You know how some electronic dance tracks have that kind of moody, tense build up before erupting into high energy? This album sounds like that build up stretched to album length and never actually arriving at the eruption. It sounds the whole time as if something dramatic is about to happen and it never does. That's what makes it great, I am enjoying it a lot.
"... like peeping in someone's window at night, this album turns the
listener into a voyeur. The tales of desire and loss swim in an
imaginative bed of swirling electronics. Unique and Powerful."
extract from John Cage's 'Two2' (1989) for two pianos, played by Philip
Thomas and Mark Knoop. Unusually for Cage's number pieces, the duration
of the piece is undetermined, dependent on the 'inner clock' of the
interpreters. This realisation from 2017 is the longest yet performed,
lasting 128 minutes, the slow pacing bringing out new resonances from
the work.
extract from 'tse #3' by the
trio of Cyril Bondi (harmonium & pitch pipes), Pierre-Yves Martel
(viola da gamba) and Christoph Schiller (spinet), from the CD 'tse'
(2018) The pieces on the CD are improvised around the basis of a
pre-agreed sequence of pitches.
Quoting the accurate Amazon description, "The cream of the legendary French label BYG Actuel's catalogue. Collecting recordings from 1969-1971 and comprising the best of its improvised jazz, avant garde and psychedelic output. The set features Don Cherry, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp, Gong, Sunny Murray, Art Ensemble of Chicago and more."
Just received after ordering from an Ominvore records sale (60% off). Are people interested in hearing about sales like this on physical recordings (there's a big sale or mis-price on the new Buffalo Springfield set at Wal-Mart.com - the $119 or so MSRP is on sale of $64.25).
Slam poet Marc Smith is an excellent person to follow on Bandcamp. Latest discovery:
"Finis Africæ (or Finis Africae)". Words redolent of mystery and myth, of Europe looking out to new lands, new worlds, new times. And so it is with A Last Discovery, the work of Spaniard Juan Alberto Arteche Guel and his musical co-adventurers, recorded between 1984 and 2001. After fifteen years of musical success in Spain with his band Nuestro Pequeño Mundo, Arteche was ready to experiment with new ideas, and with the purchase of a four-track reel-to-reel recorder he did so, exploring imaginary global music-worlds with a core of like-minded explorers. The group, dubbed "Finis Africæ" by JAA after reading Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, where the term refers to forbidden books and hidden knowledge, released seven recordings over an eighteen-year period, the best of which are compiled here.
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2012 2012
2013... 2013
new album, short and sweet but great songs
Unexpected trio from 2007. Hornsby has a very nice piano "voice"
One Night with Blue Note Preserved Vol 2
Just picked this up for a dollar on CD.
Another new album from Van the Man. This one is really good, if you like jazz organ.
2013 2014
2015 x Trompetre -(Petrică Ionuțescu) 2016
released October 20, 2017
2016 2017 Ewan Hofmann
Bandcamp- feat. Makunouchi Bento
2017 2017
2017 2017
2001 RIDMA - (Adapt, Makunouchi Bento)
Jebel Chamber Orchestra - (Felix Petrescu, Valentin Toma, Patrick Sheng, Ricemutt, Justin Lazarus)
2008 2012 Bandcamp
Long John Baldry, might mix some Leon Russell in next
Martin Nonstatic - Ligand
You know how some electronic dance tracks have that kind of moody, tense build up before erupting into high energy? This album sounds like that build up stretched to album length and never actually arriving at the eruption. It sounds the whole time as if something dramatic is about to happen and it never does. That's what makes it great, I am enjoying it a lot.
https://bobuck.bandcamp.com/album/hardy-fox
So very charming . . .
2005 2008 Silent Strike, Lucian Ban, Alex Harding
2012 2013
extract from John Cage's 'Two2' (1989) for two pianos, played by Philip Thomas and Mark Knoop. Unusually for Cage's number pieces, the duration of the piece is undetermined, dependent on the 'inner clock' of the interpreters. This realisation from 2017 is the longest yet performed, lasting 128 minutes, the slow pacing bringing out new resonances from the work.
extract from 'tse #3' by the trio of Cyril Bondi (harmonium & pitch pipes), Pierre-Yves Martel (viola da gamba) and Christoph Schiller (spinet), from the CD 'tse' (2018) The pieces on the CD are improvised around the basis of a pre-agreed sequence of pitches.
http://www.anothertimbre.com/
https://www.emusic.com/album/1568011/Various-Artists/Jazzactuel
Quoting the accurate Amazon description, "The cream of the legendary French label BYG Actuel's catalogue. Collecting recordings from 1969-1971 and comprising the best of its improvised jazz, avant garde and psychedelic output. The set features Don Cherry, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp, Gong, Sunny Murray, Art Ensemble of Chicago and more."
3 hours 43 minutes of excellent music for $6.99
Just received after ordering from an Ominvore records sale (60% off). Are people interested in hearing about sales like this on physical recordings (there's a big sale or mis-price on the new Buffalo Springfield set at Wal-Mart.com - the $119 or so MSRP is on sale of $64.25).
2012 2014
2015
2008 Daniel Dorobantu 2010 Thy Veils - Bandcamp
2010 2013
1991 Just Say Yes To Another Excess 1991 IRS Greatest Hips (Vol. 4)
1998 Rykodisc 15th Anniversary Sampler 1987 The Enigma Variations 2
"Finis Africæ (or Finis Africae)". Words redolent of mystery and myth, of Europe looking out to new lands, new worlds, new times. And so it is with A Last Discovery, the work of Spaniard Juan Alberto Arteche Guel and his musical co-adventurers, recorded between 1984 and 2001. After fifteen years of musical success in Spain with his band Nuestro Pequeño Mundo, Arteche was ready to experiment with new ideas, and with the purchase of a four-track reel-to-reel recorder he did so, exploring imaginary global music-worlds with a core of like-minded explorers. The group, dubbed "Finis Africæ" by JAA after reading Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, where the term refers to forbidden books and hidden knowledge, released seven recordings over an eighteen-year period, the best of which are compiled here.
ART ZOYD BERLIN 1986
ART ZOYD - 19 Sept 2015 - Rock in Opposition
I still regret I didn't go to the show in Copenhagen where they were playing live to Murnau's silent movie from 1922.