45 minutes of weird rhythms and drones, looping patterns of voice, synthesizer, guitar, flute, and samples amid spinning ouroboroses and mise en abyme drones from strange caterpillars inching across the void.
Listening to my 2012 P4K Top 100 mix on random, and iTunes appears to have a sense of humor. The last five tracks have been Kendrick Lamar - Bat for Lashes - Killer Mike - Beach House - Kendrick again. If Fiona Apple isn't next I'll be disappointed.
Well, i'm going back to listening to the rotation (right after this album). I've added 2284 tracks to the library so far this year and many have only had 1 or 2 plays. The old standard was a minimun of 3 plays, until it was rated and it appears 2011 still qualify.
This is different - enjoying this one also. Indian-tinged dark instrumentals (or with female vocal that doesn't resolve into words).
ETA, have to give the first Amazon review of this (click the cover art) respect for entertainment value.
More Projekt. Various artists, so expecting a mixed bag here. Includes some John Foxx, David Sylvian, Jansen/Barbieri...promising so far. ETA, actually quite enjoyable throughout.
Looping back. This is a very enjoyable CD. A certain kind of review would say: nothing new; and that would be right - it hews pretty close to the mid-catalog Explosions in the Sky formula, plus a touch of gybe! & some spoken poetry here and there. Nothing particularly different or shattering. But it's rather well done, and the individual tracks catch the ear and don't outstay their welcome. As far as I can tell this is all the band did, and the band website listed on the CD art is defunct. But this is a good listen.
Trio and Sine Waves (with Wind, Snow and Birds)
David D. McIntire: clarinet, electronics, field recordings
Ryan Oldham: trumpet, objects
Brian Padavic: bass
I'm working my way through the Mystery Box as well - thanks GP!
This is the 6th CD I've listened to, and I've been 5 for 6 in what I've liked.
is the only other one GP's listened to that I received = I listened to that one as well. I agree with GP's reaction - I enjoyed this very much.
Finishing...more Projekt. Synthy backdrops with a guy expressing melancholy and anguish somewhat melodramatically over it. Not bad. I am really not sold on the vocal on many of the tracks, but some of the music is good - a couple of standout tracks toward the end pick up energy.
@Bremble, I am curious what you got. I was hoping for some Aglaia but didn't get any. Did get some Steve Roach and VidnaObmana though, as well as the nice surprises.
A few of the gratuitous extra CDs did not have cases, but did have all the artwork; it gave them a feel of extra cast-offs. I put them in the appropriate piece of plastic and suddenly they are proper CDs like the others, and I feel like I got more for my money. Ah, psychology...
...and just starting:
This is another direction entirely. Doomy, deadpan, goth rock. File under: not something I would have sought out, but rather good at what it is. Quite an enjoyable change from my usual fare. Finding myself liking it so far. I like to keep a little rock around to cleanse the palate after too much ambience...
A 20-minute track each from Vidna Obmana, Steve Roach, and Thom Brennan. I know what I'm in for here. Described by a gushing Amazon reviewer as "the ultimate in total solar system escape music". Well, OK, it's cosmic for sure. I am pretty sure this is the first CD in my collection named after an amphibian copulation process. Search for the cover art in Google images and you get lots of frog porn.
ETA, I'm pretty sure there's a special section of purgatory in which folk have to spend their time trying to remove the cellophane wrappers from large numbers of CDs.
Another Projekt CD, different again. This one is "ethereal" female vocal treatments of old poetic texts with some electronic backgrounds. Sort of like Anonymous 4 with synths. I am not sure it's all equally successful, but there are some really nice tracks and I'll be listening to it some more.
