Ps I've only listened to the Conjure albums once in the last 6 years although Lastfm shows they have been listened to 9 or 10. Criminally under listened!
They certainly got me think about my first half of this life so far and also this future we're facing that seems to just keep repeating.
The Author Reflects On His 35th Birthday
In War Such Things Happen
My wife and I watched 1917 for the first time this weekend and couldn't help crying thinking about those poor folks in Ukraine who are still fighting in the trenches.
- Well, that was one terrific morning listen! -- Also a big thanks to the Cool Quartet, I only wish I could have afforded to get your Bandcamp release. This has a little bit of everything I like about listening without headphones. Natural sounds you hear while the music plays. And yet, I might just pull out the headphones and see how that goes. - I don't want to forget Éric La Casa. Most enjoyable to these ears!
@jonahpwll you posted about this recently and it caught my eye. It was one I didn't know about, so I sampled it on youtoube and liked what I heard. I looked on discogs marketplace and found a very good condition CD copy for sale signed by Jack DeJohnette for a good price, so I ordered it. Two days later they cancelled my order and sent me a refund. Then a few hours later they said that was a mistake and it had shipped. Then they asked me to pay them afresh via Paypal, which I did because tracking said it was underway. Then it got held up in Detroit. When it arrived, it was well packaged in bubble wrap but the mail folk must have run a truck over it a few times, because the plastic CD case is in tiny fragments and has partially shredded the liner notes. But the CD is indeed signed and plays fine, though two tracks took a couple of tries to rip accurately. As for the music, I am LOVING it, so thanks for the adventure!
Per the music that @Brighternow introduced us to and @confused post. As the image doesn't come from the web I'm having trouble copying it here. It's just 4 photos from the gig anyway.
Cosa Brava 2008-04-18 Live at RSI Studio 2 (FM), Lugano (Switzerland)
01 Frozen / Snake Eating It's Tail / Rounddance 02 Pour Albert(Marcoeur) / Spring Training / Intermezzo With Interruption 03 I Don't Believe You / I'm Too Late Already / The New World 04 Out Of The Town With Rusty / A Song About Love / Falling Up Falling Down 05 Road Movie 06 Market Day / Tom Paine 07 For Tom Ze 08 Ahead In The Sand / Lost And Found
@jonahpwll you posted about this recently and it caught my eye. It was one I didn't know about, so I sampled it on youtoube and liked what I heard. I looked on discogs marketplace and found a very good condition CD copy for sale signed by Jack DeJohnette for a good price, so I ordered it. Two days later they cancelled my order and sent me a refund. Then a few hours later they said that was a mistake and it had shipped. Then they asked me to pay them afresh via Paypal, which I did because tracking said it was underway. Then it got held up in Detroit. When it arrived, it was well packaged in bubble wrap but the mail folk must have run a truck over it a few times, because the plastic CD case is in tiny fragments and has partially shredded the liner notes. But the CD is indeed signed and plays fine, though two tracks took a couple of tries to rip accurately. As for the music, I am LOVING it, so thanks for the adventure!
That's quite the misadventure. I actually can't figure out what happened to my old copy, but I saw it recently at my local music store and scooped it up. It's been nice having it back in play again.
Scanning through what people have listened to recently, sent me to find my LP of this, which i can now play on my Christmas present turntable! Thanks Confused.
Confused also mentioned the film 1917 - see it if you haven't already. Talking about Ukraine, we had a family living with us for 6 months last year, who have now moved on to their own home. They visited us a couple of evenings ago and Svetlana was telling us about how her sister heard the planes and bombing last weekend quite closely to where they live in a small town outside Lviv, far from the action so far. it is hard to imagine such things....
As the title suggests, the album is entirely made with music boxes and
is based on compositions which were sent to him by friends. Over the
course of the several lockdowns, Kudirka carefully translated these
compositions (read: punched holes) into suitable sheets for the
instrument. Given the sole use of these music boxes, it’s not a surprise
that the overall sound of the album has a fragile and tactile touch.
However, the nature of the compositions add a modern substantial layer
resulting in a surprising and refreshing take on this instrument.
The last of last months Bandcamps purchases before yeasterdays BC Friday snook up on me.
