Two or three years ago I bought a boxed set of Simon and Garfunkel CDs in a sale, really cheap, replicating the original LPs. Although I had most of the tracks as mps3s I decided it was worth getting them in their original format. Although I have played most several times since, over the last couple of days I have played all of them in the order released whilst in the car. I have found it fascinating seeing their development over quite a short period, about five years or so, from a folk duo through to a much wider range of styles. I bought the middle three LPs in the summer of 1969, followed by BOTW when it was released, but never had Wednesday Morning at the time. I know why now, as it is the least satisfying to me as a duo album. But BOTW certainly shows signs of their move to solo artists, something I did not notice at the time.
Sarah Davachi live / Korg PS-3100 / 7 June 2014 / Lucky's Comics (Music Waste, Vancouver)
- "Sarah Davachi is a composer steeped in the electronic music tradition. Not only did she study at electronic music hub Mills College, she completed post-grad programs at STEIM and Banff. The work on The Untuning of the Sky reflects her pursuits. Every piece on this record is sculpted, carefully considered, a distillation even. Davachi makes a point to seek out rare and unique synthesizers and keyboard instruments - The Untuning features sounds from ARP, Buchla, Serge and a Mellotron. She gets to know her instruments intimately, offering us concentrated synthesizer timbres slowly circling around each other, fragments of melodies occasionally bubbling above the surface.
Though she has been active in the Bay Area music scene, The Untuning of the Sky is Davachi's first official release. Full Spectrum is very excited to be the first to bring you this unique voice in contemporary electronic music." Full Spectrum Records 2013 - Bandcamp
You've got to reach my level of fandom to download concerts, but for Bruce Springsteen you can now do this legally, as all his live appearances so far this year are available as mps3 or flac downloads from his website. I've downloaded the last date of his US tour at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. I should add that there is a cost but £6.30 for over 3 hours isn't bad value for money.
@Lowlife - thanks, yes watching a lot of football, too. I must say Netherlands, and their manager, impressed me!! With regards to EPL, I'd like an easier start, but at least the manager won't be moaning whoever we play early on. Good choice of manager for Spurs too. Big game tomorrow evening....
Update - better start for United than Spurs, Lowlife. West Ham, QPR/Harry and Liverpool - not straightforward, but you still ought to get at least 6 points if not all 9. Swansea, Sunderland and Burnley really ought to be 9 points for United.
FMA / You Are Not Stealing Records: Members were:
John F. Quinn (vocals) (aka John Clegg, John Grimes, John X)
Vince Cutliffe (lead guitar)
Jim Chase (drums)
Mikel Lee (guitar)
Sam Dodson (bass, guitar) (later Loop Guru)
Sid Wells (bass)
Amanda De Gray (keyboards)
Tim Whelan (vocals) (later Transglobal Underground)
Dave Baby (saxophone)
Julian Treasure (drums)
Rob Chapman (vocals)
Hammi Lee (drums) (later Transglobal Underground)
Dave Mud-Demon (later Loop Guru)
James McQueen
Bob Sargeant (as 'The Hand of Borgus Wheems')
Chris Mchallem (as 'Dexter O'Brien')
- "The Transmitters were a British alternative rock band active during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. Mixing elements of punk, jazz and psychedelia, the band were critical favourites throughout their lifetime and played support slots for a wide variety of underground and mainstream bands, although this did not translate into substantial commercial success.
The Transmitters are also notable for featuring future members of Loop Guru and Transglobal Underground and for sharing two members with cult pop band Furniture, as well as a guest stint by Glaxo Babies vocalist Rob Chapman. Their sound was compared to (among others) The Fall, XTC, Gang Of Four, This Heat and Magazine."
Jonah's Jazz Pick of the Week. I'll quote his review below
Matthew Halsall & the Gondwana Orchestra, When the World Was One: Trumpeter Halsalls creative evolution continues on his newest release. Earlier albums had him presenting a smaller outfit and a more intimate sound, strongly reminiscent of late night clubs and Miles Davis cool modal approach. But after a couple such albums, hes begun moving more toward an updated spiritual jazz sound and widening the sonic expanse of his music. His newest really brings that change into focus. Bringing back some regulars from past albums, like saxophonist Nat Birchall, bassist Gavin Barras, and harpist Rachel Gladwin, he also adds to the mix pianist Taz Modi, flautist Lisa Mallett, drummer Luke Flowers (of the Cinematic Orchestra), and, most exciting, the koto of Keiko Kitamura. And even though the breadth of this music is much wider, presenting a much bigger sound than past recordings, there still remains an unmistakable intimacy to these songs, as they shift between calm surges of intensity and languidly drifting passages. Just plain beautiful music. Pick of the Week.
One of my very early Netlabel finds, and a truely wonderful one: - "Originally released on CD in 2001 and re-released in 2005 through Webbed Hand Records in an abbreviated version with other similar tracks. Here is the composition in it's entirety: re-edited and remastered.
"The title of Pelicagnosis is no empty play on words. These four tracks do venture quite some distance into the realm of gnosis. Here is a blend of ambient sounds with addition of guitar, vocals, and other instruments, resulting in a feast for the ears.
A look at the credits for each track will show you that this isn't a weekend warrior laptop production. This thing is big, and there's a depth and devotion being expressed here that merits a deep and devoted listening."
