Still working my way through the 100-title discography bought from eilean rec before Christmas - not sure I am half way yet. This is quite understated and one of my favorites so far. Tasty drones and intimate rustles.
Pre-order, not due out for four more days, but fresh from the mailbox and bringing back some good memories of the Crofoot Ballroom leg of the same tour.
Textures & Mosaics (2013, 2016-18) is music for string quartet and
live electronics composed by Ejnar Kanding. The work expresses a nordic
atmosphere, which is also underlined in the subtitles such as Obscure
Transparence and Sensitive Shades. . . .
Jakob Riis: computer and flash Steffen Leve Poulsen: groove sampler Claus Poulsen: sampling keyboard, dictaphone, junk Søren Raagaard: cake box, stone, stirrer, trumpet, metal plate, stone, fluxophonette and chimes
- from The Butterfly.... She also brings together an array of eclectic musicians to elevate the dream, evolving the tracks into their full potency – Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy), James Blackshaw, Otto Hauser (Vertiver), Jay Darlington (Oasis, Kula Shaker), Steve Finnerty (Alabama 3), to name a few. The result is a cinematic soundscape, a journey, through terrains, both familiar and unknown, with her gorgeous and heartbreaking voice leading the way, and sounding like nothing else around.
ETA: The album where the original tracks comes from:
- Breathtaking stuff ! . . . Both the mixes and the originals.
I bought all 5 remixes. Indeed there are some special stretches and I love the two you posted. There is also some material that on first listen annoys me because the remixer managed to make Alva Noto kind of boring (the Florian Kupfer track, which turns Noto into a thud-thud-thud merchant, and the early going of the Luis Da Silva track, which removes all the menace). Noto himself almost never bores me.
I bought all 5 remixes. Indeed there are some special stretches and I love the two you posted. There is also some material that on first listen annoys me because the remixer managed to make Alva Noto kind of boring (the Florian Kupfer track, which turns Noto into a thud-thud-thud merchant, and the early going of the Luis Da Silva track, which removes all the menace). Noto himself almost never bores me.
I agree, at least concerning the Kupfer track . . . I like the Da Silva and Fatima tracks, though.
- Truely remarkable mixes (versions ?) from Ryiuichi Sakamoto, Todd Reynolds, BoaC, Scanner, Gabriel Prokofiev and many more . . .
Shackleton: Furnace of Guts/Wakefulness and Obsession EP released September 25, 2018
Polish Radio Experimental Studio(PRES) is the first official series of
CD releases dedicated to the music produced in the legendary Studio.
Established in 1957 by Józef Patkowski, it was among the first
institutions of that kind in the world with only Paris, Cologne and
Milano preceding the Warsaw one. Despite that, unlike their foreign
colleagues who quickly became the most important figures of the XX
century music, Polish composers working in the Studio are known only to a
limited number of insiders. Yet, as Reinhold Friedl, leader of
zeitkratzer points out, "the pieces give the impression of an artistic
approach which has never been as strict or ideologically restricted as
German electronic music or French concrete music. It seems to me that
none of the musicians connected with this studio have had the tendency
to limit him/herself to "electroacoustic music", rather they all have a
natural and holistic approach to composing". This is why the releases
give us opportunity to revisit our historical ideas of XX century music
with a fresh and inspiring insight. . . .
This CD documents the cooperation between zeitkratzer and Carsten
Nicolai (Alva Noto),started nearly a decade ago; a cooperation between an
avantgarde ensemble and a non-academic electronic musician. The
electronic music of Carsten Nicolai – sometimes being of even cristal
clearness and quality – suddenly becomes sensual and physical through
zeitkratzer’s amplified instrumental sounds.
Inversely, zeitkratzer sounds different too: in „5 min“ the musicians
play only electric sound generators: humming of plugs, the peeping of
the synchronised zeitkratzer-clocks, white noise, TV cheeping at 10 kHz.
„Synchron Bitwave“, the latest piece is the most sensual and warmest;
no other sounds than a small third and its electric derivates, finally
leading to high, dabbed string spiccati. While „c1“ transfers
electronically conceived asymmetrical loops into a 19/16th rhythm. A
strange undertow results, partly because of the pieces’ grounding with
merging split sounds. Here, Carsten Nicolai virtually becomes
metaphysical, perhaps even romantic…
Zeitkratzer and Alva Noto is a truely wonderful combination
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Steffen Leve Poulsen: groove sampler
Claus Poulsen: sampling keyboard, dictaphone, junk
Søren Raagaard: cake box, stone, stirrer, trumpet, metal plate, stone, fluxophonette and chimes
1986 Greetings From Timbuk 3 1989 Edge Of Allegiance
Recorded 1989 Live From Austin City Limits 1997 Sleeps With His Guitar
nyp
1999 Begging Her Graces 2001 Degrees Of Gone
2004 in the Red Room 2007 Troubadour Of Stomp
Free
2019 Lockbox Babies Vol.1 (solo acoustic) 2019 The Ragged Jagged Way Back Home
nyp nyp
1988 Years Since Yesterday 1990 Let's Buzz!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s57hwljSkVk
Andrew Weatherall a 90 minute mellow radio mix from 1993.
Pantaleimon (Andria Degens)
1999 Trees Hold Time 2008 Heart Of The Sun
2009 Pantaleimon feat. James Blackshaw 2013 The Butterfly Ate The Pearl
Live In Barcelona
- from The Butterfly....
She also brings together an array of eclectic musicians to elevate the dream, evolving the tracks
into their full potency – Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy), James Blackshaw, Otto Hauser (Vertiver),
Jay Darlington (Oasis, Kula Shaker), Steve Finnerty (Alabama 3), to name a few. The result is a
cinematic soundscape, a journey, through terrains, both familiar and unknown, with her gorgeous
and heartbreaking voice leading the way, and sounding like nothing else around.
Shackleton: Furnace of Guts/Wakefulness and Obsession EP
released September 25, 2018
2007 Can't Go Back
2013 Cloud Room, Glass Room
2000 Pan Sonic, Charlemagne Palestine 2007 Katodivaihe / Cathodephase
Mort Aux Vaches
1980 Paralelo 1997 Pascal Comelade & Pierre Bastien,
(reissued 2017) Jac Berrocal, Jaki Liebezeit
- The Oblique Sessions
1999 Pascal Comelade & Richard Pinhas 2015 Pascal Comelade + Les Limiñanas
- Oblique Sessions II - Traité De Guitarres Triolectiques
(À L'Usage Des Portugaises Ensablées)
Inversely, zeitkratzer sounds different too: in „5 min“ the musicians play only electric sound generators: humming of plugs, the peeping of the synchronised zeitkratzer-clocks, white noise, TV cheeping at 10 kHz. „Synchron Bitwave“, the latest piece is the most sensual and warmest; no other sounds than a small third and its electric derivates, finally leading to high, dabbed string spiccati. While „c1“ transfers electronically conceived asymmetrical loops into a 19/16th rhythm. A strange undertow results, partly because of the pieces’ grounding with merging split sounds. Here, Carsten Nicolai virtually becomes metaphysical, perhaps even romantic…