@rostasi, that's the one! "Ruined Piano" is such a wonderfully inviting instrument credit.
NP:
Porya Hatami - The Black Woodpecker Still narrowly my favorite in the wonderful Birds of a Feather series. One day this summer I must set aside a few hours to listen to them all in sequence...
Germanprof - that is an amazing album cover. I'll have to search that out for sure, Ar.
In the meantime, I'm going back to my downloads folder and re-adding some of my archives & bandcamp NYOP to itunes. I thought I'd start with this free download you pointed me to last Sept. It's had a few tracks play in the rotation but nothing rated yet. Thanks, as always.
This is a large (43 track) compilation of ambient/electronic tracks assembled by Hibernate records as a fundraiser after the Nepal earthquake. Now that the fundraising window is over, it has been made a Free Download.
Artists include: Machinefabriek, Caught in the Wake Forever, Clem Leek, Field Rotation, Maps and Diagrams, The Green Kingdom, Good Weather for an Airstrike, Antonymes, Olan Mill, offthesky, Wil Bolton, and many more.
@confused, yes, it's a great cover, isn't it? Usually when I am posting bandcamp album covers I do the extra step of reducing them in size, but with this one it felt wrong not to post it full size. The music is very in keeping with the cover, majestic, monolithic, epic drones. The album is here: https://aeolian.bandcamp.com/album/memorious-earth-2
Glad you got around to Dayalu. Some nice things on there, as ever with Hibernate.
Thanks again, a really great listen and some new folks to check out. While listening I had to check out AR. When I signed into Emusic they popped up a note welcoming me back and offering me a $50 bonus for signing onto the $11.99 subscription. I now have around $190 in credits and it's burning a hole. They don't have a Memorious Earth, so I'll start here AR - Succession
I see the first Richard Skelton I have is from The Tompkins Square 5th Anniv eMusic Sampler as Broken Consort. I also have A Box of Birch and Form Themselves Into Streams from '14.
EDIT: I probably should've added that this jazz-country album is one of the best things I've heard all year. I believe a write-up will post on my site Tuesday.
I had an idea that I knew somehow where the name "A Winged Victory for the Sullen" came from, so I looked it up, turns out I had no idea:
What's the story behind the name: 'A Winged Victory for the Sullen'?
AW - I had visited this island in Greece called Samothraki and there is a famous statue called “nike samothrice” which translates to “the winged victory of…”. It was stolen and now sits in the entry hallway of the Louvre. I liked the ring of it. But I thought it sounded a bit too hopeful. There is a very sullen slow quality to the music so it just seemed to fit for us.
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Early free eMu stuff . . . (not free anymore)
- Cool !
NP:
Porya Hatami - The Black Woodpecker
Still narrowly my favorite in the wonderful Birds of a Feather series. One day this summer I must set aside a few hours to listen to them all in sequence...
In the meantime, I'm going back to my downloads folder and re-adding some of my archives & bandcamp NYOP to itunes. I thought I'd start with this free download you pointed me to last Sept. It's had a few tracks play in the rotation but nothing rated yet. Thanks, as always.
-It's still free
Glad you got around to Dayalu. Some nice things on there, as ever with Hibernate.
NP Ralph Towner - Time Line
AR - Succession
I see the first Richard Skelton I have is from The Tompkins Square 5th Anniv eMusic Sampler as Broken Consort. I also have A Box of Birch and Form Themselves Into Streams from '14.
Cyril Secq/Orla Wren - Branches
Dronarivm can do no wrong.
Gamardah Fungus - Herbs and Potions
Brian Eno • ‘The Ship’
reijseger sylla fraanje - "down deep"
Andreas Ulvo & Slagr - "Softspeaker"
Anders Ammitzbøll - "Hymns for Hearts #1"
-Posting something about it tomorrow.
AR - Echoless
Ryan Pryor - "Wanderer's Way"
On bandcamp...
https://ryanpryormusic.bandcamp.com/album/wanderers-way
Back to 2004
& the bonus track from the 2011 release
ps - a great way to start the day in a sad kinda way
It's light now in the garden, so it's on to the rotation starting with
Adrian Belew - Hot Sun
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - "Atomos"
Stupid band name, but, damn, I do love their music first thing in the morning.
Arthur Vint & Associates - "Through the Badlands"
-Nice example of the range jazz-country-folk can aspire to.
On Bandcamp: https://arthurvint.bandcamp.com/
EDIT: I probably should've added that this jazz-country album is one of the best things I've heard all year. I believe a write-up will post on my site Tuesday.
The Watershed - "Inhale/Exhale"
-Some familiar names (to my site readers) in this quartet, most relevantly, guitarist Pierre Perchaud.
On Bandcamp... https://thewatershed.bandcamp.com/album/inhale-exhale
From 2006
Clouwbeck - A Moraine
2007
A Broken Consort - Crow Autumn
Clouwbeck - From Which the River Rises
Richard Skelton - Dyad
with tracks released under A Broken Consort, Saddleback,
Heidika and Machinefabriek & Richard Skelton.
I couldn't resist that cover.
Thanks jonahpwll.
Highlights from the first spin:
Mirror Mirror and The Weight Of Water Parts 1-4
Amazing stuff !
Manu Dibango - Electric Africa (feat. Bill Laswell, Herbie Hancock)
from
I had an idea that I knew somehow where the name "A Winged Victory for the Sullen" came from, so I looked it up, turns out I had no idea:
What's the story behind the name: 'A Winged Victory for the Sullen'?
AW - I had visited this island in Greece called Samothraki and there is a famous statue called “nike samothrice” which translates to “the winged victory of…”. It was stolen and now sits in the entry hallway of the Louvre. I liked the ring of it. But I thought it sounded a bit too hopeful. There is a very sullen slow quality to the music so it just seemed to fit for us.
http://www.futuresequence.com/article/a-winged-victory-for-the-sullen-interview/
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I think I confused it with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, which I recently had read about (it's named after a Japanese biker gang movie...)