Brian Archinal:
New York/Lexington Counterpoint - Steve Reich
- "World Premer of Steve Reich's "New York Counterpoint." Version for live Vibraphone and recorded Vibraphones and Marimbas"
Live in Geneva, Switzerland
- released 30 October 2009
And speaking of Iranian music free on Bandcamp...Naim Popol, Shahkhaye Bishkasta. He has 8 albums, all free. The earlier albums sound like Cool Tapes from Africa, but the later have higher production / quality.
- "Treading the lines between abstract industrialism and textured noise, Hanetration offsets these four self-released audio paintings with field recordings, manipulated glitches and subterranean ambience. Pealing away at the edges, twenty-nine minutes briskly float away as distressed electronic crackles, horns, reversed loops, fractured vocal samples and tangled strands cascade in a surreal dreamscape filled with ambiguity. As Hanetration deconstructs these pixelated sonic textures, one can easily lose themselves among the myriad of blurred effects that are punctuated by rhythmic patterns throughout. Tenth Oar is a well-balanced array of turbulentand often subtleexperiments that unfold with repeated listens. Fans of Fennesz and Boards of Canadas compressed interludes will certainly appreciate Hanetrations trajectory on this free-of-charge extended player."
- Igloo Magazine.
- "An anonymous debut EP dropped into my inbox last month from London artist Hanetration asking for some feedback. Currently unsigned to any labels Hanetrations Tenth Oar EP has been released as a free download on Bandcamp where his anonymity remains intact with no additional info. on the artist. He describes his music as ambient soundscapes, woozy atmospherics and glitchy sound collages music for headphones and I would pretty much go along with that, but I would also add that the EP is compellingly different, sonically inventive throughout and one of the most promising debuts out there in the ambient/experimental field at the moment.
Opening track Rex immediately grabs your attention with its frenzied babbling vocal layered with fluttering flute tones and a quirky beat underlying a mumbling voice buried in hazy delirium. Piano notes meander above a low static layer here and there before the rhythm picks up again to fade out on that fevered vocal line a superb track! Alarm builds slowly with piano over dense layers of velvet drone into a mournful death march parade. Lifting the tone slightly, but still with a melancholic air, Rufus includes some wonderfully bowed psaltery-like sounds which stretch out over a steampunk mechanical rhythm full of hiss and steam. Final track Wreck has a delightfully twisted vocal like a lost soul wailing in a fog shrouded limbo with a slow pulse beneath supported by an insistent pickup glitch.
No hesitation here go and download this now! This is a very exciting debut from Hanetration full of unusual and well mixed sound combinations and very worthy of the 24 minutes of your time that it will take to listen to the full EP."
Christian Wolff: Edges
by Cobra Ensemble + Christian Wolff
Have been meaning to post this for a while...it's on the Bandcamp page of Matt Smiley, a bassist who has some other free jazz/improv things. He has a lengthy transcript of a rehearsal session on his blog. Apparently this is a "graphic or otherwise non-traditional score," and the composer and ensemble discuss approaches to rehearsing/playing same.
I think I have mentioned this site before, but if not, check out bandcamp hunter, a tumblr blog which highlights interesting "finds" on bandcamp. ExFm will let you listen to everything on the page, btw.
I streamed Jay William Henderson, The Sun Will Burn Our Eyes. This is a mellow, neo-folk style album with a bit of ambient running in the background. Struck me as a less-weird Sufjan Stevens, worth a listen if you are into that sort of thing.
For those who like ambient things here's one to consider on charitable grounds. Leonardo Rosado, who runs a couple of good netlabels, has experienced a burglary and had his computer gear stolen. He's selling his new album to raise money for a new laptop to keep up the label work. I've downloaded a number of decent albums for free from his sites, so I think I might do this. ETA: done.
