-Modern jazz(ish) improvised (probably) music from Canada. Kinda loose as far as a singular vision goes, but the way it flits about keeps things interesting.
1.LAMENT
Written in three parts, the title track Lament is the projects centrepiece. I originally wanted to write a lament, in the sense of a Klagegesang, explains Bargeld. You know, the song blames this, and I do this, etc, etc, but that idea reduced more and more, until the track ended up with just this one sentence. Only two words are left at the end: Macht Krieg. Which mean: Power. War. But in German macht Krieg also means: make war.
2.ABWÄRTSSPIRALE
Translating as Winding Down Spiral, the second part musically does exactly what it says, tumbling through a downwards spiral based on a pattern taken from the four numbers making up the final year of the war: 1-9-1-8.
3.PATER PECCAVI
The musical basis of the third part is a drastically slowed down version of a motet about the Prodigal Son called Pater Peccavi, composed by the 16th century renaissance composer Jacobus Clemens non Papa who lived most of his life in Diksmuide. Over the resulting drawn out drone, Neubauten members each play the voices of prisoners of war, recorded during their incarceration in Germany on wax cylinder by German linguists, who asked them to recite the Biblical parable of The Prodigal Son in their own tongue. These amazing recordings were discovered by Neubautens researchers in Berlins Humboldt University. And some of the languages on record are nowadays extinct, says Bargeld. Everything, from Occitanic to Corsican dialects, was recorded, and we played them through small speaker cubes. We treat them like eggs, open them, let them play on the microphone. We treat them like treasured eggs, fragile objects. Between us we play 36 or so voices taken from the wax cylinders.
Elsewhere Bargeld told Danish TV viewers, I was very, very careful to not use these recordings as sound effects, and not use these recordings as some kind of validation of authenticity. It had to be treated like eggs, like raw eggs. Like something that is very... theyre very carefully not to be interfered with. These are people long dead. These are people that had to speak this under pressure. They were in prison. So, theres a certain amount of delicacy involved in composing something with these kind of ghost voices.
Ambidextrous Sun is the debut album of an eclectic duo consisting of the danish guitarist Erik Emil Eskildsen (The Friendly Guitar Trio) and the german synth player Bernhard Wöstheinrich (centrozoon).
- More checking:
Tony Levin: Chapman Stick & Voice
Pat Mastelotto: Traps & Buttons
Markus Reuter: Touch Guitars® U8 & Soundscapes
I was reading something and they used the phrase "every little counts" which reminded me of "every little helps" which I looked up and it was on this album, which turns out I had in storage, so I dug it out and am enjoying it much more than I remember caring about it before.
I had thought this was only at emu because of the majors; I thought Geffen bought up all these old albums; so I was happy to find it still there, and for less than $5! Like Brotherhood this is also from 1986, so I guess I'm in a 1986 mood today.
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The Phantom Band-Fears Trending
Anouar Brahem - Souvenance
Chris Schlarb - "Psychic Temple"
Probably will just let it play straight through the follow-up, too.
Christian Muthspiel 4 - "Seaven Teares"
Noisey. Thanks BN.
Craig
Jerry Goldsmith - "A Patch of Blue"
-An old Amie St pickup, IIRC.
Wings- Band on the Run
Fairport Convention - Live at the BBC
Hammock- An Introduction to
Harley Card - "Hedgerow"
-Modern jazz(ish) improvised (probably) music from Canada. Kinda loose as far as a singular vision goes, but the way it flits about keeps things interesting.
On Bandcamp: http://harleycard1.bandcamp.com/releases
ETA: lovely . . .
Tony Levin: Chapman Stick & Voice
Pat Mastelotto: Traps & Buttons
Markus Reuter: Touch Guitars® U8 & Soundscapes
Gorgeous !
I was reading something and they used the phrase "every little counts" which reminded me of "every little helps" which I looked up and it was on this album, which turns out I had in storage, so I dug it out and am enjoying it much more than I remember caring about it before.
Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
Craig
I had thought this was only at emu because of the majors; I thought Geffen bought up all these old albums; so I was happy to find it still there, and for less than $5! Like Brotherhood this is also from 1986, so I guess I'm in a 1986 mood today.