Something I came across when exploring craig's BC page. Free.
If it means anything, these are the Deep Elm albums I picked up and my ratings of them. A lot of the stuff sounds samey, and there's only so much "white boy angst" I can take.
Growth and Squalor by Accents **
Fighting Starlight by Benton Falls ****
Nuet by Dorena ****1/2
Blood Harmony by Les Sages **1/2
Reanimation by Lights and Motion ****
New Art History by Our Lost Infanty ***
Low Level Owl I by Appleseed Cast ***
Low Level Owl I by Appleseed Cast ****1/2
Mare Vitalis by Appleseed Cast ***1/2
We Were Always Loyal To Lost Causes by Dandelion War ****
A Southern Blue by Track a Tiger ***
goddverb by Coma Recovery ****
No Matter Where We Go..! by Latterman ***1/2
Sunshine In A Shot Glass by 500 Miles To Memphis **1/2
Pistol by Sounds Like Violence *****
With Blood On My Hands by Sounds Like Violence ****
About Everything And More by Dorena ***1/2
Colors In Stereo by Moonlit Sailor ****
So Close To Life by Moonlit Sailor ***1/2
amc - Not likely! I sang "Ding-Dong the Witch is Dead" for a week after nuking that 'genre'. I'll definitely check the album out, though.
BT - Hope you like it! Anthm is quality stuff.
Somehow I've never actually heard this before. It's so freakin' good. "What More Can I Say" over "My Guitar Gently Weeps" is amazing. Can't wait to hear what Beatles track backs "Dirt Off Your Shoulder".
EDIT: Good lord, "99 Problems" is mixed with "Helter Skelter"!?!
@BT, I have to be in the mood for Toe, but there is something oddly memorable and endearing about the plaintive, bad-English vocal and lines like "There was not like things to do"
Apparently it goes with bad dress sense, bad hair, bad facial expressions (I think the guy on the left died before the photoshoot)...hmm, I expect the music is wonderful.
This is emo maybe? I don't know I never followed emo enough to know. But this is nice, enjoyable.
BT; I thought I remembered that thread, but what I remembered was this comment by Craig, (on the wtf thread) about a similar, but much more recent book. (The post Craig links to mentions the Voynich though...)
Does anyone else find the decoding of an old mystery a little bit sad? It likely won't help us understand an ancient culture better; it's just a secret that's now been told.
Meredith Monk voice
Theo Bleckmann: voice
Allison Easter: voice
Katie Geissinger: voice
Ching Gonzalez: voice
Allison Sniffin: voice, piano, synthesizer, viola, violin
John Hollenbeck: voice, percussion, melodica, piano
Bohdan Hilash: clarinets - " An important new musical work, Meredith Monks eighth ECM recording is released just prior to the 60th birthday of the composer. For almost 40 years, the great interdisciplinary artist has been overturning categories, transcending the limitations of any of the idioms. mercy was first unleashed in America as a multi-media stage work which Monk realized together with noted installation artist Ann Hamilton. The album, though, is far more than a soundtrack. Not only did some of the music predate the stage work incorporating several pieces that Meredith had written before joining forces with Hamilton the stage material has been rigorously rearranged with many changes, compressions, expansions of forms. Merediths Monks work touches on so many areas, but at the heart of it is singing, exploring the human voice in all its possibilities. Her innovations in what is now called extended vocal technique have been enormously influential. When she began her vocal pioneering, in 1965, this area was largely unexplored. Since then echoes of Monks work can be heard across the genres, influencing artists as diverse as Joan La Barbara and Kate Bush, Laurie Anderson and Björk (whose current live set includes Merediths Gotham Lullaby)." ECM 2002
OK, so I am learning today that most of the music that I have that begins with U I don't actually like very much. Will have to fall back on Ultravox and U2 for the afternoon.
Ultravox - Vienna
U and V: " . . .Tampere, Finlands Uton (Jani Hirvonen) and Taranto, Italys Valerio Cosi (who is ½ of Pulga after all) are two of the most creative and most prolific musicians working in experimental music at the moment, and on Käärmeenkääntopiiri, Uton and Valerio have mastered a sound that combines elements of psychedelia, free jazz, krautrock, environmental sounds, drones and more for an ecstatic listening experience.
A mélange of electronic and acoustic instrumentation, sounds here collide and join together as naturally as the coming of the tides. By turns meditative and forceful, introspective and extroverted, all the while commanding undivided attention from the listener. This is experimentation that remains inviting even in its darker passages. . . ."
- Fire Museum Records 2007
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Something I came across when exploring craig's BC page. Free.
If it means anything, these are the Deep Elm albums I picked up and my ratings of them. A lot of the stuff sounds samey, and there's only so much "white boy angst" I can take.
