An obscure rarity from 1969: - "As a "conductor" and organ/electronic synthesizer player, Byrd is very much the leader of this circus. With a couple drummers, a half-dozen horn players (including a young Tom Scott), three female vocalists, and a half-dozen or so other musicians popping up over the course of the album, there are a lot more people involved in this project than there were in the (relatively) stable lineup of the United States of America. Despite the ambition of this LP, it ultimately serves to illustrate just how Byrd benefited from the unique synergy provided by the other members of the U.S.A. There are all kinds of adventurous electronics and eclectic ideas bouncing back and forth, but the songwriting is simply not as strong as that of Byrd's previous group. The best songs are the ones which most strongly recall the U.S.A. in their spacy melodicism ("Moonsong: Pelog") and driving psychedelic pulse ("You Can't Ever Come Down"). Unfortunately, the female singers on these tracks are no match for The U.S.A.'s Dorothy Moscowitz, although they seem to be aspiring to the same dreamy, icy quality. Byrd himself is quite a mediocre singer, as his attempts at taking the lead on straightforward rock material prove. Otherwise, there are some bad takeoffs on gospel and old-time music, haphazard primitive early synthesizer, and dated social commentary/satire. As ambitious in its scope as Byrd's first rock project, this album is not nearly as successful." Review by Richie Unterberger @ Allmusic More Joseph Byrd @ Emusers
After 6 years of silence, french duet Propergol Y Colargol comes back with a brand new smooth, monochromatic « hypnotic meditative experiences ». a big piece of work with guests. Released 06 April 2010.
I am pleased to announce the release of Pea Soup To Go, an open access version of my venerable feedback composition, Pea Soup. Pea Soup To Go is a free streaming audio web application that generates an ever-changing domestic sound art installation on any computer.
Premiered in 1974, Pea Soup creates a self-stabilizing feedback network of microphones and speakers that tunes itself to the architectural acoustics of the space and responds to eventsinstrumental performances, ambient sounds, human movement, even air currentswith swooping flights of sound. Pea Soup To Go mines decades of performances, including contributions by numerous guest musicians, from around the globe to produce a similarly dreamy soundscape that slowly shifts from key to key as the app shuffles and cross-fades from one recorded space to another.
Pea Soup To Go is being launched on October 24, 2014 -- the 40th anniversary of the first performance of Pea Soup.
Point your browser to http://www.nicolascollins.com/peasouptogo/. Auto-shuffle plays endless variations unattended, or click the arrows to jump to the next track. Click Info for performance details.
Yaya Kumare and Brahima Kumare - Segou Concert
Enjoyable NYOP recording from Senegal.
ETA, well, the first two tracks were very enjoyable - the vocalist on the third is taxing my ears more.
[align=center] Perry Ferya Band - Mantra (Clinical Archives - ca524) (February 25, 2014)[/align] - "Perry Ferya Band is a marginal project of Skala Collectives musicians, oriented to a spontaneous psychedelic improvisation with elements of free jazz.
Mantra was recorded in 2013. It is the next step, the development of the ideas known from two first Perry Ferya Bands albums Back Out and Live on Venus. The band has still based its works on improvisation and intuitional cooperation of the musicians. It experiments with a composition and different kinds of instruments, looking for new means of expression . Though it is still true to conventions of the psychedelic tradition of 60s and 70s as well as to the ethnic tradition of common, unfettered making of music. The musicians automatically reject the commercial bonds of contemporary civilization. The most significant is a mutual relation, experiencing the act of creation and sharing music with other people.
Four first compositions on this album are studio productions based on above-mentioned standards. The last track on Mantra is a characteristic continuation of the previous album Live on Venus . It is a 30 minutes long live-recorded huge psychedelic improvisation Live on Mars a cosmological journey to sources of old times, music of primeval forests and ancient Slavic motherland. The magic journey to Arkaim. . ."
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- "As a "conductor" and organ/electronic synthesizer player, Byrd is very much the leader of this circus. With a couple drummers, a half-dozen horn players (including a young Tom Scott), three female vocalists, and a half-dozen or so other musicians popping up over the course of the album, there are a lot more people involved in this project than there were in the (relatively) stable lineup of the United States of America. Despite the ambition of this LP, it ultimately serves to illustrate just how Byrd benefited from the unique synergy provided by the other members of the U.S.A. There are all kinds of adventurous electronics and eclectic ideas bouncing back and forth, but the songwriting is simply not as strong as that of Byrd's previous group. The best songs are the ones which most strongly recall the U.S.A. in their spacy melodicism ("Moonsong: Pelog") and driving psychedelic pulse ("You Can't Ever Come Down"). Unfortunately, the female singers on these tracks are no match for The U.S.A.'s Dorothy Moscowitz, although they seem to be aspiring to the same dreamy, icy quality. Byrd himself is quite a mediocre singer, as his attempts at taking the lead on straightforward rock material prove. Otherwise, there are some bad takeoffs on gospel and old-time music, haphazard primitive early synthesizer, and dated social commentary/satire. As ambitious in its scope as Byrd's first rock project, this album is not nearly as successful."
Review by Richie Unterberger @ Allmusic
More Joseph Byrd @ Emusers
Chris Bell - I am the Cosmos
Craig
Jimmy Buffett - Songs You Know By Heart
Next up will be to go to Jonah's latest Wondering Sounds jazz new releases..m
This link takes you to Jonah's review at Wondering Sound where you can also play one track from this brilliant album, IMO
The New Honey Shade - Bottle Field
CTI mellow time.
On Matthew Halsall's label. He produced it and plays on the first track.
Nice, full streaming and available on music but without cover.
- Certainly a New & Notable Release . . .
;-)
This gem came in the mail yesterday, so I am well into my second time through the set. Nice long Catfish John is spinning right now...
Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Remixed
Then:
Olan Mill / Keung Mandelbrot - Seismology
Strange Mountain - Ancient Eyes
Yaya Kumare and Brahima Kumare - Segou Concert
Enjoyable NYOP recording from Senegal.
ETA, well, the first two tracks were very enjoyable - the vocalist on the third is taxing my ears more.
Darren Harper - Suspended Memory
Liking this so far. Also NYOP.
Perry Ferya Band - Mantra (Clinical Archives - ca524) (February 25, 2014)[/align]
- "Perry Ferya Band is a marginal project of Skala Collectives musicians, oriented to a spontaneous psychedelic improvisation with elements of free jazz.
Mantra was recorded in 2013. It is the next step, the development of the ideas known from two first Perry Ferya Bands albums Back Out and Live on Venus. The band has still based its works on improvisation and intuitional cooperation of the musicians. It experiments with a composition and different kinds of instruments, looking for new means of expression . Though it is still true to conventions of the psychedelic tradition of 60s and 70s as well as to the ethnic tradition of common, unfettered making of music. The musicians automatically reject the commercial bonds of contemporary civilization. The most significant is a mutual relation, experiencing the act of creation and sharing music with other people.
Four first compositions on this album are studio productions based on above-mentioned standards. The last track on Mantra is a characteristic continuation of the previous album Live on Venus . It is a 30 minutes long live-recorded huge psychedelic improvisation Live on Mars a cosmological journey to sources of old times, music of primeval forests and ancient Slavic motherland. The magic journey to Arkaim. . ."
The Dogon Lights, with thanks to PLong42
Nicolas Collins