- "Hespera is cellist/electronicist Bela Emerson’s first studio album since Kissing Nettles (2003); while Kissing Nettles comprises two long pieces, Hespera is a collection of ten self-contained shorter tracks. Inspired by the Hesperides - the nymphs of the evening light - as well as Longfellow’s The Wreck of the Hesperus, the album fuses chaos with beauty, darkness with harmony, passion with fragility"
Well, that's a shame about the time-reduction of the tracks.
Yes, they're cheap, but probably for a good reason.
I own every Stockhausen recording from the Verlag itself
(I studied with him for 7 years) and so these are really the
ultimate collection of recordings completely put together by
the composer himself.
Glad you discovered the Dolat-Shahi recordings thru the Ubu site.
They're just part of my continuous sifting thru my collection that
yields some surprising memories connected with nearly all of it.
You might be interested too in this newly released collection of
Peter Zinovieff's early work. Haven't checked Ubu, but the connected
YouTube vid may give you some history.
Throughout the 1960s and '70s Zinovieff's studios became a place of pilgrimage for musicians looking to discover previously unheard sounds; Zinovieff's daughter Sofka recalls, "I'd be having tea in the kitchen with my two younger brothers, when people like David Bowie, Paul McCartney, or Pink Floyd would pass by on their way to the studio." Other visitors included Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze, King Crimson, Alan Sutcliffe, Hans Werner Henze, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, to name but a few.
The LPD's with the legendary late Bob Pisdoor on guitar:
Bob Pistoor-guitar,bass,sitar; The Silverman-keys and devices; Neils Van Hoorn-saxophones,wind instruments; Edward Ka-spel-voice,keys; Hans Meyer-sound wizardry.Elke Skelter-lights. Cover by The Silverman and Astrid Mutsars.
- "The sound of The Dots on fire at the dark and dismal Crash Club,Freiburg in 1990, combined with the best parts of a show less than a year later in Vienna. Some rare songs to be found here, guitar playing that will singe the hairs on the back of your neck, and a band that sounds so hungry it would steal your veggie pizza."
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Soak-Before we got to Dream
The Staves - If I Was
When the musician John Supko and media artist Bill Seaman - known together as Straits - were writing their album, they amounted a 110 hour database of field recordings, acoustic and electronic instruments, analog and digital noise, cassette recordings of their older material, loads of piano and even some soundtracks from 60s and 70s documentaries. But instead of working with a producer to find the album within all this, they decided to create a software, called bearings_traits, to diligently fish through the entire database using complex algorithms, and put together various juxtaposing bits until it starts resulting in melodies and grooves. Then Supko and Seaman jump in at the last to mould the cybernetic producer’s works into single, manageable songs.
The result is a 26 track album called s_traits, a mind-whisking collage of spectral electronic music, that verges on contemporary classical at times, and is made all the creepier when you consider it’s the product by three minds: two human and one very, very artificial. The classical critics at the New York Times regarded it as one of the best releases of 2014.
Sun Lux - Bones
Some rare songs to be found here, guitar playing that will singe the hairs on the back of your neck, and a band that sounds so hungry it would steal your veggie pizza."
Next week, I'll be seeing them. Can't wait.
Craig