- "The Canadian Electronic Ensemble was founded in 1971. It is the oldest continuous live-electronic group in the world.
Today we take synthesizers for granted. But when the CEE was founded, electronic music could only be heard on tape. The CEE developed a new medium: live electronic music. The synthesizers of the time were enormous and not meant for live performance. Often, the members of the CEE had to design and build their own instruments.
Forty years later, the CEE is still at the forefront of live electronic music. Now using mostly laptop computers the CEE often pushes new technology to the limit. With various software based synthesizers the CEE is able to deploy all of todays and yesterdays most advanced synthesis techniques often concurrently. Standard instruments are also used, but keeping with the ensembles penchant for anything electronic they are usually not heard without some kind of processing.
The CEE first toured Canada in 1975. Their first European tour was in 1979. In the years since, the group has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe and has appeared with the Toronto Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal.
From 1974 until 2003 the CEE presented its own Toronto concert series. This became a major venue for new electroacoustic works by composers from Canada and abroad. The series presented artists from every province in Canada, as well as international artists from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. Over the past 40 years, the CEE has aided the creation of over one hundred new compositions, most of which have been premiered by the CEE.
Today, the CEE continues its tradition of performing live improvised electronic music and performs several times a year mostly around the Toronto area." http://www.canadianelectronicensemble.com/
- "Yannis Kyriakides, who is also the mind behind the electro-acoustically oriented "Unsounds" label, delivered us his full-length "Highly Coloured Places" album which was crafted with an astonishing soundquality.
The abundance of precision and refined techniques makes one wonder about the time it must have taken to put these lengthy tracks together. Yannis travels a path in between electro-acoustic music and manipulated field recordings, allowing him a lot of artistic freedom. You will find him orchestrating beautiful and rather classical compositions, but the contrasts with abstract, sometimes rhythmical electronic influences truly bring the listening experience to a much higher potential.
The sound recordings which he has captured in numerous exotic places effectively invoke the settings of a kind of fantasy geography. Places that by all means you should come visit some time."
Q2 Music Album of the Week for August 5, 2013 is an album from Bedroom Community with organ player James McVinnie playing music by Nico Muhly. Release date: Aug 12, 2013: [/img]
- "Taking the composers schitzophrenic and haunting amalgamation of layered notes and texture, McVinnie breathes life into Cycles with dark intensity. The turbulence of Muhlys compositions feels slightly more delicate and sparkling pouring out of the pipe organ, building and growing to a powerful and stimulating abrupt end. And as is usually the case with Muhlys music, leaves you craving the next note."
Hillary Weston BlackBook Magazine (July 2nd 2013) http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/james_mcvinnie_cycles
Marc [Cohen] Copland, John Abercrombie, Clint Houston, Jeff Williams back in 1972. Available for download at The Oblivion Records Blog, where you can read in some detail about the entire six-album Oblivion catalog. More later...
It's all starting to make sense there are other things to do as well by the stream.
(I'm up to hearing sense now/not now)
ETA - Well, I'm pretty sure these kind of vocals aren't for everybody, my wife described it as "unnecessary", but still I'd like to thank Brighternow for putting me onto Kurt Schwitters and that bunch, through Jaap Blonk. These sounds are incredible and they work so well off each other.
Bandcamp streaming: John 3:16 - Visions of The Hereafter - Visions of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory " Overall, John 3:16 keeps pushing the boundaries of his music and delivers a very well-crafted and free-flowing release that is pure atmospheric bliss. For the duration of the 50 minutes of music presented in this album, we felt like floating in space (no need for drugs on this one) thanks to the dreamy atmosphere created. Packed in an excellent digipack, this release is totally worth your money if you are looking for experimental music that puts a high emphasis on atmosphere and flow of the songs "
- Infernal Masquerade (USA)
"Philippe Gerber/JOHN 3:16 has played more than 500 shows in the UK and Europe with the London based band Heat From a DeadStar (2004 to 2009). HFADS was the first non-US act to sign a record deal with the Boston-based label Ace of Hearts Records (owned by Rick Harte, producer of Mission of Burma, Lyres, The Infliktors, etc). The trio released its first album Seven Rays of The Sun in 2008. This album has been described as abrasive, catchy, post-Wire post-punk and a Burma-esque adrenalin rush of banging drums, rumble bass and slashing guitars (Big Take Over Magazine, USA).
JOHN 3:16 was started in 2007, as a studio-only project but after HFADS disbanded in 2010,
JOHN 3:16 became the official live act of Philippe Gerber. The 5-track EP Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (2011) was critically acclaimed and presented the JOHN 3:16s newly musical direction synthesizing many different styles and genres such as those designed as psychedelic-electronic analog circuit no-wave, industrial, ambient, shoegaze, pop, trip-hop (Terapija Webzine, Croatia).
Visions of the Hereafter - Visions of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory is the first full length of JOHN 3:16 and is to be released via Alrealon Musique on October 22, 2012. The nine tracks were recorded at the Alrealon Studio/Laboratory(76). Carolyn ONeill (Director of the Logan Square New Music Ensemble) co-wrote the track Abyss of Hell/Clouds of Fire and William Schaff (Okkervil River, Songs: Ohia, Godspeed You! Black Emperor ) designed the original artwork." Lastfm
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Jaap Blonk and Dylan Nyoukis - Dubbletwee
free
Ps thanks for the petit as well
- "The Canadian Electronic Ensemble was founded in 1971. It is the oldest continuous live-electronic group in the world.
