Really enjoying this. I have a definite soft spot for the kind of minimalist release that plays an interesting sound and lets it hang in the air before playing the next one. This one does it really well. Great price at Boomkat.
Good to see you back amc2! I was thinking about what to play, so thanks for the reminder. I've not played this since before I upgraded my computer two and a half years ago, so time to play again
Luca Sigurtà is an electronic composer since the early 2000s: a great stride in his compelling and very personal musical
journey. Luca's
emotional electronic noise has become part of a mix together with slow
paced rhythms and analogue synth delicate flows: a sort of very original
trip-noise-hop; melodies with a remarkable melancholic feel and beautiful digital/analog sound
“Revelations of the Flowermind” by Solid Sun. Obscure but great Progressive Rock album that sounds if it so easily could have been made in the late 60s or early 70s but in fact was released in 2015. Try the track “Distance” first - outstanding!
And it’s still on eMusic - 4 tracks lasting over 27 minutes for 99 cents.
in fact it’s so good that it has motivated me to set up a new discussion topic “Great Progressive Rock on eMusic”!
"During the past decade, a number of free music players in Japan have fiercely, with no compromise, continued to grapple with the questions that lay at the heart of the solo saxophone recital: how to tease and tear new formations out of the interface between human breath, human flesh and skeleton, and the instrument itself, its keys, holes, pads, reed, and brass body. With Free Wind Mood, An’archives splits one vinyl record down the middle, giving a side each to two of the most rigorous, exciting, and committed players from the scene: Harutaka Mochizuki and Makoto Kawashima. While there are elements of their playing that places them in a history of Japanese free blowing, from Kaoru Abe through Masayoshi Urabe to now, they both have a singular voice: Harutaka more stringent and tart, Kawashima, perhaps, more melancholy. Tellingly, they’ve both intersected with rock music and free sound ensembles, with Kawashima working alongside Nishizawa Naoto of EXIAS-J (Experimental Improvisers’ Association of Japan), while Harutaka has worked in a duo Tomoyuki Aoki of psych-rock group Up-Tight, and guitarist Kondo Hideaki (also of EXIAS-J). But both of them have made their most massive strides forward with their own solo releases, Kawashima’s potent Homo Sacer one of the final releases on PSF, and Harutaka’s Pas LP and Through The Glass CD exploring new terrain for the nexus of breath and brass. Moving on from those releases, Free Wind Mood is a devastating listening experience, blood and guts on the floor as the players fully inhabit the architecture of the space, and of the self, and play like their lives depend on it." Jon Dale
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by OLIVIER ALARY
Sarah Belle Reid: trumpet, flugelhorn, electronics
Ben Richter: just intonation V-accordion
The Wild Beast, CalArts
April 16, 2019
the gesture of history
by Sam Rosenthal with Nick Shadow and Steve Roach
NYOP
by MASAYA KATO
1998 La Selva 2010 Untitled #244
2011 Untitled [2009] 2012 Untitled #284
Good to see you back amc2! I was thinking about what to play, so thanks for the reminder. I've not played this since before I upgraded my computer two and a half years ago, so time to play again
Amazing album, remastered and sounds wonderful
And it’s still on eMusic - 4 tracks lasting over 27 minutes for 99 cents.
in fact it’s so good that it has motivated me to set up a new discussion topic “Great Progressive Rock on eMusic”!
https://www.emusic.com/album/6335791/Solid-Sun/Revelations-of-the-Flowermind
2013 Francisco López & Aernoudt Jacobs 2015 Untitled #274
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2016 Anima Ardens
This iconic photo was taken fity years ago yesterday! The music is pretty good too
With Free Wind Mood, An’archives splits one vinyl record down the middle, giving a side each to two of the most rigorous, exciting, and committed players from the scene: Harutaka Mochizuki and Makoto Kawashima.
While there are elements of their playing that places them in a history of Japanese free blowing, from Kaoru Abe through Masayoshi Urabe to now, they both have a singular voice: Harutaka more stringent and tart, Kawashima, perhaps, more melancholy. Tellingly, they’ve both intersected with rock music and free sound ensembles, with Kawashima working alongside Nishizawa Naoto of EXIAS-J (Experimental Improvisers’ Association of Japan), while Harutaka has worked in a duo Tomoyuki Aoki of psych-rock group Up-Tight, and guitarist Kondo Hideaki (also of EXIAS-J).
But both of them have made their most massive strides forward with their own solo releases, Kawashima’s potent Homo Sacer one of the final releases on PSF, and Harutaka’s Pas LP and Through The Glass CD exploring new terrain for the nexus of breath and brass. Moving on from those releases, Free Wind Mood is a devastating listening experience, blood and guts on the floor as the players fully inhabit the architecture of the space, and of the self, and play like their lives depend on it."
Jon Dale
iTunes.
The Flying Burrito Bros
1992 Sin City
2000 Fire In The Boathouse
2006 - Bitter Tea