This luscious beauty arrived a while back. Actually, I'm listening and reading it. They do such an amazing job on their releases and this is a deluxe version (70 copies - sold out) compilation showing their variety. The video explains what they do. Always been completely overwhelmed by their work and this one is right up there with the others. They're approach to artistic packaging is so in-line with my ideas about how people's sound-art should be presented that it's such a joy to have these.
Excited to be off to see Mogwai live in Melbourne on Monday!
However, I am afraid that I have given Tay Tay a miss! She appeared before a record crowd, for her, of 96,000 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground last night and is on again tonight and tomorrow night before heading off to Sydney for four nights.
Meanwhile, am happily listening to Mogwai's outstanding recent album "As The Love Continues" which got to No. 1 in the UK album charts in February 2021.
AMG says "Arriving a quarter-century after the release of Mogwai's debut single, As the Love Continues is an album that, from its title to the warmth and immediacy of its songs, wears its heart on its sleeve........it's a true pleasure to hear them fill these songs with so much melody and energy. Sometimes, it feels like they're spoiling their listeners with just how accessible the album is..... It may have taken Mogwai 25 years to open up like this, but it was well worth the wait: As the Love Continues is another peak in their long and influential career."
"Hex" by Bark Psychosis, no. 1 on @Brighternow's chosen list of the Top 30 Post Rock albums (see my post on "Tribute to @Brighternow: Great Albums That He Introduced Us To")
AMG says "A masterpiece of unrivalled beauty and complexity.....too melodic and finely honed to pass as mere ambient soundscapes, leaving the record best ascribed to a force not unlike alchemy......Hex begins with base musical materials, but transforms them into something mysterious, haunting, and breathtakingly visionary."
However, I really prefer Bark Psychosis's second album "///Codename: dustsucker" which came out ten years later in 2004 and was one of the first albums I downloaded from eMusic.
Uncut magazine says "Arriving ten years after the band disbanded, the long-awaited and criminally overlooked follow up brings with it an evolution of their sound. Their experimentations are layered with blissed out electronics, shoegaze, post-rock and jazz are still at its fore as are Sutton’s crystalline vocals. Languid and brooding, the soundscapes are dark and sustained while their “trademark cocoon of limpid, rippling guitar figures and jazzy adornment is buffeted by sharp leftward turns"
Back to J and it's got me reflecting on the past. The public library was my main source for discoveries during the 90's as I was going through a lean times divorce. I've still got boxes full of C90's that I copied and used to make mix tapes for friends. I know I'm never going get around to playing any of them as the old Technics cassette player won't take to a head cleaning anymore. So, it seems the past is repeating itself as I find myself using the YouTube library to fill in blanks of things I had and want to hear. No divorce this time just limited budget from retirement.
Enjoying revisiting this. From my review, back when it came out:
there certainly seems to be no shortage of music designed to fill the
horizon and the frequency range without remnant, built to hook the ear
within seconds and keep it wriggling helplessly until exhaustion sets
in.
Tiring of the fray, I find myself at the moment more inclined to
celebrate releases that make me smile with quiet surprises. I rejoice
when gently touched by music that is not going for the arresting,
big-screen effect, but is instead chasing small moments of beauty
wrested from the noise.
Anyone expecting nothing but dronescapes will be caught unawares by the
opening track, Lodi, which within its brief two-minute-plus duration
morphs from cascading off-kilter plucked notes above a simple, emergent
bass pattern to a gentle buzz and more tunefully chiming processed
guitar notes. “The Sea Saw Swell,” a little longer and more centered,
picks up on the chiming tone that closes “Lodi,” opening with dreamy,
sparkling sounds. These soon turn woozy, however, and a gently strummed
guitar and that somnolent bass take over. By now a pattern is
established of gentle comings and goings, an overall tone with
instruments arriving and departing to add details and colors, each
carrying its unassuming part of the tale. We’re headed somewhere, but
the pace is unhurried and the destination unclear.
A 40+ minute render of ALTA, a generative music piece originally part of
an audiovisual installation at the Libby Leshgold Gallery on the Emily
Carr University campus in Vancouver BC, in March 2023. The installation
was designed as a 4-channel piece of endless music. Presented here in
stereo, it can be thought of as a long exposure capture of the otherwise
continuous music from the installation.
ALTA is an addition to the ADRIFT series of generative music pieces
named after abandoned sea vessels. Originally released in 2015 as a
mobile application, and redesigned as a Max patch for the installation,
ALTA/ADRIFT uses structured random selection, mixing and panning to
weave together the sonic phrases and layers.
The MV Alta was abandoned at sea and set adrift in 2018 near Bermuda,
eventually reaching the shores of Ireland in 2020 where she remains
shipwrecked.
