When I first stumbled across this, I thought, "cheesy cover."
When I saw a review, I listened to a track and thought, "decent playing, but I hate the cheesy cover."
I finally listened to it all, and I thought, "atheist bluegrass? Kinda cool."
- "What happens when legendary electronic musician cEvin Key (Download, Skinny Puppy, PlatEAU) gets together with Ryan Moore, a former member of The Legendary Pink Dots turned acclaimed dub and reggae producer? Some serious Outerspace Dub jams! The duo turned on their interstellar beacon and the incoming transmissions were decoded and recorded in the Hollywood hills at Subconcious Studios. Prepare for the interstellar voyage!"
- "Hansson & Karlsson was a swedish duo consisting of Bo Hansson (organ) and Janne Loffe Carlsson (drums).
The duo was active during the end of the 1960s and played instrumental jazz rock and psychedelic music. The music was much built around improvisations, and because of that their live shows varied much from show to show. The group could be said to be an early inspiration to Swedish progg rock. They met Jimi Hendrix and played with him a couple of times. Hendrix was interested in the duos music and he himself did a recording of Hansson & Karlssons composition Tax Free. Hendrix only paid 600 Swedish crowns (80 USD) for the song. After a while the duo went separate ways. Bo made a solo career as a musician and Jan pursued an acting career. . . ." Tax Free
-Andreas Soderstrom's solo folk albums are just too pretty to believe. One of those albums that makes the quiet mornings seem a bit more magical. Some vocal, some instrumental.
I thought there was some stuff from the album on Soundcloud, but couldn't find it. Here's a youtube vid w/an album song...
- "Calling Mathew Burtners work experimental is like calling the pope catholic. The Wire has called it some of the most eerily effective electro-acoustic music Ive heard. Well just call it a truly outstanding musical experience. This a tribute of sort to Sonny Rollinss Saxophone Colossus, a record that stands has a landmark of sax music. The music here is adventurous and highly technical, but dont let the academic talk scare you off this is an amazing record. A dronal landscape of staggering proportion.
Burtner plays a metasaxaphone an instrument of his creation a human-computer instrument, a special microphone for composing with saxophone feedback, along with new methods of physical modeling synthesis. The Baltimore Sun wrote of Burtner, This music explores worlds no Saxaphone has gone before. and yes in case you were curious, the Pope is Catholic." Innova Recordings 2004 https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~mburtner/metasax.html
Streaming a fairly new album from Sonic Pieces (Totland, Skodvin, Frahm etc.) at Soundcloud:
- "Takeshi Nishimoto comes from a background as a guitarist, receiving classical training from some of the world´s premiere guitar players, while on the other hand he has been steadily growing into the more electronic music scene with a bunch of albums on CCO as I´m Not A Gun alongside John Tajeda. Takeshi appeared solo on record first in 2007 through CCO offset label Büro and returns now with his second album, this time for sonic pieces.
Although you could say Lavandula is a guitar solo record - that really does not do it justice if you dive deeper into the sounds that resonates within it. At times, Takeshi uses some really fine electronic methods to bend and shape the guitar and background atmospheres, like the beautifully perceived Strassenlaterne. Other times it feels like you are in the middle of a still picture from a forest lake in the Japanese countryside, slowly waking up together with the sun. The track Tone Water on the other hand sounds like Squarepusher´s classic acoustic masterpiece, Music is Rotted, One Note played on the Guitar instead of Bass and comes off as a fresh change of direction in the middle of the album.
Lavandula is a very personal and beautiful late summer album that brings to mind the film music of Gustavo Santaolalla (21 grams, Babel, Biutiful) or Tape´s classic albums for Häpna, but traveling through Japanese, North American and European traditions. A great record to bring while traveling, wake up to in the morning or simply enjoy in a quiet evening.
I don't know what the deal is with everyone using a $ in their name over the last couple years, but this is very good. (The Travi$ Scott is good too, but this is better).
New Cuneiform Releases for January / February 2014
- Tags: Instrumental Rock, Progressive Rock, Jazz, Raoul Björkenheim, eCsTaSy, Thumbscrew: Mary Halvorson Michael Formanek Tomas Fujiwara, Sonar, Ed Palermo Big Band, Present, Rock In Opposition, Chamber Rock, Avant-Garde, Experimental.
That Sonar Static Motion Cuneiform release in the Soundcloud playlist is associated with the Akku Quintet "Stages of Sleep" recording that got some attention on this site.
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im kraut stimmung:
- Just added to mu.
Really liking track #44, by Goldmund.
ETA, intuitively I would not have expected the track "Pus by Jonas the Plugexpert" to be quite so pretty.
When I first stumbled across this, I thought, "cheesy cover."
When I saw a review, I listened to a track and thought, "decent playing, but I hate the cheesy cover."
