"Kirschner’s title, Compressions & Rarefactions, refers most directly to the physics of sound: the pressure waves in air that are the physical component underlying what we perceive as sound. This concept finds an evocative parallel in the art by Johnson, whose work is about visualizing the imperceptibly tiny physical phenomena that make up everything around us. The title can also be related to the compositions themselves: this is music that alternates between extreme density and extreme sparsity, using those contrasts as a major expressive element as they alternate like waves of pressure and absence in air. Finally, the title also evokes the very long durations of several of the pieces on the album, including two that stretch to over two hours in length."
Good listening over at the HighNote-Savant Soundcloud page...where I learn there is another new album coming up from George Cables, this time playing his own tunes
- from the album 'monument builders' available 11/11
Jemh Circs- ST
Cellule 75 is a new label set up by Black To Comm's Marc Richter to
release BTC-related music and and a few select retrospective issues.
First release is the debut LP by his somewhat arcane Jemh Circs alias,
primarily working with voice samples culled from YouTube videos of
modern-day Pop Music and the odd avantgarde curiosity, crafting
seemingly simple loops and samples into minimal yet haunting songs,
tunes, miniatures……
Compared to his previous outings this is a more digital and artificial
sounding affair (even when working with the human voice) while still
retainining the spectral melodic quality he is known for.
I succumbed. Disk 9. (50 cents per disk is a pretty good deal)
I followed your link to eMusic and discovered I had already purchased the set, but never added it to my library. I think was when iTunes match was only 25k songs and I didn't have the room for 93 tracks. Edit: Last.FM informs me I listened to this album in 2013.
I now have ten hours of minimal piano to catch up on!
With these big box sets I always wish each disk had its own cover art. Sometimes I find time to make cover art, if for no other reason than when browsing a list of albums on a pocket device seeing a row of identical looking albums with identically truncated text titles makes it very hard to identify which is which.
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The Wire, september 2016:
Monotype Records have given us a sneak listen to three tracks from the label’s forthcoming release Carp's Head:
Takahiro Kido - "The New World"
It was a dark and stormy morning....
ps- $2.45 in Canada - the marathon begins
Old favorite collection. Amazon reviewer notes that the lead singer on the first track is Sam Cooke:
ETA Just listen to this - Staples Singers, "Uncloudy Day":
Christophe Panzani - "Les Âmes Perdues"
On Bandcamp - https://jazzandpeople.bandcamp.com/album/christophe-panzani-les-ames-perdues-piano-duets
An Introduction to Vladimir Tarnopolski
Trichotomy & Topology - "Healthy"
On Bandcamp - https://trichotomy.bandcamp.com/album/healthy
For those who do not recognise the cover: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
- Emusers writeup
(thanks rostasi) (for the post in the bandcamp thread that lead me to this label)
- from the album 'monument builders' available 11/11
Jemh Circs- ST
Reactions so far:
Hmm, interesting.
Er, no.
Hmmm. We'll see.
Mandolin Orange, Blindfaller. On the Civil Wars side of the ledger, enjoyable folk set featuring Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz.
Keith Hudson - Pick a Dub
I succumbed. Disk 9.
(50 cents per disk is a pretty good deal)
In playlist: A Certain Ratio (4 track sampler)
- Two more just in:
ETA: a big WOW to both of them . . .
I followed your link to eMusic and discovered I had already purchased the set, but never added it to my library. I think was when iTunes match was only 25k songs and I didn't have the room for 93 tracks. Edit: Last.FM informs me I listened to this album in 2013.
I now have ten hours of minimal piano to catch up on!
It appears I was on Disk 8 before. Disk 9 now. I really like the live-multitracked-piano version of In C on here.
Available at Internet Archive, among other places: https://archive.org/details/PuceMary-2016TheSpiral
With these big box sets I always wish each disk had its own cover art. Sometimes I find time to make cover art, if for no other reason than when browsing a list of albums on a pocket device seeing a row of identical looking albums with identically truncated text titles makes it very hard to identify which is which.
Koen Holtkamp - Liquid Light Forms