- "To be released end of May 2015, Denovali Records announces the first two albums of a four part series by Multicast Dynamics, conceptually linked by our undeniable connection with nature and its wide range of landscapes, colors and movement. The album series moves from an evolutionary to a cosmological scale: Starting from dry land filled with light and streams, to the constantly changing surfaces of the oceans, into a frozen and murky underwater world, finally up to the arrival in an interstellar space and the cosmos. With this concept Multicast Dynamics explores organic and aqueous worlds in a dreamlike and spiritual appearance.
The first installment of the series is entitled "Scape". Assembled with the use of analogue synthesizers, field recordings and lo-fi outboard effects, the album was constructed with a sporadic and spontaneous approach to sound and technique. This results in an array of calming, intriguing tracks with a fluctuating character and organic quality. Mysterious crackles, subtle hisses and washes of gloomy sounds reveal a dense approach to composition, processing and recording resulting in an introspective, ethereal and intense listening experience."
BN - Love that Urban Dreaming cover you posted a few days ago. It is a style of photography I like.
Doofy and GP - I have followed up the Fresh Sounds series, like to hear more, but will not to search out on Amazon, as they are examples of when emusic does not help themselves with over priced albums with lots of short tracks.
A few months ago I bought a new ipad. My old one has sat unloved ever since. So as it has double to memory of my ipod, I decided to put music on it. The aim is to have albums only, to include lossless versions if I have them, about one third being all time rock favourites/favourite artists, a third being more contemporary rock, pop folk etc, with the remainder jazz. So I am now listening to samples from My Music, selecting albums. I am up to K in artists so far. What is surprising me most is the number of jazz albums I have never played, or perhaps played a couple of tracks, but I have really liked what I've heard. Once I have this task completed I will then start working out how to get an album by album playlist running, to be updated from itunes regularly.
I sort of make this work by making a jazz "not played since" smart list--say, not played in the last 6 months--selected by least recently played. If I listen to whole albums (which I do in jazz), then the whole albums will come up in the playlist at the same time.
GP - yes I know that, unfortunately, partly through your experiences documented here, thanks. I was thinking about it in bed last night - one of those weird middle of the night things, and the only way is to do it by tracks, I think. My daughter-in-law is off to Apple HQ for a week in a week's time. I've asked her to see if she can talk to an iTunes developer. At the moment I am thinking of having nested playlists within playlists so that the unplayed/less played albums also update on my iphone too. Complex, but I want it to suit my purposes
You know how certain albums are all fixed in a specific timeframe for you. The first few notes of this, no more needed, take me back 45 years to a very different world Nils Lofgren must be one of those musicians I listen to playing so regularly without even thinking about it.
I was going to follow after you greg but somehow out of all the Neil Young on my players right now, that one's not there. This ones good too, but not anywhere as near as familiar to me.
Fwiw, here's my pretty simple smart playlist for cycling through jazz I haven't listened to in a while. The 19GB is just the room available on my iPod. I sort it chronologically, and let it play all day sometimes.
Re: iTunes and albums, it is possible to get close using smart playlists and shuffle-by-album. What you can't do as far as I know is: 1. Have iTunes only add tracks to fill up the last space in the smart playlist if it has space to add the whole album, so even with smart playlists shuffled by album you end up with album fragments. 2. Have iTunes add tracks from the same album on successive syncs until the whole album is on the list - so if you sync often you keep ending up with fragments of different albums added to the list to fill the last free spaces, resulting in increasing fragmentation over time unless you clean house every now and then. 3. Have iTunes have a whole album be on or off the list until you have listened to all of it. So if you don't quite finish the album the listened tracks cycle off and you get left with more fragments. Some of this would not happen if you did not have a last played criterion, but then you might as well use a dumb playlist.
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- "To be released end of May 2015, Denovali Records announces the first two albums of a four part series by Multicast Dynamics, conceptually linked by our undeniable connection with nature and its wide range of landscapes, colors and movement. The album series moves from an evolutionary to a cosmological scale: Starting from dry land filled with light and streams, to the constantly changing surfaces of the oceans, into a frozen and murky underwater world, finally up to the arrival in an interstellar space and the cosmos. With this concept Multicast Dynamics explores organic and aqueous worlds in a dreamlike and spiritual appearance.
The first installment of the series is entitled "Scape". Assembled with the use of analogue synthesizers, field recordings and lo-fi outboard effects, the album was constructed with a sporadic and spontaneous approach to sound and technique. This results in an array of calming, intriguing tracks with a fluctuating character and organic quality. Mysterious crackles, subtle hisses and washes of gloomy sounds reveal a dense approach to composition, processing and recording resulting in an introspective, ethereal and intense listening experience."
BN - Love that Urban Dreaming cover you posted a few days ago. It is a style of photography I like.
Doofy and GP - I have followed up the Fresh Sounds series, like to hear more, but will not to search out on Amazon, as they are examples of when emusic does not help themselves with over priced albums with lots of short tracks.
A few months ago I bought a new ipad. My old one has sat unloved ever since. So as it has double to memory of my ipod, I decided to put music on it. The aim is to have albums only, to include lossless versions if I have them, about one third being all time rock favourites/favourite artists, a third being more contemporary rock, pop folk etc, with the remainder jazz. So I am now listening to samples from My Music, selecting albums. I am up to K in artists so far. What is surprising me most is the number of jazz albums I have never played, or perhaps played a couple of tracks, but I have really liked what I've heard. Once I have this task completed I will then start working out how to get an album by album playlist running, to be updated from itunes regularly.
Fuji Grid TV - Prism Genesis
You know how certain albums are all fixed in a specific timeframe for you. The first few notes of this, no more needed, take me back 45 years to a very different world Nils Lofgren must be one of those musicians I listen to playing so regularly without even thinking about it.
I was going to follow after you greg but somehow out of all the Neil Young on my players right now, that one's not there. This ones good too, but not anywhere as near as familiar to me.
Stereogum made this the #1 album of 2015 so far. It's good, but...
Craig
Re: iTunes and albums, it is possible to get close using smart playlists and shuffle-by-album.
What you can't do as far as I know is:
1. Have iTunes only add tracks to fill up the last space in the smart playlist if it has space to add the whole album, so even with smart playlists shuffled by album you end up with album fragments.
2. Have iTunes add tracks from the same album on successive syncs until the whole album is on the list - so if you sync often you keep ending up with fragments of different albums added to the list to fill the last free spaces, resulting in increasing fragmentation over time unless you clean house every now and then.
3. Have iTunes have a whole album be on or off the list until you have listened to all of it. So if you don't quite finish the album the listened tracks cycle off and you get left with more fragments.
Some of this would not happen if you did not have a last played criterion, but then you might as well use a dumb playlist.