I finally listened to it all, and I thought, "atheist bluegrass? Kinda cool."
NYOP -- highly recommended if you can stomach BG.
Primal Scream - More Light
Craig
- "What happens when legendary electronic musician cEvin Key (Download, Skinny Puppy, PlatEAU) gets together with Ryan Moore, a former member of The Legendary Pink Dots turned acclaimed dub and reggae producer? Some serious Outerspace Dub jams! The duo turned on their interstellar beacon and the incoming transmissions were decoded and recorded in the Hollywood hills at Subconcious Studios. Prepare for the interstellar voyage!"
- "Hansson & Karlsson was a swedish duo consisting of Bo Hansson (organ) and Janne Loffe Carlsson (drums).
The duo was active during the end of the 1960s and played instrumental jazz rock and psychedelic music. The music was much built around improvisations, and because of that their live shows varied much from show to show. The group could be said to be an early inspiration to Swedish progg rock. They met Jimi Hendrix and played with him a couple of times. Hendrix was interested in the duos music and he himself did a recording of Hansson & Karlssons composition Tax Free. Hendrix only paid 600 Swedish crowns (80 USD) for the song. After a while the duo went separate ways. Bo made a solo career as a musician and Jan pursued an acting career. . . ."
Tax Free
ETA:
Ass - "Ass"
-Andreas Soderstrom's solo folk albums are just too pretty to believe. One of those albums that makes the quiet mornings seem a bit more magical. Some vocal, some instrumental.
I thought there was some stuff from the album on Soundcloud, but couldn't find it. Here's a youtube vid w/an album song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIlr3NfSiGE
Reijseger/Fraanje/Sylla - "Down Deep"
If you liked the Codona trio recordings on ECM (Cherry/Walcott/Vasconcelos), you really should be downloading this album.
Review over my site, which is valuable only because you can stream an album track...
http://www.birdistheworm.com/ernst-reijseger-harmen-fraanje-mola-sylla-down-deep/
One of my more blog-y posts.
Anne Paceo - "Yokai"
Wonderful album. Had I heard it earlier, it would've gotten slotted in my top ten for Best of 2012.
Listen on Soundcloud...
https://soundcloud.com/annepaceo
The Jonas the Plugexpert track is indeed quite lovely. According to last.fm he is a "Dutch Renoise wunderkind."
- "Calling Mathew Burtners work experimental is like calling the pope catholic. The Wire has called it some of the most eerily effective electro-acoustic music Ive heard. Well just call it a truly outstanding musical experience. This a tribute of sort to Sonny Rollinss Saxophone Colossus, a record that stands has a landmark of sax music. The music here is adventurous and highly technical, but dont let the academic talk scare you off this is an amazing record. A dronal landscape of staggering proportion.
Burtner plays a metasaxaphone an instrument of his creation a human-computer instrument, a special microphone for composing with saxophone feedback, along with new methods of physical modeling synthesis. The Baltimore Sun wrote of Burtner, This music explores worlds no Saxaphone has gone before. and yes in case you were curious, the Pope is Catholic."
Innova Recordings 2004
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~mburtner/metasax.html
Emilio Teubal - "Música Para un Dragon Dormido"
-I can't believe this isn't going to be my album of the year. About as near perfection as one can get. Stunning, beautiful.
Listen on Soundcloud- https://soundcloud.com/emilio-teubal
Read on my site- http://www.birdistheworm.com/emilio-teubal-musica-para-un-dragon-dormido/
This reminds me of this 2013 album from Erik Friedlander:
The same set of superlatives could very well be used for this one . . .
Bhob Rainey and Weasel Walter - Live at the Mudlark Public Theatre
Thanks, BT, enjoying this (despite the cover art!)
Travi$ Scott - Owl Pharaoh
Craig
Svnshiny/Pr=tty
A mere $5 on Amazon
Ty Dolla $ign - Beach House 2
I don't know what the deal is with everyone using a $ in their name over the last couple years, but this is very good. (The Travi$ Scott is good too, but this is better).
Free at datpiff.
Craig
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Time to rawwwwwwwk.
Craig
:-)
- Tags: Instrumental Rock, Progressive Rock, Jazz, Raoul Björkenheim, eCsTaSy, Thumbscrew: Mary Halvorson Michael Formanek Tomas Fujiwara, Sonar, Ed Palermo Big Band, Present, Rock In Opposition, Chamber Rock, Avant-Garde, Experimental.
My review - http://www.birdistheworm.com/akku-quintet-stages-of-sleep/
Or skip the words and go straight to the sound on bandcamp - http://akkuquintet.bandcamp.com/album/stages-of-sleep
ASS - "My get up and go just got up and went"
Here's a youtube vid of Soderstrom's cover of the Theme from Escape From New York...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyd3pTTUXuE
Cuneiform 2004