Happy Sunday morning. Listening to starlings bouncing off my window and also these.
Clock DVA - Thirst 1981 Centre el Muusa - Purple Stones 2022
Back in the day I think I lumped Clock DVA in with Industrial music, and not Post Punk as they so clearly are here. Centre el Muusa is allegedly Space Rock and the four mop tops come from Tallin.
@djh, @greg - Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed those new Gerry Mulligan additions. First time in along time for back to back listens. The remastered Monk album sounded especially good but all are most welcome in my library. And greg, it's always great to see your name on the boards. It's been a month losing long time friends for us.
@Germanprof - Thanks for introduction, it made for a nice contrast. We had a really intense storm here this morning that's tapered off now. It's been a month of hot smoky days and spotty thunderstorms at night. We're much luckier than some fellow Canadians in Nova Scotia who really got hit hard. The hottest it's been here is the low 30C's fortunately, unlike our neighbours in the far south who are under that heat dome. The rhythm of the clock keeps changing.
Birds shelter. I'm awoken by the rattling. The thunder continues. The sound of water droplets is overwhelming.
I hunker down inside. The corn is showing silk and tasseling out. In other words, a morning off from watering. The sound of rain bouncing off our porch. The rhythm of the clock has changed again.
I listen to music inside. The corn is doing a tarantella in the gusts. My own heart pounds as well.
Plants thrive in good soil. (apologies to the author)
Birds shelter. I'm awoken by the rattling. The thunder continues. The sound of water droplets is overwhelming.
I hunker down inside. The corn is showing silk and tasseling out. In other words, a morning off from watering. The sound of rain bouncing off our porch. The rhythm of the clock has changed again.
I listen to music inside. The corn is doing a tarantella in the gusts. My own heart pounds as well.
Plants thrive in good soil. (apologies to the author)
@Germanprof- The corn survived the trashing and is standing tall. Hot and sunny yesterday I think it grew another 6 inches. More rain in the forecast will certainly help with the water bill. Damp soil made weed picking much easier and the heat kept the mosquitoes at bay while deadheading. Another perfect day in the garden!
Titled, like all his pieces, for the date on which it was begun, July
27, 2022 uses microtonality to push Kirschner’s continuing exploration
of the piano in directions that could never be achieved through purely
acoustic means. The concept of the piece was to construct,
electronically, a piano that would be impossible to build in real life:
what appears on the record to at first be a simple acoustic piano is in
fact playing in multiple contradictory tuning systems simultaneously –
so that, for example, the same piano key at times strikes subtly
different pitches. Further, these “paradoxical” tunings shift and change
throughout the piece, as if the piano were being instantaneously
retuned from one impossible tuning to another as the composition
progresses.
With the pedal fully down throughout the entire
recording, the experience of the music is as much about the shimmering
microtonal decays of the piano’s string resonances as it is about the
actual notes played.
Listening right now. Funny how your ears/brain works and it all sounds "normal". Thanks for the tip, Bandcamp Friday next week!
Yes, I was surprised how normal it sounded in the end. I only made it an hour or so in, mind, and was not always listening closely, so it might be my cloth ears. Not in a place for a four-hour dose or the mood for high concentration right now after an intensive week of writing.
I've really enjoyed everything I've heard so far and I'm happy to give these another listen. Discogs lists him under these catagories- Ambient, Downtempo, Modern Classical. Gigi Masin WindKite
I played this in the car this morning to and from the supermarket. It set me off thinking (never a good sign!). This was released in January 1969, first introduced to me by one of the Rock Machine LPs. The first side - Introduction, Does Anybody know the Time and Beginnings, are amazing tracks compared to anything issued by pop/rock artists five years earlier. There are numerous other bands from the very late sixties I could have chosen, but they show how much popular music progressed in such a short time. Has there been any period in popular music from 1962 pre Beatles where such swift progress has been made in such a short time. By the early 1970s popular music was beginning to split into a wide range of genres - it was always, of course, the case beforehand but it developed more after 1970. I feel privileged to have lived through that stage of musical development.
Thanks for the NoNotFun reminder. I've just bought that and a few other things. I used to scarf up whatever I could find back in the Emusic days as 6 or 8 tracks when I had 200 downloads a month was something or nothing. Now being unwaged $8 does look at you a bit but plenty of great music - I always liked their releases for walking music in fact.
I played this in the car this morning to and from the supermarket. It set me off thinking (never a good sign!). This was released in January 1969, first introduced to me by one of the Rock Machine LPs. The first side - Introduction, Does Anybody know the Time and Beginnings, are amazing tracks compared to anything issued by pop/rock artists five years earlier. There are numerous other bands from the very late sixties I could have chosen, but they show how much popular music progressed in such a short time. Has there been any period in popular music from 1962 pre Beatles where such swift progress has been made in such a short time. By the early 1970s popular music was beginning to split into a wide range of genres - it was always, of course, the case beforehand but it developed more after 1970. I feel privileged to have lived through that stage of musical development.
@greg I couldn't have said it better! I too discovered that first Chicago (Transit Authority) album from "Fill Your Head with Rock" plus a whole lot of other bands from "The Rock Machine" series including Spirit, Moby Grape, The Flock, Skin Alley, Laura Nyro, PG&E, Al Stewart, Leonard Cohen, Tim Rose, Taj Mahal, Electric Flag, Big Brother & The Holding Company etc. etc. To quote Mary Hopkin "Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end"!
