Kosugi is quite a wonderful and creative guy. You would think that I'd think differently because back in the late 70's, I applied for a job opening that he ended up getting. It turns out that he actually was already "hired" for the position, but to fulfill "green card" rules, there needed to be an advert showing need for the position to be filled. Mild, mannered performer who's very unassuming in performance practice - working with sound in an almost surgical and intense manner.
Well, once again it's raining here and once again what an interesting bunch of music you've all been listening to. I really wish I could afford to get everything but I'll settle for Emusic and freebies. As I have been working on cleaning up my SFL I have deleted some albums I downloaded and forgot to remove from the list. While clearing off Ictus, I came across this. Luciano Berio - Mike Patton - Ictus Ensemble -- Laborintus II
Recorded 13th February 2014 at St Paul's Hall, University of Huddersfield, UK Ps- I really have a soft spot to those voice improvisors. Thanks for the introductions. BTW- Great bass, certainly one to explore more. I guess I really see what Jaap Blonk is up to. Thanks again, for a terrific listen!
Just in at Soundcloud from the "I Think You're Awesome" guy:
Maria Edlund - cello Jens Mikkel - bas Kasper Staub - klaver og keys Mathias Jæger - Klaver og keys Recorded at the Aarhus Jazz Festival from a concert where the entire "Løft Mig Op Så Jeg Kan Nå" debut album was performed in special arrangements for the occasion.
Well, once again it's raining here and once again what an interesting bunch of music you've all been listening to. I really wish I could afford to get everything but I'll settle for Emusic and freebies. As I have been working on cleaning up my SFL I have deleted some albums I downloaded and forgot to remove from the list. While clearing off Ictus, I came across this. Luciano Berio - Mike Patton - Ictus Ensemble -- Laborintus II
Ps- another really enjoyable listen, couldn't understand a word, but what a story!
Enjoyable indeed . . . Grabbed it in 2014 and have listened way too few times - Thanks for the reminder. (The link changed to Europe)
The Breath is Stuart McCallum (former guitarist of (The Cinematic Orchestra), Irish singer Rioghnach Connolly and McCallum's fellow Cinematic alumni, pianist John Ellis and drummer Luke Flowers. Born out of Manchester's fertile music scene they mix Irish folk influences with mesmerizing guitar riffs, anthemic themes and powerful hooks. Connolly's soulful vocals are interwoven into the electronic fabric of McCallum's distinctive soundworld. In turns hypnotic, lush, powerfully raw and raucously punchy, their songs entrance, uplift and break your heart as The Breath conjure a kaleidoscope of sound that perfectly frames Connolly's raw songs and soul cleansing vocals.
Made from material gathered during the Biosphere Soundscape residency in Sian Ka'an Mexico. The cracking sound is a crocodile hitting the boat with its tail, the drones are derived from boat engines. This track was released as part of the Kollektive 1 compilation put together by the Iranian imprint Bitrot. It's free so you can get it here: bitrotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kollektive-1
Well, it's our garden group's annual visit each other's garden tour tomorrow and the theme for this year's evening event is Mexico related. A tribute to those folks who have been a big part of their and our history. My wife has chosen some hockey stick tape for Frida Kahlo and it's pretty easy to dress up as Diego Rivera. As I'm Poet Laureate for this year's run I'll be giving a reading from one of Rivera's friends, Pablo Neruda, Ode To Maize from 1952, special year for me. I couldn't hear any reading of it, but I'm sure he wouldn't mind me giving it a go.
This is what I'm listening to right now. Ralph Fiennes reading Ode to Sea by Pablo Neruda
While clearing the Nicolas Bernier I came across this. Emusic credited to Paulina Sundin.
Ps- Some new folks to explore...
This album emerges from a group of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers working in electroacoustic media and computer music at the University of Huddersfield’s Centre for Research in New Music. The works display a great diversity in artistic practice and technical means, yet there are also common threads running through the collection: relations between the natural world and human ritual, the idea of sonic phenomena experienced as an embodied or spatialised presence, worlds of play and memory ‘in search of the miraculous’
- "The yard at Astrid Noacks Atelier in Nørrebro (Copenhagen) is one of the last
surviving examples of a particular architecture and working milieu,
characteristic of the turn of the century, when craftsmen of all types
worked on a smaller scale and in the context of other artisans.
Rådmandsgade 34 once served as the environment for artist Astrid Noack
and craftsmen working side by side in small ateliers surrounding an
intimate and shared yard. This environment was in fact an inspiration
for some of Noack’s work. Although the yard still remains, the use of it
has changed to reflect different economies, social concerns and kinds
of labor. Looking at the etymology of the word Atelier, its origins stem
from the Old French astele, meaning “a shaving, a splinter”, in
otherwords, a byproduct of activity. The group show, Splinter Chamber,
draws inspiration from new materiality of labor, as well as the shared
space now altered in use to reflect different use.
