Recorded live on instruments made from glass. Intriguing and nice to listen to.
World of Glass conjures a weirdly beautiful soundscape, cool and flutey, with crunching broken glass sometimes used for percussion, and occasional deep bongs emanating from bowl-like objects. The music seems so meditative and unstructured that its hard to tell where one piece ends and another begins, but in fact there is structure of a sort... - London Jazz News
ac2, there are two volumes of that Tatum set, both at 5.84. Similar to the Storyville "Duke Box," the recordings vary widely in source and quality, but wow. Ten discs/12 hours of largely unreleased music spanning 2 decades. This blog post has a detailed rundown.
I picked this 4-disk set up for $1.99 in the Xbox Christmas sale with the aim of doing a little due diligence on my assumed allergy to country music. There's actually some things here I can enjoy, and I can hear why it's good even when it's not my first choice of genre. I really like that some of his interaction with the recording engineers is included. There are some parts however that really bother me. Folk complain (I think rightly) about misogyny in hip hop - is there a similar debate about country? There are songs on here in which, while there are no derogatory terms or threats of (physical) violence, the song is about male-female relationships and in the worldview implied by the song's narrative the woman has no agency, no will, no sentience, and little importance beyond being sweet as honey, and is largely there to cry while the male narrative lead moves on to another town to play his banjo. And nothing in the musical structure tells me this is really a problem. I find that stuff hard to listen to without just feeling disgusted at the implied narrator.
Moving on to:
I am finding this oddly fascinating. I think one of my barriers with some versions of the most improvisational/free end of jazz (if that is what this is; I think it is one of the things it could be) is not to do with loss of structure but rather to do with being somewhat ambivalent about saxophones and unless I am really in the mood not really much liking the sound of them squalling. It can get like nails on a blackboard. Glass being broken, hit, blown down, hummed in, rattled, gonged in an improvisatory manner is a whole other story... Mysterious and compelling. Cheapest I have seen it is $7.50 at emusic, but I think I may have to get this.
Working my way back from Lope and Antilope, which jonahpwll's end of year list persuaded me to listen to and then buy. Don't like this quite as much at first listen.
I remember seeing Lope and Antilope on the emusic front page a while back and realize now I assumed for some reason it was some kind of indie rock album. Possibly because I have got used to jazz albums having either some actual person's name for a term for some configuration of musicians in the artist field somewhere.
Name your price @ Bandcamp: Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack - Wrack | Live | 2012
KYLE BRUCKMANN oboe/English horn; TIM DAISY percussion; ANTON HATWICH bass; JEN CLARE PAULSON viola; JASON STEIN bass clarinet.
- released 12 December 2012
Crap, I see that cd is no longer listed on the site - must have sold out, missed the boat. I hope they reprint them. I quite dislike the idea of paying $30 for flac files.
-Past jazz picks. Chamber(ish) jazz, with two flugels, two bass clarinets and a bass & drum duo. Operates at two speeds, with harmony and solos acting as the key to each gear.
Scott Lapatine, the founder of Stereogum, put up a dropbox of 313 interesting cover songs from 2014. I'm slowly making my way through that. Currently it's Ryan Adams doing Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is".
The original link was taken down, but the comments on this article have links to other places to download it.
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The RIOT of SPRING by 16 Stravinskys
Thanks, BN.
Alva Noto - Transvision
Nice warm music for the intermittent blizzards we are having here today
Terje Isungset & Arve Henriksen - World of glass
Recorded live on instruments made from glass. Intriguing and nice to listen to.
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- Thanks for the reminder, GP.
See the 'Big Multidisc Sets' thread on the eMu messboard
Is that set still $5.84? I can't see it from my phone. Love Tatum.
Really, really hits the spot this morning.
Craig
(Again)
Johnny Cash - Unearthed
I picked this 4-disk set up for $1.99 in the Xbox Christmas sale with the aim of doing a little due diligence on my assumed allergy to country music. There's actually some things here I can enjoy, and I can hear why it's good even when it's not my first choice of genre. I really like that some of his interaction with the recording engineers is included. There are some parts however that really bother me. Folk complain (I think rightly) about misogyny in hip hop - is there a similar debate about country? There are songs on here in which, while there are no derogatory terms or threats of (physical) violence, the song is about male-female relationships and in the worldview implied by the song's narrative the woman has no agency, no will, no sentience, and little importance beyond being sweet as honey, and is largely there to cry while the male narrative lead moves on to another town to play his banjo. And nothing in the musical structure tells me this is really a problem. I find that stuff hard to listen to without just feeling disgusted at the implied narrator.
Moving on to:
I am finding this oddly fascinating. I think one of my barriers with some versions of the most improvisational/free end of jazz (if that is what this is; I think it is one of the things it could be) is not to do with loss of structure but rather to do with being somewhat ambivalent about saxophones and unless I am really in the mood not really much liking the sound of them squalling. It can get like nails on a blackboard. Glass being broken, hit, blown down, hummed in, rattled, gonged in an improvisatory manner is a whole other story... Mysterious and compelling. Cheapest I have seen it is $7.50 at emusic, but I think I may have to get this.
ETA, going to check out that Art Tatum too.
Get the Blessing - All is Yes
Working my way back from Lope and Antilope, which jonahpwll's end of year list persuaded me to listen to and then buy. Don't like this quite as much at first listen.
I remember seeing Lope and Antilope on the emusic front page a while back and realize now I assumed for some reason it was some kind of indie rock album. Possibly because I have got used to jazz albums having either some actual person's name for a term for some configuration of musicians in the artist field somewhere.
Awesome electronic compilation. Last I checked it was still NYOP.
Tim Horner - The Head of the Circle
Another nice one from the BitW lists.
Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack - Wrack | Live | 2012
KYLE BRUCKMANN oboe/English horn; TIM DAISY percussion; ANTON HATWICH bass; JEN CLARE PAULSON viola; JASON STEIN bass clarinet.
- released 12 December 2012
Jordan McLean Trumpet & Electronics
Amir Ziv Drums
Adam Holzman Piano
James Davis' Beveled - "Beveled"
-Past jazz picks. Chamber(ish) jazz, with two flugels, two bass clarinets and a bass & drum duo. Operates at two speeds, with harmony and solos acting as the key to each gear.
On Bandcamp: http://jamescdavis.bandcamp.com/album/beveled
Turning to Craig's list.
ETA, lyrically, I think this is somewhere beyond what I can listen to. Sorry, Craig, I tried.
Grouper - Ruins
Trying this instead. I am not sure because MiG is down, but I think it was also on Craig's list (?).
Craig
The original link was taken down, but the comments on this article have links to other places to download it.
Craig
Craig