- "Features Edward Ka-Spel on vocals. One of the truest indications of a good record is when it sounds like something is starting to go wrong with the car while listening to it. The latest Silverman sounds at turns like the breaks are going, the belts are slipping, the timing needs adjusting, the drive shaft has a shot bearing and the clutch is failing. Perhaps this is the very nature of illusion bespoke in the title. NOI is a much more amorphous excursion than some of Silverman's previous slow trance explorations, though it does display his trademark fondness for going to very quiet places. Through a polar silence comes a ringing metallic that fades off into contrapuntal, subsonic drones. A brief essay of percussives trails back into the liquid void. The album is a series of such interlocked and subtle sonic, largely non-melodic shape shifts whose darkness is not so much morose as it is simply casting shadows of and off the unknown. Silverman has carved an abstract chasm of distant, organic electronics that is best first opened away from one's car." Beta-Lactam Ring Records - 2005
It may seem odd to some that an art bear like me likes French Teen Idol, but listening to his previous albums is like being reunited with a dear old friend. . . Lovely !
One of the best parts of the Morr drip (which I swore I would cancel this month and couldn't bring myself to do it) is all of the compilations they do, including this series for each year they've been around.
Kicked off a playlist with "Feel It All Around" which popped up on Google Music (anyone else using this?). Coincidentally I've been watching a lot of Portlandia.
I'm proud of the Bay State, where I lived and studied, where my son was born, and I'm happy the people I know in Cambridge, Newton and Waltham are safe.
Highly entertaining album of this gifted guitarist leading the octet, including woodwinds, through a wide swath of music.
Can be streamed at G. under George Barnes Octet.
via drip.fm. Note for those of you on the Domino Drip. Tracks 17 and 18 are not currently in the .zip in the mp3 or FLAC. I needed to download them individually and then add the .mp3 tag. Kind of a pain, but I'm sure it'll get corrected soon.
A series of enchanting instrumental works, Stories From Elsewhere is Rhian Sheehans most evocative album to date - an excursion into a soundscape of tender ethereal textures, brooding cinematic string arrangements, and playful experimental lullabies. Sheehan has encapsulated a world of serenity and melancholia within this 12-track album. Stories From Elsewhere is a musical landscape to get lost in.
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- "Features Edward Ka-Spel on vocals. One of the truest indications of a good record is when it sounds like something is starting to go wrong with the car while listening to it. The latest Silverman sounds at turns like the breaks are going, the belts are slipping, the timing needs adjusting, the drive shaft has a shot bearing and the clutch is failing. Perhaps this is the very nature of illusion bespoke in the title. NOI is a much more amorphous excursion than some of Silverman's previous slow trance explorations, though it does display his trademark fondness for going to very quiet places. Through a polar silence comes a ringing metallic that fades off into contrapuntal, subsonic drones. A brief essay of percussives trails back into the liquid void. The album is a series of such interlocked and subtle sonic, largely non-melodic shape shifts whose darkness is not so much morose as it is simply casting shadows of and off the unknown. Silverman has carved an abstract chasm of distant, organic electronics that is best first opened away from one's car."
Beta-Lactam Ring Records - 2005
I'm getting deluged with emails: friends knew I'd be in the Boston area either this week or last week for my defense.
Thanks, Brighternow!
It may seem odd to some that an art bear like me likes French Teen Idol, but listening to his previous albums is like being reunited with a dear old friend. . . Lovely !
One of the best parts of the Morr drip (which I swore I would cancel this month and couldn't bring myself to do it) is all of the compilations they do, including this series for each year they've been around.
Kicked off a playlist with "Feel It All Around" which popped up on Google Music (anyone else using this?). Coincidentally I've been watching a lot of Portlandia.
A SXSW rec from somewhere. Sound a bit like early Death Cab for Cutie at times.
Joining GP. Good stuff. Good accompaniment to the news.
Thanks BT
ETA: expendable.
- Yeah !
Some very nice shimmery guitar loopiness, NYOP.
BN; thanks for the tip on Zen Lu; I enjoyed one of his albums very much today.
I'm proud of the Bay State, where I lived and studied, where my son was born, and I'm happy the people I know in Cambridge, Newton and Waltham are safe.
Oh man !
ETA: queued:
Cracow Klezmer Band - De Profundis. Early eMu purchase that is always a frantic joy.
Gu!
Highly entertaining album of this gifted guitarist leading the octet, including woodwinds, through a wide swath of music.
Can be streamed at G. under George Barnes Octet.
via drip.fm. Note for those of you on the Domino Drip. Tracks 17 and 18 are not currently in the .zip in the mp3 or FLAC. I needed to download them individually and then add the .mp3 tag. Kind of a pain, but I'm sure it'll get corrected soon.
Craig
This is excellent.
And while my ears are tuned to Africa:
New release from Rhian Sheehan (I have enjoyed a couple of his previous releases, [url=http://www.emusic.com/album/rhian-sheehan/seven-tales-of-the-north-wind/12511890/[/url]Seven Tales of the North Wind[/url] and New Zealand Landscapes.
Very pretty so far (perhaps a little too pretty?)
Robert Hampson: Analogue Electronics, Concr
So....so....good.
Craig
BMOP 2012
I Want George Soros
Thanks
then
Loren Connors & David Grubbs
Arborvitae
Glyph
Bad Moon Risin'
ETA: the Emusic version has breaks between the tracks, it spoils the listening experience . . .
:-(