Game of Mirrors by guiatarist David Chevallier: a very creative re-imagining of ten songs by John Dowland, preserving the melody and words by reworking the accompaniment with guitar and theorbo. The melancholy remains, but the tones shift between Jazz, Celtic and Cabaret. The interplay between the two instruments is wonderful.
A repost from the N&N thread from 2011 on Cedille
(mentioned by Doofy on the nerd thread)
- Most recommended ! "Sung by a lovelorn psychologist, the songs in Lonely Motel are about perception, self-delusion and ultimately about the isolation created by the attachments we develop to our own fuzzy, personal views of reality.
The music is a dish by and for musical omnivores and while the ingredients have been diced quite finely (and there is no quotation), the songs are seasoned with homages to Dowland, Mozart, Stravinsky, Piazzola, and The Beatles."
- Steven Mackey.
- Nominated for 4 grammies including Best Contemporary Composition and Best Small Ensemble Performance.
RE: the magnificent Eighth Blackbird Ensemble, a repost from the classical N&N thread from 2012:
- "The eight works on this recording fall into two, slightly overlapping groups: pieces that respond to the natural world (Dark Wood, Changing Light and Trembling Air), and pieces that allude to or respond to other music (like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment, Arioso/ Doubles and Nocturne/Doubles, Traces). The first group is connected to Broening's experiences in Estonia. A Fulbright brought Broening to Tallinn in 2007 and in the following years he returned a number of times for concerts, lectures and to compose, spending much of his time in the forests, islands and fields. Broening's music couples his interest in the expressive power of sound with a sense of line derived from his background as a singer, the music here combining acoustic instruments with electronic processing. This recording marks the debut on Bridge of the brilliant Chicago-based, two-time Grammy Award-winning sextet, eighth blackbird."
- Bridge Records
Benjamin Broening - "(b. 1967) is a composer of orchestral, choral, chamber and electroacoustic music. In the past few seasons his music has been performed in Japan, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Australia, Estonia, Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada and across the United States. Recent works include a piece for flute and electronics for Camilla Hoitenga, a clarinet concerto for Richard Hawkins, a multi-movement work for Zeitgeist, a sextet for Ensemble U: (Estonia), two works for clarinet and electronics for Arthur Campbell and choral/instrumental works for the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, the James River Singers as well pieces for pianist Daniel Koppelman and eighth blackbird.
Other recent works include works for cello and electronics and flute and electronics for members of eighth blackbird, a piece for soprano and electroacoustic music commissioned by the Arts Now Series at North Carolina State University, a cantata for the Charlotte Symphony and the Oratorio Singers of Charlotte, pieces for the Connecticut Choral Society, the Grace Choral Society of Brooklyn, and a multi-media cantata for Hampton-Sydney College among others. Other commissions a chamber work for Quorum Chamber Arts Collective, three choral works for the Virginia Glee Club, music for theater and dance, as well as numerous solo works for performers around the United States.
A recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Estonia, Broening has also received recognition and awards from the American Composers Forum, Virginia Commission for the Arts, ACS/Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Presser Music Foundation as well as a teaching award from the University of Richmond.
Recombinant Nocturnes, a disk of music for piano recorded by Duo Runedako (Daniel Koppelman and Ruth Neville) recently released on innova recordings, has been called a gorgeous disc of music and thoughtful, eloquent, and disarmingly direct by New Music Box, "deep, troubling by François Couture François Couture and Lovely, delicate, calming by Los Angeles KFJC.
Other current recording projects include two works recorded by clarinetist Arthur Campbell for release in Fall 2012 on everglade, and gathering light, recorded by violinist Lina Bahn for Naxos.
Broening is founder and artistic director of Third Practice, an annual festival of electroacoustic music at the University of Richmond, where he is Associate Professor of Music. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Cambridge University, Yale University, and Wesleyan University."
- http://benjaminbroening.net/index.html
Eighth Blackbird
Tim Munro, flutes Michael J. Maccaferri, clarinets*
Yvonne Lam, violin & viola Nicholas Photinos, cello
Matthew Duvall, percussion+ Lisa Kaplan, piano
- "eighth blackbird lives dangerously. The Chicago-based, two-time GRAMMY Award-winning sextet combines the finesse of a string quartet with the energy of a rock band and the audacity of a storefront theater company. Its musical aerobatics delight, provoke and entertain audiences around the world.
