- From Kora to Cora to Skeleton Crew feat. Cora and the wonderful wonderful Zeena Parkins: Zeena Parkins and The Adorables - "THE ADORABLES is the latest band led by Zeena Parkins with percussionist Shayna Dunkelman and electronic guru Preshish Moments. Zeena Parkins is a harpist with Bjork, and a stalwart of the Downtown NY scene. THE ADORABLES mixes lush acoustic orchestration with live electronics, beats, and unusual instruments. Visceral, unearlthly, exquisitely rich sounds mix with drones, crafted sound processing,feedback and the guts of harp strings. Guest appearances by Deep Singh and Dave Sharma - percussion, Kristin Slipp - vocals, and Danny Blume - guitar."
- Cryptogramophone
@BT - yeah, I see what you mean about Ol' Savannah. I loved their unique sound when I first started listening to it, but for me it was a little too much for a whole album's worth. More than once I read the band described as having a unique sound unlike anybody else. I will grant them that. But the novel appeal soon wore off for me.
Got me in the mood to hear another band, though, that is also described as having a sound completely different than anything else one might hear. And I really do love this band:
Now playing:
@kez, I still ended up taking six of the songs from the current album. Perhaps I don't want to face Armegedon every day, but I still like a lot about what the band is doing.
My goodness ! this is brilliant. Many thanks to Kargatron . . .
Henning Christiansen & Joseph Beuys "Op.50: Requiem of Art"
- From :
Beuys Christiansen
Schottische Symphonie / Requiem Of Art
Edition Schellmann, 2xLP, 1973
"Henning Christiansen (May 28, 1932, Copenhagen December 10, 2008) was a Danish composer and an active member of the Fluxus-movement. He worked with artists such as Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik, as well as with his wife Ursula Reuter Christiansen. Other collaborators include Bjørn Nørgaard, Carlo Quartucci, Carla Tato, Ernst Kretzer, Ben Patterson, David Moss, Ute Wassermann, Andreas Oldörp, Christophe Charles, Bernd Jasper, Henrik Kiel, Vilem Wagner, Vladimir Tarasov, Niko Tenten, and many others.
His overall goal was to work collaboratively and to trespass conventional boundaries. He resented the idea of an isolated artistic genius and his entire production can be seen as a subsequent and vibrant example of praxis in a constant flux. He believed in the need to trespass conventional boundaries between artistic disciplines. This is visible from his engagement in Fluxus, over numerous collaborative performances to his position as a professor at the Art Academy in Hamburg (Hochschule für Bildende Künste - HfBK).
Christiansen lived almost 40 years on the Danish Island Møn. He presented a retrospective exhibition in Copenhagen and participated in the music festival Wundergrund shortly before his death" Wiki
This is probably how a contemporary singing cowboy should sound. Goode writes long winded stories, sometimes complicated, sometimes quirky, but always genuine. In some ways, the songs remind me of Stan Ridgeway without all the artifice. I particularly like Midnight Train to Tenochtitlan.
Investigating tonight's opener. Pretty darn enjoyable, female fronted, noise pop that is heavily indebted to 90s bands like Veruca Salt or Letters to Cleo. Should fit right in with the vibe tonight!
- "Cosa Brava is about storytelling. I don't think about it too much. It just turned out that way. Some of the stories have words and some don't, but they share a sense of scenes glimpsed in passing. Torn photos, fragments of movies, distant shouts. One of my earliest memories is of a long drive north, as our family moved away from London to start a new life in the Yorkshire dales. I remember the smell of the car, and passing our broken down removals lorry in the middle of night. I was four years old, and sometimes it feels like I've been on the road ever since. I need to travel, and now my life depends on it, so there's never a shortage of stories. The musicians of Cosa Brava are fellow nomads and experienced collaborators, and some of the best storytellers around, so my stories also become their stories. It's been an exhilarating journey, and I still have no idea where we're going. In the end it doesn't seem very important."
- Fred Frith, February 2012, Liner Notes.
- "Cosa Brava is an experimental rock and improvisation quartet formed in March 2008 by multi-instrumentalist and composer Fred Frith (Henry Cow, Skeleton Crew, Keep the Dog). Cosa Brava released in 2010 "Ragged Atlas" (Intakt CD 161) followed by "The Letter" in 2012 (Intakt CD 204)."
- Intakt Records.
