Mono - Rays of Darkness
This caught my attention when I read that they had ditched the orchestra and gone back to their roots. I liked their roots better. So far so good, though still not as gutsy as a few albums ago. There's a second companion album out too.
ETA, well, I'd say I like it a little better than the last couple, but one of the great strengths of earlier Mono was that they could combine the lyrical and the brutal within an overall tense narrative. On this one, even the parts that are formally similar to the frenzied sections of earlier works still feel...glossy, cellophane-wrapped. Maybe it's in the production, there's energy there but it never quite erupts the way Com did.
- "Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936. It is based on 24 of the secular poems found in the medieval collection Carmina Burana organized into a libretto, mostly in Latin verse, with a small amount of Middle High German and Old Proven
from my $1.99 Led Zep box set. Can you believe I've never heard this before!? I can't. But I like that there are still great, totally mainstream, discoveries out there for me to make...
eta: New age doesn't say enough; it's electronic, ambient, glitchy new age. Really enjoying this; it's from tape/web label Constellation Tatsu. I've liked everything I've heard from them so far.
Was listening to this 2007 album on Spotify last week. It's by Ian Tamblyn, a Canadian singer-songwriter who has been making records for decades (and still putting them out) but I am just now discovering him. What a find! I am surprised I am so late in discovering him. This particular album is one of a series of 4 that were inspired by Tamblyn's trek across Canada, each installment covering a different region of the country. He is definitely worth checking out. Really.
OKAY - what am I doing wrong with the image line?? I know it's been a while since I've posted (I even forgot my password and had to reset it!), but really I can't imagine what I'm doing wrong with the image line.
@amc2, I picked up albums from that Microsoft sale by The Doors, The Who, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin .... all of them containing lots of material I have never heard. Just not an era I know well. @kez, good to see you, was just thinking yesterday it seemed you'd not been around for a while and wondering how you were doing. (Change "image" to "img")
NP: loscil and Fieldhead - Fury and Hecla
Thanks, GP and amclark2. I finally got it fixed, although I don't know what the problem was to begin with. I used img at first but changed to image when that wasn't wroking. Tried changing it back to img after I read your posts, but it still didn't work. I closed down the page and re-opened it and it mysteriously worked. Must have been a glitch.
I've been very busy lately with work and also various family issues and any spare time I have managed to find lately has been taking up with reading instead of music. Of course, I can't completely do without music for too awful long, so I've still been listening to a small amount of stuff and periodically checking emusers but not as regularly as before things got so crazy. The Ian Tamblyn album I mentioned was special enough to make me want to share it with other emusers of like tastes.
(I still have a ton of ideas I would like to put into some MiG pieces. I hope to do some of that in the near future.)
Yow. Check out the spoken lyrics for "Left Alone," a song apparently written by Billie. It closes the Archie Shepp/Mal Waldron album I posted above. Not sure if that's Archie's voice or Mal's.
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Mono - Rays of Darkness
This caught my attention when I read that they had ditched the orchestra and gone back to their roots. I liked their roots better. So far so good, though still not as gutsy as a few albums ago. There's a second companion album out too.
ETA, well, I'd say I like it a little better than the last couple, but one of the great strengths of earlier Mono was that they could combine the lyrical and the brutal within an overall tense narrative. On this one, even the parts that are formally similar to the frenzied sections of earlier works still feel...glossy, cellophane-wrapped. Maybe it's in the production, there's energy there but it never quite erupts the way Com did.
Marconi Union - Weightless
New release.
Perfect Sunday morning music
Underpool Collective - "Underpool 3"
Just listened to this twice through. Am beginning to think it might be loscil's best album.
Angles 9 - "Injuries"
-Memory had faded a bit. Reminded of how and why this album is so brilliant and one of the best things in 2014.
Raf Ferrari 4tet - "Venere e Marte"
Pharoah & The Underground - "Spiral Mercury"
Joe Lovano sax, Brian Blade drums
from my $1.99 Led Zep box set. Can you believe I've never heard this before!? I can't. But I like that there are still great, totally mainstream, discoveries out there for me to make...
Very nice, new agey. NYOP
eta: New age doesn't say enough; it's electronic, ambient, glitchy new age. Really enjoying this; it's from tape/web label Constellation Tatsu. I've liked everything I've heard from them so far.
Was listening to this 2007 album on Spotify last week. It's by Ian Tamblyn, a Canadian singer-songwriter who has been making records for decades (and still putting them out) but I am just now discovering him. What a find! I am surprised I am so late in discovering him. This particular album is one of a series of 4 that were inspired by Tamblyn's trek across Canada, each installment covering a different region of the country. He is definitely worth checking out. Really.
OKAY - what am I doing wrong with the image line?? I know it's been a while since I've posted (I even forgot my password and had to reset it!), but really I can't imagine what I'm doing wrong with the image line.
@kez, good to see you, was just thinking yesterday it seemed you'd not been around for a while and wondering how you were doing. (Change "image" to "img")
NP: loscil and Fieldhead - Fury and Hecla
[img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RmNxjkYYL._SX450_.jpg[\img] Well, that's embarrassing... Try again:[/img]
I really don't know...
Oh well; you got it.
I've been very busy lately with work and also various family issues and any spare time I have managed to find lately has been taking up with reading instead of music. Of course, I can't completely do without music for too awful long, so I've still been listening to a small amount of stuff and periodically checking emusers but not as regularly as before things got so crazy. The Ian Tamblyn album I mentioned was special enough to make me want to share it with other emusers of like tastes.
(I still have a ton of ideas I would like to put into some MiG pieces. I hope to do some of that in the near future.)
Xylouris White Goats
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Now playing: Conjunto Primavera Perdóname Mi Amor
Great to have you back Kez! Where's BT been lately, too?