Soundcloud streaming a new album from Mute Records:
"James Brookes AKA Land Observations returns to Mute Records with his second offering for the imprint entitled The Grand Tour. The album acts as an imaginary auditory travelogue of the traditional route from England to Italy via France, Belgium and Austria. Recorded using only a six-string electric guitar and a range of vintage recording equipment, The Grand Tour glows with a rich analogue warmth, no more so than on the opening piece On Leaving The Kingdom For The Well-Tempered Continent that seeps with the kind of optimism and excitement regularly encountered before embarking on an adventure."
- Bleep Newsletter
Den Lilla Ekorren (The Tiny Squirrel) from Sweden, - A very charming DIY artist . . . - "to ask for more when you have everything you need
shake off those things from you, live wild and free!
to seek love and awareness,
though you have always been in the Heart of the Now
such a human folly, what a waste of words!
nowhere to be found is the human sin
it's just a misunderstanding of who is doing the things
your strange behaviour is a social craziness
you're not the cause, it's the society itself
I am, you are having a human experience
come on, let's have the time of our lives!
and remember, people, take care of your life!"
@Plong, thanks, yes, Discogs is where I ended up going. It took me a short while to figure out that that Art Pepper Catalog was listing by studio session, not release, making both track listings and dates misleading if you want release info.
NP:
«In the first half of the twentieth century, the basic concepts of contemporary art and avant-garde were almost automatically connected to the ideology of progress. New York was the center of the world, a center "illustrated" by the gestures of Pollock's action painting, by the dripping of Kooning's grotesque work (see Women) and by a vast supply of right hemispheres capable of creating an equal whole without a central focus.
Music gave birth to Feldman and Cage, Busoni's pupils, and all of them were improvising textured pieces, registries and intervals, some of which with more than 6 hours.
Kenneth Kirschner, since he begun his recent work with Taylor Deupree, has demonstrated that if he was more than 60, he was surely to be a member of the New York School. In this particular improvisation work, Kenneth samples and manipulates some tail piano's notes, while British duo Minus Pilots picks up where he left and tries to tame the empty spaces, through a minimal digitalization, almost microscopic and microtonal. This experimentalism-based sound ornamentation is able to establish some kind of well structured "open source", but capable of an entirely non-patterned functional freedom, for a sound progress without an end, just like in Feldman's works. One of the best releases I've heard in a while, and an excellent start for 2006. Amen!»
- Bruno Barros
Richie Beirach Trio - Trust
I find it interesting that although my attention tends to be at least initially on the pianist, Jack DeJohnette keeps cropping up as a common factor in many of the piano trio recordings I like best.
Then:
Andrew McCormack - First Light
(I think this latter was a jonahpwll rec?)
Lined up next:
Bruce Cockburn - The Charity of Night
Finally finished ripping all my Bruce Cockburn CDs (30 of them, 26 hours of music - and my copy of In The Falling Dark is missing) to the iTunes library. Thinking some time soon I should do a chronological Bruce marathon...
ETA: - "Minus Pilots exists as a self-described experiment with all of their recordings designed for listening through headphones while gazing at the stars. The band weave together layers of clustered bass with gentle crackle to create a unique ambience and haunting glow that cant help but draw you in. They play as if they have discarded anticipated structure seducing you with their wonderfully extreme minimalist approach. Fragile crumbling textures are reserved for dark spaces and cinematic moments only heard in the subconscious. Each recording hits you as if there were no music. Just sound that pushes all the right buttons. Gently. Minus Pilots have released records with Champion Version, Eat, Sleep, Repeat, Emperor Deluxe, Fake Jazz, Futurerecordings, Panic Arrest and Superior Standards."
Herbie Hancock Trio '77
In case it was not apparent, I picked up a $50 booster/$100 credit in the recent emusic two for one sale and am busy devoting it to piano trios :-).
Comments
Grateful Dead - Without a Net
Then
Son House - Father of the Delta Blued
- The Zeena Parkins tracks . . .
About halfway through the set now....@GP, here is the info on Just Friends (1956 session), Bill Perkins, Art Pepper & Richie Kamuca, Pacific Jazz Records (PJM-401).
- "to ask for more when you have everything you need
shake off those things from you, live wild and free!
to seek love and awareness,
though you have always been in the Heart of the Now
such a human folly, what a waste of words!
nowhere to be found is the human sin
it's just a misunderstanding of who is doing the things
your strange behaviour is a social craziness
you're not the cause, it's the society itself
I am, you are having a human experience
come on, let's have the time of our lives!
and remember, people, take care of your life!"
- One of the great Flaming Pines albums that once were free
Replacements - Let it Be
NP:
Epoxia - Epoxia (>FMA)
- Thanks for the reminder, GP.
Minus Pilots - "We won't be here forever"
released 01 June 2010
- "soundtrack to the Eric De Jesus book. Listen through headphones gazing at the stars.
Not the full CD but a six tracker sampler CD free with this month's Mojo magazine|
Lyle Mays - Fictionary
Hüsker Dü - Land Speed Record
Richie Beirach Trio - Trust
I find it interesting that although my attention tends to be at least initially on the pianist, Jack DeJohnette keeps cropping up as a common factor in many of the piano trio recordings I like best.
Then:
Andrew McCormack - First Light
(I think this latter was a jonahpwll rec?)
Michael Wollny Trio - Weltentraum
Seems like a piano trio work that includes a Flaming Lips cover might have something for more than one person here.
Andrew McCormack Trio - Live in London
Lined up next:
Bruce Cockburn - The Charity of Night
Finally finished ripping all my Bruce Cockburn CDs (30 of them, 26 hours of music - and my copy of In The Falling Dark is missing) to the iTunes library. Thinking some time soon I should do a chronological Bruce marathon...
- Supercool !
ETA:
- "Minus Pilots exists as a self-described experiment with all of their recordings designed for listening through headphones while gazing at the stars. The band weave together layers of clustered bass with gentle crackle to create a unique ambience and haunting glow that cant help but draw you in. They play as if they have discarded anticipated structure seducing you with their wonderfully extreme minimalist approach. Fragile crumbling textures are reserved for dark spaces and cinematic moments only heard in the subconscious. Each recording hits you as if there were no music. Just sound that pushes all the right buttons. Gently. Minus Pilots have released records with Champion Version, Eat, Sleep, Repeat, Emperor Deluxe, Fake Jazz, Futurerecordings, Panic Arrest and Superior Standards."
Haven't listened to this in a long time (and never really listened to it a lot) but thought of it because of the Pitchfork reissue review.
T-minus 45 days.
Craig
Herbie Hancock Trio '77
In case it was not apparent, I picked up a $50 booster/$100 credit in the recent emusic two for one sale and am busy devoting it to piano trios :-).