Looking after grand daughters for next few days, little opportunity to go on computer, or to listen to music, but it is worth both! Earlier in the day I was watching a DVD of Thomas the Tank Engine songs.....
I added this folkish/Americana album to my wishlist after hearing the track 'Lighthouse' on a Paste sampler years and years ago. After all those years, I finally downloaded it. I shouldn't have waited so long.
"It's an early performance (Sep. 18, 1981) only for the most open-minded listeners, for the group sticks to aggressive experimental noise which follows no musical conventions at all." - Challenge accepted.
Thomas Carteron & Nicolas Charbonnier - Six Pieces for Acousmonium
- "2007-2010, two students composers from music school academy both produce a piece by year. Since, notebooks filled with parts, diagrams and sketches had been lost and statements mislaid. Nursed by the permanent evocation of celebrated composers, those exhumed pieces are now returned to a blank state, as self-denial forms without gestures nor memories. Music as a found object, a lacking story.
Originally designed to be played in an acousmonium, those pieces are now reduced to stereo. The listening space shrinks and foreshortens perspectives. It offers to the cohabiting sounds new links and resonances into an artificial intimacy.
All those pieces, or better said fragments, are about the fragility and the lost of meaning. Subtraction of spaces and words due to memory inconsistencies and lapses ; subtraction and oversights as creative processes : substrates of white noises and residues of reverberations echoing into forgotten places." Tsuko Boshi Records - Soundcloud
- "The Acousmonium is the sound diffusion system designed in 1974 by Francois Bayle and used originally by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales at the Maison de Radio France. It consists of 80 loudspeakers of differing size and shape, and was designed for tape playback. As Bayle wrote in a CD sleeve note in 1993, it was
Another utopia, devoted to pure "listening" as a penetrable "projection area", arranged with a view to immersion in sound, to spatialised polyphony, which is articulated and directed.
The Acousmonium is still in use today it was used for a series of concerts of electroacoustic music held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in May, 2006." Wikipedia
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Zeena Parkins and The Adorables
- "THE ADORABLES is the latest band led by Zeena Parkins with percussionist Shayna Dunkelman and electronic guru Preshish Moments. Zeena Parkins is a harpist with Bjork, and a stalwart of the Downtown NY scene. THE ADORABLES mixes lush acoustic orchestration with live electronics, beats, and unusual instruments. Visceral, unearlthly, exquisitely rich sounds mix with drones, crafted sound processing,feedback and the guts of harp strings. Guest appearances by Deep Singh and Dave Sharma - percussion, Kristin Slipp - vocals, and Danny Blume - guitar."
- Cryptogramophone
Soundcloud - http://www.zeenaparkins.com
Dead.
Craig
Got me in the mood to hear another band, though, that is also described as having a sound completely different than anything else one might hear. And I really do love this band:
Now playing:
Darkside - Psychic
Not dead.
Craig
Henning Christiansen & Joseph Beuys "Op.50: Requiem of Art"
- From :
Beuys Christiansen
Schottische Symphonie / Requiem Of Art
Edition Schellmann, 2xLP, 1973
"Henning Christiansen (May 28, 1932, Copenhagen December 10, 2008) was a Danish composer and an active member of the Fluxus-movement. He worked with artists such as Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik, as well as with his wife Ursula Reuter Christiansen. Other collaborators include Bjørn Nørgaard, Carlo Quartucci, Carla Tato, Ernst Kretzer, Ben Patterson, David Moss, Ute Wassermann, Andreas Oldörp, Christophe Charles, Bernd Jasper, Henrik Kiel, Vilem Wagner, Vladimir Tarasov, Niko Tenten, and many others.
His overall goal was to work collaboratively and to trespass conventional boundaries. He resented the idea of an isolated artistic genius and his entire production can be seen as a subsequent and vibrant example of praxis in a constant flux. He believed in the need to trespass conventional boundaries between artistic disciplines. This is visible from his engagement in Fluxus, over numerous collaborative performances to his position as a professor at the Art Academy in Hamburg (Hochschule für Bildende Künste - HfBK).
Christiansen lived almost 40 years on the Danish Island Møn. He presented a retrospective exhibition in Copenhagen and participated in the music festival Wundergrund shortly before his death"
Wiki
This is probably how a contemporary singing cowboy should sound. Goode writes long winded stories, sometimes complicated, sometimes quirky, but always genuine. In some ways, the songs remind me of Stan Ridgeway without all the artifice. I particularly like Midnight Train to Tenochtitlan.
