Just in and most fascinating, as always when Yannis is involved . . .
Ein Schemen by Yannis Kyriakides - a recomposition of Ein Deutsches
Requiem of Johannes Brahms . Nederlands Kamerkoor and Remy van
Kesteren(harp), under the direction of Peter Dijkstra. Live recording
from Hertz, Tivoli-Vredenburg, Utrecht. Recorded by Wijnand de Groot
(21st May 2017)
@BrighternowSelect at least one note on the grid and then look at the bottom of the screen in the middle and click the "Modify" button. It pops up the sidebar.
@Germanprof It's weird how some of these ambient minimalist bands strike clear lines of separation to my ear. I've always thought Stars of the Lid is dull, whereas Labradford is such a thinking man's game with each song. Aix Ex Klemm is the right mix (to me) of introspection and spirited play.
Now up:
Chihei Hatakeyama - "Mirage"
-I'm liking it okay, but I think some ears around these parts might really take to this recording.
taken from MIA ZABELKA TRIO - WEIRD TALES & ELEGANT MOTION (CD, mono52, MonotypeRec, 2012)
MIA ZABELKA TRIO: Mia Zabelka - Electric Violin, Voice, Live-Electronics Johannes Frisch - Double Bass, Electric Bass Pavel Fajt - Drums, Live-Electronics
-Man, I love these guys first thing in the morning. Been revisiting this album lately, might be my favorite. The way those strings imitate the fall of rising sunlight across a room, giving both warmth and the reminder that darkness is only temporary, damn, gets me every time.
I saw her play a couple of months back along with my Wife; we're both friended up with Mia now on Facebook. Great player and is introducing me to more European Improv talent.
Blackest Ever Black presents a new vinyl edition of Af Ursin’s 2005 masterpiece Aura Legato, and its first outings on CD and digital formats.
Af Ursin is the alter ego of Finnish autodidact composer/improviser Timo van Luijk. He began his musical activities in the mid-1980s, co-founding the Noise-Maker’s Fifes collective with Geert Feytons in ’89. During the ’90s he developed his solo work under the name Af Ursin, before establishing his private press, La Scie Dorée, in 2001. It continues to act as the main platform for his own music, including regular collaborations with Christoph Heeman (as In Camera) and Andrew Chalk (as Elodie), while his other label, Metaphon (run with Marc Wroblewski and Greg Jacobs), is focussed on archival presentations from the likes of Michael Ranta, Joris de Laet, and IPEM.
Van Luijk’s work is rooted in the use of acoustic instruments (wind, percussion, strings), but his special sensitivity to the timbral qualities of each instrument, and his deft blurring of them, results in a sound-world that is mysterious, amorphous and hallucinatory, full of suggestive shadows, creaks and whispers. Informed by years of intensive listening to various types of free music, exploratory drug use and especially the “irregular organic forms” of the Belgian countryside where he resides, van Luijk’s process begins always with pure improvisation: music played in an intuitive, sensual way, without the employment of conscious technique. He performs and overdubs each instrumental component himself, and out of this process micro-structures and loose arrangements emerge: the piece becomes an improvised composition. Over time he has evolved his own richly poetic musical language, full of allusions to drone, acid folk, classical, Musique concrète and jazz, but beholden to none.
Originally released on La Scie Doree in 2005, in an edition of 350 copies, Aura Legato is one of van Luijk’s darker and more acutely psychedelic offerings. It’s a work of profound interiority, but one that also conjures images of old Europe and fin-de-siècle decadence – dabblings in Thelema, the fog of the opium-den – and has earned telling, if inadequate, comparisons to Third Ear Band, Nurse With Wound, Mirror and HNAS. Fully remastered by Noel Summerville, the album has never sounded better, and our vinyl edition replicates the original’s ornate presentation: sleeve die-cut in the style of a 78rpm record, with gold detailing and individually hand-glued labels. Due to be released in May 2016, we urge you to acquaint yourself with what is, unmistakeably, a modern classic.
