Lowlife - I did it through my local library, that seems to be the only way. I get three tracks per week, so it often takes a month to get an album! But it is better than nothing. That is still 12 or so albums per year free of charge.
Currently listening to Bruce Springsteen High Hopes CD
I'm glad I got this one on cd - it's a plain black plastic case, plain black cd (black on the bottom too), and plain black insert card with white song titles. The album is really great too. Blunt's stuff just always sounds so different than anything else I can think of.
- The fourth entry in the REV. Lab series is Deison/Mingle Everything Collapse[d].
North-east Italy, late summer 2013: Cristiano Deison and Andrea Gastaldello (aka Mingle) meet online and begin to lay the foundations for what will be their first project together. Out of this comes Everything Collapse[d], an album centred around melancholy and desolation; a concept that does not leave much hope, forcing you to look within yourself. A foreign body coming from far away: sidereal matter which is about to implode; an object that has reached its limit. And everything collapses, swallowed up by itself.
Recorded and produced between Mingle's Tower Home Studio and Deison's 1st Floor Studio, Everything Collapse[d] is a perfect union of our two sounds: drones, field recordings and processed loops intermingled with disturbed rhythms, melancholy harmonies and piano chimes. A gloomy and dirty electronic sound that turns into an extremely evocative score which is full of pathos. A precise, precious and cosmic album... One Million Parsec From Your Sun.
REV. LAB.
In 2013 Bas Mantel began curating and designing the REV. Lab. series in collaboration with Aagoo Records -Alec Dartley-. The sound and tone of the label finds its inspiration in electronic, ambient, experimental, cinematic and abstract sound scapes/compositions. This series investigates the relation between the graphic translation of the music and its physical output
Recorded and mixed by Andrea Gastaldello e Cristiano Deison. Mastered by Simon Balestrazzi.
Produced by Andrea Gastaldello, Cristiano Deison and Aagoo / Rev. Lab. Graphic design: Bas Mantel.
Daniele Santagiuliana vocals on "Failure" by Swans.
- http://www.deison.net - http://revlaboratories.com/ - Soundcloud
amc - I remember hearing a few years ago that some guy on American Idol wanted to do "Higher Ground" and had no idea it was a Stevie Wonder song. That right there is why I can't abide that show.
Another BITW pick; another winner. The music sounds great without the story but the whole MOBRO idea definitely adds something fascinating. I think I vaguely remember something about this when it was going on - I was around 13. NYC trash barges were definitely part of the general cultural noise back then. Whether it was this or medical waste on Jersey Shore beaches. IIRC, MOBRO, or a similar barge makes an appearance in Don DeLillo's Underworld - one of my favorite books that I haven't read in a long time. I need to read that again. In the book, I think that it was hinted at that part if the reason no one would let the barge dock was a rumor about the body of a mob hit victim being buried in the barge's trash. Although maybe in the book it was a sewage barge? Anyway I just was shocked to figure out that Underworld (1997) was only 10 years after MOBRO (1987), where I first read it almost 20 years ago. The 10 years between teen and adult seems way longer than the 20 between young adult and middle adult.
Kez - half way through third play, definitely more rock, soft electric guitar than many previous albums. Probably falls into the indie/alternative category (whatever that means) than folk. But I am enjoying it.
- "Created for Alban Richards choreographic show of the same name, as far as -slightly modified for its release on CD - is a sound structure built on classical music samples, off beat loops, collages, quotations. The album starts with a long, minimal, repetitive track - organ sequences and micro events reminding one of some of Charlemagne Palestines pieces. As far as is a work where emotion prevails on abstraction, a long heady, cinematic development, a play on volumes and contrasts like hesitating between total anguish and peaceful contemplation. The musical form thus created is the prelude to an almost apocalyptic noise swoop which, in an oddly beautiful manner, finally transforms itself into a collage of orchestrated violins, illusion of infinity meeting a most abrupt end." Sound on Probation - 2008 http://www.baskaru.com/laurent_perrier.htm
@Greg, thanks for your opinion of Modern Blues. I haven't listened to it yet but I've seen mixed reviews. One of the negative ones was so bad that I felt a little sorry for Scott. After reading that, I had really low expectations. We shall see.
I am a fan of all the creative ways various sites have been finding in recent years of saying "error, page does not exist". In quick succession I just ran into the Tumblr one: "There's nothing here.
Whatever you were looking for doesn't currently exist at this address. Unless you were looking for this error page, in which case: Congrats! You totally found it", which is cheesy but almost charming, and then, new to me and my favorite for today, Fluid Radio: "THE FIBRE OPTICS SAY NO".
