It’s starting to get hard even for me to pick something to buy at emu anymore! So I ended up with something I’ve had on a back burner since pretty much my first couple of months at emu. I’m enjoying it though.
I emptied my SFL (what was left of it that was still available) a couple of weeks ago and went on 90 day hold. I am thinking it might be permanent. They have tempted me back before but that was when there was a catalogue that contained things I wanted.
Gentle Giant 1973 - Octopus Finally getting to this. As I recall, a most enjoyable listen. Thanks to @peterfrederics for pointing it out. Ps - It was, with a bonus live track from '76 added in.
There is one particular track I really like Abusey Junction by Kokoroko. They are an Afrobeat/jazz band based in London. Many of their members have a Nigerian background. So far this is their own track released, although an album is due soon. If the link doen't work, try this YouTube clip
Kokoroko’s Abusey Junction is likely to be the softest and beautiful thing you’re going to hear in 2018. It is at the end of the day only an instrumental, only an Afrobeat instrumental – but it is a monumental instrumental – a monstrumental! It is at the same time soothing and emotional, it is like that feeling you get towards the end of a good cry. Sadness and warmth combined. It is the gentle beats of the percussion that soothe. It is the plucking of the guitar strings that pull on your heart ones. In this way it is reminiscent of ‘Mediterranean Sundance’. Its long, but it deserves to be long in the same way that Fat Freddy’s Drop ‘Hope for a Generation’, Sebastien Letellier’s ‘La Ritournelle’ and The Hot 8 Brass Band’s ‘Sexual Healing’ deserve to be long. After all if you’re going to have a cry, get it all out eh?
Other tracks on video are here and here. This last one is a 40 minute live performance outside the V and A Museum in London. I look forward to their first album
Like the wings Daedalus crafted for his son Icarus, John Gilbert
Colman’s score for sampler, voice and chamber orchestra almost melted
away completely, disappearing into the tides of time. The album
originally served as the score to an avant-garde production of the Greek
myth that toured the Belgian theatre circuit in 1986. Director Guy
Cassiers cast the play with 45 developmentally disabled actors enrolled
at the Krauwelenhof school in Antwerp, working for six months with the
young actors (aged 12-17) to discover and develop their talents,
creating (by all accounts) a deeply moving piece of visual theatre.
Rather than using dialogue, Cassier used movement, costumes and music
tell the fable, words were only present as text fragments within the
score, spoken by members of the chorus or sung by Rolande van Der Paal.
Colman’s compositions elevate the experimental narrative with broad
shifts in mood, utilizing a pop-concrète style by incorporating sampled
squeaking balloons, environmental recordings, tuned percussion, drum
computer, and voice to accompany the traditional small chamber
instrumentation. The music is reminiscent of other avant-theatrical
pieces from that era by Nuno Canavarro, Milesi & Bacalov, Todd
Barton, Vito Ricci and Roberto Musci, while standing on its own as a
unique and moving piece of minimal music. Remastered DMM pressing.
- Five track, 17:36 minutes playlist link . . . and really excellent !
Comments
2004 - Venice 2008 - Black Sea
2010 On (Steven Hess, Sylvain Chauveau) 2010 Fennesz, Daniell, Buck
- Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not - Knoxville
- Mixed by Fennesz
2010 - In Stereo 2010 - Live In Japan Part One
2010 - Live In Japan Part Two Recorded 2010 - In Hell
NP: Benoit Pioulard - Sonnet
2012 - On Invisible Pause 2014 - Bécs
2014 - Mahler Remix 2018 - Station One
It's more singer-songwriter Elvis. My second time through - it's good , but no early, angry Elvis (but what does one expect at his age?).
1973 - Octopus
Finally getting to this. As I recall, a most enjoyable listen.
Thanks to @peterfrederics for pointing it out.
Ps - It was, with a bonus live track from '76 added in.
2000 - Toad Of Titicaca 2002 - Fishin' In The Muddy
2000 Tribute To Blaze Foley
- Blaze Foley Inside: BFI Three
GAS
1996 - 2000 - Nah Und Fern 2017 - Narkopop
2018 - Rausch
Spiritualized - Amazing Grace
followed by
Zero7- When it falls
Could not Did not resist picking up something in the Nonesuch 50% sale - Still going on this morning, I believe
ETA, that's pretty swell:
2007 - I Put A Record On 2008 - Apples, Pears And Deer In Poland EP
2012 - Wildlife 2013 - Going Up The Country / Tiger
2017 Myra Davies / Beate Bartel / Gudrun Gut
- "Sirens"
There is one particular track I really like Abusey Junction by Kokoroko. They are an Afrobeat/jazz band based in London. Many of their members have a Nigerian background. So far this is their own track released, although an album is due soon. If the link doen't work, try this YouTube clip
This review sums them up for me:
Other tracks on video are here and here. This last one is a 40 minute live performance outside the V and A Museum in London. I look forward to their first album
- Five track, 17:36 minutes playlist link . . . and really excellent !
Emusic
1962 Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones 1962 - Takin' Off
1963 - My Point Of View 1964 - Empyrean Isles