The LP, which includes a coupon to download the full release, and CD are both available to pre-order now ahead of release on April 29, 2016. Visit our website for more details
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Ein Schemen by Yannis Kyriakides - a recomposition of Ein Deutsches Requiem of Johannes Brahms . Nederlands Kamerkoor and Remy van Kesteren(harp), under the direction of Peter Dijkstra. Live recording from Hertz, Tivoli-Vredenburg, Utrecht. Recorded by Wijnand de Groot (21st May 2017)
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Oskar Fischinger's 117th birthday in the Google Doodle.
Play with this. It’s additive. Check out the “modify” button on the bottom.
Vidna Obmana, Thom Brennan, Steve Roach - Amplexus
Aix Em Klemm - s/t
NP:
Badly Drawn Boy - "One Plus One Is One"
-Revisiting this dude. Forgot how much I enjoyed his earlier albums, especially this one.
Now up:
Chihei Hatakeyama - "Mirage"
-I'm liking it okay, but I think some ears around these parts might really take to this recording.
https://kranky.bandcamp.com/
Speaking of which, now playing:
Justin Walter - "Unseen Forces"
On Bandcamp - https://justinwalter.bandcamp.com/album/unseen-forces-2
Np: Steve Earl - Transcendental Blues
(Track 2)
Don't remember who recommended it, but well done whoever you are. NYOP
4.5 stars/eureka! At tmt. Modern global underground club music. Nyop:
https://clubchai.bandcamp.com/
MIA ZABELKA TRIO:
Mia Zabelka - Electric Violin, Voice, Live-Electronics
Johannes Frisch - Double Bass, Electric Bass
Pavel Fajt - Drums, Live-Electronics
Alvin Curran - Pauline Oliveros - Mia Zabelka
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - "Atomos"
-Man, I love these guys first thing in the morning. Been revisiting this album lately, might be my favorite. The way those strings imitate the fall of rising sunlight across a room, giving both warmth and the reminder that darkness is only temporary, damn, gets me every time.
Blackest Ever Black presents a new vinyl edition of Af Ursin’s 2005 masterpiece Aura Legato, and its first outings on CD and digital formats.
Af Ursin is the alter ego of Finnish autodidact composer/improviser Timo van Luijk. He began his musical activities in the mid-1980s, co-founding the Noise-Maker’s Fifes collective with Geert Feytons in ’89. During the ’90s he developed his solo work under the name Af Ursin, before establishing his private press, La Scie Dorée, in 2001. It continues to act as the main platform for his own music, including regular collaborations with Christoph Heeman (as In Camera) and Andrew Chalk (as Elodie), while his other label, Metaphon (run with Marc Wroblewski and Greg Jacobs), is focussed on archival presentations from the likes of Michael Ranta, Joris de Laet, and IPEM.
Van Luijk’s work is rooted in the use of acoustic instruments (wind, percussion, strings), but his special sensitivity to the timbral qualities of each instrument, and his deft blurring of them, results in a sound-world that is mysterious, amorphous and hallucinatory, full of suggestive shadows, creaks and whispers. Informed by years of intensive listening to various types of free music, exploratory drug use and especially the “irregular organic forms” of the Belgian countryside where he resides, van Luijk’s process begins always with pure improvisation: music played in an intuitive, sensual way, without the employment of conscious technique. He performs and overdubs each instrumental component himself, and out of this process micro-structures and loose arrangements emerge: the piece becomes an improvised composition. Over time he has evolved his own richly poetic musical language, full of allusions to drone, acid folk, classical, Musique concrète and jazz, but beholden to none.
Originally released on La Scie Doree in 2005, in an edition of 350 copies, Aura Legato is one of van Luijk’s darker and more acutely psychedelic offerings. It’s a work of profound interiority, but one that also conjures images of old Europe and fin-de-siècle decadence – dabblings in Thelema, the fog of the opium-den – and has earned telling, if inadequate, comparisons to Third Ear Band, Nurse With Wound, Mirror and HNAS. Fully remastered by Noel Summerville, the album has never sounded better, and our vinyl edition replicates the original’s ornate presentation: sleeve die-cut in the style of a 78rpm record, with gold detailing and individually hand-glued labels. Due to be released in May 2016, we urge you to acquaint yourself with what is, unmistakeably, a modern classic.
The LP, which includes a coupon to download the full release, and CD are both available to pre-order now ahead of release on April 29, 2016. Visit our website for more details
Just recorded in real time what I was doing.