- An album literally packed with "album of the year" potential . . .
ETA:
Just in @ Soundcloud: Nat Evans - Music for a Changing Tide
- "Music for a Changing Tide was written for the Mediate Art Group new media biennale: Soundwave. This event will take place at Ocean Beach on July 27th as part of this festival.
For this event, the audience will download this piece of music and put it on their iPod or other portable listening device and gather at Ocean Beach, San Francisco. Evans will then give the cue for everyone to press play and participants will sit back and observe while listening. The music is written to trace the changing of water movement and changing of light in the evening as the tidal change is observed. Intermingled with the music is a series of field recordings - the roar of Ocean Beach from a distance, airplanes combined with discreet sounds of barnacles, mussels and other intertidal creatures shifting and clicking at low tide, and water bumping rocks around as the tide slowly arises. In all - a site-specific sound and music event designed to allow participants to feel a greater sense of place and awareness of the moment and of our ever-shifting landscape.
All music was written by Nat Evans, with field recordings by Nat Evans and Chris Kallmyer."
-"In almost every documented encounter with the music of Wovenhand, what is described is an experience so visceral and so universally disorienting, that one has to take note. From the first measures of music, the taste of desert earth is on the lips; neck-hairs snap to attention as strange and unfamiliar sounds whisper just underneath the surge of guitar and the rumble of bass; clouds loom on the horizon promising either the balm of rain or the threat of judgment it could be either. The smell of horses breath, like ash, carries with it messages from another place, a place that is at once very very far away and impossibly close... The music of Wovenhand is its own iconography, its own world, its own universe."
- http://soundsfamilyre.com/ - Bandcamp
Blade's Fellowship makes music that fuels the irrational belief that nobody is affected more by their music than I... an example of the extreme personalization that creativity can have over any one of us. That visceral sense that the music is speaking to me in a language only I can understand but could never explain or describe adequately.
Touring member of Dirty Projectors, born in the USSR but moved to the US when she was young, this album is in Russian and a cross between Russian folk and...well, the Dirty Projectors. Really interesting so far. Link is to Bandcamp.
EDIT: Appparently emusers.org can't handle the cyrillic alphabet.
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ECO VIRTUAL - Atmospheres 1
NYOP
For mysterious reasons, Last.fm refuses to digest this album.
- Really excellent stuff and a must for Cline fans . . .
Porya Hatami - Land
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
David Wax Museum - The Great Unawakening. Neo-Folk? Prog-Folk?
Delicious country-fried psychedelia. Currently NYOP.
Re: David Wax Museum: Folk with Mexican Twist. All their past albums are NYOP at BC.
- An album literally packed with "album of the year" potential . . .
ETA:
Just in @ Soundcloud:
Nat Evans - Music for a Changing Tide
- "Music for a Changing Tide was written for the Mediate Art Group new media biennale: Soundwave. This event will take place at Ocean Beach on July 27th as part of this festival.
For this event, the audience will download this piece of music and put it on their iPod or other portable listening device and gather at Ocean Beach, San Francisco. Evans will then give the cue for everyone to press play and participants will sit back and observe while listening. The music is written to trace the changing of water movement and changing of light in the evening as the tidal change is observed. Intermingled with the music is a series of field recordings - the roar of Ocean Beach from a distance, airplanes combined with discreet sounds of barnacles, mussels and other intertidal creatures shifting and clicking at low tide, and water bumping rocks around as the tide slowly arises. In all - a site-specific sound and music event designed to allow participants to feel a greater sense of place and awareness of the moment and of our ever-shifting landscape.
All music was written by Nat Evans, with field recordings by Nat Evans and Chris Kallmyer."
- And:
Tim Hecker - Virgins
ETA: What ! ! ! - Not on the N&N thread and non on my 2013 list.
This is a disgrace.
Parlour - Simulacrenfield
Dudu Pukwana and the Jazz Disciples (1964)
Harold Budd for me lurks right in the twilight zone where ambient (yay!) slips over into New Age (yuck!). Parts of this own are working for me.
Philippe Lamy - Notbut
Wovenhand - The Laughing Stalk
-"In almost every documented encounter with the music of Wovenhand, what is described is an experience so visceral and so universally disorienting, that one has to take note. From the first measures of music, the taste of desert earth is on the lips; neck-hairs snap to attention as strange and unfamiliar sounds whisper just underneath the surge of guitar and the rumble of bass; clouds loom on the horizon promising either the balm of rain or the threat of judgment it could be either. The smell of horses breath, like ash, carries with it messages from another place, a place that is at once very very far away and impossibly close... The music of Wovenhand is its own iconography, its own world, its own universe."
- http://soundsfamilyre.com/ - Bandcamp
Craig
Blade's Fellowship makes music that fuels the irrational belief that nobody is affected more by their music than I... an example of the extreme personalization that creativity can have over any one of us. That visceral sense that the music is speaking to me in a language only I can understand but could never explain or describe adequately.
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atomos VII
A few weeks ago we were discussing early morning music. This definitely falls into that category for me.
Being a Bruce Springsteen completest I get to play (and buy!) EPs like this.
ETA:
Slint - Spiderland
- Brian Eno go home !
;-)
Olga Bell - ???? (Krai)
Touring member of Dirty Projectors, born in the USSR but moved to the US when she was young, this album is in Russian and a cross between Russian folk and...well, the Dirty Projectors. Really interesting so far. Link is to Bandcamp.
EDIT: Appparently emusers.org can't handle the cyrillic alphabet.
Craig