13 hours of meetings yesterday, no music, so today will have to be E-day. (At home all day today, so who knows, I might make it to F)
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Also known as: Andrew Liles - Black End - "A thousand curtsies and twice as many thanks to Steven Stapleton who appears on 'Ohm', R K Faulhaber who narrates on track 2 and Matt Waldron who sings and plays guitar on track 3. 'The Vortex Vault' will be in part a collection of unreleased, unearthed and dusted down material from the vast Andrew Liles archive of unused studio material. 'The Vortex Vault' will also include brand new recordings, conceptual and collaborative pieces, special guests, kraut rock psyche outs, space rock, the odd and unlikely, Norwegian, the obscure and arcane, aircraft, cicadas, the absurd and nonsensical. 'The Vortex Vault' is a platform to release radically different and eclectic material. Expect the unexpected, the minimalist and excessive, the demure and deranged. The first in the series will be 'Black Paper', The second in the series will be 'Black Hole', and in no particular order will be followed by 'Black Beauty', 'Black Mamba', 'Black Pool', 'Black Sea', 'Black Panther', 'Black Sheep', 'Black Widow', 'Blackout', 'Black Market' and finishing with 'Black End"
- Beta-Lactam Ring Records 2006
This is posted January.10.2014 on music for 48,02 - the price on Bandcamp is 4£ (for the last 4 tracks.)
Alexandre Saint-Onge - Joseph Carey Merrick - "Joseph Carey Merrick embodies the idea, already obvious on my previous album My animal is possible (Alien 8 Recordings), to communicate with monsters and to exorcise my monstrousness through sound spectres. Here, the monstrousness means the possibility of a relation with the imperceptible, it is the advent of quite other sense which never can be merged with the meaning. Through this suite of electronic "pop" songs for voice, bass and computer I try to make get through my voice Joseph Carey Merricks voice. It is about a rite of ownership of / by another, similar to a small Ouija board, where my body and my mouth become this famous way to communicate with the spirits."
- Alexandre St-Onge, Montreal, November 10, 2007 http://www.alexandrest-onge.com
- I feel that, conceptually, I am still living in the age of the horse and carriage and the first motor cars.
Giya Kancheli.
- "Music, like life itself, is inconceivable without romanticism. Romanticism is a high dream of the past, present, and future--a force of invincible beauty which towers above, and conquers, the forces of ignorance, bigotry, violence, and evil."
--Giya Kancheli
- "Born in Tbilisi on 10 August 1935, Giya Kancheli is Georgia's most distinguished living composer and a leading figure in the world of contemporary music. Kancheli's scores, deeply spiritual in nature, are filled with haunting aural images, varied colors and textures, sharp contrasts and shattering climaxes. His music draws inspiration from Georgian folklore and sings with a heartfelt, yet refined emotion; it is conceived dramaturgically with a strong linear flow and an expansive sense of musical time. A man of uncompromising artistic integrity, Kancheli has been called by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, "an ascetic with the temperament of a maximalist -- a restrained Vesuvius."
Best-known as a composer of symphonies and other large-scale works, Kancheli has written seven symphonies and a "liturgy" for viola and orchestra, Mourned by the Wind. His Fourth Symphony ("In Memoria di Michelangelo") received its American premiere with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Yury Temirkanov conducting, in January 1978, shortly before the cultural freeze in the United States against Soviet artists. The advent of glasnost brought growing exposure for and recognition of Kancheli's distinctive musical voice, leading to prestigious commissions and increasingly frequent performances in Europe and America. Dennis Russell Davies, Jansug Kakhidze, Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Kim Kashkashian, Mstislav Rostropovich and the Kronos Quartet are among his passionate champions. In recent seasons, world premieres of specially commissioned works have taken place in Seattle (Piano Quartet in L'istesso Tempo by the Bridge Ensemble, 1998) and New York (And Farewell Goes Out Sighing... for violin, countertenor and orchestra by the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur, 1999). North American premieres of major scores by Kancheli have been presented by the Philadelphia and Chicago Symphony Orchestras and at the Vancouver International New Music Festival. In May 2002, he returned to these shores for the eagerly awaited premiere performances of Don't Grieve, a commission by the San Francisco Symphony for baritone and orchestra, with Dmitri Hvorostovsky as soloist and Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.
