During his 15 days in Istanbul, Débruit worked on an imaginative interpretation of the city carried by the megalopolis through its meanders. He collaborated with established artists, including leading fusion-jazz percussionist Okay Temiz, 70s Turkish-funk star Mustapha Özkent, gypsy master clarinettist Cüneyt Sepetçi, and rising and grass roots local musicians such as art-rock singer Gaye Su Akyol, Melike Şahin and Murat Ertel of BaBa ZuLa. The inspiration of sounds, rhythms, lights and tempo of the city at different moments in time have resulted in a melting pot of traditional, visionary, electric, psychedelic, futuristic, melodic and experimental music. Now set for release to the public, 'Débruit & Istanbul' is a new vision of the exciting and captivating city. "I wanted this album to be driven by the feelings I got from Istanbul and my encounters. The city’s enthusiasm and majestic urban and topographic flows inspired light but deep moods: there is a darkness in there but a proud one. A roughness in control. Istanbul has such an inspiring mix of tradition and forward thinking vision. It has a pulse of its very own. Its impossible to put into words the excitement, surprises and magic of making this album. Of the experiences of trying to find these people, walking up unknown streets or taking the boat to the Asian side. Discovering the city at the same time as being on the album journey, going to neighbourhoods I wouldn't have been to if it wasn't for recording. All that influence, infusing my imagination and creativity at the same time." - Débruit
Well, it's a nice steady drizzle. Everything's finally planted and it could use a good soaking. I'm going to catch up on some Free/NYOP things I've downloaded. I really enjoyed a lot of Label Love's Vol 7 (it's where I first heard Nicola Cruz) so I'm working my way back from there. from 2013 ps -I really enjoyed the listen and met a few ear perkers.
Current listening: Construction noise going on outside my usual Weds am coffee shop. I actually find it is helping me concentrate better than the peppy pop music they play here.
New from Yair Yona, Sword | חרב. Much more soundscape / cinematic than Yona's other work (which tended to be John Fahey inspired guitar), and it is different than the psychedelic jam sound of Farthest South, his other band.
From Bandcamp: "Sword' is an instrumental album that was written as a soundtrack of the Yom Kippur War In ten compositions , the album documents a number of individual, private situations, with no attempt whatsoever to correspond with the accepted national ethos, since the album doesn't try to document heroic or tragic events of the war. Actually, the war lives alongside the album, and the ones at the center of the musical discourse are the common people, those who carried the war and its outcomes on their backs, and on the backs of the generation that followed them."
I voted early too Lowlife, likewise wanting to remain part of the EU. Played Fleetwood Mac Rumours and Wings Band on the Run earlier in the car. Now back home and almost through
'A Revolution in Customer Service' is the debut release from London-based producer Object Agency, aka M. Marshall. After studying viola in Glasgow, Marshall worked with the likes of Aidan Moffat and This is the Kit, before moving to Brussels. It was here he met fellow Kit artist Swim Platførm and began crafting his solo sound - lush swathes of Juno knitted together with deliciously glitchy string loops and drum machines.
ARICS beams over like a compilation of hold music for various off-moon corporations - viola-driven noise and cryogenic synths looping and colliding like atoms in high-fidelity. Recommended for fans of Haruomi Hosono, Laurie Spiegel and Oliver Coates.
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'woozy shiny atmospherics, very pleasurable' - Norman Records
'seriously can't stress how great the record is' - Don't Trip (NTS)
Allmusic ratings often puzzle me. I assume (wrongly?) that the "Allmusic rating" is given by the person who writes the "Allmusic review"? I was just reading a string of very positive-sounding reviews for albums that were given three stars or less and thinking maybe they just have a stingy personal use of stars.
But then I just read this review of a Martial Solal recording. The long and impassioned review says the recording "deserves all the high praise any human musician should aspire to and achieve. If there were a trillion stars to give for his music, he deserves every one of them."
This may shed some light. I noticed that others gave the album 5 stars when it came out in 2009. For what it's worth, I still think it's a solid one that's right up there with Bluesine, so I'd say 4+.
Comments
Four Tet - Randoms
Craig
from 2013
ps -I really enjoyed the listen and met a few ear perkers.
I was looking at this on emusic but it turns out WFMU has it free, with some background info:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/12/cambodian-rocks.html
They also have a link to this other Cambodian comp.:
http://thehorsedrawnzeppelin.blogspot.com/2007/02/cambodian-60s-music.html?m=1
(And while I was goofing around looking for stuff I also found this other Thai blog which is kind of an "Awesome Tapes From Thailand":
http://monrakplengthai.blogspot.com/?m=1 )
Think I'll double post this to free stuff...
New from Yair Yona, Sword | חרב. Much more soundscape / cinematic than Yona's other work (which tended to be John Fahey inspired guitar), and it is different than the psychedelic jam sound of Farthest South, his other band.
From Bandcamp: "Sword' is an instrumental album that was written as a soundtrack of the Yom Kippur War In ten compositions , the album documents a number of individual, private situations, with no attempt whatsoever to correspond with the accepted national ethos, since the album doesn't try to document heroic or tragic events of the war. Actually, the war lives alongside the album, and the ones at the center of the musical discourse are the common people, those who carried the war and its outcomes on their backs, and on the backs of the generation that followed them."
http://monrakplengthai.blogspot.com/2014/09/naang-naang-le-ywei-sin-tei-mya.html?m=1
Giuseppe Ielasi - (Third) Stunt
Datashock - Keine Oase in Sicht
ETA I think maybe someone posted this a while back? It's really good.
http://www.dekorder.com/002.html
Kap Nakken Hak Hak Hak !
2003
@greg , @Lowlife and other british people. . .
Everyone in Denmark is holding their breath.
- Best wishes for a good election day.
The Clash - Safe European Home.
Voted today, fingers crossed we stay
Fingers crossed.
http://monrakplengthai.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post.html?m=1
'A Revolution in Customer Service' is the debut release from London-based producer Object Agency, aka M. Marshall. After studying viola in Glasgow, Marshall worked with the likes of Aidan Moffat and This is the Kit, before moving to Brussels. It was here he met fellow Kit artist Swim Platførm and began crafting his solo sound - lush swathes of Juno knitted together with deliciously glitchy string loops and drum machines.
ARICS beams over like a compilation of hold music for various off-moon corporations - viola-driven noise and cryogenic synths looping and colliding like atoms in high-fidelity. Recommended for fans of Haruomi Hosono, Laurie Spiegel and Oliver Coates.
~
'woozy shiny atmospherics, very pleasurable' - Norman Records
'seriously can't stress how great the record is' - Don't Trip (NTS)
But then I just read this review of a Martial Solal recording. The long and impassioned review says the recording "deserves all the high praise any human musician should aspire to and achieve. If there were a trillion stars to give for his music, he deserves every one of them."
Well, that sounds pretty clear.
The star rating?
4/5.
Huh?
I noticed that others gave
the album 5 stars when it
came out in 2009. For what
it's worth, I still think it's a
solid one that's right up there
with Bluesine, so I'd say 4+.