In Splinter Chamber, 4 sound artists draw attention to the histories,
characteristics and physical properties of the buildings and yard using
sonic, sculptural and performative elements, connecting past yard
activities with present ones. Performing live sonic investigations of
these spaces, the artists convert the buildings themselves into animated
participatory spaces and reflect on new forms of labor. Michael
Mørkholt uses video projection to visualize sonic elements present
within the yard, Jenny Graf invites the audience to engage with resonant
objects which are performed and experienced as elements of
storytelling. Tobias Kirstein and Mads Bech Paluszewski-Hau “performs”
the various buildings percussive qualities Claus Poulsen interprets the
refuse in the yard from the perspective of sonic re-use. The audience
will be free to wander and explore throughout the 3-hour event (kl 21 -
24). The participating artists - Tobias Kirstein, Jenny Graf, Michael
Mørkholt, Mads Bech Paluszewski-Hau, and Claus Poulsen, regularly
perform and exhibit internationally and are deeply invested in
site-specific works."
"The contributions collected in Landscapes of Fear cover the participants’ different methods and experiences from specifically developed projects on the connection of sound, space and emotion. Multi-layered overlappings of inner and outer spaces, interconnections of forms of acoustic documentation and the phantasms of a sonic fiction, Deep Listening experiments and data analysis – some terms that exemplify the participants’ techniques and subjects taken up during the project. The data of geographical contour lines of existing areas, for example, form the basis for an audification that reads out these topographic profiles as waveforms. Psychological border experiences are set down in text and verbally staged via radiophone. Audio documents (interviews) are tonally processed in a radical way that is based on the spatial model of an existential, physical injury. Urban paths, generated by GPS navigation are translated into an instrumental composition for two stringed instruments. Components and micro particles of verbal communication reveal explosive, controversial potential for aggression within the club and party scene, or coagulate into a stream of intense, yet pale residual sound that causes a “listening deletion” rather than being a basic means of phonetic communication.
The present works reflect a wide range of analysis on the part of the participants regarding the possible manifestations of fear-causing spaces. Among them are detailed observations as well as quite irritating formulations of tonal (landscape-) explorations, acute areas of conflict, commonplace phobias, sonic dissociations and virtual modifications. The works are communicated experiences, aesthetic experiments, tonal speculations and fictionalisations – all of which challenge the positioning of one’s self within an unabated topicality and continuing presence of Landscapes of Fear."
Found by browsing Continuo's Bandcamp profile - Up until a few years he was running one of the best music blocks that has ever existed. I'm sure there's a lot of gems to explore here . . .
This is certainly one of them:
"Something like The Holy Grail of library music..."
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Craig
Luciano Berio - Mike Patton - Ictus Ensemble -- Laborintus II
Credits
Notes
Ps- another really enjoyable listen, couldn't understand a word, but what a story!
Audrey Ribaucourt, Georges-Elie Octors, Gerrit Nulens, Gery Cambier, Heather Cirncross, Ictus, Jessica Ryckewaert, Kuniko Kato, Micaela Haslam, Miquel Bernat, Peter Van Tichelen, Shinsuke Ishihara, Synergy Vocals
Ps- Wow! What a terrific hour. Hard not to get absorbed by this.
ETA, this is nice, free too.
Datashock - Pyramiden Von Gießen (2011)
Credits
Notes
Ps- I really have a soft spot to those voice improvisors. Thanks for the introductions.
BTW- Great bass, certainly one to explore more.
I guess I really see what Jaap Blonk is up to. Thanks again, for a terrific listen!
Maria Edlund - cello
Jens Mikkel - bas
Kasper Staub - klaver og keys
Mathias Jæger - Klaver og keys
Recorded at the Aarhus Jazz Festival from a concert where the entire "Løft Mig Op Så Jeg Kan Nå" debut album was performed in special arrangements for the occasion.
Various - Move on Up Best of Northern Soul
The sun is out, the weekend is here and need some grooves to get going
- Thanks for the reminder. (The link changed to Europe)
NP:
Also from 2014 and utterly brilliant !
From Greenleaf Music - Streaming at Bandcamp
Carry Your Kin
The Breath, 2016
Craig
New Porya Hatami album!!!!!! Due out in September on Audiobulb, listening to a copy from Porya.
So good. Drone pieces from Darren McClure.
Just built a rockery. This day reminded me that rocks are heavy.
Seeing him Monday. Really looking forward to it.
Craig
Delicate and beautiful.
This is what I'm listening to right now. Ralph Fiennes reading Ode to Sea by Pablo Neruda
Emusic credited to Paulina Sundin.
Ps- Some new folks to explore...
This album emerges from a group of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers working in electroacoustic media and computer music at the University of Huddersfield’s Centre for Research in New Music. The works display a great diversity in artistic practice and technical means, yet there are also common threads running through the collection: relations between the natural world and human ritual, the idea of sonic phenomena experienced as an embodied or spatialised presence, worlds of play and memory ‘in search of the miraculous’
Claus Poulsen - Splinter Chamber
Emusic
Landscapes of Fear
rather than being a basic means of phonetic communication.
The present works reflect a wide range of analysis on the part of the participants regarding the possible manifestations of fear-causing spaces. Among them are detailed observations as well as quite irritating formulations of tonal (landscape-) explorations, acute areas of conflict, commonplace phobias, sonic dissociations and virtual modifications. The works are communicated experiences, aesthetic experiments, tonal speculations and fictionalisations – all of which challenge the positioning of one’s self within an unabated topicality and continuing presence of Landscapes of Fear."
Walter Fini Switzerland
Jeff Parker - The New Breed. You can stream it at Bandcamp. Love it more every time I listen
- Up until a few years he was running one of the best music blocks that has ever existed.
I'm sure there's a lot of gems to explore here . . .
This is certainly one of them: