thom - I thought the same at first, but now I'm pretty sure MVOTC is their best release. The darkness of the record provides the perfect balance to VW's preppy pep that greatly expands the impact of the album.
@craig - I may come to that conclusion at some point, too. For now there is a certain quality that I find missing while I still love the maturity on display. If I rated the first one a 9, this would be like an 8.5 - with Contra being around a 7.
thom - I was exactly the same way on my first couple listens to MVOTC. Not sure what changed, but I think it just took a few listens to adjust my expectations for what VW sounds like. Once that happened it basically switched to feeling like something was missing from the debut. Oh, and you're being too kind to Contra.
Double Handsome Dragons - s/t.
Still have a soft spot for this one. Manic energy, sci fi samples, references to obscure towns in Lincolnshire - what's not to like?
Thanks BT - I had to listen to the Milton Keynes Land Shanty first, it being our regular large shopping centre. MK is a new town and is a place people either love or hate - fortunately I love it!!
"Based on the psychological studies of Paul Clifford Brown, where several young babies were submited to very high frequencies exposure (orders of 20.000 to 23.000 Hz) and did obtain better results when they attended school (specially maths and portuguese language). These frequencies, only heard in the first months of human life, were reminded musically in this project Children For Breakfast by inverting the harmonic series of the musical notes, in what is today called Inverse Spectralism. For example, a melody heard in the second subsection of 'In apparent defiance' was written with original notes C9-D#9-B8-A#9 (fundamental frequencies of 22.150hz, 22.550hz, 21.100hz and 23.100hz), and then transposed according to the laws of Inverse Spectralism. The 1st, 3rd, 5th and 8th negative parcial harmonics (Fibonacci series) were used, and the final melody resulted in E#2-G#4-B3-A#4. The impact of this music is being tested currently in the University of Toronto, Argentina, with 100 orphan children with problems relating with other children. After 3 months of experiments the scientists were able to conclude that the levels of aggressiveness declined and speech coherence and tolerance increased. However, one children cried and another became confused with the question "do you love your father?", leaving the final interpretation of the results open until further conclusions."
- "At home in Eastern Europe and New York City, Ana Milosavljevic (aka ANA) is a musical dual citizen. Reflections features her broad talents as violinist, composer, and commissioner of new works all by women with at least one foot in both regions.
Ana has been acclaimed by The Strad as an imaginative artist willing to think big and by New Music Connoisseur as a virtuoso performer with a wonderful mix of technique, sensitivity and passion. This multi-talented Serbian native and Manhattan-based artist has performed stunningly from Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, to Cornelia Street Café, and many points in between.
She is a pioneer at fusing elements of traditional Balkan music with other imagined soundworlds, often in collaboration with dance, theater, or visual projections. The music is colorful, sensual, edgy, and spiritual, often all at once. In addition to two of her own works, the CD includes works written for her by some of the more boundary-blurring composers around. From Serbian songs to a Belgrade soundscape, Buddhist chant to a bull-roarer, a dervish monastery to a New York dance club, artists with roots in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia will take you on a guided tour of the new geography.
REFLECTIONS represents my dual musical citizenship through the sonic experiences of my native Serbia and my current hometown New York. Each work results from collaborations with dance and visual artists, composers, performers, and technicians whove made similar journeys. We consider our artistic creations platforms for processing and making sense of our life changes, bridging the old and the new as we move from one location to another.
The CD title refers to both the mental act of reflection of contemplation, meditation, self-discovery and the physical act of reflection, what you reflect out to the world after having taken it in. Through this music I aim to reflect and to share thrilling and unforgettable moments of love, happiness, sadness, regrets and no-regrets, hope, peace, harmony, and gratitude, and, most importantly, how I came to find my home in my heart. ANA Innova.mu[/quote] ANA website
Comments
[Still on the Monae.]
Craig
Adam Cuthb
Craig
I guess it's 'follow BadThoughts day' for me today.
Craig
Thanks for the freebie, BT. Been reading about Lamb's musical project as I'm listening. Very, very fascinating reading! Enjoyable listen, too.
Craig
Double Handsome Dragons - s/t.
Still have a soft spot for this one. Manic energy, sci fi samples, references to obscure towns in Lincolnshire - what's not to like?
