I'm such a sucker for drip.fm. At this point I'll do a month or two of any label that interests me. The Ubiquity and Canataloupe ones have both been fantastic so far.
If you like this kind of "bright", slightly metallic, somewhat harsh & resonant drone (for me it's not quite hitting the spot, but your mileage may well vary), this whole 38 minute album is $0.89 on Amazon.
Thanks to Germanprof for making me think of Labyrinthitis
I found that album through the Gimme 10 - Experimental thread back when Emusic was fun.
Jacob Kirkegaard
Labyrinthitis
I still really like this kind of bright, slightly metallic, somewhat harsh & resonant drone and still only $.49 (cents) for emusic Canada. I don't really know what the heck they charge the rest of you.
- "In the liner notes to this recording, bandleader Gregg Bendian cites the 1970s-era progressive rock band Gentle Giant as a primary influence on his life as a musician. All the musical concepts he applies so effortlessly on his many recordings and in concerts with all manner of players he attributes to hearing Gentle Giant's Free Hand album in the mid-'70s. This recording is a tribute of sorts to their influence, though Bendian himself has composed all the music here. Props aside, this is one hell of a band; they could play anything put in front of them. One listen to the metric modulation between Bendian and Mark Dresser's bass playing on "Countermeasures," and Nels Cline's counterpoint study as it balances between them is sign enough -- and that's only on the first track! Alex Cline walks a thin line as he dances about his kit on this album given that the bandleader is a percussionist. His polyrhythmic displacement of the center of these compositions is quite astonishing. It is as if he were playing the tune outside of itself as the band moved about inside the harmonic world they were assembling, yet the time is perfect and the space created by such a naeuver is vast. Gary Burton's influence is in evidence here. The manner in which Bendian will state his theme without force or stresses and creates a hocket (the practice of dividing different voice parts resulting in a hiccup, or jagged effect) from the ensuing lines played by Cline's guitar and, on occasion, Dresser's bass ("Blood Sasoon Zi Tavit"). The atonality of this work, with Cline's heavy metal guitar, beginning in overdrive and displacing all rhythmic constraints by creating new ones, is a wonderful tactic. The shimmering quiet of "I-Zones" is the album's premier achievement, however. Here, drone, timbral extensions, and polymetrics are meditated upon as a method of lyrical invention. Everything is suspended: rhythm, nuance, tonal considerations, etc. Only the shifting timbres that create microtones upon microtones are focused upon in the off-angle meter. Tribute to '70s progressive rock or not, Interzone is a fine band who've issued a noteworthy recording."
- Allmusic.
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Craig
Then:
Now:
CocoRosie - Tales of a GrassWidow
I have no problem admitting that I love CocoRosie.
Craig
Cool; you can edit the jpeg tag to get rid of the "autorip" sign.
Violens - True
Indie pop.
Craig
Winter's Fire
by The Ashes Of Piemonte
I'm such a sucker for drip.fm. At this point I'll do a month or two of any label that interests me. The Ubiquity and Canataloupe ones have both been fantastic so far.
Thanks, BN.
Joe went out with a bang, literally! Also assorted crashes, booms, thuds and thumps...
eta, great price on the physical 2-CD set at Amazon.
Labyrinthitis by Jacob Kirkegaard
If you like this kind of "bright", slightly metallic, somewhat harsh & resonant drone (for me it's not quite hitting the spot, but your mileage may well vary), this whole 38 minute album is $0.89 on Amazon.
Fabio Orsi/Valerio Cosi
Thoughts Melt In The Air
-I'm glad I did, led me to this
which led me to
Unexplained Objects
Thanks to Germanprof for making me think of Labyrinthitis
I found that album through the Gimme 10 - Experimental thread back when Emusic was fun.
Jacob Kirkegaard
Labyrinthitis
I still really like this kind of bright, slightly metallic, somewhat harsh & resonant drone and still only $.49 (cents) for emusic Canada. I don't really know what the heck they charge the rest of you.
all of which led me to
Andrea Belfi
Wege
(really enjoyed this)
and
Renato Rinaldi
Hoarse Frenzy
Here's what I've been listening to at lastfm.
Disc 2 is instrumentals
Good free prog metal.
Susan Balmar - ///
A nice little NYOP/free tape.
- "In the liner notes to this recording, bandleader Gregg Bendian cites the 1970s-era progressive rock band Gentle Giant as a primary influence on his life as a musician. All the musical concepts he applies so effortlessly on his many recordings and in concerts with all manner of players he attributes to hearing Gentle Giant's Free Hand album in the mid-'70s. This recording is a tribute of sorts to their influence, though Bendian himself has composed all the music here. Props aside, this is one hell of a band; they could play anything put in front of them. One listen to the metric modulation between Bendian and Mark Dresser's bass playing on "Countermeasures," and Nels Cline's counterpoint study as it balances between them is sign enough -- and that's only on the first track! Alex Cline walks a thin line as he dances about his kit on this album given that the bandleader is a percussionist. His polyrhythmic displacement of the center of these compositions is quite astonishing. It is as if he were playing the tune outside of itself as the band moved about inside the harmonic world they were assembling, yet the time is perfect and the space created by such a naeuver is vast. Gary Burton's influence is in evidence here. The manner in which Bendian will state his theme without force or stresses and creates a hocket (the practice of dividing different voice parts resulting in a hiccup, or jagged effect) from the ensuing lines played by Cline's guitar and, on occasion, Dresser's bass ("Blood Sasoon Zi Tavit"). The atonality of this work, with Cline's heavy metal guitar, beginning in overdrive and displacing all rhythmic constraints by creating new ones, is a wonderful tactic. The shimmering quiet of "I-Zones" is the album's premier achievement, however. Here, drone, timbral extensions, and polymetrics are meditated upon as a method of lyrical invention. Everything is suspended: rhythm, nuance, tonal considerations, etc. Only the shifting timbres that create microtones upon microtones are focused upon in the off-angle meter. Tribute to '70s progressive rock or not, Interzone is a fine band who've issued a noteworthy recording."
- Allmusic.
Craig