Released 21 August 2013 Jesse Peper - samples,dischordian howlings,glitches and synthesis
Wesley Young - samples and synthesis
Edward Ka-Spel - voice,samples,production
- " Deciduous Flux began channeling energies through recordings early 2011 in Denver Colorado. It is the ongoing creative collaboration between Wesleyoung and Jesse Peper. Wesleyoung, a visual artist and also the founder and proprietor of a collective abstract underground sound project known as Behavior. Jesse Peper is primarily a painter, but has also performed and/or recorded with Not Breathing, Waldteufel, Legerdemain and Icedagaz. Deciduous Flux was originally conceived a few years earlier than this as a visual collaboration between both artists which resulted in a series of large paintings. During the Development of these artworks many conversations often led to the discussion on the medium of sound, as both of us have always kept a love for the craft of sound. At this time we have been recording a year and a half resulting in 12 full recording sessions. Much of this material is in production and will be released to the public within the coming months. Our recording process is quite different than the usual conventional approaches on what music is "seen as" or "supposed to be" to the world. On one hand we are obsessed on the opiates of oblivion and we are recording constantly for no outcome other than for our own meditation purposes, for achieving various states and documenting them through the recording process. This, within itself, is an intoxicating pre-procedural agent for what follows! Largely our aim is to capture these otherworldly trans-dimensional expressions or bleed-throughs with the proper elements to perform the divine inductions, invocations and evocations etc, through the methods of our ritual. The tradition we naturally adopt is more akin to that of the shaman than it is to modern modalities of thinking. We recognize the spirit-forms or energies around us to guide us within appropriate directions according to our will and desire. On another hand, at times we see our process fall into a method which we have described as automatic recordings, similar to some degree in the approach of automatic drawings only using sounds rather than images as the medium with which to explore, amass and create our impressions on the hanging space of time. Within the Deciduous Flux is like a painting with sounds. A rich palette of sound to create and stimulate visions both from externally and internally. Each byproduct of the recordings presents an invocation of elements which create metaphysical vortexes to other dimensions with which the listener can also gain access to if the desire to do so exists." Beta-lactam Ring Records
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Bill Mallonee - Locket Full of Moonlight (from Bandcamp thread)
Craig
Well, i'm going back to listening to the rotation (right after this album). I've added 2284 tracks to the library so far this year and many have only had 1 or 2 plays. The old standard was a minimun of 3 plays, until it was rated and it appears 2011 still qualify.
Here goes..
ETA that probably doesn't make any more sense.
Well, one more. I couldn't resist as track 1 came up on the rotation.
Thanks again! Free link
Craig
Every Silver Lining has a Cloud
From the Projekt box of mystery CDs. This one is nice!! One win so far.
ETA, it's gentle post-rock. Good album.
Rajna - Ishati
This is different - enjoying this one also. Indian-tinged dark instrumentals (or with female vocal that doesn't resolve into words).
ETA, have to give the first Amazon review of this (click the cover art) respect for entertainment value.
Steve Roach - Sigh of Ages. More good Projekt. I got my money's worth already even at emusic prices; 18 CDs to go.
More Projekt. Various artists, so expecting a mixed bag here. Includes some John Foxx, David Sylvian, Jansen/Barbieri...promising so far. ETA, actually quite enjoyable throughout.
Every Silver Lining has a Cloud
Looping back. This is a very enjoyable CD. A certain kind of review would say: nothing new; and that would be right - it hews pretty close to the mid-catalog Explosions in the Sky formula, plus a touch of gybe! & some spoken poetry here and there. Nothing particularly different or shattering. But it's rather well done, and the individual tracks catch the ear and don't outstay their welcome. As far as I can tell this is all the band did, and the band website listed on the CD art is defunct. But this is a good listen.
Trio and Sine Waves (with Wind, Snow and Birds)
David D. McIntire: clarinet, electronics, field recordings
Ryan Oldham: trumpet, objects
Brian Padavic: bass
I'm working my way through the Mystery Box as well - thanks GP!
This is the 6th CD I've listened to, and I've been 5 for 6 in what I've liked.
is the only other one GP's listened to that I received = I listened to that one as well. I agree with GP's reaction - I enjoyed this very much.