Due to having had my apartment robbed some very important items were stolen, among them my laptop and my SLR digital camera. As you can imagine this is not only an horrible situation but it also cripples a lot my ability to make music, and run normally the two labels I run (FeedbackLoop Label and Heart and Soul Publishers). Fortunately I had finished my latest album and now I am releasing it so I can buy at least a new laptop to be back to my activities as soon as possible. I am aiming at a value of 2000 so if you can help me by buying my album I would be very thankful. In addition to buying the digital version of The Blue Nature of Everyday I'll be, later in the year, releasing through Heart and Soul a CDr version of it and I will include all people who buy in the thank you credits. Also, if you are very generous on your support (around 20) you'll have a CDr copy for free.
Offthesky continuing a prolific spell with this new release, which is either free from the label or $1 on bandcamp depending on whether you want the bonus EP.:
otherwise, if you'd like to donate a dollar or more, you can download the album here(you will receive the free ep 'gift ii' with your download).
here's the original write up at the label's site:
Denver based producer and sound artist offthesky (aka Jason Corder) is known for his reputable list of releases on Resting Bell, Rural Colours, SEM, Hibernate and Home Normal, among others. On this release offthesky embraces the idea of evolution in his artistic process by adopting a completely different approach from his regular methods. Using an old iPod touch as a tracking device and an iPad equipped with various noise and synth apps, Jason delivers two densely textural long-format ambient soundscapes recorded mostly from his time spent in various parks.
lossless is a rich twenty-one minute soundscape full of distorted gurgling melodies displaced against a thick grainy atmosphere of static and organic tonalities. Part noise and part ambient, offthesky produces grand waves of rough sonic beauty using eighty-three layers of outdoor recorded material. RGBwaster is a dark and hauntingly beautiful epic noise-scape with intense cavernous progressions.[/url]
One of several releases from EMEFE - some NYOP, some free. On the boundaries of Afrobeat and Jazz.
EMEFE has only one intention: to play music that frees everybody in the audience & everybody listening at home. The group plays its own mix of afrobeat music as created by the late Fela Kuti, mixed with the funk of Sly Stone and jazz and hip hop influences, all with a rock and roll edge. EMEFE consists of 4 horns, 2 guitars, bass, drums, keyboard, shekere and congas.
This, their most recent release is described as follows:
EUROPE EP presents three original songs by Miles Arntzen and EMEFE. It begins with the horn driven, hard hitting "New System", written as a warning to the University Corporations out there that take money and return the favor by instilling pressure and anxiety in their student bodies. The fiery "Motherland" kicks off next, an anthem for anybody who wants to let go of all the B.S. that they see on TV and in the newspapers every day. "Europe" opens with peaceful sounds of Italian cities, soon followed by a marching groove and supreme horn calls and responses. EMEFE's EUROPE EP is a call to arms, a call for everybody to stand up and march against the negative. That negative can be inside of their own body systems, outside on the street, or everywhere. Whereas MUSIC FREES ALL is an invitation to drop it all and dance, EUROPE EP is a ferocious and urgent stand against everything and anything that brings us down.
credits
- Most excellent experimental cinematic cyberpunk:
Erdem Helvacioglu & Per Boysen -Sub City 2064
Erdem Helvacioglu
- Is one of the most renowned new music composers of his generation in Turkey. His music has ben performed and broadcast all around the world, included in many prestigious festivals and received numerous international electronic music awards including prizes from Luigi Gussolo, Insulae, Electronicae and MUSICA NOVA Electroacoustic Music Competitions. Erdem Helvacio?lu has been called the genius of unusual sounds by prestigious German magazine Ragazzi."
