OK, but it is important to note that Kirby himself doesn't have dementia - only his fictitious "The Caretaker" has it - which I think is a wonderful conceptual art project with a strong statement.
"...However, Kirby himself has not been diagnosed with dementia, he clarified in an email to Pitchfork. “The Caretaker” has dementia, not him. “I have given the project dementia,” he wrote. “It's a fitting epitaph for a finite series of works which has always dealt with memory. There shouldn't be any confusion and it's not intentional if there is any.”
I Don't know Stand By but the above is a great album. Have you heard any Urban Sax? 1 and 2 usually come well recommended.
Well, it sure is and no I've not, but it's now on page 1 of the SFL so I'll look forward to getting it at some point. Thanks for the tip. Meanwhile, still catching up from the SFL... Erik Wøllo & Bernhard Wöstheinrich - Weltenuhr (2014) Bandcamp Pushing the boundaries of ambient electronica there is a strong vocal presence to the album with a beautiful, haunting female voice on the opener Gales as well as the albums title track. These pieces complement the other fully instrumental tracks which range from the pounding beat driven Subgiants to the ethereal Echoes Of Parlours. Bernhard’s inventive textural rhythms provide the perfect backdrop for Wøllo’s soaring E-bow guitar melodies on tracks such as Oculus and Denser World.
also- as I was making this up this post, Matt Elliott's track The Pain That's Yet to Come came up on the rotation and had me seeing visions of Dan Hicks doing I Scare Myself. Spooky! Now on to Weltenuhr
ps- I just wanted to mention how much I've enjoyed this listen, covers quite a few spots.
2016 Bandcamp Earth Luminous stirs the memory on an outing through luminescent electronic ambient music where the ethereal is anchored and activated by steady, tactile frame drums and percussive patterns. Byron’s tight-to-the-grid substratum pulse serves as a conduit to Erik’s lush, emotive and expansive atmospheres. Together, the two sonic explorers find a meeting place where vapor trails and glowing man-made cityscapes reveal that we, the modern humans, are the ones who bring into existence the enlightened earth: our explorations illuminate to bring cascading insight.
I read an interview with him just the other day, dang if I can remember where [research reveals it was The Quietus]. He's fine, lives in Poland and relaxes with a good game of darts. He's just killing off the Caretaker persona, only it's going to take several years and lots of releases.
I Don't know Stand By but the above is a great album. Have you heard any Urban Sax? 1 and 2 usually come well recommended.
Well, it sure is and no I've not, but it's now on page 1 of the SFL so I'll look forward to getting it at some point. Thanks for the tip. Meanwhile, still catching up from the SFL...
I couldn't find a downloadable version of this one so I had to wait until I had streaming access and now I'm not sure if I'll get the whole thing in tonight but at least I'm still more or less on schedule. Plus it's nice to listen to a soundboard recording for a change. Sounds good!
@Germanprof "(Trying to sleep on the floor in Minneapolis airport)"
That seems like a poor decision. We do have an extra bed about 15 minutes from MSP.
Craig
Thanks, I did think of you and wonder if there was hope, but I was with two colleagues, was pessimistic about you reading this board after 9:30p.m, and did not know exactly where you lived. We had reached MSP on time but circled above it for an hour in storm clouds, quite a rough ride, then landed two minutes before our connection left. There was not a hotel or rental car to be had within 30 miles that we could find online. So we ended up finding the corner furthest from the TV screens and napping until our early morning flight. It was good for cameraderie at least. I'm sure plenty of people in the world slept in worse conditions that night.
@Germanprof Yeah, the weather here was pretty brutal that night. Pretty massive flooding just north of MSP proper. At our house in St. Paul, though it was pretty much just strobe lightning.
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http://brainwashed.com/vvm/
Everywhere at the end of time
by The Caretaker
"...However, Kirby himself has not been diagnosed with dementia, he clarified in an email to Pitchfork. “The Caretaker” has dementia, not him. “I have given the project dementia,” he wrote. “It's a fitting epitaph for a finite series of works which has always dealt with memory. There shouldn't be any confusion and it's not intentional if there is any.”
Erik Wøllo & Bernhard Wöstheinrich - Weltenuhr (2014)
Bandcamp
Pushing the boundaries of ambient electronica there is a strong vocal presence to the album with a beautiful, haunting female voice on the opener Gales as well as the albums title track. These pieces complement the other fully instrumental tracks which range from the pounding beat driven Subgiants to the ethereal Echoes Of Parlours. Bernhard’s inventive textural rhythms provide the perfect backdrop for Wøllo’s soaring E-bow guitar melodies on tracks such as Oculus and Denser World.
also- as I was making this up this post, Matt Elliott's track The Pain That's Yet to Come came up on the rotation and had me seeing visions of Dan Hicks doing I Scare Myself. Spooky!
Now on to Weltenuhr
ps- I just wanted to mention how much I've enjoyed this listen, covers quite a few spots.
2016
Bandcamp
Earth Luminous stirs the memory on an outing through luminescent electronic ambient music where the ethereal is anchored and activated by steady, tactile frame drums and percussive patterns. Byron’s tight-to-the-grid substratum pulse serves as a conduit to Erik’s lush, emotive and expansive atmospheres. Together, the two sonic explorers find a meeting place where vapor trails and glowing man-made cityscapes reveal that we, the modern humans, are the ones who bring into existence the enlightened earth: our explorations illuminate to bring cascading insight.
Dirty Projectors + Björk
It is 1976 where I am - Not sure if I'm coming back...
eta, an informative discussion of this set on the Organissimo board: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/54442-wildflowers-loft-jazz-new-york-1976/
Another great Compass Point album
From the great Clifford Jordan box set of a couple years ago.
From the great Clifford Jordan box set of a couple years ago.
As Strong As Death Is
by Maurizio Bianchi + Ryan Martin
http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/cages-more-than-ten-thousand-things/
I couldn't find a downloadable version of this one so I had to wait until I had streaming access and now I'm not sure if I'll get the whole thing in tonight but at least I'm still more or less on schedule. Plus it's nice to listen to a soundboard recording for a change. Sounds good!
We had reached MSP on time but circled above it for an hour in storm clouds, quite a rough ride, then landed two minutes before our connection left. There was not a hotel or rental car to be had within 30 miles that we could find online. So we ended up finding the corner furthest from the TV screens and napping until our early morning flight. It was good for cameraderie at least. I'm sure plenty of people in the world slept in worse conditions that night.
Much of this is his rendition of tracks by the three Kings of the Blues - B.B., Albert and Freddie
Craig