The new Garcia series dropped yesterday. I had forgotten I had it on order, so Amazon's autorip bot delivered the MP3's to me as a nice morning surprise. Legion Of Mary - December 14 and 15, 1974, Pacific Northwest. Garcia with Merl Saunders, John Kahn, Martin Fierro and Ron Tutt.
- "Anyone who's seen him performing either solo, sharing the bill with Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O)))), Chris Corsano, N.U. Unruh (Einstürzende Neubauten), or along with Carla Bozulich / Evangelista, Y.E.R.M.O. or french based collective DEGA! will confirm: Jason Van Gulick definitely counts among the most inventive and talented drummers in the music scene nowadays.
His dynamite loaded though subtle and masterfully executed performances, mixtures of wild rhythms and abstract soundscapes made him a quite a name in the last years and it was about time for Jason to release his first solo album.
Entelechy combines electroacoustic textures with more musical, "free" drumming passages.
Formerly trained as an architect, Van Gulick puts an important focus on natural resonance and often performs in locations chosen for their acoustic specificities. Therefore, Entelechy has been entirely recorded in resonant spaces such in Brussels as a squat called RTT and young but already legendary underground concert venue HS63." Soundcloud
Have just about (finally!) finished reading Alex Ross's The Rest is Noise, started some time ago, and so have been alleviating my relative ignorance about classical music in periods not yet covered by Nereffid. His description of the Messiaen piece made me want to hear it. I keep finding that the trouble with working back to modern classical music, and perhaps especially a piece like this, via ambient/experimental electronic music is that I keep wondering why, if attempting to evoke the desert, one would ever want to restrict oneself to the noises made by the instruments in the traditional orchestra (many of which, I confess, I do not always find particularly appealing). Not saying I didn't like it, just working past the formation of my ears, which makes it sound cramped. With that thought in my head it's interesting to move on the the Mathieu album, which is entirely manipulated sound and is absolutely gorgeous throughout. The cover art suggests it too is reaching for the Etoiles.
@BT, your description of that Moroccan tape is intriguing - do you happen to have a link to that particular post on that blog?
Gp, maybe look at it the other way: doesn't any and all art partially involve restricting one's palette? (Particularly restrictions that often involve technical skill and familiarity with those ingredients.) Won't any set of restrictions likely result in different art than another set? Your query seems to me, in a logical extreme, of a kind with "if attempting to evoke the desert, why wouldn't you just use field recordings of desert environments?".
@kargatron, yes, that makes sense - though I was musing on what my ears were doing more than how I "see" it, i.e. my view of it. My view of it would be that folk can work with whatever restrictions they want to and it is generally the restrictions that make things turn out interesting. But my experience when listening is to find that after my ears have spent so much time listening to an array of timbres that stretches way beyond traditional instruments, there is an adjustment for the ear going back and listening to orchestral composition, and the adjustment seems greater when listening to compositions that are less like traditional symphonies (where my brain is quite happy expecting them to sound like an orchestra). It's like my ear is waiting for more different sounds to emerge. Until I've listened into it enough to be listening within its world.
This is really good; has anyone checked this out yet? I just realized that If I listen on my phone, there's a different creepy/cool image tagged to each song.
@amc2, yes, I did give the Ghosts of Bush a listen when you first mentioned it - thanks for the reminder.
I like the way doing hip hop stripped down and acoustic focuses attention on the lyrics.
Following up with:
Have not listened to this in a while. Various German pop/rock artists/actors recite/sing Rilke poetry to music. The music is at times basically harmless, at times too syrupy but the poetry is good enough to raise the album to profundity at times.
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The new Garcia series dropped yesterday. I had forgotten I had it on order, so Amazon's autorip bot delivered the MP3's to me as a nice morning surprise. Legion Of Mary - December 14 and 15, 1974, Pacific Northwest. Garcia with Merl Saunders, John Kahn, Martin Fierro and Ron Tutt.
American Composers Orchestra @ Emusers
New Cuneiform Releases for September / October 2013
- "Anyone who's seen him performing either solo, sharing the bill with Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O)))), Chris Corsano, N.U. Unruh (Einstürzende Neubauten), or along with Carla Bozulich / Evangelista, Y.E.R.M.O. or french based collective DEGA! will confirm: Jason Van Gulick definitely counts among the most inventive and talented drummers in the music scene nowadays.
His dynamite loaded though subtle and masterfully executed performances, mixtures of wild rhythms and abstract soundscapes made him a quite a name in the last years and it was about time for Jason to release his first solo album.
Entelechy combines electroacoustic textures with more musical, "free" drumming passages.
Formerly trained as an architect, Van Gulick puts an important focus on natural resonance and often performs in locations chosen for their acoustic specificities. Therefore, Entelechy has been entirely recorded in resonant spaces such in Brussels as a squat called RTT and young but already legendary underground concert venue HS63."
Soundcloud
ETA:
The Stranger - Watching Dead Empires in Decay
From the Moroccan Tape Stash blog: Majmu
Have just about (finally!) finished reading Alex Ross's The Rest is Noise, started some time ago, and so have been alleviating my relative ignorance about classical music in periods not yet covered by Nereffid. His description of the Messiaen piece made me want to hear it. I keep finding that the trouble with working back to modern classical music, and perhaps especially a piece like this, via ambient/experimental electronic music is that I keep wondering why, if attempting to evoke the desert, one would ever want to restrict oneself to the noises made by the instruments in the traditional orchestra (many of which, I confess, I do not always find particularly appealing). Not saying I didn't like it, just working past the formation of my ears, which makes it sound cramped. With that thought in my head it's interesting to move on the the Mathieu album, which is entirely manipulated sound and is absolutely gorgeous throughout. The cover art suggests it too is reaching for the Etoiles.
@BT, your description of that Moroccan tape is intriguing - do you happen to have a link to that particular post on that blog?
Listening now.
Last.fm
The North African Passover Remix from the Jewish Morocco blog. At 7 minutes, it's an interesting little collection of ritual sounds.
This is really good; has anyone checked this out yet? I just realized that If I listen on my phone, there's a different creepy/cool image tagged to each song.
More Hamburg.
I am very disappointed in all of you for not cluing me in to Pretty Lights earlier. This is damn fine.
Craig
Merchandise - Totale Nite
Also damn fine.
Craig
I like the way doing hip hop stripped down and acoustic focuses attention on the lyrics.
Have not listened to this in a while. Various German pop/rock artists/actors recite/sing Rilke poetry to music. The music is at times basically harmless, at times too syrupy but the poetry is good enough to raise the album to profundity at times.
Polvo - Siberia
Not their best work, but not bad.
Craig
Darkside - Psychic
Delorean - Apar
Belle and Sebastian - The Third Eye Centre
Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain
Craig
Midnight Television - Midnight Television