Mark O'Leary again: - "Project Apollo is a tribute to the ingenuity of mankind, the networking of many incredibly intelligent and diligent human beings all over the USA to send 12 brave Astronauts to the moon and back.
It took a year of research into the historical chronology of Apollo, developing technical facility, sourcing musicians and developing an atmospheric ambient aesthetic that was apt for the concept.
The initial tracks were recorded with Søren Kjærgaard (DK) on Synths and Jeff Herr (Lux) on drums/percussion in Finbarr Corcorans studio Cork and put together in Hub studio by Mark OLeary and Donncha Moynihan.
The Ambient Synth textures, original voice narratives, processed guitar and sensitive rhythmic pulsations intertwine and crystallize to create a symphonic image heralding Apollo."
- Tibprod. Italy 2011
Are you electronic music guys verging into jazz familiar with Rob Mazurek's copious recent body of work? Dave has yet another new one in his picks this week
Just so you know: that Eva-Tone flexi has narration
that the original Capitol LP doesn't. The Capitol LP
is the real classic. Nearly 45 years ago, I used to
drive my family cRaZy with that album.
rostasi - thanks; I'm going to look into finding a copy.
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
The second time today. Damn this is a good album! The reviewer at Tiny Mix Tapes said he was in high school three years ago, which means there's a good chance he wasn't even born yet when I got my first Red House Painters album in 1993. Which I don't mean as grumpy old man as it sounds, just it's nice to see Mark Kozelek getting so much critical acclaim this far into his career and from young cool kids. It's also nice to see someone succeed with a middle age album as opposed to an old-guy comeback album. Mark never went away, and never had an embarrassing bad phase, but he also never made an album quite like this.
Then, playing Doofytrain catchup with the Aaron Parks Trio, Alive in Japan, which is very nice.
Back when I was AAJ dotd editor, I featured several of Mark O'Leary's projects, including that Waves album and a couple others. I assume those tracks are still out there for a free download.
NP:
Rafael Karlen - "The Sweetness of Things Half-Remembered"
- "In this trilogy, space is the fundamental element in which music is developed and sounds are deployed. The three works were constructed by using certain sounds fixed in the acoustic space in relation to other sounds that are continually displaced, orbiting like satellites around the fixed ones and thus creating great spatial complexity"
- Cezame Music Agency
- "Daniel Teruggi (11 March 1952, La Plata, Argentina) is a French composer.
While taking a degree in physics at the National University of La Plata, he also studied music at the La Plata Conservatory (197377). He moved to France in 1977 and entered the electro-acoustics class at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique (CNSM) in Paris, gaining his diploma in 1980.
In 1983 he joined the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM). As a specialist in computer-generated music, he is particularly concerned with teaching, and with the SYTER (système en temps réel) audionumeric system. In 1984 he took over artistic responsibility for the group, and became its director in 1997. He has pursued a parallel career teaching at the Sorbonne since 1986.
Managing director of GRM (in 2012)."
- Discogs
I was tempted to put this in the WTF thread, but here is 90 Minutes of Tuning From Grateful Dead's 1977 Tour. Oddly satisfying stage banter, lots of equipment failure and more random noodling than the average Dead show.
- Stationary Drift by Mem1 (Mark and Laura Cetilia) is a calm and beautiful 4-track EP combining electronic sounds and cello to an organic musical symbiosis.
This EP starts with Hanging Valley, a easeful and meditative piece, with soft droning cello sounds and electronic glitches like footsteps in the snow. Accretion begins with a deep growling tone under a layer of light sound-textures, ending in a loud merging movement. You can hear dripping notes and oscillating high tones like glaring sunlight in Penitentes, named after a special snow formation found at high altitudes. And in Stationary Drift you can hear a sonic fog, everything covered with a nebulous blanket.
A perfect soundtrack for a walk in the snowy forest, listening to crunching snow under your feet and feeling the cold and clear air around your nose. Or to cool down a bit if you live in the southern hemisphere with some warm summer weather these days."
- Resting Bell - 2009
From the Private Dreams and Public Nightmares, Daphne Oram reworked by Andrea Parker & Daz Quayle thread from 2912:
(with some interesting stuff about the Oramics Machine) - "Private Dreams and Public Nightmares is a unique concept album which re-works and re-interprets original, unheard sounds from the Daphne Oram archives to create completely new pieces of music. Two of these pieces were performed live by Andrea Parker and Daz Quayle for 'Oramics: The Life and Works of Daphne Oram' at The Royal Festival Hall and for the Short Circuit Festival at The Roundhouse, where they supported the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
The story began in 2008, when Parker was invited to a meeting with Phil Howlett, who was putting together the 'Oramics' event at The Royal Festival Hall. He was looking for an artist who could write and produce an original piece, incorporating some of Daphne Oram's sounds and then perform it live. Having remixed some of the great electronic pioneers in the past and as an idol and inspiration throughout her career, it was the chance Parker had been waiting for.
