It's great to see that Alan and Steve Freeman are reissuing some issues of Audion magazine as a pdf with linked music samples. I hadn't realised that they'd gone all modern and done so via Bandcamp.
These "Early Years" give the impression of compilations, but really it's just Tom revisiting early tunes from studio albums with an stripped down acoustic set. Vol 1 is just okay, but Vol 2 is outstanding. The tune "Mockingbird" is one of the very best sitting at the bar feeling strangely heartbroken, curiously happy, and happily drunk.
These "Early Years" give the impression of compilations, but really it's just Tom revisiting early tunes from studio albums with an stripped down acoustic set. Vol 1 is just okay, but Vol 2 is outstanding. The tune "Mockingbird" is one of the very best sitting at the bar feeling strangely heartbroken, curiously happy, and happily drunk.
Well, you've inspired me to revisit his "Early Years" and his other 70's albums(still my favourites, so far) to finish off this round of Ts. Thanks!
The music on this album originates in the interactive sound installation The Body Imitates the Landscape by artist Adi Hollander: she designed a collection of ergonomic objects that are meant to transform music into vibrations felt through the entire body. Hollander was inspired by the Japanese book Karada by Michitaro Tada about the ‘school of the body’. Hollander and Claudio F. Baroni made a live version of the installation where Baroni’s music, performed by Maze, was experienced live by the public. As it was channeled through the objects, the public could at once hear the music in the space and feel it in their bodies.
This album features 11 pieces, each, as in the book Karada, dedicated to a part of the body. Baroni has written those 11 pieces for the Ensemble Maze around recorded whispered voices. This is Baroni’s third collaboration with Unsounds. It comes with liner notes by Reinaldo Laddaga (a important guest on Unsounds with Things That A Mutant Needs To Know and The Men From Russia).
A sort of mating between the track Totentanz by Henrik Meierkord with
Marco Lucchi and a stainless steel railing played by me as an
instrument.
Henrik Meierkord : cello, hurdy-gurdy, violin, fx and electronics Marco Lucchi : analog synth, tape and mix down Filippo Panichi: Argeïphontes Lyre music by Henrik Meierkord and Marco Lucchi here the original track: Marcolucchi – Totentanz * based on "Średniowiecze II" by Henrik Meierkord
Hans J Salter's OST to Jack Arnold's 1954 film production, one of the
first Universal shot in 3D. Tense, dramatic, full of strings and
woodwind.
Hans J Salter's OST to the classic Jack Arnold film production from
1957. Alternately melancholy and menacing, lush symphonic strings and
brooding woodwind.
Had knee surgery yesterday and now I'm thankfully back home, not too dosed up. The start of two+ weeks holiday / recovery. Gives me plenty of time to go back to recent purchases. Interesting looking (sub) label Shukai out of the Ukraine. Main label is Muscút (Мускáт) Record label focusing on pseudo and practical audio archaeology. (!) Which could be interesting. Thanks to whoever gave props to these albums in the first place. The fourth album on the label will be out soon supposedly a long lost psych-jazz masterpiece - we'll see.
Had knee surgery yesterday and now I'm thankfully back home, not too dosed up. The start of two+ weeks holiday / recovery. Gives me plenty of time to go back to recent purchases. Interesting looking (sub) label Shukai out of the Ukraine. Main label is Muscút (Мускáт) Record label focusing on pseudo and practical audio archaeology. (!) Which could be interesting. Thanks to whoever gave props to these albums in the first place. The fourth album on the label will be out soon supposedly a long lost psych-jazz masterpiece - we'll see.
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The music on this album originates in the interactive sound installation The Body Imitates the Landscape by artist Adi Hollander: she designed a collection of ergonomic objects that are meant to transform music into vibrations felt through the entire body. Hollander was inspired by the Japanese book Karada by Michitaro Tada about the ‘school of the body’. Hollander and Claudio F. Baroni made a live version of the installation where Baroni’s music, performed by Maze, was experienced live by the public. As it was channeled through the objects, the public could at once hear the music in the space and feel it in their bodies.
This album features 11 pieces, each, as in the book Karada, dedicated to a part of the body. Baroni has written those 11 pieces for the Ensemble Maze around recorded whispered voices. This is Baroni’s third collaboration with Unsounds. It comes with liner notes by Reinaldo Laddaga (a important guest on Unsounds with Things That A Mutant Needs To Know and The Men From Russia).
Marco Lucchi : analog synth, tape and mix down
Filippo Panichi: Argeïphontes Lyre
music by Henrik Meierkord and Marco Lucchi
here the original track: Marcolucchi – Totentanz
* based on "Średniowiecze II" by Henrik Meierkord
1998 The Now Sound Of Ursula 1000 2002 Kinda' Kinky
1993 Hand On The Torch
2019 Evidencias 2020 Música sin Escenario (Feat Coleóptero)
Track 15 - Sutt 2014 Beeatsz
2018 Live in Palermo 2020 Keller x Imm x Okuda x Virtaranta x Tavil
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Following up Jonahpwll's thread on REM
Body Language for Lovers by Bobbye Hall. All-Star mellow soul-jazz
Upperground Orchestra
2019 Euganea
Emusic, Bandcamp
2014 Dial B For Beauty
1997 Electric Kissing Parties 2020 The Preserving Machine
2012 Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime
The United Steel Workers Of Montreal
2009 Three On The Tree
An album that always sends shivers down my back.
Van Morrison
1969 Astral Weeks 1970 Moondance
1971 Tupelo Honey 1972 Saint Dominic's Preview