Kasper Bjørke – Mother & Standing On Top
of Utopia
Eyvind Kang – Virginal Co Ordinates & Loctian - Ghost Frontiers
Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals & Barons Court
Madwort Saxophone Quartet - Live at Hundred Years Gallery & Nate Wooley - Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes
Madwort features two of my old friends from London improv days and the Hundred Years Gallery was probably my favourite small venue for same, run by friends who we tried to support as mush as possible. Sadly the odd download is as close I can get these days. Seeing their weekly gig listings is like an itch I can't scratch...
This one also dropped yesterday from my Cantaloupe sub. Confusingly the album is six years old. Keys, bass and drums commissioning new repertoire in modern classical music for a formation which is much more common in jazz. Don't let the punning group name put you off.
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I particularly like the track "Travelling' Lady" which is a cover of the 1969 Manfred Mann Chapter Three song
Colosseum
Those Who Are About To Die Salute You Valentyne Suite
The Grass Is Greener Daughter Of Time
Colosseum Live Bread & Circuses
2011 Kammerspiel nyp 2011 Kammerspiel Remixed nyp
On Floating Bodies
Music For The Texts Of Ishmael Reed Cab Calloway Stands In For The Moon
Bad Mouth Tenderness
Ps I've only listened to the Conjure albums once in the last 6 years although Lastfm shows
they have been listened to 9 or 10. Criminally under listened!
They certainly got me think about my first half of this life so far and also this future we're
facing that seems to just keep repeating.
The Author Reflects On His 35th Birthday
In War Such Things Happen
My wife and I watched 1917 for the first time this weekend and couldn't help crying thinking
about those poor folks in Ukraine who are still fighting in the trenches.
Contagious
- This was one of my final Emusic downloads. Most excellent!
then
Axel Dörner, Andrea Neumann, Sven-Åke Johansson - Barcelona Series
- more!! with a bonus train.
and
Cool Quartet (Axel Dörner, Jan Roder, Sven-Åke Johansson, Zoran Terzic)
Cool Quartet With Lina Nyberg Featuring Éric La Casa
- Dancing In Tomelilla
archive.org
- Well, that was one terrific morning listen!
-- Also a big thanks to the Cool Quartet, I only wish I could have afforded to
get your Bandcamp release. This has a little bit of everything I like about
listening without headphones. Natural sounds you hear while the music plays.
And yet, I might just pull out the headphones and see how that goes.
- I don't want to forget Éric La Casa. Most enjoyable to these ears!
2008-04-18
Live at RSI Studio 2 (FM), Lugano (Switzerland)
Fred Frith - guitar, bass, electronics & voice.
Zeena Parkins - synthesizer & accordion.
Carla Kihlstedt - violin, electronics & voice.
Matthias Bossi - drums, percussion & voice
01 Frozen / Snake Eating It's Tail / Rounddance
02 Pour Albert(Marcoeur) / Spring Training / Intermezzo With Interruption
03 I Don't Believe You / I'm Too Late Already / The New World
04 Out Of The Town With Rusty / A Song About Love / Falling Up Falling Down
05 Road Movie
06 Market Day / Tom Paine
07 For Tom Ze
08 Ahead In The Sand / Lost And Found
Time To Tell Electronic Ambient Remixes 4: Selflessness
Live Concert LEM Festival October 4, 2003 Tutti
Gravest Hits Psychedelic Jungle
Bad Music For Bad People A Date With Elvis
Scanning through what people have listened to recently, sent me to find my LP of this, which i can now play on my Christmas present turntable! Thanks Confused.
Confused also mentioned the film 1917 - see it if you haven't already. Talking about Ukraine, we had a family living with us for 6 months last year, who have now moved on to their own home. They visited us a couple of evenings ago and Svetlana was telling us about how her sister heard the planes and bombing last weekend quite closely to where they live in a small town outside Lviv, far from the action so far. it is hard to imagine such things....
Día de nieve by Federico Durand
Free/NYOP and rather lovely.
Kasper Bjørke – Mother & Standing On Top of Utopia
Eyvind Kang – Virginal Co Ordinates & Loctian - Ghost Frontiers
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? No Need To Argue (The Complete Sessions 1994-1995)
To The Faithful Departed archive.org
One of the weirder albums in my wife's collection. A match made in heaven! She has this...
Crispin Hellion Glover
The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be
These Boots Are Made For Walking
...and I've got these -
Wild Man Fischer
An Evening With Wild Man Fischer archive.org
with Frank Zappa
Circle (Larry's First Psychedelic Hit)
Pronounced Normal
about Frank Zappa (another Barnes & Barnes production)
Frank
Crowded House Temple Of Low Men
Woodface archive.org Time On Earth