- "2014's Helicopter Quartet album includes an homage to electric violin pioneer Daryl Way and composer Dimitri Shostakovich as well as our usual blend of semi-melodic mournfulness and noise."
released 19 May 2014
One of the two remaining albums on Emusic from the no longer existing 7Things label: - "Seven improvisations on old "Greek Blues" songs, REBETIKA was recorded live at Seven Things Live Studio 1 in February 2006. Yannis and Andy made new works from scratchy old Bouzouki recordings, using them as live samples to inform and suffuse their real-time computer- and guitar- improvisations.
REBETIKA (pronounced Rembetika) was a popular music form in Greece from the late 1920s onwards, with the first recordings released in the early 1930s by masters such as Markos Vamvakaris and Yiorgos Batis. Often compared with the songs of the American blues, Rebetika are full of grief, passion, romance, and bitterness. The music is also extensively linked with drug-taking, particularly hashish one reason why it was banned under the dictatorship, in Greece, of Ioannis Metaxas in 1936. It gradually gained acceptance, passing through what is now termed its "Classical" period in the 1930s and 1940s, and emerging and spreading to a mainstream audience in the 1950's"-
We now know Tupac's last words. While bleeding on the street the first cop on the scene asked who shot him. Tupac responded "fuck you", lost consciousness and never regained it.
-Checking out some of Feigenwinter's older albums. I really enjoy his new album "Whim of Fate," a trio of piano, trombone, and sax. This one has the pianist in a quartet with cello, trumpet, and bass. So far, so good.
-Really cool trio of piano, balaphon, and drums, uniting aspects of European and West African music. Concise, catchy melodies, richly textured rhythms, and a genuinely affable personality. Good stuff. Wrapping up a review now.
An octet of seven wind instruments and one drummer, doing a modern version of the New Orleans trad sound. Still enjoying this album many months after it was released. Wrapping up a review now.
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- "2014's Helicopter Quartet album includes an homage to electric violin pioneer Daryl Way and composer Dimitri Shostakovich as well as our usual blend of semi-melodic mournfulness and noise."
released 19 May 2014
- "Seven improvisations on old "Greek Blues" songs, REBETIKA was recorded live at Seven Things Live Studio 1 in February 2006. Yannis and Andy made new works from scratchy old Bouzouki recordings, using them as live samples to inform and suffuse their real-time computer- and guitar- improvisations.
REBETIKA (pronounced Rembetika) was a popular music form in Greece from the late 1920s onwards, with the first recordings released in the early 1930s by masters such as Markos Vamvakaris and Yiorgos Batis. Often compared with the songs of the American blues, Rebetika are full of grief, passion, romance, and bitterness. The music is also extensively linked with drug-taking, particularly hashish one reason why it was banned under the dictatorship, in Greece, of Ioannis Metaxas in 1936. It gradually gained acceptance, passing through what is now termed its "Classical" period in the 1930s and 1940s, and emerging and spreading to a mainstream audience in the 1950's"-
SunCoast Web Series - Digital Water
We now know Tupac's last words. While bleeding on the street the first cop on the scene asked who shot him. Tupac responded "fuck you", lost consciousness and never regained it.
Sigh. Really, Tupac?
Craig
Vroom vroom !
- Far f****** out . . .
Stein Urheim - "Stein Urheim"
Hans Feigenwinter - "In"
-Checking out some of Feigenwinter's older albums. I really enjoy his new album "Whim of Fate," a trio of piano, trombone, and sax. This one has the pianist in a quartet with cello, trumpet, and bass. So far, so good.
Hans Lüdemann Trio Ivoire - "Timbuktu"
-Really cool trio of piano, balaphon, and drums, uniting aspects of European and West African music. Concise, catchy melodies, richly textured rhythms, and a genuinely affable personality. Good stuff. Wrapping up a review now.
Brass Mask - "Spy Boy"
An octet of seven wind instruments and one drummer, doing a modern version of the New Orleans trad sound. Still enjoying this album many months after it was released. Wrapping up a review now.
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble - "Step Wide, Step Deep"
-Wildly expressive avant-garde, yet sneakily accessible. This album continues to grow on me.
Then Zubatto Syndicate
Years by Bartholom
Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band - "Mother's Touch"
WIld Beasts - Present Tense - listening to 2014 releases. Outside on the top 20.