- http://www.erdemhelvacioglu.com/
- "Per Boysens live concerts focus on instrumental music with an openminded psychedelic touch, utilizing live looping and interactive electronics to extend traditional instruments in multi lateral improvisation. He is a Swedish freelance worker in many creative fields, often referred to as a renaissance man. Has toured worldwide as a musician, affiliated with both major record labels, small independent labels and as a self promoting artist. Former studio musician counting one gold selling album. Produced recorded music for CD, surround DVD multimedia, radio and television.[/i]
- http://www.perboysen.com/
- Emusic
This tribute album came together in love and honor of Lee Jackson, writer, music fan, dear friend, who passed in late March 2012 after a struggle with ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. This collection of songs, nearly all of which are new or previously unreleased, comes from the many bands and musicians who Lee not only covered and celebrated with such passion, but also in many cases befriended over many years of correspondence, concert and festival attendance and more. The album's liner notes contain full information about each song as well as thoughts from Lee himself about the contributing artists, taken from his writing work. All profits will go to the Texas chapter of the ALS Association; web.alsa.org/DFW2012 has more information about their continuing work. Please feel free to join our Facebook discussion group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/323110634410498/ if you'd like to learn more about the remarkable man who we all dearly miss; there is also a direct link to this album in Facebook itself at https://www.facebook.com/ForLeeJacksonInSpace -
released 04 June 2012
Compiled by Mats Gustafsson, Travis Johnson and Ned Raggett -- our endless thanks to all participating bands and performers!
tags
tags: experimental ambient drone electronic folk for lee jackson in space garage psychedelic spacerock Texas
- Just added to The Legendary Pink Dots Bandcamp page:
Edward Ka-Spel & The Silverman - Live in Denver 19 May 2012
- "The second show of a memorable weekend at The walnut Room in Denver. EK and Silverman grappling with technology on a set that featured unfamiliar and familiar material."
- The Setlist according to Wandrille from The LPD mailing list "Cloud Zero" with comments:
Part 1
The creature that tasted sound (over 17 min)
The warden (very psychedelic version)
Poppy day
Friendly fire (even better than on the CD)
Part 2
Prisoners of war
Third secret
Lilith's daughter
Oh, how about that? Artist recommendations is an especially cool feature. Looks like it will take some time for the artists to get themselves classified and new features to be added. I have a feeling there are going to be some interesting new finds by eMusers and Music Is Good-ers in the weeks ahead.
Comments
A Stone, A Leaf, An Unfound Door by River Whyless, self-described as "Baroque/Folk" from Boone, NC -- NYOP/Free
Some reviews from blogs:
Review at Common Folk Music
Review at Middleclasswhitenoise
Description at Hear Ya
Review at All Around Sound
Ensemble 0 - Passacaille
Composed by St
New York/Lexington Counterpoint - Steve Reich
- "World Premer of Steve Reich's "New York Counterpoint." Version for live Vibraphone and recorded Vibraphones and Marimbas"
Live in Geneva, Switzerland
- released 30 October 2009
Reza Mazandarani - Arghavan
Tags: Iranian singer, traditional, vocal iran, gharibaneh, iran, persian poems, setar, tar, Tehran
- There's not much info to find besides an event from 2011:
Brave Festival
And speaking of Iranian music free on Bandcamp...Naim Popol, Shahkhaye Bishkasta. He has 8 albums, all free. The earlier albums sound like Cool Tapes from Africa, but the later have higher production / quality.
Hanetration - Tenth Oar EP
- "Treading the lines between abstract industrialism and textured noise, Hanetration offsets these four self-released audio paintings with field recordings, manipulated glitches and subterranean ambience. Pealing away at the edges, twenty-nine minutes briskly float away as distressed electronic crackles, horns, reversed loops, fractured vocal samples and tangled strands cascade in a surreal dreamscape filled with ambiguity. As Hanetration deconstructs these pixelated sonic textures, one can easily lose themselves among the myriad of blurred effects that are punctuated by rhythmic patterns throughout. Tenth Oar is a well-balanced array of turbulentand often subtleexperiments that unfold with repeated listens. Fans of Fennesz and Boards of Canadas compressed interludes will certainly appreciate Hanetrations trajectory on this free-of-charge extended player."
