With thanks to my fellow Chris Schlarb fanboy - :-)
[align=center] Chris Schlarb - Psychic Temple "An astounding work of passion and patience over one thousand hours in the making, Long Beach musician/composer Chris Schlarb bestows his latest musical vision, Psychic Temple, onto the world. Known for his work as half of the hypnotic, jazz/drone duo, I Heart Lung, Schlarb's latest work expands wildly in new directions, incorporating wordless vocal choirs, string quartets and horn sections into his 29-member ensemble.
Inspired by the rhythmic pulse of microhouse, and the melodic vocabulary of jazz and folk music, Psychic Temple is a deeply considered meditation on beauty. Recording began in January of 2009 and over the next nineteen months Schlarb collaborated with twenty-eight musicians (including four bassists, three drummers and six vocalists) to build Psychic Temple.
It would not be an exaggeration to boast that Psychic Temple contains performances from some of today's finest musicians including Mick Rossi of the Philip Glass Ensemble, legendary Minutemen bassist Mike Watt, vocalists Julianna Barwick, DM Stith, Joel St. Julien (of ELLUL), Aaron Roche, trumpeter Kris Tiner, Brian Blade Fellowship pedal steel guitarist Dave Easley, Weird Weeds percussionist Nick Hennies, guitarist Danny Miller and drummer Tabor Allen (of Rare Grooves and The Widow Babies), bassists Steuart Liebig, C.J. Boyd and Anthony Shadduck, and Danny T. Levin and David Moyer on horns."
"Each composition is based on a particular Charlie Parker song or solo," he explains. "Really, I feel like the best way we can pay tribute is to show what we've learned from him not so much play his music."
[align=center] "DESACCORDES is a current musical ensemble led by the French bass player and composer Erik BARON. The band includes no less than seven classical guitarists (Among whom a certain Philippe CAUVIN), nine electrical guitarists, seven bass-player (Among whom the Master of Ceremonies and the member of MINIMUM VITAL Eric REBEYROL), a harpist, two cellists (Among whom Serge KORJANEVSKI), a drummer and a percussionnist (The former PSEU keyboards player Thierry JARDINIER). With their second opus "In C" (2005), DESACCORDES aims at reproducing the famous eponymous work composed in 1964 by Terry RILEY. This quite original transcription has been given the form of a classical symphony, an originality still reinforced by the use of electric instruments. This is the ideal opportunity to discover again this masterpiece of music of the XXth Century." Gazul / Musea - 2005[/align]
Sinikka Langeland: kantele, vocals
Lars Anders Tomter: viola
Trygve Seim: tenor saxophone
Markku Ounaskari: percussion
The half-Finnish Sinikka sets The half-finished heaven - and other verse by Tomas Tranströmer - on her fourth album for ECM. Despondency breaks off its course / Anguish breaks off its course / The vulture breaks off its flight. / The eager light streams out Such vivid images establish a tone for what is primarily an instrumental album this time, with a striking blend of sound-colours in music written by Langeland. Sinikkas kanteles - 10-string, 15-string, and 39-string table-harps - seem to carry archaic echoes older than folk tradition. Lars Anders Tomter has been described by string-players magazine The Strad as the giant of the Nordic viola. One of Norways most distinguished classical soloists, he also has a history of collaborating with players of other idioms, and appeared on Sinikkas Marias Song album (as well as on ECM discs with Terje Rypdal and Ketil Bjørnstad). Saxophonist Trygve Seim and drummer Markku Ounaskari were both members of Sinikkas quintet heard on Starflowers and The Land That Is Not and play together in contexts including the Kuára Trio. Out of this network of musical relationships Sinikka has created a characterful quartet with a strong identity of its own.
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Chris Lightcap's Big Mouth - "Deluxe"
EDIT: Wow, I forgot that this one was on Clean Feed Records, too.
Recommended today by Bird is the Worm I'd only got 7 credits left this month at emusic, so two tracks will need to wait another week or so!!
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Chris Schlarb - Psychic Temple
"An astounding work of passion and patience over one thousand hours in the making, Long Beach musician/composer Chris Schlarb bestows his latest musical vision, Psychic Temple, onto the world. Known for his work as half of the hypnotic, jazz/drone duo, I Heart Lung, Schlarb's latest work expands wildly in new directions, incorporating wordless vocal choirs, string quartets and horn sections into his 29-member ensemble.
Inspired by the rhythmic pulse of microhouse, and the melodic vocabulary of jazz and folk music, Psychic Temple is a deeply considered meditation on beauty. Recording began in January of 2009 and over the next nineteen months Schlarb collaborated with twenty-eight musicians (including four bassists, three drummers and six vocalists) to build Psychic Temple.
It would not be an exaggeration to boast that Psychic Temple contains performances from some of today's finest musicians including Mick Rossi of the Philip Glass Ensemble, legendary Minutemen bassist Mike Watt, vocalists Julianna Barwick, DM Stith, Joel St. Julien (of ELLUL), Aaron Roche, trumpeter Kris Tiner, Brian Blade Fellowship pedal steel guitarist Dave Easley, Weird Weeds percussionist Nick Hennies, guitarist Danny Miller and drummer Tabor Allen (of Rare Grooves and The Widow Babies), bassists Steuart Liebig, C.J. Boyd and Anthony Shadduck, and Danny T. Levin and David Moyer on horns."
This leads me to discover the Schlarb Family Plays Devo (Xmas 2014)! Includes links to 2013-The Who and 2012-Fleetwood Mac.
Orlando Scarpo Neto - Imprevisibilidade do Pulso
Pretty awesome, NYOP. I could see bn, GP, rostasi, kargatron liking this.
Then I Love Makonnen EP
Thank you Amazon for getting a delivery wrong, the compensation payed for this
One of the more thirst-quenching releases from these two.
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Vibra (Mark Wastell) - Trent
ETA:
- Not even remotely a karaoke album and surprisingly good.
http://www.last.fm/music/Vert
NPR Podcast
Bird Is the Worm likes it too!
"DESACCORDES is a current musical ensemble led by the French bass player and composer Erik BARON. The band includes no less than seven classical guitarists (Among whom a certain Philippe CAUVIN), nine electrical guitarists, seven bass-player (Among whom the Master of Ceremonies and the member of MINIMUM VITAL Eric REBEYROL), a harpist, two cellists (Among whom Serge KORJANEVSKI), a drummer and a percussionnist (The former PSEU keyboards player Thierry JARDINIER). With their second opus "In C" (2005), DESACCORDES aims at reproducing the famous eponymous work composed in 1964 by Terry RILEY. This quite original transcription has been given the form of a classical symphony, an originality still reinforced by the use of electric instruments. This is the ideal opportunity to discover again this masterpiece of music of the XXth Century."
Gazul / Musea - 2005[/align]
- Insanely brilliant !
Warming up the house on a cold day. Mosaic sez this set is running short...
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier - All-Night Vigil
200 Mondays by Straight No Chaser Band
Colin Vallon - "Rruga"
I haven't played the whole album for a while, I'd forgotten how good it is, IMO