"Simply beautiful and amazing music from Mayfairgrin... Wonderful electronic manipulation of otherwise normal sounds provides some of the best combinations of dark and surreal travels you can find in music today!"
A continually morphing, unfolding aural adventure. Suffused with spirituality-- the more you listen, the more you get--"
Comments
Eta: this is some really nice droney stuff I could see GP, bn and others liking. RIFYL Motion Sickness of Time Travel. NYOP.
(That last one above was pretty good too; similar vein; more experimental.)
Two or three years ago I bought a boxed set of Simon and Garfunkel CDs in a sale, really cheap, replicating the original LPs. Although I had most of the tracks as mps3s I decided it was worth getting them in their original format. Although I have played most several times since, over the last couple of days I have played all of them in the order released whilst in the car. I have found it fascinating seeing their development over quite a short period, about five years or so, from a folk duo through to a much wider range of styles. I bought the middle three LPs in the summer of 1969, followed by BOTW when it was released, but never had Wednesday Morning at the time. I know why now, as it is the least satisfying to me as a duo album. But BOTW certainly shows signs of their move to solo artists, something I did not notice at the time.
Sarah Davachi live / Korg PS-3100 / 7 June 2014 / Lucky's Comics (Music Waste, Vancouver)
- "Sarah Davachi is a composer steeped in the electronic music tradition. Not only did she study at electronic music hub Mills College, she completed post-grad programs at STEIM and Banff. The work on The Untuning of the Sky reflects her pursuits. Every piece on this record is sculpted, carefully considered, a distillation even. Davachi makes a point to seek out rare and unique synthesizers and keyboard instruments - The Untuning features sounds from ARP, Buchla, Serge and a Mellotron. She gets to know her instruments intimately, offering us concentrated synthesizer timbres slowly circling around each other, fragments of melodies occasionally bubbling above the surface.
Though she has been active in the Bay Area music scene, The Untuning of the Sky is Davachi's first official release. Full Spectrum is very excited to be the first to bring you this unique voice in contemporary electronic music."
Full Spectrum Records 2013 - Bandcamp
If you are still with emusic, this is free to download.
You've got to reach my level of fandom to download concerts, but for Bruce Springsteen you can now do this legally, as all his live appearances so far this year are available as mps3 or flac downloads from his website. I've downloaded the last date of his US tour at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. I should add that there is a cost but £6.30 for over 3 hours isn't bad value for money.
White Lung - Deep Fantasy
Female fronted punk from Vancouver. Got a BNM at Pitchfork, and it deserves it. This is really good.
Craig
Hope you had a great time, not much time to post as spending rather a lot of time watching the World Cup, EPL fixtures out tomorrow.
This one was a nice surprise.
Update - better start for United than Spurs, Lowlife. West Ham, QPR/Harry and Liverpool - not straightforward, but you still ought to get at least 6 points if not all 9. Swansea, Sunderland and Burnley really ought to be 9 points for United.
Four track live EP by Manic Street Preachers from Amazon UK. Includes their version of the MASH theme.
YANSR 031 - 2013
Still sounds great.
Philip Glass, Piece in the Shape of a Square on Flute while watching a wrath of God storm roll across west Michigan.
Funny old start, hoping its not moved to Sunday as its my wedding anniversary that day, Mrs Lowlife would not be amused.
Got this on E Music, worth the wait
Then
Then
the stars will shine by Linear Bells
Members were:
John F. Quinn (vocals) (aka John Clegg, John Grimes, John X)
Vince Cutliffe (lead guitar)
Jim Chase (drums)
Mikel Lee (guitar)
Sam Dodson (bass, guitar) (later Loop Guru)
Sid Wells (bass)
Amanda De Gray (keyboards)
Tim Whelan (vocals) (later Transglobal Underground)
Dave Baby (saxophone)
Julian Treasure (drums)
Rob Chapman (vocals)
Hammi Lee (drums) (later Transglobal Underground)
Dave Mud-Demon (later Loop Guru)
James McQueen
Bob Sargeant (as 'The Hand of Borgus Wheems')
Chris Mchallem (as 'Dexter O'Brien')
- "The Transmitters were a British alternative rock band active during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. Mixing elements of punk, jazz and psychedelia, the band were critical favourites throughout their lifetime and played support slots for a wide variety of underground and mainstream bands, although this did not translate into substantial commercial success.
The Transmitters are also notable for featuring future members of Loop Guru and Transglobal Underground and for sharing two members with cult pop band Furniture, as well as a guest stint by Glaxo Babies vocalist Rob Chapman. Their sound was compared to (among others) The Fall, XTC, Gang Of Four, This Heat and Magazine."
Jonah's Jazz Pick of the Week. I'll quote his review below
- "Originally released on CD in 2001 and re-released in 2005 through Webbed Hand Records in an abbreviated version with other similar tracks. Here is the composition in it's entirety: re-edited and remastered.
"The title of Pelicagnosis is no empty play on words. These four tracks do venture quite some distance into the realm of gnosis. Here is a blend of ambient sounds with addition of guitar, vocals, and other instruments, resulting in a feast for the ears.
A look at the credits for each track will show you that this isn't a weekend warrior laptop production. This thing is big, and there's a depth and devotion being expressed here that merits a deep and devoted listening." https://archive.org/details/wh037
Wonderful renditions of troubadour songs.