This is in the Harmonia Mundi Sacred Music box (fast turning into the best $40 I ever spent on music), disks 13 and 14. Not only is it very good overall, but some of the individual pieces in it are startlingly good. Andreas Scholl's "He was despised and rejected of men" felt like hearing the piece for the first time. Just remarkable.
We listen to the Messiah every year at Christmas, and I like it, some bits more than others, but it is not a work I have tended to seek out just for regularly listening. This version somehow lit it up for me in a whole new way. (This review states some of the reasons with more knowledge than I have; I think the review is spot on in everything it says.)
What a gift. (If you need a Messiah set, these disks as a standalone are about $6 on Amazon marketplace). (ETA or even $2 here.)
The Ape Of Naples is Coil's highly celebrated final album completed by
Peter Christopherson following the tragic death of Jhonn Balance in
2004. Often noted for being a fan favorite, The Ape Of Naples uses
Balance's final recordings and material recorded at Trent Reznor's
studio in New Orleans to create a deep, heavy masterpiece.
Eleh's influential Radiant Intervals I, originally released on CD/LP in
2010, is a meticulously nuanced, restrained exploration of the rhythmic
and harmonic relationships inherent in pure analog frequencies using a
blend of intuitive and mathematically based tunings. Dense patterns of
sound slowly unravel and are woven together again in new ways while
harmonics hover and shift overhead. Radiant Intervals is a purely analog
recording, made with a Serge Modular system, Mini Moog, Sequential
Circuits Prophet 5 and a Pro-One.
On the fifteenth anniversary of its release, Ghostly International is
reissuing Telefon Tel Aviv's debut album 'Fahrenheit Fair Enough' with a
vinyl edition and bonus digital material.
- "Vergers is Davachi's third full-length release following
Barons Court (2015, Students of Decay) and Dominions (2016, JAZ
Records), and her second appearance with Important Records following
2014's August Harp cassette on the Cassauna imprint.
In this work,
she meditates on a single electronic instrument, the EMS Synthi 100
synthesizer, while also weaving sparse acoustic elements – her own voice
and violin – into a series of three long-form, muted gestures.
Elements
of distance and alienation are certainly at play in the textural
quality of these compositions, a feeling that is further defined by
track titles that reference the spirit world and an album title that
calls to mind the solitary tasks of the church orderly.
The record
opens with the aptly titled, Gentle So Gentle, a side-long movement
that harkens the glacial character of Davachi's previous efforts. Ghosts
And All and In Staying suggest a more disjointed path, with the latter
culminating in a subtly dissonant dirge that leaves little absolve
between the organic, the artificial, and the impermanent."
Comments
This is in the Harmonia Mundi Sacred Music box (fast turning into the best $40 I ever spent on music), disks 13 and 14. Not only is it very good overall, but some of the individual pieces in it are startlingly good. Andreas Scholl's "He was despised and rejected of men" felt like hearing the piece for the first time. Just remarkable.
We listen to the Messiah every year at Christmas, and I like it, some bits more than others, but it is not a work I have tended to seek out just for regularly listening. This version somehow lit it up for me in a whole new way. (This review states some of the reasons with more knowledge than I have; I think the review is spot on in everything it says.)
What a gift. (If you need a Messiah set, these disks as a standalone are about $6 on Amazon marketplace). (ETA or even $2 here.)
Live Prog/Jazz from the mid-70s. I think I am getting a contact high...
Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia
Quasim Naqvi - Chronology
http://www.importantrecords.com/
http://ghostly.com/releases/fahrenheit-fair-enough
We just keep losing them.
What a crappy year this has been in soooooo many ways.
Ian Boddy - As Above, So Below
New out on DiN, and rather a new sound for Boddy.
RIP Mose Allison
Best of Bandcamp Jazz: October 2016
- written by our very own @jonahpwllAnd:
http://trailrecords.us/index.php
https://localnews1.bandcamp.com/album/channel-8
Thanks, @Doofy, @Brighternow, @jonahpwll
Listening now to it (and enjoying it!)
I'm also just catching up with this recent Marc Ribot project that Mary is part of...A "punk funk" quartet + string section, playing Philly soul songs
NP:
Francesco Chiapperini's InSight - "Paradigm Shift"
Very excited to hear about a new Winged-Sullen album.
NP:
Francesco Chiapperini's InSight - "Paradigm Shift"