- Igloo Magazine.
ETA: - Here´s what Savaran Music and Sound writes about it: - Well written and totally seconded !
Performed by
Olivia Pedroli Vocals, guitar, piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, harmonium
Valgeir Sigur
Christian Wolff: Edges
by Cobra Ensemble + Christian Wolff
Have been meaning to post this for a while...it's on the Bandcamp page of Matt Smiley, a bassist who has some other free jazz/improv things. He has a lengthy transcript of a rehearsal session on his blog. Apparently this is a "graphic or otherwise non-traditional score," and the composer and ensemble discuss approaches to rehearsing/playing same.
http://messagetobears.com/
If I like it, I'll put up a review on MiG for sure. I'd like to do an interview, too, but I've been saying stuff like that for months now.
North Atlantic Drift Canvas
NYOP very similar to Hammock high quality post rock
Destination Out records are on Bandcamp featuring Cecil Taylor, Evan Parker and many others hope there is something for all to enjoy
http://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/almeda-to-matie
I streamed Jay William Henderson, The Sun Will Burn Our Eyes. This is a mellow, neo-folk style album with a bit of ambient running in the background. Struck me as a less-weird Sufjan Stevens, worth a listen if you are into that sort of thing.
Amber Lions are:
Toni Ruiz: Guitars
Valerio Cosi: sax, flutes, electronics, drums, found sounds and strategies
Fernando, Josè, Artemì: guitars
Charlie: percussions
Alexander MacLachlan: acoustic guitar
Balletesque by The Young Republic
This album had tremendous reviews when it came out in 2009. It's a hybrid of chamber pop and Americana that reminds me of Old Ceremony. Free.
One of several releases from EMEFE - some NYOP, some free. On the boundaries of Afrobeat and Jazz.
This, their most recent release is described as follows:
Erdem Helvacioglu & Per Boysen -Sub City 2064
Erdem Helvacioglu
- Is one of the most renowned new music composers of his generation in Turkey. His music has ben performed and broadcast all around the world, included in many prestigious festivals and received numerous international electronic music awards including prizes from Luigi Gussolo, Insulae, Electronicae and MUSICA NOVA Electroacoustic Music Competitions. Erdem Helvacio?lu has been called the genius of unusual sounds by prestigious German magazine Ragazzi."
- http://www.erdemhelvacioglu.com/
- "Per Boysens live concerts focus on instrumental music with an openminded psychedelic touch, utilizing live looping and interactive electronics to extend traditional instruments in multi lateral improvisation. He is a Swedish freelance worker in many creative fields, often referred to as a renaissance man. Has toured worldwide as a musician, affiliated with both major record labels, small independent labels and as a self promoting artist. Former studio musician counting one gold selling album. Produced recorded music for CD, surround DVD multimedia, radio and television.[/i]
- http://www.perboysen.com/
- Emusic
ETA: Urgh, just noticed it's one track only. Oh well.
Trailblazer -- self-titled tape.
there's a bit of an unfinished quality to some of these songs, but it has hooks and energy in abundance, and i love the DIY aesthetic. also: free.
V/A - For Lee Jackson In Space
Edward Ka-Spel & The Silverman - Live in Denver 19 May 2012
- "The second show of a memorable weekend at The walnut Room in Denver. EK and Silverman grappling with technology on a set that featured unfamiliar and familiar material."
- The Setlist according to Wandrille from The LPD mailing list "Cloud Zero" with comments:
Part 1
The creature that tasted sound (over 17 min)
The warden (very psychedelic version)
Poppy day
Friendly fire (even better than on the CD)
Part 2
Prisoners of war
Third secret
Lilith's daughter
Part 3
Trapped in amber (22 min)
Fabio Orsi - Schwarz Not Not Dance
In the tags:
animal collective - elliot smith - exp
Craig
Wait...
You don't need to keep up with someone running in the opposite direction.