Everything I Saw
Anna von Hausswolff - Ceremony - Ocean
Erik K Skodvin/BBS - Half Moon - Beam
Spring Song
Massive Apatite
Seeds of Accusation
Demeter's Lament (came up later)
Western Sky
Periapsis
Ovan V
Stain, Crack, Break
Vosila
Chico Mann - Vivito (El Colibri)
Climax
Dave Nuss, Rahdunes and Aswara - NATCH 0 - Consolamentum
It turns out it was most of them and thanks once again to all for putting me on to some great tunes. I enjoyed them all.
Thanks BT - I had to listen to the Milton Keynes Land Shanty first, it being our regular large shopping centre. MK is a new town and is a place people either love or hate - fortunately I love it!!
Interesting EP from a listing by Mr Spoons on Bandcamps main page, quite a lot of UK acoustic bands. This one is NYOP.
"Based on the psychological studies of Paul Clifford Brown, where several young babies were submited to very high frequencies exposure (orders of 20.000 to 23.000 Hz) and did obtain better results when they attended school (specially maths and portuguese language). These frequencies, only heard in the first months of human life, were reminded musically in this project Children For Breakfast by inverting the harmonic series of the musical notes, in what is today called Inverse Spectralism. For example, a melody heard in the second subsection of 'In apparent defiance' was written with original notes C9-D#9-B8-A#9 (fundamental frequencies of 22.150hz, 22.550hz, 21.100hz and 23.100hz), and then transposed according to the laws of Inverse Spectralism. The 1st, 3rd, 5th and 8th negative parcial harmonics (Fibonacci series) were used, and the final melody resulted in E#2-G#4-B3-A#4. The impact of this music is being tested currently in the University of Toronto, Argentina, with 100 orphan children with problems relating with other children. After 3 months of experiments the scientists were able to conclude that the levels of aggressiveness declined and speech coherence and tolerance increased. However, one children cried and another became confused with the question "do you love your father?", leaving the final interpretation of the results open until further conclusions."
CD2
Info @ Emusers
Looks like The American Dollar are having a flash sale on Bandcamp, this and other records are all NYOP
Streaming from his Bandcamp page, tried a couple of times to listen to his stuff, this is a very good one
NP: Lovely new release from offthesky:
ETA: Oh my, is this good.
Ana Milosavljevic - Reflections - (Innova October 26, 2010)
- "At home in Eastern Europe and New York City, Ana Milosavljevic (aka ANA) is a musical dual citizen. Reflections features her broad talents as violinist, composer, and commissioner of new works all by women with at least one foot in both regions.
Ana has been acclaimed by The Strad as an imaginative artist willing to think big and by New Music Connoisseur as a virtuoso performer with a wonderful mix of technique, sensitivity and passion. This multi-talented Serbian native and Manhattan-based artist has performed stunningly from Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, to Cornelia Street Café, and many points in between.
She is a pioneer at fusing elements of traditional Balkan music with other imagined soundworlds, often in collaboration with dance, theater, or visual projections. The music is colorful, sensual, edgy, and spiritual, often all at once. In addition to two of her own works, the CD includes works written for her by some of the more boundary-blurring composers around. From Serbian songs to a Belgrade soundscape, Buddhist chant to a bull-roarer, a dervish monastery to a New York dance club, artists with roots in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia will take you on a guided tour of the new geography.
REFLECTIONS represents my dual musical citizenship through the sonic experiences of my native Serbia and my current hometown New York. Each work results from collaborations with dance and visual artists, composers, performers, and technicians whove made similar journeys. We consider our artistic creations platforms for processing and making sense of our life changes, bridging the old and the new as we move from one location to another.
The CD title refers to both the mental act of reflection of contemplation, meditation, self-discovery and the physical act of reflection, what you reflect out to the world after having taken it in. Through this music I aim to reflect and to share thrilling and unforgettable moments of love, happiness, sadness, regrets and no-regrets, hope, peace, harmony, and gratitude, and, most importantly, how I came to find my home in my heart. ANA
Innova.mu[/quote]
ANA website
Ambient One from the American Dollar NYOP Bandcamp
I've stopped my emusic hold, so this is from Jonah's Jazz Picks - see Jazz at Bandcamp thread for more details.
Here's the one I picked up!