Growth and Squalor by Accents **
Fighting Starlight by Benton Falls ****
Nuet by Dorena ****1/2
Blood Harmony by Les Sages **1/2
Reanimation by Lights and Motion ****
New Art History by Our Lost Infanty ***
Low Level Owl I by Appleseed Cast ***
Low Level Owl I by Appleseed Cast ****1/2
Mare Vitalis by Appleseed Cast ***1/2
We Were Always Loyal To Lost Causes by Dandelion War ****
A Southern Blue by Track a Tiger ***
goddverb by Coma Recovery ****
No Matter Where We Go..! by Latterman ***1/2
Sunshine In A Shot Glass by 500 Miles To Memphis **1/2
Pistol by Sounds Like Violence *****
With Blood On My Hands by Sounds Like Violence ****
About Everything And More by Dorena ***1/2
Colors In Stereo by Moonlit Sailor ****
So Close To Life by Moonlit Sailor ***1/2
BT - Hope you like it! Anthm is quality stuff.
Somehow I've never actually heard this before. It's so freakin' good. "What More Can I Say" over "My Guitar Gently Weeps" is amazing. Can't wait to hear what Beatles track backs "Dirt Off Your Shoulder".
EDIT: Good lord, "99 Problems" is mixed with "Helter Skelter"!?!
Craig
I heard the Grey Album years before I heard the Black Album...
Tone Color - Today Will Die Tomorrow
@BT, I have to be in the mood for Toe, but there is something oddly memorable and endearing about the plaintive, bad-English vocal and lines like "There was not like things to do"
600 year old mystery manuscript decoded by University of Bedfordshire professor
This is emo maybe? I don't know I never followed emo enough to know. But this is nice, enjoyable.
BT; I thought I remembered that thread, but what I remembered was this comment by Craig, (on the wtf thread) about a similar, but much more recent book. (The post Craig links to mentions the Voynich though...)
Does anyone else find the decoding of an old mystery a little bit sad? It likely won't help us understand an ancient culture better; it's just a secret that's now been told.
- From my Best of 2013 list.
Back from my afternoon with Lucius and put some photos up on MiG (they were completely amazing live, by the way). Now listening to:
Craig
Meredith Monk voice
Theo Bleckmann: voice
Allison Easter: voice
Katie Geissinger: voice
Ching Gonzalez: voice
Allison Sniffin: voice, piano, synthesizer, viola, violin
John Hollenbeck: voice, percussion, melodica, piano
Bohdan Hilash: clarinets
- " An important new musical work, Meredith Monks eighth ECM recording is released just prior to the 60th birthday of the composer. For almost 40 years, the great interdisciplinary artist has been overturning categories, transcending the limitations of any of the idioms. mercy was first unleashed in America as a multi-media stage work which Monk realized together with noted installation artist Ann Hamilton. The album, though, is far more than a soundtrack. Not only did some of the music predate the stage work incorporating several pieces that Meredith had written before joining forces with Hamilton the stage material has been rigorously rearranged with many changes, compressions, expansions of forms. Merediths Monks work touches on so many areas, but at the heart of it is singing, exploring the human voice in all its possibilities. Her innovations in what is now called extended vocal technique have been enormously influential. When she began her vocal pioneering, in 1965, this area was largely unexplored. Since then echoes of Monks work can be heard across the genres, influencing artists as diverse as Joan La Barbara and Kate Bush, Laurie Anderson and Björk (whose current live set includes Merediths Gotham Lullaby)."
ECM 2002
ETA:
http://www.last.fm/music/Urban+Sax/+wiki
Uusitalo - Karhunainen
Unwed Sailor - The Faithful Anchor
Umber - Earth, Feet, Lifted.
Ultravox - Vienna
" . . .Tampere, Finlands Uton (Jani Hirvonen) and Taranto, Italys Valerio Cosi (who is ½ of Pulga after all) are two of the most creative and most prolific musicians working in experimental music at the moment, and on Käärmeenkääntopiiri, Uton and Valerio have mastered a sound that combines elements of psychedelia, free jazz, krautrock, environmental sounds, drones and more for an ecstatic listening experience.
A mélange of electronic and acoustic instrumentation, sounds here collide and join together as naturally as the coming of the tides. By turns meditative and forceful, introspective and extroverted, all the while commanding undivided attention from the listener. This is experimentation that remains inviting even in its darker passages. . . ."
- Fire Museum Records 2007
Aguirre (In B Major: Stars Aligning)
Train Through Time
Valerio Cosi - Aguirre (In B Major: Stars Aligning) @ Youtube
- WOW !
Uton - Mystery Revolution
ETA: My goodness, this is fantastic !
It's from 1971 and has a brilliant cover version of Zappa's "King Kong" - A must for Residents fans.
And a Zeppelin cover "Holelottadick"
Vangelis - Soil Festivities
(I have always thought this might be his best album. Holds up better than a lot of his stuff from that era.)
Then:
Venus Vulture - Post Piano Interpretations
Trying to decide whether "Various Artists" really counts for V-day. It makes a big difference to the listening available!
Valgeir Sigur
The Vainglories - The Visitor