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Currently listening to Bruce Springsteen High Hopes CD
Springsteen's lower brow Jersey cousin still beat him for 2014 earnings! (:
The Dale Cooper Quartet - Quatorze Pieces de Menace
...which oddly enough has 11 tracks.
Thanks, BN
I'm glad I got this one on cd - it's a plain black plastic case, plain black cd (black on the bottom too), and plain black insert card with white song titles. The album is really great too. Blunt's stuff just always sounds so different than anything else I can think of.
Turns out I did get Songs In the Key of Life from the MS promo so yay! But I also just realized that I'm missing one more classic; Fulfillingness'
Anyway, I think this one is my favorite of the ones I know. But maybe that's The Red Hot Chili Peppers' fault?
- The fourth entry in the REV. Lab series is Deison/Mingle Everything Collapse[d].
North-east Italy, late summer 2013: Cristiano Deison and Andrea Gastaldello (aka Mingle) meet online and begin to lay the foundations for what will be their first project together. Out of this comes Everything Collapse[d], an album centred around melancholy and desolation; a concept that does not leave much hope, forcing you to look within yourself. A foreign body coming from far away: sidereal matter which is about to implode; an object that has reached its limit. And everything collapses, swallowed up by itself.
Recorded and produced between Mingle's Tower Home Studio and Deison's 1st Floor Studio, Everything Collapse[d] is a perfect union of our two sounds: drones, field recordings and processed loops intermingled with disturbed rhythms, melancholy harmonies and piano chimes. A gloomy and dirty electronic sound that turns into an extremely evocative score which is full of pathos. A precise, precious and cosmic album... One Million Parsec From Your Sun.
REV. LAB.
In 2013 Bas Mantel began curating and designing the REV. Lab. series in collaboration with Aagoo Records -Alec Dartley-. The sound and tone of the label finds its inspiration in electronic, ambient, experimental, cinematic and abstract sound scapes/compositions. This series investigates the relation between the graphic translation of the music and its physical output
Recorded and mixed by Andrea Gastaldello e Cristiano Deison. Mastered by Simon Balestrazzi.
Produced by Andrea Gastaldello, Cristiano Deison and Aagoo / Rev. Lab. Graphic design: Bas Mantel.
Daniele Santagiuliana vocals on "Failure" by Swans.
- http://www.deison.net - http://revlaboratories.com/ - Soundcloud
Craig
Another BITW pick; another winner. The music sounds great without the story but the whole MOBRO idea definitely adds something fascinating. I think I vaguely remember something about this when it was going on - I was around 13. NYC trash barges were definitely part of the general cultural noise back then. Whether it was this or medical waste on Jersey Shore beaches. IIRC, MOBRO, or a similar barge makes an appearance in Don DeLillo's Underworld - one of my favorite books that I haven't read in a long time. I need to read that again. In the book, I think that it was hinted at that part if the reason no one would let the barge dock was a rumor about the body of a mob hit victim being buried in the barge's trash. Although maybe in the book it was a sewage barge? Anyway I just was shocked to figure out that Underworld (1997) was only 10 years after MOBRO (1987), where I first read it almost 20 years ago. The 10 years between teen and adult seems way longer than the 20 between young adult and middle adult.
The Decemberists - What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
I definitely like this more than The King is Dead, but that isn't really saying much. I think my tastes may have just passed The Decemberists by.
Craig
Good day at the mailbox (or pre-order MP3 delivery, I guess). The Decemberists is coming on vinyl, hopefully today.
Charles Barab
This is one of my all time favourites, not far short of 50 years old
Kez - half way through third play, definitely more rock, soft electric guitar than many previous albums. Probably falls into the indie/alternative category (whatever that means) than folk. But I am enjoying it.
Red House Painters - Red House Painters (2)
- "Created for Alban Richards choreographic show of the same name, as far as -slightly modified for its release on CD - is a sound structure built on classical music samples, off beat loops, collages, quotations. The album starts with a long, minimal, repetitive track - organ sequences and micro events reminding one of some of Charlemagne Palestines pieces. As far as is a work where emotion prevails on abstraction, a long heady, cinematic development, a play on volumes and contrasts like hesitating between total anguish and peaceful contemplation. The musical form thus created is the prelude to an almost apocalyptic noise swoop which, in an oddly beautiful manner, finally transforms itself into a collage of orchestrated violins, illusion of infinity meeting a most abrupt end."
Sound on Probation - 2008
http://www.baskaru.com/laurent_perrier.htm
Ed Hamilton - Sketches for Skomer
Whatever you were looking for doesn't currently exist at this address. Unless you were looking for this error page, in which case: Congrats! You totally found it", which is cheesy but almost charming, and then, new to me and my favorite for today, Fluid Radio: "THE FIBRE OPTICS SAY NO".
This is so good it's crazy.
Craig