The lure of wet ink draws eighth blackbird into collaborations with a motley crew of composers, young and old, modernist and indie. Recent commissions include Steve Reich's Double Sextet, Jennifer Higdon's On a Wire and Steve Mackey's Slide, and future collaborators include Amy Beth Kirsten, Brett Dean, Aaron Jay Kernis, John Luther Adams and Mayke Nas.
During the 2011/12 season eighth blackbird tours Australia twice, making debuts at the Sydney Opera House and the Brisbane Festival, and with the symphony orchestras of Melbourne and Tasmania. The ensemble plays in New York (SONiC festival), Kansas City, Ithaca and Mexico City. Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is presented at the Kennedy Center and the McAninch Arts Center. Chicago performances include a Reich-fest in Millennium Park, Composition Competition finals, a premiere by Nico Muhly, and a mini-festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
eighth blackbird holds ongoing Ensemble in Residence positions at the University of Richmond and the University of Chicago, and will commence a three-year, Mellon Foundation-funded term as Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music in Fall 2012. A fruitful, ongoing relationship with Chicago's Cedille Records has produced four acclaimed recordings. The ensemble has won two Grammy Awards, for strange imaginary animals (Best Chamber Music Performance, 2008) and Lonely Motel: Music from Slide (Best Small Ensemble Performance, 2012).
eighth blackbird's members hail from America's Great Lakes, Keystone, Golden and Bay states, and Australia's Sunshine State. There are four foodies, three beer snobs and one exercise junkie. The name "eighth blackbird" derives from the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens's evocative, aphoristic poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (1917)."
- http://www.eighthblackbird.org
Grateful Dead - 1968-08-02. Maybe that's not the right date? I downloaded it 10+ years ago from a place called deadshows.net, and it's labelled with that date, but I can't find any current info about any recordings made on that date; all I can find is that there was a show, at the Hippodrome, in Hollywood. It does sound like '68, and the set list doesn't match any other recordings I can find. Maybe it's actually '69?
- "4 orphans dogs found on the streets
and their story of death hunger cold and fear
throw it away by humans like they were garbage
this is the attempt to represent their feelings by sound
emulating their suffering."
Comments
Kishi Bashi - Lighght
Craig
Jonas Reinhardt - Ganymede
SunCoast Web Series - Digital Water
I'm stuck in a loop where I keep listening to Zaireeka too many times.
Game of Mirrors by guiatarist David Chevallier: a very creative re-imagining of ten songs by John Dowland, preserving the melody and words by reworking the accompaniment with guitar and theorbo. The melancholy remains, but the tones shift between Jazz, Celtic and Cabaret. The interplay between the two instruments is wonderful.
Dean Blunt - Skin Fade
(Interrupted by a quick trip to YouTube to watch Ice Ice Baby inspired by the music nerds thread.)
(mentioned by Doofy on the nerd thread)
- Most recommended !
"Sung by a lovelorn psychologist, the songs in Lonely Motel are about perception, self-delusion and ultimately about the isolation created by the attachments we develop to our own fuzzy, personal views of reality.
The music is a dish by and for musical omnivores and while the ingredients have been diced quite finely (and there is no quotation), the songs are seasoned with homages to Dowland, Mozart, Stravinsky, Piazzola, and The Beatles."
- Steven Mackey.
- Nominated for 4 grammies including Best Contemporary Composition and Best Small Ensemble Performance.
http://www.eighthblackbird.org/ - http://stevenmackey.com/ - Cedille Records
- "The eight works on this recording fall into two, slightly overlapping groups: pieces that respond to the natural world (Dark Wood, Changing Light and Trembling Air), and pieces that allude to or respond to other music (like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment, Arioso/ Doubles and Nocturne/Doubles, Traces). The first group is connected to Broening's experiences in Estonia. A Fulbright brought Broening to Tallinn in 2007 and in the following years he returned a number of times for concerts, lectures and to compose, spending much of his time in the forests, islands and fields. Broening's music couples his interest in the expressive power of sound with a sense of line derived from his background as a singer, the music here combining acoustic instruments with electronic processing. This recording marks the debut on Bridge of the brilliant Chicago-based, two-time Grammy Award-winning sextet, eighth blackbird."
- Bridge Records
Benjamin Broening
- "(b. 1967) is a composer of orchestral, choral, chamber and electroacoustic music. In the past few seasons his music has been performed in Japan, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Australia, Estonia, Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada and across the United States. Recent works include a piece for flute and electronics for Camilla Hoitenga, a clarinet concerto for Richard Hawkins, a multi-movement work for Zeitgeist, a sextet for Ensemble U: (Estonia), two works for clarinet and electronics for Arthur Campbell and choral/instrumental works for the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, the James River Singers as well pieces for pianist Daniel Koppelman and eighth blackbird.
