"26.1.2000. We feared the worst as we crawled through the mountains to Ostrava in the far East of the Czech Republic on a freezing Wednesday Night in January 2000 . Ostrava is a working town,there are coal mines; it's a World away from Prague .....would anyone there even have heard of the Pink Dots? In fact a few hundred people showed up and ultimately it was one of the most enjoyable shows in our long history - it also probably features our longest ever rendition of "Citadel"clocking in at over 11 minutes. Another joyous evening in the Czech Republic- a country we love dearly.
Big thank yous to Adam and Adriana who started things for the Dots in this special corner of the World."
I just put a rec up on the emusic board for Souad Massi's new album El Mutakallimûn and I strongly recommend that one.
I happened to win $50 on Powerball last week so I of course invested it in the booster pack sale for $100 credit which I used to buy up a lot of old blues, I'm going through one of those stages at the moment.
This Time for Real - Billy Price and Otis Clay is a very satisfying new soul album by a couple of veterans I'm digging also.
Mnay thanks for the explanation, I didn't know it was per album in the USA, as you say pluses and minuses, I just didn't fully understand the reason for the difference, doh!
@djh, there are upsides and downsides both ends. It's basically per-track pricing or per-album pricing. In the UK you still have per track, which means albums with many tracks become very expensive but albums with few tracks become an absolute steal. When we still had per track pricing here in the U.S. I made an absolute killing on prog rock, post-rock and ambient albums that had a handful of 20-minute-plus tracks. Now that we have per-album pricing these albums are more expensive - but big box sets often become a steal. I agree it would make sense for emusic to handle box sets differently since they seem intended by the distributor to be sold at a bulk bargain price, but I don't think music staff actually have much if anything to do with pricing individual albums, so creating exceptions might cost more in labor than they are willing or able to invest.
- "Daniel Padden's The One Ensemble began as a solo project and quickly morphed into a quartet with the recruitment of Chris Hladowski and Aby Vulliamy of Nalle, and Peter Nicholson. With Padden's leadership, they developed a curious and strident brew of Eastern European folk, chamber music, a pinch of Robert Wyatt and some kind of earthy psychedelic primitivism. Padden has been fortunate in recruiting a band of such polymath virtuosity, giving room for his grand designs to be realised gloriously, both on stage and on record. As The One Ensemble Orchestra, their sound is given the blaze of full technicolour glory as they expand to a septet, exacerbating their collision of the formal and the tribal and oftentimes recalling the soundtrack and mood of The Holy Mountain. They originally expanded to a seven-piece for a commission from Bristol's Venn festival in 2007, and consequently recorded these tracks at Padden's studio. The extra members mean the Ensemble's already rich sound is given further depth and added gravity, while losing none of their dextrous transitions or delicate passages. But when they hit those vocal incantations or rhythmic cascades that fans of their sound love so much, there's undoubtedly an extra magic and drive that is a delight to behold. At times, the Ensemble come on like a mediaeval A Hawk And A Hacksaw, other times a chamber quartet ambushed by Balkan folk terrorists, but they always sound unquestionably themselves, channelling a thousand delicately unrefined, rough, raw and dreamlike voices. Like your favourite meal super-sized, The One Ensemble Orchestra is the esoteric treat you've been promising yourself."
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Have this one yet, amc?
Craig
The Legendary Pink Dots - The Wednesday Mass
Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Surf
Been waiting for this for months. Worth the wait.
Craig
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Hi Greg,
Thanks for getting back, same here, weddings, kitchen being remade and the last game of the season, will try when my credits come back
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NYOP: https://auto-7.bandcamp.com/album/q
According to google, 회사 means "company" in Korean, so "company auto" which makes sense, but somehow it also means "necrosis"
Anyway really enjoying; vaporwave, with the occasional sing song that reminds me a little bit of new wave period David Bowie.
Seems to be a re-release of a 2011 release by the girl behind Vektroid.
http://afternoonsmodeling.bandcamp.com/album/dream-castle