Finishing...more Projekt. Synthy backdrops with a guy expressing melancholy and anguish somewhat melodramatically over it. Not bad. I am really not sold on the vocal on many of the tracks, but some of the music is good - a couple of standout tracks toward the end pick up energy.
@Bremble, I am curious what you got. I was hoping for some Aglaia but didn't get any. Did get some Steve Roach and VidnaObmana though, as well as the nice surprises.
A few of the gratuitous extra CDs did not have cases, but did have all the artwork; it gave them a feel of extra cast-offs. I put them in the appropriate piece of plastic and suddenly they are proper CDs like the others, and I feel like I got more for my money. Ah, psychology...
This is another direction entirely. Doomy, deadpan, goth rock. File under: not something I would have sought out, but rather good at what it is. Quite an enjoyable change from my usual fare. Finding myself liking it so far. I like to keep a little rock around to cleanse the palate after too much ambience...
A 20-minute track each from Vidna Obmana, Steve Roach, and Thom Brennan. I know what I'm in for here. Described by a gushing Amazon reviewer as "the ultimate in total solar system escape music". Well, OK, it's cosmic for sure. I am pretty sure this is the first CD in my collection named after an amphibian copulation process. Search for the cover art in Google images and you get lots of frog porn.
ETA, I'm pretty sure there's a special section of purgatory in which folk have to spend their time trying to remove the cellophane wrappers from large numbers of CDs.
Indie pop. Not bad for $0.50.
Craig
Mirabilis - Pleiades
Another Projekt CD, different again. This one is "ethereal" female vocal treatments of old poetic texts with some electronic backgrounds. Sort of like Anonymous 4 with synths. I am not sure it's all equally successful, but there are some really nice tracks and I'll be listening to it some more.
Released 21 August 2013
Jesse Peper - samples,dischordian howlings,glitches and synthesis
Wesley Young - samples and synthesis
Edward Ka-Spel - voice,samples,production
- " Deciduous Flux began channeling energies through recordings early 2011 in Denver Colorado. It is the ongoing creative collaboration between Wesleyoung and Jesse Peper. Wesleyoung, a visual artist and also the founder and proprietor of a collective abstract underground sound project known as Behavior. Jesse Peper is primarily a painter, but has also performed and/or recorded with Not Breathing, Waldteufel, Legerdemain and Icedagaz. Deciduous Flux was originally conceived a few years earlier than this as a visual collaboration between both artists which resulted in a series of large paintings. During the Development of these artworks many conversations often led to the discussion on the medium of sound, as both of us have always kept a love for the craft of sound. At this time we have been recording a year and a half resulting in 12 full recording sessions. Much of this material is in production and will be released to the public within the coming months. Our recording process is quite different than the usual conventional approaches on what music is "seen as" or "supposed to be" to the world. On one hand we are obsessed on the opiates of oblivion and we are recording constantly for no outcome other than for our own meditation purposes, for achieving various states and documenting them through the recording process. This, within itself, is an intoxicating pre-procedural agent for what follows! Largely our aim is to capture these otherworldly trans-dimensional expressions or bleed-throughs with the proper elements to perform the divine inductions, invocations and evocations etc, through the methods of our ritual. The tradition we naturally adopt is more akin to that of the shaman than it is to modern modalities of thinking. We recognize the spirit-forms or energies around us to guide us within appropriate directions according to our will and desire. On another hand, at times we see our process fall into a method which we have described as automatic recordings, similar to some degree in the approach of automatic drawings only using sounds rather than images as the medium with which to explore, amass and create our impressions on the hanging space of time. Within the Deciduous Flux is like a painting with sounds. A rich palette of sound to create and stimulate visions both from externally and internally. Each byproduct of the recordings presents an invocation of elements which create metaphysical vortexes to other dimensions with which the listener can also gain access to if the desire to do so exists."
Beta-lactam Ring Records
Lovely and smart