Craig - no, I lost or sold that cassette a long time ago, but that was the first way I heard it, so I always liked that cover better. I don't have a working tape player. I had a good one that I got from my in laws along with my current record player and amplifier, but I gave it to my three year old, who enjoys playing with old appliances and electronic devices and he destroyed it, although he still enjoys playing with it. I occasionally regret that when I see trendy tape releases on bandcamp and such, but I console myself by think my kid got way more enjoyment out of it than I would have by following some trend.
Ducktails - The Flower Lane
I just love this album; so glad I was on the Domino drip because otherwise this would have just drifted right by me; it's probably my most listened to release of this year.
- "The 9th album by Ten and Tracer charts a course into the heart of a most beautiful darkness. Bass throbs, tribalisch percussions and layers of detailed sound design add up to more than the sum of their parts.
"A Secret Is a Poisonous Snake" is a 19 track album that somehow hallucinogenically erases all the boundaries; between the individual tracks, between texture and melody, between the listener and the music itself. This is experimental yet approachable music by a producer who has worked so hard for so long, that his vision has gone beyond precision, into alchemy." Emusic
Once upon a time I downloaded this brilliant album from the no longer existing Russian Netlabel Electrosound.
It doesn't seem to be available for download anymore, and that is really a pity.
- "ElectroSound is proudly presents the official internet re-issue of the original CD of the well-known russian composer Anton Batagov, first appeared on Longarms Records.
The composition of this album is based on philosophy and practical instructions of the Great Masters of Alchemy. This music is an attempt to reconstitute the spirit of Coniunctio, an alchemical mystery. Alchemy knows a lot about opposite images, like water and fire, dryness and wetness, warmth and cold, the volatile and the fixed, the bodily and the spiritual, the Sun and the Moon, gold and silver, circle and square
The punk-style guitar riffs and vocal phrases adjoin with angelic choir, church organ, and transparent piano passages. Coniunctio is the understanding or experience of the unity of opposites or paradoxes that lies beyond the world of duality.
All tracks Anton Batagov (piano, organ, celesta, samplers), Peteris Shuniatis (vibraphone), Theophrastus (guitars). Track #1 Philipp Spagyrov (trombone), V.L. (vocal). Track #2 Maya (harp). Track #3 Nikita Kochergin (cello). ElectroSound would like to thank Lyuda Dmitrieva and Maxim Kuzmin from Longarms for this record."
Shinobu Nemoto - ?? (Silver Storm) - "This music was made by the self-oscillation of the analog filter and the interaction of some automated devices. I can install this device anywhere and can control the parameter of the device by a heat perception sensor arbitrarily. I will make the device downsized sometime soon. It is a self-oscillation of the analog filter that I was interested in particular. When something reaches the critical point, it emits a sound. About an analog filter, When Resonance forces Cutoff to self-reference, the filter emits a sound. However, a question is left about the self-oscillation of the filter. That question is "What kind of opportunity does the self-oscillation occur in?" It may be performed with the device different from the filter by the method such as the sound installation.
Also, I usually downplay objectivity about music production, but am interested in feedback of the self-reference. It has action to destroy self. I want to incorporate a method formalism-like than the process of the expressionism-like self?destruction in my experimental music. Where will we go to after this self?destruction? No, this question in itself will be meaningless. Experimental simulation for certain consciousness / unconsciousness. Meditation to destroy meditation. The infinite feedback will continue always updating us while making a slight difference.
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Craig
Ducktails - The Flower Lane
I just love this album; so glad I was on the Domino drip because otherwise this would have just drifted right by me; it's probably my most listened to release of this year.
followed by
Craig
//TENSE// - Turn it Off EP
Electronic music very much in an 80s, industrial vein. It's good and free at Bandcamp.
Craig
Thanks, BN
- Awesome violin from Jean-Luc Ponty !
I had to take my wife into work today (35-40 mins each way). On the way we played her choice:
On the way back I played my choice:
Now playing
- "The 9th album by Ten and Tracer charts a course into the heart of a most beautiful darkness. Bass throbs, tribalisch percussions and layers of detailed sound design add up to more than the sum of their parts.
"A Secret Is a Poisonous Snake" is a 19 track album that somehow hallucinogenically erases all the boundaries; between the individual tracks, between texture and melody, between the listener and the music itself. This is experimental yet approachable music by a producer who has worked so hard for so long, that his vision has gone beyond precision, into alchemy."
Emusic
ETA: expendable (IMO)
Zen Lu - Ding
Chinese experimental electronic music available free on bandcamp; thanks to Brighternow.
51 x 5* reviews out of 54 on Amazon...so far I'd have to agree that this is rather good. Piano, some orchestration, light electronics.
It doesn't seem to be available for download anymore, and that is really a pity.
AAJ review: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=44064#.UZPX9rXvuSo
Adventures in Your Own Backyard
(my favourite part of the day)
Shinobu Nemoto - ?? (Silver Storm)
- "This music was made by the self-oscillation of the analog filter and the interaction of some automated devices. I can install this device anywhere and can control the parameter of the device by a heat perception sensor arbitrarily. I will make the device downsized sometime soon. It is a self-oscillation of the analog filter that I was interested in particular. When something reaches the critical point, it emits a sound. About an analog filter, When Resonance forces Cutoff to self-reference, the filter emits a sound. However, a question is left about the self-oscillation of the filter. That question is "What kind of opportunity does the self-oscillation occur in?" It may be performed with the device different from the filter by the method such as the sound installation.
Also, I usually downplay objectivity about music production, but am interested in feedback of the self-reference. It has action to destroy self. I want to incorporate a method formalism-like than the process of the expressionism-like self?destruction in my experimental music. Where will we go to after this self?destruction? No, this question in itself will be meaningless. Experimental simulation for certain consciousness / unconsciousness. Meditation to destroy meditation. The infinite feedback will continue always updating us while making a slight difference.
The Good Old Days Are Back in Drag
(I have a soft spot for Dylan channelers)
Mion : Si c'