Shortly after this, four CD's full of Daphne's original sounds dropped through her letterbox. For Parker it was a defining moment. Along with Daphne's numerous recordings were some of the first examples of 'drawn' sounds. This was an entirely new way of making sound, the pioneering concept that paved the way for electronic music as we know it today. These sounds, like Daphnes Oramics machine itself, are part of British musical history and only now are this history and Daphne's legacy starting to be given the recognition they deserve. America had Robert Moog, Britain had Daphne Oram. Both of these pioneers were as important as each other to the future of electronic music, but it was Daphne's unique Britishness that led to her building The Oramics Machine into the empty shell of her own dressing table.
After the performances, the duo wanted to continue re-working and manipulating these sounds to create an entire album, as they hoped Daphne Oram herself may have even done today. Parker arranged to meet with Dr. Mick Grierson, Director of the Daphne Oram Collection at Goldsmiths College and Secretary of the Daphne Oram Trust and, after hearing her ideas, Mick gave them that opportunity. In 2009, Parker became one of the first people to be given unrestricted access to the Daphne Oram Archives, containing photographs, diagrams and hundreds of reel-to-reel tapes.
They soon discovered how descriptive Daphne had been when naming her sounds, calling them things like: 'toothache' and 'rheumatism'. Sounds that literally throbbed and pulsated as their titles suggested.
Hundreds of hours were spent sampling these sounds and carefully treating them through various noise reduction processors. They set out to use some of the less-obvious, unnerving sounds they had found in the archives to explore a different side of Daphne, a darker side, integrating them with sounds from Parker's own archives (made using analogue synthesizers like her arp2600 as well as her 808) and using Quayles sampling and studio expertise to create the balance. What developed was a deeply personal album, an intense piece of work. Minimal, yet in some pieces over 100 individual sounds were used. Haunting, or itself perhaps... haunted?"
- Aperture Records - http://www.andreaparker.co.uk/
Comments
Now: Led Zeppelin IV
- "Project Apollo is a tribute to the ingenuity of mankind, the networking of many incredibly intelligent and diligent human beings all over the USA to send 12 brave Astronauts to the moon and back.
It took a year of research into the historical chronology of Apollo, developing technical facility, sourcing musicians and developing an atmospheric ambient aesthetic that was apt for the concept.
The initial tracks were recorded with Søren Kjærgaard (DK) on Synths and Jeff Herr (Lux) on drums/percussion in Finbarr Corcorans studio Cork and put together in Hub studio by Mark OLeary and Donncha Moynihan.
The Ambient Synth textures, original voice narratives, processed guitar and sensitive rhythmic pulsations intertwine and crystallize to create a symphonic image heralding Apollo."
- Tibprod. Italy 2011
Are you electronic music guys verging into jazz familiar with Rob Mazurek's copious recent body of work? Dave has yet another new one in his picks this week
Loving this.
My eye first read that as "The initial tracks were recorded with Søren Kierkegaard (DK) on Synths..." and I went "Wait! What?!?"
NP:
Vijay Iyer, Tirtha
Following too on the train, thanks Doofy
Just so you know: that Eva-Tone flexi has narration
that the original Capitol LP doesn't. The Capitol LP
is the real classic. Nearly 45 years ago, I used to
drive my family cRaZy with that album.
Bebey gets a new pair of (dancing) shoes.
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
The second time today. Damn this is a good album! The reviewer at Tiny Mix Tapes said he was in high school three years ago, which means there's a good chance he wasn't even born yet when I got my first Red House Painters album in 1993. Which I don't mean as grumpy old man as it sounds, just it's nice to see Mark Kozelek getting so much critical acclaim this far into his career and from young cool kids. It's also nice to see someone succeed with a middle age album as opposed to an old-guy comeback album. Mark never went away, and never had an embarrassing bad phase, but he also never made an album quite like this.
Then, playing Doofytrain catchup with the Aaron Parks Trio, Alive in Japan, which is very nice.
Back when I was AAJ dotd editor, I featured several of Mark O'Leary's projects, including that Waves album and a couple others. I assume those tracks are still out there for a free download.
NP:
Rafael Karlen - "The Sweetness of Things Half-Remembered"
- "In this trilogy, space is the fundamental element in which music is developed and sounds are deployed. The three works were constructed by using certain sounds fixed in the acoustic space in relation to other sounds that are continually displaced, orbiting like satellites around the fixed ones and thus creating great spatial complexity"
- Cezame Music Agency
- "Daniel Teruggi (11 March 1952, La Plata, Argentina) is a French composer.