Less immediately accessible than many of his releases, but listening now makes me want to spend more time with it. Small studies in odd concatenations of sound.
I have been downloading some of my old albums off the E Music site, its all downloaded on hard disk but tit was great to fill up my Sonos and Mp3 with old faves. Forgot how much I loved this one, realised I now have over 10 of his albums
Which reminds me of one of my all time favourite albums featuring the original version of "Journey in Satchidananda" by Alice Coltrane featuring Pharaoh Sanders.
AMG says "Truly, this is a remarkable album, and necessary for anyone interested in the development of modal and experimental jazz"
Karen Stackpole Karen Stackpole is a Bay Area percussionist and improviser who performs and records using gongs, scrap metal, and a range of "ethnic" instruments. With Aidan McIntyre, she is one half of the duo Euphonics. Stackpole also performs and records with the improvising quartet Vorticella (with Brenda Hutchinson, Krys Bobrowski, and Erin Espeland), and the Left Coast Improv group, Ghost in the House (with David Michalak, Kyle Bruckman, and Tom Nunn). She is the drummer for Cactus Motel and has played with Malcolm Mooney and The Tenth Planet, Moxie, Bolshoi Rodeo, and Rare Thing; as well as collaborating with Gino Robair, Jack Wright, Myles Boisen, John Shiurba, Chris Heenan, Steve Roden, Rod Poole, Tucker Dulin, and John Schott. Stackpole also operates Stray Dog Recording Services and works as a freelance writer for DRUM! and Electronic Musician magazines. Karen StackpoleKaren Stackpole with Die Elektrischen – Machine Shop archive.org archive.org
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This luscious beauty arrived a while back. Actually, I'm listening and reading it.
They do such an amazing job on their releases and this is a deluxe version
(70 copies - sold out) compilation showing their variety. The video explains what they do.
Always been completely overwhelmed by their work and this one is right up there with the others.
They're approach to artistic packaging is so in-line with my ideas about
how people's sound-art should be presented that it's such a joy to have these.
Time Released Sound
Damo Suzuki Møder Oresund Space Collective Mugstar & Damo Suzuki – Start From Zero
Damo Suzuki & Sound Carriers – Live At Marie-Antoinette
However, I am afraid that I have given Tay Tay a miss! She appeared before a record crowd, for her, of 96,000 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground last night and is on again tonight and tomorrow night before heading off to Sydney for four nights.
Meanwhile, am happily listening to Mogwai's outstanding recent album "As The Love Continues" which got to No. 1 in the UK album charts in February 2021.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/26/mogwai-first-no-1-album-25-years-as-the-love-continues
AMG says "Arriving a quarter-century after the release of Mogwai's debut single, As the Love Continues is an album that, from its title to the warmth and immediacy of its songs, wears its heart on its sleeve........it's a true pleasure to hear them fill these songs with so much melody and energy. Sometimes, it feels like they're spoiling their listeners with just how accessible the album is..... It may have taken Mogwai 25 years to open up like this, but it was well worth the wait: As the Love Continues is another peak in their long and influential career."
All the Mogwai albums are available on Bandcamp https://mogwai.bandcamp.com/
Playing my favourite QOTSA album 2002's "Songs For The Deaf"
Damo Suzuki's Network w/ The Elysian Quartet Damo Suzuki's Network - The Swiftsure Session
– Floating Element
Damo Suzuki & Jelly Planet– Damo Suzuki & Jelly Planet
AMG says "A masterpiece of unrivalled beauty and complexity.....too melodic and finely honed to pass as mere ambient soundscapes, leaving the record best ascribed to a force not unlike alchemy......Hex begins with base musical materials, but transforms them into something mysterious, haunting, and breathtakingly visionary."
Uncut magazine says "Arriving ten years after the band disbanded, the long-awaited and criminally overlooked follow up brings with it an evolution of their sound. Their experimentations are layered with blissed out electronics, shoegaze, post-rock and jazz are still at its fore as are Sutton’s crystalline vocals. Languid and brooding, the soundscapes are dark and sustained while their “trademark cocoon of limpid, rippling guitar figures and jazzy adornment is buffeted by sharp leftward turns"
At any rate, the Jungle Brothers Straight Out The Jungle was initially a library find/Emusic replacement and Forces Of Nature an early addition to the CD library. The others are on loan.
Straight Out The Jungle Done By The Forces Of Nature
J. Beez Wit The Remedy Raw Deluxe
Keep It Jungle
Ps They made me think of another most interesting Hip Hop artist I've enjoyed- Aesop Rock. Shout out to @kargatron for the introduction!
