Just back from a week vacation. Didn't get much listening time while gone; listened to the Clash, Sandinista! over and over a few times through. Monday. Blech.
Reposting one of my most brilliant experimental discoveries on Emusic in a looooong time:
[align=center][/align] Ghedalia Tazartes/El-g/Jo
- Reines D'Angleterre is inexplicable ethnic residue, the prince of all taste, a stripped back smear on the blight of genre. The music of Reines D'Angleterre's feasts on duality: chaos and order, narrative and anti narrative, erection and destruction, dread and comedy. The voice rides alongside electronics: cracked beaten, weathered and bruised.
Just been listening to a TV recording of Sunday's BBC Prom concert. This isn't my usual listening but this week it was a Battle of the Bands based around the music of Count Basie and Duke Ellington. If you can get the BBC Proms this is well worth a listen.
- "Guitars and pianos play wistful melodies behind haunting ambient tones. The EP contains no percussion, an artistic choice that would leave a lot of music sounding empty and directionless in its pace and rhythm, but works brilliantly for Nyul. Nothing is missing. Every sound and every note serves a purpose.
The music inspires a lot of imagery, partially through its attention to detail. A distant whistle behind a growling bass, noises with timbres that subtly change, all add to the nuances of the picture that is painted.
At times powerful and dramatic, at times minimal, calm, melancholy and sometimes totally still, When the Path Fades is beautiful in its melancholy. Dropping hints of post-rock onto a bed of dark and ambient electronica, it feels almost orchestral in its outlook."
- The fourth entry in the REV. Lab series is Deison/Mingle Everything Collapse[d].
North-east Italy, late summer 2013: Cristiano Deison and Andrea Gastaldello (aka Mingle) meet online and begin to lay the foundations for what will be their first project together. Out of this comes Everything Collapse[d], an album centred around melancholy and desolation; a concept that does not leave much hope, forcing you to look within yourself. A foreign body coming from far away: sidereal matter which is about to implode; an object that has reached its limit. And everything collapses, swallowed up by itself.
Recorded and produced between Mingle's Tower Home Studio and Deison's 1st Floor Studio, Everything Collapse[d] is a perfect union of our two sounds: drones, field recordings and processed loops intermingled with disturbed rhythms, melancholy harmonies and piano chimes. A gloomy and dirty electronic sound that turns into an extremely evocative score which is full of pathos. A precise, precious and cosmic album... One Million Parsec From Your Sun.
REV. LAB.
In 2013 Bas Mantel began curating and designing the REV. Lab. series in collaboration with Aagoo Records -Alec Dartley-. The sound and tone of the label finds its inspiration in electronic, ambient, experimental, cinematic and abstract sound scapes/compositions. This series investigates the relation between the graphic translation of the music and its physical output
Recorded and mixed by Andrea Gastaldello e Cristiano Deison. Mastered by Simon Balestrazzi.
Produced by Andrea Gastaldello, Cristiano Deison and Aagoo / Rev. Lab. Graphic design: Bas Mantel.
Daniele Santagiuliana vocals on "Failure" by Swans.
- http://www.deison.net - http://revlaboratories.com/ - Soundcloud
Comments
Monolake - Silence
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- Excellent stuff !
This is just wonderful.
Darkside - Psychic
They broke up today.
Craig
- No, not Twin Peaks . . .
Just back from a week vacation. Didn't get much listening time while gone; listened to the Clash, Sandinista! over and over a few times through. Monday. Blech.
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Ghedalia Tazartes/El-g/Jo
- Reines D'Angleterre is inexplicable ethnic residue, the prince of all taste, a stripped back smear on the blight of genre. The music of Reines D'Angleterre's feasts on duality: chaos and order, narrative and anti narrative, erection and destruction, dread and comedy. The voice rides alongside electronics: cracked beaten, weathered and bruised.
followed by
Revival-Bellowhead
- Ghedalia Tazartes clearly has a passion for childrens voices and is using them to astonishing and very moving effect.
- A bit toothless but very nice indeed.
- where Murcof & Philippe Petit is one of them . . .
- The fourth entry in the REV. Lab series is Deison/Mingle Everything Collapse[d].
North-east Italy, late summer 2013: Cristiano Deison and Andrea Gastaldello (aka Mingle) meet online and begin to lay the foundations for what will be their first project together. Out of this comes Everything Collapse[d], an album centred around melancholy and desolation; a concept that does not leave much hope, forcing you to look within yourself. A foreign body coming from far away: sidereal matter which is about to implode; an object that has reached its limit. And everything collapses, swallowed up by itself.
Recorded and produced between Mingle's Tower Home Studio and Deison's 1st Floor Studio, Everything Collapse[d] is a perfect union of our two sounds: drones, field recordings and processed loops intermingled with disturbed rhythms, melancholy harmonies and piano chimes. A gloomy and dirty electronic sound that turns into an extremely evocative score which is full of pathos. A precise, precious and cosmic album... One Million Parsec From Your Sun.
REV. LAB.
In 2013 Bas Mantel began curating and designing the REV. Lab. series in collaboration with Aagoo Records -Alec Dartley-. The sound and tone of the label finds its inspiration in electronic, ambient, experimental, cinematic and abstract sound scapes/compositions. This series investigates the relation between the graphic translation of the music and its physical output
Recorded and mixed by Andrea Gastaldello e Cristiano Deison. Mastered by Simon Balestrazzi.
Produced by Andrea Gastaldello, Cristiano Deison and Aagoo / Rev. Lab. Graphic design: Bas Mantel.
Daniele Santagiuliana vocals on "Failure" by Swans.
- http://www.deison.net - http://revlaboratories.com/ - Soundcloud
Jim James, Noting' To It, the pre-release track from The New Basement Tapes.
Guitar, free sax, and occasional low gravelly depressing singing. This is great. NYOP.
See amc's third post above. Not sure yet, but will persist.
- Plays music by Valgeir Sigur
Lawrence English - Wilderness of Mirrors