@Greg, how is the new Waterboys? I keep hoping that Scott will come out with a new one in the same vein as Fisherman's Blues, but I don't think that's going to happen.
Well, I don't know if you're old enough to remember the days of Firesign Theatre (whaaat?, you're saying...),
but you could listen and listen and keep gettin' and gettin' huge brain-engagements out of it for dozens - no, hundreds -
of listens. That's what this is all about. More of her voice and less sax on this, but this is still an even more
amazingly complex black historical soup that just doesn't just stay on the back-burner. Personal observations,
political tracts, quoted great leaders and infamous characters from already existing speeches - these,
along with the collection of field recordings that she's made during her travels all mixed together -
is so attentive to layering and looping in ways that you'd think would just wear you out.
No, its transparency and attention to worked, but air-light mixing that's one of the things that makes
this so beautifully executed. I understand that her scores for these are a highly graphic notation with
a scrapbook style of photos, literature quotes, drawings as well as actual musical notation all there to
be brought out as an ensemble of (re)workings. This trio of recordings is so solid now, I can only wonder
if she'll be able to sustain a full twelve(!) releases of this type of multilayered focus on the slavery experience
and not somehow make you feel emotionally drained in the end. Was this intended? The mystery is part of the charm.
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Now playing: Shirley & Dolly Collins - A Song-Story - a Dream - Lowlands
I think they've gotten better with each release. She's clearly getting better at her method, and then there's the fact that it has such an abounding honesty to it, imperfections celebrated as much as the victories. Very happy with it.
NP:
Chris Potter Underground - "Imaginary Cities"
-Finally getting around to listening to this thing. So far so good.
Alexandre Saint-Onge - Joseph Carey Merrick - "Joseph Carey Merrick embodies the idea, already obvious on my previous album My animal is possible (Alien 8 Recordings), to communicate with monsters and to exorcise my monstrousness through sound spectres. Here, the monstrousness means the possibility of a relation with the imperceptible, it is the advent of quite other sense which never can be merged with the meaning. Through this suite of electronic "pop" songs for voice, bass and computer I try to make get through my voice Joseph Carey Merricks voice. It is about a rite of ownership of / by another, similar to a small Ouija board, where my body and my mouth become this famous way to communicate with the spirits."
- Alexandre St-Onge, Montreal, November 10, 2007 http://www.alexandrest-onge.com
@Kez - I've only played it once so far. It seems perhaps a bit less folk on some trtacks, a bit more soft, acoustic, rock than previous albums. I may review my opinion though on another listen! So
Comments
Dead Texan - "Dead Texan"
-A short drone break before starting up with some more promos. Long live Kranky!
Thanks, Brighternow
Aaron Goldberg - The Now
-Solid modern piano trio recording.
Swans - To Be Kind
- Hmmm ? - As gloomy as they have ever been . . . Well, maybe it will grow on me.
Craig
Sexy psychobilly. The album isn't as amazingly fun as they are live, but still a dang enjoyable listen.
Image links to Bandcamp.
Craig
Aidan Baker - Triptychs: Variations On A Melody
Viet Cong - s/t
This will be one of the New Music Tuesday 3 on MiG tomorrow, and it is amazing. Heavy, heavy post punk.
Craig
Anna Webber Percussive Mechanics - Refraction
-A new one from Webber's Percussive Mechanics crew. Their self-titled debut was one of my top albums of 2013.
Anne Paceo - "Yokai"
One of the best things to come out in 2012. In retrospect, it might've cracked my top ten for that year.
http://www.birdistheworm.com/anne-paceo-yokai/
How are you liking the third installment compared to the first two?
NP:
Makaya McCraven - "In the Moment"
Well, I don't know if you're old enough to remember the days of Firesign Theatre (whaaat?, you're saying...),
but you could listen and listen and keep gettin' and gettin' huge brain-engagements out of it for dozens - no, hundreds -
of listens. That's what this is all about. More of her voice and less sax on this, but this is still an even more
amazingly complex black historical soup that just doesn't just stay on the back-burner. Personal observations,
political tracts, quoted great leaders and infamous characters from already existing speeches - these,
along with the collection of field recordings that she's made during her travels all mixed together -
is so attentive to layering and looping in ways that you'd think would just wear you out.
No, its transparency and attention to worked, but air-light mixing that's one of the things that makes
this so beautifully executed. I understand that her scores for these are a highly graphic notation with
a scrapbook style of photos, literature quotes, drawings as well as actual musical notation all there to
be brought out as an ensemble of (re)workings. This trio of recordings is so solid now, I can only wonder
if she'll be able to sustain a full twelve(!) releases of this type of multilayered focus on the slavery experience
and not somehow make you feel emotionally drained in the end. Was this intended? The mystery is part of the charm.
---
Now playing: Shirley & Dolly Collins - A Song-Story - a Dream - Lowlands
I think they've gotten better with each release. She's clearly getting better at her method, and then there's the fact that it has such an abounding honesty to it, imperfections celebrated as much as the victories. Very happy with it.
NP:
Chris Potter Underground - "Imaginary Cities"
-Finally getting around to listening to this thing. So far so good.
Alexandre Saint-Onge - Joseph Carey Merrick
- "Joseph Carey Merrick embodies the idea, already obvious on my previous album My animal is possible (Alien 8 Recordings), to communicate with monsters and to exorcise my monstrousness through sound spectres. Here, the monstrousness means the possibility of a relation with the imperceptible, it is the advent of quite other sense which never can be merged with the meaning. Through this suite of electronic "pop" songs for voice, bass and computer I try to make get through my voice Joseph Carey Merricks voice. It is about a rite of ownership of / by another, similar to a small Ouija board, where my body and my mouth become this famous way to communicate with the spirits."
- Alexandre St-Onge, Montreal, November 10, 2007
http://www.alexandrest-onge.com
My current Freegal download - at three tracks a week it'll take me months to complete! I ought to register my wife's library card as well....
How do you register for Freegal from the UK, my library does not seem to connect with it