come to terms with it. The record feels at once like a grand exhalation and an indefatigable inhalation. As much as certain sections titles point towards an end (Cataclysm and Threnody, Threnody and Prayer) others point towards a re-creation of order after death (In-Formation, Coalescing).
Commissioned by Dan Epstein of the Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation in memory of his mother, Nancy Epstein, In Memoriam 2010 explores the flux between knowing and not-knowing that resolves itself into peace and tranquility.
Drawing on his 20 years of work as a visual artist in diverse mediums, Gaber constructs In Memoriam 2010 using collage techniques, drawing on fragments from composers including himself, Philip Blackburn, Kenneth Gaburo, Verdi, Beethoven, Werner Durand, Paul Paccione, and Morton Feldman. His ability to fuse these musical elements without diluting them speaks to his organic outlook on sound and musical discourse. Like his previous Innova release, I Saw My Mother Ascending Mount Fuji, In Memoriam 2010 is both harrowing and peaceful. A sense of loss may permeate these works, but it never obscures the overall sense of redemption and love."
- Innova Recordings - 2011
I really love "Alice In Wonderland" from Current Events. What a wonderful waltz, beautiful melody. It relaxes me even to hum it. I like the slower tempo than, say, the classic Bill Evans' performances (which are great too of course).
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from BN and/or BITW, I think. BC, NYOP, OK?
I forgot how good this is! I don't remember where I downloaded it, but it's a real treat that Guvera has it (as opposed to $18 for mp3 or $44 for CD on Amazon).
- "Just over one hour and five minutes, Harley Gabers I Saw My Mother Ascending Mount Fuji (2009, for Tape and processed Violin and Alto Flute) offers proof of musics power to transport (the listener) in ways generally associated with film and literature. Fujis Kaidan-like atmospherethe Japanese world of ghosts and spiritsunfolds slowly in its process of uncovering and revealing a deeper and different spirit world in what might be termed a spiritual journey: The ascension and transformation of the human spirit into pure energy expressed in the form of both musical and non-musical sounds. . . .
. . . .With I Saw My Mother Ascending Mount Fuji, Gaber has returned to music composition. This new work is at once a processing of untimely deaths in his family and a reconsideration of earlier compositionsMichi for solo violin (1972) and Chimyaku for solo alto flutewhich, in their processed and altered form and in conjunction with an entirely new tape part, project a new level of insight into the essential spiritual nature of sound and its physicality; . . .both transcendentally abstract and distinctly human, as the composer puts it. The ascension of Mount Fuji is a meditative journey, a spiritual odyssey perhaps, as real as it is imagined or metaphoric. The composer, however, leaves those distinctions for each listener to decide for him or herself."
- Edited from Innova Recordings - Soundcloud
Dolly Parton
Better Get To Livin'
Yep, better get to doin' somethin'.
I'll listen to some tunes and think about it.
@Brighternow By the way, I believe I first heard about Charles Atlas from Germanprof over at emusic a long time ago. I really do have some catching-up to do on so many of the threads on these boards. I'll ponder on that one for a bit and see how that works out.
Women's Magazine
Penguin
Thanks 68
Sarangi
Blue Moon
Paris, Texas
Brazileiros
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma
Catch
Thanks Germanprof - that AGF certainly caught my ear right off and it appears she's married to Vladislav Delay.
More initials.
BC,
Thanks BN really great stuff
- If you like Ethno / Danceable / Atmospheric / IDM, - kind of stuff . . .
ETA: WOW ! - - (track 4)
- "Harley Gaber (1943-June, 2011) does harrowing yet peaceful like no one else. His richly sonorous spectral drones sweep the soul along on its darkest night towards a dawn forever just beyond reach.
His last voyage, In Memoriam 2010, is a postscript or coda to the end of the world. Beginning with an apocalyptic tempest and (re)building from there, the album reveals shards of culture and humanity and finds a healing balm in enduring memory. It is an altogether fitting commemoration to the end of the world. For Gaber, 2010 was a tumultuous year, and this album in memory of it traces his attempts to come to terms with it. The record feels at once like a grand exhalation and an indefatigable inhalation. As much as certain sections titles point towards an end (Cataclysm and Threnody, Threnody and Prayer) others point towards a re-creation of order after death (In-Formation, Coalescing).
Commissioned by Dan Epstein of the Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation in memory of his mother, Nancy Epstein, In Memoriam 2010 explores the flux between knowing and not-knowing that resolves itself into peace and tranquility.
Drawing on his 20 years of work as a visual artist in diverse mediums, Gaber constructs In Memoriam 2010 using collage techniques, drawing on fragments from composers including himself, Philip Blackburn, Kenneth Gaburo, Verdi, Beethoven, Werner Durand, Paul Paccione, and Morton Feldman. His ability to fuse these musical elements without diluting them speaks to his organic outlook on sound and musical discourse. Like his previous Innova release, I Saw My Mother Ascending Mount Fuji, In Memoriam 2010 is both harrowing and peaceful. A sense of loss may permeate these works, but it never obscures the overall sense of redemption and love."
- Innova Recordings - 2011
Maybe I had the volume too low, but this score didn't really do anything for me. Let me try it again...
Seeing them tonight, opening for The Men! My face is going to be rocked to the point of melting.
Craig
Craig
What a lineup, what a sound.
Collin Walcott - Cloud Dreams. Pretty much the best sitar based Jazz I am likely to hear today.
Trying My Best
Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Craig
Thanks, BT, nice writing music.