Kancheli's compositional style owes much to his work in the theatre. For two decades he served as Music Director of the Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilisi. His opera, Music for the Living, which has won considerable praise in the former Soviet Union and Western Europe since its June 1984 premiere, was written in collaboration with the Rustaveli's director Robert Sturua. In December 1999, the original collaborators restaged the opera for the Deutsches National Theater in Weimar. Among Kancheli's other recent scores are Diplipito for cello, counter-tenor and chamber orchestra, Time... and Again for violin and piano (1997), Rokwa for large symphony orchestra (1999) and Styx for viola, mixed chorus and orchestra (1999). After electrifying performances of Mourned by the Wind at the Brooklyn Philharmonic in the fall of 1993, critics raved: "superb," "there is no denying the powerful sincerity of this music and its riveting hold on the imagination -- a grip that doesn't relent until the consoling conclusion in which the individual and his turbulent, unpredictable universe arrive at a reconciliation."
Dislocated by political and social turbulence in his homeland, Kancheli currently resides in Antwerp. Recordings of his music are available on the Nonesuch, Sony and ECM New Series labels." G Schirmer Inc.
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Benjamin Koppel - "The Adventures of a Polar Expedition"
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
The Evpatoria Report - Golevka
One of the very best post-rock albums.
Also known as:
Andrew Liles - Black End
- "A thousand curtsies and twice as many thanks to Steven Stapleton who appears on 'Ohm', R K Faulhaber who narrates on track 2 and Matt Waldron who sings and plays guitar on track 3. 'The Vortex Vault' will be in part a collection of unreleased, unearthed and dusted down material from the vast Andrew Liles archive of unused studio material. 'The Vortex Vault' will also include brand new recordings, conceptual and collaborative pieces, special guests, kraut rock psyche outs, space rock, the odd and unlikely, Norwegian, the obscure and arcane, aircraft, cicadas, the absurd and nonsensical. 'The Vortex Vault' is a platform to release radically different and eclectic material. Expect the unexpected, the minimalist and excessive, the demure and deranged. The first in the series will be 'Black Paper', The second in the series will be 'Black Hole', and in no particular order will be followed by 'Black Beauty', 'Black Mamba', 'Black Pool', 'Black Sea', 'Black Panther', 'Black Sheep', 'Black Widow', 'Blackout', 'Black Market' and finishing with 'Black End"
- Beta-Lactam Ring Records 2006
This is posted January.10.2014 on music for 48,02 - the price on Bandcamp is 4£ (for the last 4 tracks.)
Andre Carvalho - "Memoria de Amiba"
-Brian Blade Fellowship-ish type of jazz. Great melodies stated right from the start. From there, drifting.
http://andrecarvalho.bandcamp.com/
Andre Santos - "Ponto de Partida"
-More nifty mod jazz from the Lisbon, Portugal scene. If you liked the breezy jazz-rock of Quartetto Minimo, you'll like this, too. I sure do.
http://andresantos.bandcamp.com/album/ponto-de-partida
Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Viaticum
Egberto Gismonti et. al. - Magico
Egberto Gismonti - Solo
Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
Had to listen to some of his solo stuff after he brought it last night at Darkside.
Craig
Alexandre Saint-Onge - Joseph Carey Merrick
- "Joseph Carey Merrick embodies the idea, already obvious on my previous album My animal is possible (Alien 8 Recordings), to communicate with monsters and to exorcise my monstrousness through sound spectres. Here, the monstrousness means the possibility of a relation with the imperceptible, it is the advent of quite other sense which never can be merged with the meaning. Through this suite of electronic "pop" songs for voice, bass and computer I try to make get through my voice Joseph Carey Merricks voice. It is about a rite of ownership of / by another, similar to a small Ouija board, where my body and my mouth become this famous way to communicate with the spirits."
- Alexandre St-Onge, Montreal, November 10, 2007
http://www.alexandrest-onge.com
Fabio Orsi - Stand Before Me, Oh My Soul
Fabio Orsi & Seaworthy - Near and Far Away
Like this a lot better than that previous one.