A check at the archives shows some albums and EPs including Skelethon with that album listing 32 tracks?
https://archive.org/details/aesop-rock-skelethon
and a vinyl rip of Aesop Rock And Tobacco Are Malibu Ken – Malibu Ken with an unnecessary Wav and FLAC track (for me).
https://archive.org/details/malibu-ken-raw-wav
Others include
https://archive.org/details/aesop-rock-coffee
https://archive.org/details/aesop-rock-untouchable-ar-version
https://archive.org/details/aesop-rock-appleseed
https://archive.org/details/aesop-rock-spirit-world-field-guide
https://archive.org/details/aesop-rock-instrumentals-acapellas
https://archive.org/details/aesoprocknoneshallpass
https://archive.org/details/aesoprockfastcarsdangerfireandknives
https://archive.org/details/aesop-rock-and-blockhead-garbology
It'll take me awhile to get around to A's again but they will go into the rotation.
They're also available at Bandcamp.
& Tom Wilson-(Blackie And The Rodeo Kings, Junkhouse, Lee Harvey Osmond, The Florida Razors)
Alternative rock band from Hamilton, ON, Canada. Formed in 1989.
Strays Birthday Boy
Fuzz
ALTA is an addition to the ADRIFT series of generative music pieces named after abandoned sea vessels. Originally released in 2015 as a mobile application, and redesigned as a Max patch for the installation, ALTA/ADRIFT uses structured random selection, mixing and panning to weave together the sonic phrases and layers.
The MV Alta was abandoned at sea and set adrift in 2018 near Bermuda, eventually reaching the shores of Ireland in 2020 where she remains shipwrecked.
Umeå Jazz Festival 2014
The Lives Of Many Others Kaja Draksler / Susana Santos Silva – This Love
Kaja Draksler, Matiss Cudars Eve Risser, Kaja Draksler – To Pianos
– Miniatures From Our Living Room
Kaja Draksler – Petter Eldh – Christian Lillinger Kaja Draksler Octet - Out For Stars
– Punkt.Vrt.Plastik
In Otherness Oneself Kaja Draksler - Susana Santos Silva – Grow
I have been downloading some of my old albums off the E Music site, its all downloaded on hard disk but tit was great to fill up my Sonos and Mp3 with old faves. Forgot how much I loved this one, realised I now have over 10 of his albums
AMG says "Truly, this is a remarkable album, and necessary for anyone interested in the development of modal and experimental jazz"
Karen Stackpole is a Bay Area percussionist and improviser who performs and records using gongs, scrap metal, and a range of "ethnic" instruments. With Aidan McIntyre, she is one half of the duo Euphonics. Stackpole also performs and records with the improvising quartet Vorticella (with Brenda Hutchinson, Krys Bobrowski, and Erin Espeland), and the Left Coast Improv group, Ghost in the House (with David Michalak, Kyle Bruckman, and Tom Nunn). She is the drummer for Cactus Motel and has played with Malcolm Mooney and The Tenth Planet, Moxie, Bolshoi Rodeo, and Rare Thing; as well as collaborating with Gino Robair, Jack Wright, Myles Boisen, John Shiurba, Chris Heenan, Steve Roden, Rod Poole, Tucker Dulin, and John Schott. Stackpole also operates Stray Dog Recording Services and works as a freelance writer for DRUM! and Electronic Musician magazines.
Karen Stackpole Karen Stackpole with Die Elektrischen – Machine Shop
archive.org archive.org
Inui Inui • 2
Kawabata Makoto & The Mothers Of Invasion O Si Amos A Sighire A Essere Duas Umbras?
- Hot Rattlesnakes
Inui.3 Hosanna Mantra
Inui.4 Kawabata Makoto & Michishita Shinsuke
- Basement Echo
We Don't Know Where We Came From Do You Know I Am You From Another World ? nyop
Mani Neumeier & Kawabata Makoto Astro Love & Infinite Kisses
– Samurai Blues
Keiji Haino
わたしだけ？ - Watashi Dake? A. Licht / H. Keiji – Gerry Miles
Keiji Haino & Loren Mazzacane Connors – Vol. 2 ここ = Koko archive.org
Kikuri - ぶっ壊れた紫色 = Pulverized Purple
My Cat Is An Alien / Keiji Haino zeitkratzer & Keiji Haino – Electronics
– Cosmic Debris Volume III
Ambarchi / O'Rourke / Haino – Tima Formosa Pan Sonic . Haino Keiji – In The Studio
Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, Oren Ambarchi Keiji Haino, Jozef Dumoulin, Teun Verbruggen
– I Wonder If You Noticed "I'm Sorry" Is Such A – The Miracles Of Only One Thing
Lovely Sound It Keeps Things From Getting Worse