@rostasi Heh ! - Maybe it should have been careful with that rake - I really enjoyed his Jack and Jim shows (with the late Jimmy Carl Black) back in the days when I lived in Copenhagen.
An Expensive Vase is the first of several scheduled albums by Media Them at Recycled Plastics. The sound of Media Them is a unique blend of warm atmospherics and organic rhythms - electronic music reduced to the simplest of loops, repeating infinitely. It is both minimalist and maximalist at once, as Media Them's composition lies not in the makeup of these loops, but rather, the size of the window we're glimpsing them through. Small breaths of melody, heart flutters of bass, snare and hi hat and the coziest bedroom production give way to expanding universes of color and sonic exploration without end. Did that sound just repeat one more time than it did before? Was that other sound even playing since the start of the track? Media Them beckons you to refocus your ears and get lost in a beautiful hypnosis of music and mind.
Titled Translations of Opacity - For Michelangelo Antonioni, the collection features twenty-three understated tracks made in homage to the late Italian director. The artists are largely unfamiliar (with some notable exceptions, of course), but there is a lot of wonderful work here. Ethereal, yet concrète — perfect listening for a cold evening.
Picked this up the other day - another Bach Guild big box, a mountain of music for 99 cents. I have no ragtime in my collection (and do not really expect to listen to it a lot) so it seemed like a cheap education.
Question: is anyone on here knowledgable about ragtime recordings? The ones I have listened to so far sound as if they were elegantly played in a concert hall. You know like when negro spirituals get turned into classical music and sung in the recital hall and suddenly their original spirit seems lost in strained refinement? It's the same thing here, I suspect (without being at all knowledgeable about what they were supposed to sound like). Many of the tunes sound as if they were meant to be rollicking; here they drip with careful elegance. They all sound like they need a beer, as if the joy has been starched, and I can only picture people in wigs nodding along in drawing rooms.
Are there good Scott Joplin albums that sound more like people are having fun?
I've had this recording for 40 years. There are CD distillations of that big set available. I think you're looking for "liveliness" over authenticity, so you may want to consider Zimmerman's versions instead of Hyman's. The complete works from Zimm. are cheap and you can hear them beginning at this YouTube link. The somewhat "stately" nature of ragtime was part of the "respectable Negro" music of its day (Joplin wanted his rags to be played this way) and so anything more "rollicking" was usually channeled thru "boogie-woogie" which means that you may want to explore more in the area of Jelly Roll Morton and this excellent collection.
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@cafreema Thanks. The Björk comparison makes graphical sense. Music is interesting.
- releases September 30, 2016 on Cantaloupe
Followed by this gorgeous album:
Careful With That Axe, Eugene !
Careful With That Axe, Eugene !
Dag Rosenqvist - The Forest Diaries
- I really enjoyed his Jack and Jim shows (with the late Jimmy Carl Black) back in the days when I lived in Copenhagen.
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Left Handed Dream
Kangding ray - Automne Fold
Various artists
Or a warm afternoon.
Welcome back Greg, more shoegaze for me
Late Night with Kamasi Washington - BBC Prom Concert
Picked this up the other day - another Bach Guild big box, a mountain of music for 99 cents. I have no ragtime in my collection (and do not really expect to listen to it a lot) so it seemed like a cheap education.
Question: is anyone on here knowledgable about ragtime recordings? The ones I have listened to so far sound as if they were elegantly played in a concert hall. You know like when negro spirituals get turned into classical music and sung in the recital hall and suddenly their original spirit seems lost in strained refinement? It's the same thing here, I suspect (without being at all knowledgeable about what they were supposed to sound like). Many of the tunes sound as if they were meant to be rollicking; here they drip with careful elegance. They all sound like they need a beer, as if the joy has been starched, and I can only picture people in wigs nodding along in drawing rooms.
Are there good Scott Joplin albums that sound more like people are having fun?
I think you're looking for "liveliness" over authenticity, so you may want to consider
Zimmerman's versions instead of Hyman's. The complete works from Zimm. are cheap and you can hear them beginning at this YouTube link. The somewhat "stately" nature of ragtime was part of the "respectable Negro" music of its day (Joplin wanted his rags to be played this way) and so anything more "rollicking" was usually channeled thru "boogie-woogie" which means that you may want to explore more in the area of Jelly Roll Morton and this excellent collection.