While taking a degree in physics at the National University of La Plata, he also studied music at the La Plata Conservatory (197377). He moved to France in 1977 and entered the electro-acoustics class at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique (CNSM) in Paris, gaining his diploma in 1980.
In 1983 he joined the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM). As a specialist in computer-generated music, he is particularly concerned with teaching, and with the SYTER (système en temps réel) audionumeric system. In 1984 he took over artistic responsibility for the group, and became its director in 1997. He has pursued a parallel career teaching at the Sorbonne since 1986.
Managing director of GRM (in 2012)."
- Discogs
- More Daniel Teruggi on History of Electronic / Electroacoustic Music (1937-2001) - CD 37 (Ubuweb)
This is a perfect album according to Bird is the Worm (Jonah!)
Cover link is to Bandcamp, where you can stream, but in the UK, at least, it is cheaper at emusic
FKA twigs - LP1
Craig
See you all at the end of next week - we're off to Carcassonne for a few days tomorrow
If that's a vacation, sounds like a great time, have fun! If that's an Artist/album you're listening too, where can I get a copy?
INTERNET CLUB - VANISHING VISION
Really enjoyable new album - mostly the same lineup as the recent (also excellent) Orrin Evans Smoke Sessions album
Still gradually working my way through the free SRB haul.
- Stationary Drift by Mem1 (Mark and Laura Cetilia) is a calm and beautiful 4-track EP combining electronic sounds and cello to an organic musical symbiosis.
This EP starts with Hanging Valley, a easeful and meditative piece, with soft droning cello sounds and electronic glitches like footsteps in the snow. Accretion begins with a deep growling tone under a layer of light sound-textures, ending in a loud merging movement. You can hear dripping notes and oscillating high tones like glaring sunlight in Penitentes, named after a special snow formation found at high altitudes. And in Stationary Drift you can hear a sonic fog, everything covered with a nebulous blanket.
A perfect soundtrack for a walk in the snowy forest, listening to crunching snow under your feet and feeling the cold and clear air around your nose. Or to cool down a bit if you live in the southern hemisphere with some warm summer weather these days."
- Resting Bell - 2009
(with some interesting stuff about the Oramics Machine)
- "Private Dreams and Public Nightmares is a unique concept album which re-works and re-interprets original, unheard sounds from the Daphne Oram archives to create completely new pieces of music. Two of these pieces were performed live by Andrea Parker and Daz Quayle for 'Oramics: The Life and Works of Daphne Oram' at The Royal Festival Hall and for the Short Circuit Festival at The Roundhouse, where they supported the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
The story began in 2008, when Parker was invited to a meeting with Phil Howlett, who was putting together the 'Oramics' event at The Royal Festival Hall. He was looking for an artist who could write and produce an original piece, incorporating some of Daphne Oram's sounds and then perform it live. Having remixed some of the great electronic pioneers in the past and as an idol and inspiration throughout her career, it was the chance Parker had been waiting for.
Shortly after this, four CD's full of Daphne's original sounds dropped through her letterbox. For Parker it was a defining moment. Along with Daphne's numerous recordings were some of the first examples of 'drawn' sounds. This was an entirely new way of making sound, the pioneering concept that paved the way for electronic music as we know it today. These sounds, like Daphnes Oramics machine itself, are part of British musical history and only now are this history and Daphne's legacy starting to be given the recognition they deserve. America had Robert Moog, Britain had Daphne Oram. Both of these pioneers were as important as each other to the future of electronic music, but it was Daphne's unique Britishness that led to her building The Oramics Machine into the empty shell of her own dressing table.
After the performances, the duo wanted to continue re-working and manipulating these sounds to create an entire album, as they hoped Daphne Oram herself may have even done today. Parker arranged to meet with Dr. Mick Grierson, Director of the Daphne Oram Collection at Goldsmiths College and Secretary of the Daphne Oram Trust and, after hearing her ideas, Mick gave them that opportunity. In 2009, Parker became one of the first people to be given unrestricted access to the Daphne Oram Archives, containing photographs, diagrams and hundreds of reel-to-reel tapes.
They soon discovered how descriptive Daphne had been when naming her sounds, calling them things like: 'toothache' and 'rheumatism'. Sounds that literally throbbed and pulsated as their titles suggested.
Hundreds of hours were spent sampling these sounds and carefully treating them through various noise reduction processors. They set out to use some of the less-obvious, unnerving sounds they had found in the archives to explore a different side of Daphne, a darker side, integrating them with sounds from Parker's own archives (made using analogue synthesizers like her arp2600 as well as her 808) and using Quayles sampling and studio expertise to create the balance. What developed was a deeply personal album, an intense piece of work. Minimal, yet in some pieces over 100 individual sounds were used. Haunting, or itself perhaps... haunted?"
- Aperture Records - http://www.andreaparker.co.uk/