Back on to The Chicago Transit Authority, I would never have thought that a band could do a better version of "I'm A Man" than The Spencer Davis Group but they did.
From the Huntley Archive (50+ hours of archival recordings of live jazz sessions in South Africa in the 1960s-1970s, free to download). It seems I learned about this from @Doofy 9 years ago, so thanks - just stumbled across the bookmark.
From the Huntley Archive (50+ hours of archival recordings of live jazz sessions in South Africa in the 1960s-1970s, free to download). It seems I learned about this from @Doofy 9 years ago, so thanks - just stumbled across the bookmark.
That's a massive quality collection that I only ever dipped a toe into. Thanks for the reminder.
^^^My thanks as well to both @Germanprof and @Doofy for pointing it out. I've really enjoyed Ginger's African albums and I know there's lots there that I'm sure would find a home in my library. I'm not sure where to start so if you have any suggestions I'd be happy to hear them (especially if they start after the letter G)
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@Germanprof - Thanks for introduction, it made for a nice contrast. We had a really intense storm here this morning that's tapered off now. It's been a month of hot smoky days and spotty thunderstorms at night. We're much luckier than some fellow Canadians in Nova Scotia who really got hit hard. The hottest it's been here is the low 30C's fortunately, unlike our neighbours in the far south who are under that heat dome. The rhythm of the clock keeps changing.
from Bandcamp
June rain. Gentle rain. Solitary rain.
Bird song. I wake up in the morning. The quiet days continue. The sound of water droplets keep time like an unsteady clock.
I walk around outside. The hydrangeas are blooming. In other words, the season for hydrangeas to bloom has come again. The sound of rain on my umbrella. The rhythm of the clock has changed again.
I walk around outside. The new green of the trees is dancing in the cool breeze. I wonder if my own heart will move as well.
Plants grow in wet soil.
July rain. Buckets of rain. Thunderous rain.
Birds shelter. I'm awoken by the rattling. The thunder continues. The sound of water droplets is overwhelming.
I hunker down inside. The corn is showing silk and tasseling out. In other words, a morning off from watering. The sound of rain bouncing off our porch. The rhythm of the clock has changed again.
I listen to music inside. The corn is doing a tarantella in the gusts. My own heart pounds as well.
Plants thrive in good soil.
(apologies to the author)
Back to an old favourite- such an interesting artist.
Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples (Jan Jelinek)
Circulations More Circulations
Uguisubari Anthology of American Pop Music
Bandcamp
Ghost And Tape
Ghost And Tape Bandcamp Live archive.org
Home Bandcamp Poble Nou Bandcamp
Shift Bandcamp Vár Bandcamp
New release. Four hours of compositions for a piano that can't physically exist.
With the pedal fully down throughout the entire recording, the experience of the music is as much about the shimmering microtonal decays of the piano’s string resonances as it is about the actual notes played.
Giacinto Scelsi
Chamber Works For Flute And Piano Scelsi EP
archive.org
Scelsi Revisited
women who've used stilettos as a weapon against others.
Giampiero Boneschi
Cybernetic Circus Giampiero Boneschi's Electronic Sound
Moog In Sud-America Elettrorama
Alessandro Alessandroni
Afro Discoteca Afro Discoteca (Reworked And Reloved)
Gianni Safred
Futuribile (The Life To Come)
Gigi Masin
Wind Kite
Calypso Charles Hayward / Gigi Masin
Les Nouvelles Musiques De Chambre 2 Sub Rosa
Hoshi Tsuki
Elia Perrone / Gigi Masin Gigi Masin & Jonny Nash
Stella Postcards From Nowhere
I played this in the car this morning to and from the supermarket. It set me off thinking (never a good sign!). This was released in January 1969, first introduced to me by one of the Rock Machine LPs. The first side - Introduction, Does Anybody know the Time and Beginnings, are amazing tracks compared to anything issued by pop/rock artists five years earlier. There are numerous other bands from the very late sixties I could have chosen, but they show how much popular music progressed in such a short time. Has there been any period in popular music from 1962 pre Beatles where such swift progress has been made in such a short time. By the early 1970s popular music was beginning to split into a wide range of genres - it was always, of course, the case beforehand but it developed more after 1970. I feel privileged to have lived through that stage of musical development.
Paisajes Para Torcer al Reloj by Lorena Álvarez & Alejandro Palacios
Exceedingly mellow with kind of jazz-ish interesting bits.
Thanks for the NoNotFun reminder. I've just bought that and a few other things. I used to scarf up whatever I could find back in the Emusic days as 6 or 8 tracks when I had 200 downloads a month was something or nothing. Now being unwaged $8 does look at you a bit but plenty of great music - I always liked their releases for walking music in fact.
Back on to The Chicago Transit Authority, I would never have thought that a band could do a better version of "I'm A Man" than The Spencer Davis Group but they did.
And 1971 was still to come!
That's a massive quality collection that I only ever dipped a toe into. Thanks for the reminder.
Ginger Baker Heading out of the '80s with Bill Laswell.
Horses & Trees Middle Passage
Ginger Baker's African Force
African Force Palanquin's Pole