Latest drip from Morr. Not familiar with the artist, but am enjoying it so far. Piano and assorted almost ambient electronic-ish stuff.
Tonight at First Avenue I'll be reliving my high school years listening to Mike Doughty sing Soul Coughing songs.
Hells yeah.
Craig
Investigating tonight's opener. Pretty darn enjoyable, female fronted, noise pop that is heavily indebted to 90s bands like Veruca Salt or Letters to Cleo. Should fit right in with the vibe tonight!
Craig
BeJae Fleming - Destination Unimportant
(One of my good downloads from the emusic days.)
While looking to see if she's got anything new out (she doesn't), I found you can stream both her albums in full on her website.
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Craig
Fred Frith guitar, bass, voice
Carla Kihlstedt violin, bass harmonica, voice
Zeena Parkins accordion, keyboards, foley objects, voice
Shahzad Ismaily bass, voice
Matthias Bossi drums, percussion, mayhem, voice
The Norman Conquest sound manipulation
- "Cosa Brava is about storytelling. I don't think about it too much. It just turned out that way. Some of the stories have words and some don't, but they share a sense of scenes glimpsed in passing. Torn photos, fragments of movies, distant shouts. One of my earliest memories is of a long drive north, as our family moved away from London to start a new life in the Yorkshire dales. I remember the smell of the car, and passing our broken down removals lorry in the middle of night. I was four years old, and sometimes it feels like I've been on the road ever since. I need to travel, and now my life depends on it, so there's never a shortage of stories. The musicians of Cosa Brava are fellow nomads and experienced collaborators, and some of the best storytellers around, so my stories also become their stories. It's been an exhilarating journey, and I still have no idea where we're going. In the end it doesn't seem very important."
- Fred Frith, February 2012, Liner Notes.
- "Cosa Brava is an experimental rock and improvisation quartet formed in March 2008 by multi-instrumentalist and composer Fred Frith (Henry Cow, Skeleton Crew, Keep the Dog). Cosa Brava released in 2010 "Ragged Atlas" (Intakt CD 161) followed by "The Letter" in 2012 (Intakt CD 204)."
- Intakt Records.
Kelela - Cut 4 Me
Craig
Streaming for the second time this week. I will want to own this.
Craig
I added this folkish/Americana album to my wishlist after hearing the track 'Lighthouse' on a Paste sampler years and years ago. After all those years, I finally downloaded it. I shouldn't have waited so long.
My goodness, this is pretty.
"It's an early performance (Sep. 18, 1981) only for the most open-minded listeners, for the group sticks to aggressive experimental noise which follows no musical conventions at all." - Challenge accepted.
A BITW rec. Awesome, particularly in the hybridization of styles.
Thomas Carteron & Nicolas Charbonnier - Six Pieces for Acousmonium
- "2007-2010, two students composers from music school academy both produce a piece by year. Since, notebooks filled with parts, diagrams and sketches had been lost and statements mislaid. Nursed by the permanent evocation of celebrated composers, those exhumed pieces are now returned to a blank state, as self-denial forms without gestures nor memories. Music as a found object, a lacking story.
Originally designed to be played in an acousmonium, those pieces are now reduced to stereo. The listening space shrinks and foreshortens perspectives. It offers to the cohabiting sounds new links and resonances into an artificial intimacy.
All those pieces, or better said fragments, are about the fragility and the lost of meaning. Subtraction of spaces and words due to memory inconsistencies and lapses ; subtraction and oversights as creative processes : substrates of white noises and residues of reverberations echoing into forgotten places."
Tsuko Boshi Records - Soundcloud
- "The Acousmonium is the sound diffusion system designed in 1974 by Francois Bayle and used originally by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales at the Maison de Radio France. It consists of 80 loudspeakers of differing size and shape, and was designed for tape playback. As Bayle wrote in a CD sleeve note in 1993, it was
Another utopia, devoted to pure "listening" as a penetrable "projection area", arranged with a view to immersion in sound, to spatialised polyphony, which is articulated and directed.
The Acousmonium is still in use today it was used for a series of concerts of electroacoustic music held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in May, 2006."
Wikipedia
Four song EP (one of two) of original Jazz songs recorded on Edison cylinders. A gimmick? Perhaps, but it sounds awesome. $1