Today we take synthesizers for granted. But when the CEE was founded, electronic music could only be heard on tape. The CEE developed a new medium: live electronic music. The synthesizers of the time were enormous and not meant for live performance. Often, the members of the CEE had to design and build their own instruments.
Forty years later, the CEE is still at the forefront of live electronic music. Now using mostly laptop computers the CEE often pushes new technology to the limit. With various software based synthesizers the CEE is able to deploy all of todays and yesterdays most advanced synthesis techniques often concurrently. Standard instruments are also used, but keeping with the ensembles penchant for anything electronic they are usually not heard without some kind of processing.
The CEE first toured Canada in 1975. Their first European tour was in 1979. In the years since, the group has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe and has appeared with the Toronto Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal.
From 1974 until 2003 the CEE presented its own Toronto concert series. This became a major venue for new electroacoustic works by composers from Canada and abroad. The series presented artists from every province in Canada, as well as international artists from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. Over the past 40 years, the CEE has aided the creation of over one hundred new compositions, most of which have been premiered by the CEE.
Today, the CEE continues its tradition of performing live improvised electronic music and performs several times a year mostly around the Toronto area."
http://www.canadianelectronicensemble.com/
erikm - Transfall
RIP. this was a Guvera purchase that I pulled back out due to his recent death; it's really, really good.
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Good Weather for an Airstrike - A Sense Of Uncertainty
Prompted by Lowlife - thanks.
ETA: this is really nice.
- "Yannis Kyriakides, who is also the mind behind the electro-acoustically oriented "Unsounds" label, delivered us his full-length "Highly Coloured Places" album which was crafted with an astonishing soundquality.
The abundance of precision and refined techniques makes one wonder about the time it must have taken to put these lengthy tracks together. Yannis travels a path in between electro-acoustic music and manipulated field recordings, allowing him a lot of artistic freedom. You will find him orchestrating beautiful and rather classical compositions, but the contrasts with abstract, sometimes rhythmical electronic influences truly bring the listening experience to a much higher potential.
The sound recordings which he has captured in numerous exotic places effectively invoke the settings of a kind of fantasy geography. Places that by all means you should come visit some time."
NYOP Bandcamp really rather good
The band is so good on this set - almost wish Elvis wasn't singing....!
Marc [Cohen] Copland, John Abercrombie, Clint Houston, Jeff Williams back in 1972. Available for download at The Oblivion Records Blog, where you can read in some detail about the entire six-album Oblivion catalog. More later...
Audrey Chen / Wouter Jaspers - Brombron 22: Root and Branch
(garden music - gotta love those birds & bees, all critters as a matter of fact)
It's all starting to make sense there are other things to do as well by the stream.
(I'm up to hearing sense now/not now)
ETA - Well, I'm pretty sure these kind of vocals aren't for everybody, my wife described it as "unnecessary", but still I'd like to thank Brighternow for putting me onto Kurt Schwitters and that bunch, through Jaap Blonk. These sounds are incredible and they work so well off each other.
Intense, psychedelic, Junko (intense, really intense)
five stars *****
These are some of those folks.
John 3:16 - Visions of The Hereafter - Visions of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory
" Overall, John 3:16 keeps pushing the boundaries of his music and delivers a very well-crafted and free-flowing release that is pure atmospheric bliss. For the duration of the 50 minutes of music presented in this album, we felt like floating in space (no need for drugs on this one) thanks to the dreamy atmosphere created. Packed in an excellent digipack, this release is totally worth your money if you are looking for experimental music that puts a high emphasis on atmosphere and flow of the songs "
- Infernal Masquerade (USA)
"Philippe Gerber/JOHN 3:16 has played more than 500 shows in the UK and Europe with the London based band Heat From a DeadStar (2004 to 2009). HFADS was the first non-US act to sign a record deal with the Boston-based label Ace of Hearts Records (owned by Rick Harte, producer of Mission of Burma, Lyres, The Infliktors, etc). The trio released its first album Seven Rays of The Sun in 2008. This album has been described as abrasive, catchy, post-Wire post-punk and a Burma-esque adrenalin rush of banging drums, rumble bass and slashing guitars (Big Take Over Magazine, USA).
JOHN 3:16 was started in 2007, as a studio-only project but after HFADS disbanded in 2010,
JOHN 3:16 became the official live act of Philippe Gerber. The 5-track EP Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (2011) was critically acclaimed and presented the JOHN 3:16s newly musical direction synthesizing many different styles and genres such as those designed as psychedelic-electronic analog circuit no-wave, industrial, ambient, shoegaze, pop, trip-hop (Terapija Webzine, Croatia).
Visions of the Hereafter - Visions of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory is the first full length of JOHN 3:16 and is to be released via Alrealon Musique on October 22, 2012. The nine tracks were recorded at the Alrealon Studio/Laboratory(76). Carolyn ONeill (Director of the Logan Square New Music Ensemble) co-wrote the track Abyss of Hell/Clouds of Fire and William Schaff (Okkervil River, Songs: Ohia, Godspeed You! Black Emperor ) designed the original artwork."
Lastfm
All songs written and produced by Paul Corley
Mix - Valgeir Sigur