Falter- Taumelflug
Federico Palmolella - Keep on Groovin'
A nice free one from the archive.
Music this morning whilst on school run - might have something to do with it being the only CD in the car!!
http://ecmreviews.com/?s=Giya+Kancheli
- I feel that, conceptually, I am still living in the age of the horse and carriage and the first motor cars.
Giya Kancheli.
- "Music, like life itself, is inconceivable without romanticism. Romanticism is a high dream of the past, present, and future--a force of invincible beauty which towers above, and conquers, the forces of ignorance, bigotry, violence, and evil."
--Giya Kancheli
- "Born in Tbilisi on 10 August 1935, Giya Kancheli is Georgia's most distinguished living composer and a leading figure in the world of contemporary music. Kancheli's scores, deeply spiritual in nature, are filled with haunting aural images, varied colors and textures, sharp contrasts and shattering climaxes. His music draws inspiration from Georgian folklore and sings with a heartfelt, yet refined emotion; it is conceived dramaturgically with a strong linear flow and an expansive sense of musical time. A man of uncompromising artistic integrity, Kancheli has been called by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, "an ascetic with the temperament of a maximalist -- a restrained Vesuvius."
Best-known as a composer of symphonies and other large-scale works, Kancheli has written seven symphonies and a "liturgy" for viola and orchestra, Mourned by the Wind. His Fourth Symphony ("In Memoria di Michelangelo") received its American premiere with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Yury Temirkanov conducting, in January 1978, shortly before the cultural freeze in the United States against Soviet artists. The advent of glasnost brought growing exposure for and recognition of Kancheli's distinctive musical voice, leading to prestigious commissions and increasingly frequent performances in Europe and America. Dennis Russell Davies, Jansug Kakhidze, Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Kim Kashkashian, Mstislav Rostropovich and the Kronos Quartet are among his passionate champions. In recent seasons, world premieres of specially commissioned works have taken place in Seattle (Piano Quartet in L'istesso Tempo by the Bridge Ensemble, 1998) and New York (And Farewell Goes Out Sighing... for violin, countertenor and orchestra by the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur, 1999). North American premieres of major scores by Kancheli have been presented by the Philadelphia and Chicago Symphony Orchestras and at the Vancouver International New Music Festival. In May 2002, he returned to these shores for the eagerly awaited premiere performances of Don't Grieve, a commission by the San Francisco Symphony for baritone and orchestra, with Dmitri Hvorostovsky as soloist and Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.
Kancheli's compositional style owes much to his work in the theatre. For two decades he served as Music Director of the Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilisi. His opera, Music for the Living, which has won considerable praise in the former Soviet Union and Western Europe since its June 1984 premiere, was written in collaboration with the Rustaveli's director Robert Sturua. In December 1999, the original collaborators restaged the opera for the Deutsches National Theater in Weimar. Among Kancheli's other recent scores are Diplipito for cello, counter-tenor and chamber orchestra, Time... and Again for violin and piano (1997), Rokwa for large symphony orchestra (1999) and Styx for viola, mixed chorus and orchestra (1999). After electrifying performances of Mourned by the Wind at the Brooklyn Philharmonic in the fall of 1993, critics raved: "superb," "there is no denying the powerful sincerity of this music and its riveting hold on the imagination -- a grip that doesn't relent until the consoling conclusion in which the individual and his turbulent, unpredictable universe arrive at a reconciliation."
Dislocated by political and social turbulence in his homeland, Kancheli currently resides in Antwerp. Recordings of his music are available on the Nonesuch, Sony and ECM New Series labels."
G Schirmer Inc.
Lusine - The Waiting Room
Craig
- Brilliant !
Gate Zero - Green Planet
Pleasant freebie. Understated electronica.
John Talabot - Fin
Lots of electronic for me today.
Craig
Craig
The Gentleman Losers - Dustland
Greg Davis - Full Spectrum
Marihiko Hara "Flora" Piano Live set (Opening Act for Nils Frahm @Villa Kamogawa)
The Green Kingdom - Lucky Bamboo
A very nice free release.
CD2