Other recent works include works for cello and electronics and flute and electronics for members of eighth blackbird, a piece for soprano and electroacoustic music commissioned by the Arts Now Series at North Carolina State University, a cantata for the Charlotte Symphony and the Oratorio Singers of Charlotte, pieces for the Connecticut Choral Society, the Grace Choral Society of Brooklyn, and a multi-media cantata for Hampton-Sydney College among others. Other commissions a chamber work for Quorum Chamber Arts Collective, three choral works for the Virginia Glee Club, music for theater and dance, as well as numerous solo works for performers around the United States.
A recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Estonia, Broening has also received recognition and awards from the American Composers Forum, Virginia Commission for the Arts, ACS/Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Presser Music Foundation as well as a teaching award from the University of Richmond.
Recombinant Nocturnes, a disk of music for piano recorded by Duo Runedako (Daniel Koppelman and Ruth Neville) recently released on innova recordings, has been called a gorgeous disc of music and thoughtful, eloquent, and disarmingly direct by New Music Box, "deep, troubling by François Couture François Couture and Lovely, delicate, calming by Los Angeles KFJC.
Other current recording projects include two works recorded by clarinetist Arthur Campbell for release in Fall 2012 on everglade, and gathering light, recorded by violinist Lina Bahn for Naxos.
Broening is founder and artistic director of Third Practice, an annual festival of electroacoustic music at the University of Richmond, where he is Associate Professor of Music. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Cambridge University, Yale University, and Wesleyan University."
- http://benjaminbroening.net/index.html
Eighth Blackbird
Tim Munro, flutes Michael J. Maccaferri, clarinets*
Yvonne Lam, violin & viola Nicholas Photinos, cello
Matthew Duvall, percussion+ Lisa Kaplan, piano
- "eighth blackbird lives dangerously. The Chicago-based, two-time GRAMMY Award-winning sextet combines the finesse of a string quartet with the energy of a rock band and the audacity of a storefront theater company. Its musical aerobatics delight, provoke and entertain audiences around the world.
The lure of wet ink draws eighth blackbird into collaborations with a motley crew of composers, young and old, modernist and indie. Recent commissions include Steve Reich's Double Sextet, Jennifer Higdon's On a Wire and Steve Mackey's Slide, and future collaborators include Amy Beth Kirsten, Brett Dean, Aaron Jay Kernis, John Luther Adams and Mayke Nas.
During the 2011/12 season eighth blackbird tours Australia twice, making debuts at the Sydney Opera House and the Brisbane Festival, and with the symphony orchestras of Melbourne and Tasmania. The ensemble plays in New York (SONiC festival), Kansas City, Ithaca and Mexico City. Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is presented at the Kennedy Center and the McAninch Arts Center. Chicago performances include a Reich-fest in Millennium Park, Composition Competition finals, a premiere by Nico Muhly, and a mini-festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
eighth blackbird holds ongoing Ensemble in Residence positions at the University of Richmond and the University of Chicago, and will commence a three-year, Mellon Foundation-funded term as Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music in Fall 2012. A fruitful, ongoing relationship with Chicago's Cedille Records has produced four acclaimed recordings. The ensemble has won two Grammy Awards, for strange imaginary animals (Best Chamber Music Performance, 2008) and Lonely Motel: Music from Slide (Best Small Ensemble Performance, 2012).
eighth blackbird's members hail from America's Great Lakes, Keystone, Golden and Bay states, and Australia's Sunshine State. There are four foodies, three beer snobs and one exercise junkie. The name "eighth blackbird" derives from the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens's evocative, aphoristic poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (1917)."
- http://www.eighthblackbird.org
Having an all Brazil day to wish greg good luck on his trip. Bon Voyage!
Grateful Dead, 1968-03-30
Yes, have a great trip Greg! What parts of South America are you going to see?
New album from Kate Carr on Flaming Pines. I've come to appreciate her use of field recordings. Currently Free/NYOP
Seeing them on Monday after seeing Mogwai on Sunday. Those will be two very different shows.
Craig
BBJr (Bob Bucko Jr.) - Blast the Past. Kinda indescribable. NYOP. I likes it.
- "4 orphans dogs found on the streets
and their story of death hunger cold and fear
throw it away by humans like they were garbage
this is the attempt to represent their feelings by sound
emulating their suffering."
Beloved Boston-area band.
Good Weather for an Airstrike - A Sense of Uncertainty