Become Ocean (Gioia's and maybe Brighternow's #1) is $1.49 for the whole album at 7digital here. Grab it before they correct the error.
ETA, there has been a cluster of really good ocean-themed recordings this year.
Could have been one of those I've played in my car, an aeroplane etc when away from my computer or ipad. iTunes says I have played it three times. I will rectify that now as it is a while since I played it last!
Freshly grabbed and prompted by P42 and Rostasi's LastFM scrobble thing: - "These three works exist amid an undeniable esthetic spirit of the timesthe embracing of pre-compositional principles and structural processes in the service of a highly personal artistic statement. However, John Luther Adams' recent work tends to transcend his compositional devicesit is simply potent, compelling music that is timeless in its sublimity. This is quietly expressive music in which process never intrudes on the music's "sounding," but churns away in the background, while the foreground shimmers with a simple yet great joy in the very making of sounds. It is a music that may be readily appreciated on both intellectual and sensual levels.
Glancing quickly at the inner-workings beneath the music's kaleidoscopically changing surface-textures:
The Light That Fills the World (1998/2001), which was commissioned by the Paul Dresher Ensemble, develops via ever-expanding musical intervals in each of its instrumental parts, forming something of an arch, pivoting around the tritone, and at the same time a continuous rampthe smaller intervals steadily giving way to the larger. The rhythmic subdivisions of the bars reflect the tessitura of each part's pitches in a broad harmonic spectrum (a la some of Henry Cowell's theories)with higher notes moving with smaller subdivisions of the barproviding a natural polyrhythmic motion.
The Farthest Place (2001) develops in a way that is consistent with the architecture of The Light That Fills the World, but here the harmonic world is pentatonic rather than diatonic.
The Immeasurable Space of Tones (1999/2001), the largest and most complex of the three pieces, might be considered five joined-at-the-hip movements, each of which has an interval expansion and contraction life of its own, yet also falls within a larger overall scheme of interval growth. . . . ."
- Cold Blue Music - 2002
Catching up with this one and really hoping the rest of it sounds like the lovely first track...
Emusic should have a plan where you put aside part of your payment every month and get it all to spend in early December when the best of lists come out and you want to splurge.
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Live performance videos: Julia Kent live at [F]luister
https://vimeo.com/30662908
James Davis - "Beveled"
One of my top five contenders on my best of 2014 list.
NYOP; artist has 2014 album I need to check out too.
How did I not know Tinariwen had a new album out this year?!!??!
- Could very well become my number 1 too . . .
ETA: absolutely and totally breathtaking !
Hauschka - Abandoned City
ETA, there has been a cluster of really good ocean-themed recordings this year.
White Lung - Deep Fantasy
Working on the order of my best of list, and every time I put this one on it moves further up. So good.
Craig
- "These three works exist amid an undeniable esthetic spirit of the timesthe embracing of pre-compositional principles and structural processes in the service of a highly personal artistic statement. However, John Luther Adams' recent work tends to transcend his compositional devicesit is simply potent, compelling music that is timeless in its sublimity. This is quietly expressive music in which process never intrudes on the music's "sounding," but churns away in the background, while the foreground shimmers with a simple yet great joy in the very making of sounds. It is a music that may be readily appreciated on both intellectual and sensual levels.
Glancing quickly at the inner-workings beneath the music's kaleidoscopically changing surface-textures:
The Light That Fills the World (1998/2001), which was commissioned by the Paul Dresher Ensemble, develops via ever-expanding musical intervals in each of its instrumental parts, forming something of an arch, pivoting around the tritone, and at the same time a continuous rampthe smaller intervals steadily giving way to the larger. The rhythmic subdivisions of the bars reflect the tessitura of each part's pitches in a broad harmonic spectrum (a la some of Henry Cowell's theories)with higher notes moving with smaller subdivisions of the barproviding a natural polyrhythmic motion.
The Farthest Place (2001) develops in a way that is consistent with the architecture of The Light That Fills the World, but here the harmonic world is pentatonic rather than diatonic.
The Immeasurable Space of Tones (1999/2001), the largest and most complex of the three pieces, might be considered five joined-at-the-hip movements, each of which has an interval expansion and contraction life of its own, yet also falls within a larger overall scheme of interval growth. . . . ."
- Cold Blue Music - 2002
The Thing & Thurston Moore - "Live"
-Rockin'!
Catching up with this one and really hoping the rest of it sounds like the lovely first track...
Emusic should have a plan where you put aside part of your payment every month and get it all to spend in early December when the best of lists come out and you want to splurge.
Damn, looks like this is out of print too. The world has gone mad
Current 93 All Dolled Up Like Christ
Mighty Mighty - "See the Light"