Posted here, first off all because it's brilliant, but also because it's free. It is quite clear to me that Iapetus has picked the very best from their catalogue.
Highlights from first listening:
Centrozoon
Markus Reuter & Robert Rich
Zweiton (kargatron ?) - The album
The Redundant Rocker
Syntony
- More Milhaven, from january 2012: Found on caspian community board: ..."Remember milhaven from way back. strange history somewhere in up state new york. ever heard of 'strawberry alarmclock'? my color theory teacher in college was in a band that opened for them - they did 'incense and peppermints'. they were a landmark bubblegum pop band back in the 1960's after a whirlwind career they quit the music industry and moved to germany started a commune and became buddies with this other band 'das 4' - that would soon become kraftwerk. members of both bands had kids and got older, the younger generation of kids from kraftwerk and strawberry alarmclock started a new band named after the town in germany where their parents started the commune: Milhaven"...
- http://milhaven.org
ETA: Jens Reichelt: drums
Johannes Zagermann: bass
Christoph Freudenberg: guitar
Andreas Fanter: guitar - "Milhaven are a four-piece from Bochum, Germany . . . . . Great classical & fresh-sounding post-rock. contradiction? not with those guys." http://www.valeot.com/milhaven.html
"Effortlessly seductive, reducing odd syllables to a whisper, a sense of calm weeping from every note in spite of the articulation of loss and loneliness, confusion and incomprehension, fears and pains, yearnings and soft burnings . . . The album is a triumph of minimalism, dreamscapes gently stirred to pale life through the gentle fingering of fretboards and keyboards . . . Grasping at clouds and clinging to Gabriel's frayed gown. A wonder." (MELODY MAKER)
Name your price: The Legendary Pink Dots - Come out from the Shadows
Released 10 February 2013
- "A slow trawl through a box of old DAT tapes can be worthwhile. Here are unreleased improvisations from the 90s together with rare versions of snippets from Shadow Weaver/ Malachai. Enjoy. . ."
- Edward Ka-Spel.
I've never really sought out anything in the 8-bit/chiptune scene, but I saw the artwork for this and really wanted the physical copy. It's very cool if you like that style.
This is a new project from Yair Yona, and it is quite a departure. His previous work has been solo acoustic guitar in the John Fahey / Leo Kottke tradition. Farthest South is improvisation, with elements of post-rock (Godspeed!, Explosions in the Sky)) and Jazz ("including the free jazz and improvisation maestro Albert Beger"). The Bandcamp page has two other NYOP albums, they look like practice tapes, I have not sampled them yet. Line up: Yair Etziony - electronics; Yair Yona - bass + effects; Barry Berko - guitar; Sivan Zeimer - visuals.
Name your price: - "Outstanding Organ-infused tropicalia and homemade ethnodelic amazonian fantasies. Piotr Kurek is a musician, composer and enthusiast collector of instruments and vintage studio equipment. He is the author of numerous pieces for theatre and contemporary dance performances. In the late 1990s he was the co-founder of the electronic group Slepcy and since then hes been releasing music for various record labels and has participated in international theatre and music festivals.
Piotr Kureks Heat was originally released in December 2011 as a limited edition cassette by Digitalis LTD (sold out shortly after the original release date). Most of the sounds in Heat originate from various exotic records, from documentary movies or archives, or were recorded in studio using vintage organs, electric piano and synthesizers. Starting from an original idea of creating a specific music concrete album deeply rooted in archival nature, Heat emerged as a rich organ-infused tropicalia where everything was blurred in greenish-brown and sultry air"
- Soundohm - http://www.piotrkurek.com/
Master-of-tape-loops Jason Lescalleet has his compilation of early works This Is What I Do - volume 1 available at bandcamp now. Fine stuff for the experimental fans here.
Thanks for the Jason Lescalleet pointer, Karg . . . Sounds nice . . . . .
Outstanding saxophone performance by Mr. Butcher: To say that John Butcher has made a science of the saxophone is no idle chatter. By the time he earned a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College in 1977, Butcher had already turned his attention to the saxophone. Over the ensuing decades, he has developed a thoroughly unique language based on an intense understanding of the properties of air moving through a tube. Few have done as much to advance the language of the saxophone since John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders and the fiery explosion of the 1960s than Butcher has.
In more recent years he has extended his sound chamber to include the whole of the space hes playing in sometimes as large as an empty water cistern in Scotland, a 400-foot tall gas pipe in Germany or a lava-carved cavern in Japan. He has played in windstorms, allowing the elements to blow through the mouthpiece as he positioned and fingered the horn. And he has reduced the playing field to the horns interior, using a microphone positioned inside the bell to create what is essentially a device for controlling and modifying feedback. . . . .
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Jazz Voice and Guitar NYOP
Folllwing from Germanprof Mark McGuire new realease posting this is on Bandcamp which is a live recording free to download
Highlights from first listening:
Centrozoon
Markus Reuter & Robert Rich
Zweiton (kargatron ?) - The album
The Redundant Rocker
Syntony
- But not at all Christmas'ish . . .
http://milhaven.org/
Found on caspian community board:
..."Remember milhaven from way back. strange history somewhere in up state new york. ever heard of 'strawberry alarmclock'? my color theory teacher in college was in a band that opened for them - they did 'incense and peppermints'. they were a landmark bubblegum pop band back in the 1960's after a whirlwind career they quit the music industry and moved to germany started a commune and became buddies with this other band 'das 4' - that would soon become kraftwerk. members of both bands had kids and got older, the younger generation of kids from kraftwerk and strawberry alarmclock started a new band named after the town in germany where their parents started the commune: Milhaven"...
- http://milhaven.org
ETA:
Jens Reichelt: drums
Johannes Zagermann: bass
Christoph Freudenberg: guitar
Andreas Fanter: guitar
- "Milhaven are a four-piece from Bochum, Germany . . . . . Great classical & fresh-sounding post-rock. contradiction? not with those guys."
http://www.valeot.com/milhaven.html
Quite Jolly Brit singer, worth a listen NYOP
NYOP
Music from Saharan Cellphones - Volume-2. $5 well spent, my vinyl copy came yesterday from Kickstarter.
- With excellent tracks from Pollen Trio, Seaworthy AMO.
"Effortlessly seductive, reducing odd syllables to a whisper, a sense of calm weeping from every note in spite of the articulation of loss and loneliness, confusion and incomprehension, fears and pains, yearnings and soft burnings . . . The album is a triumph of minimalism, dreamscapes gently stirred to pale life through the gentle fingering of fretboards and keyboards . . . Grasping at clouds and clinging to Gabriel's frayed gown. A wonder." (MELODY MAKER)
Steve Roach, Erik Wallo and Others
Both NYOP
- This is my page.
Craig
Valgeir Sigur
Hibernate Records Sampler 6 out now NYOP
and this one as well
Craig
The Legendary Pink Dots - Come out from the Shadows
Released 10 February 2013
- "A slow trawl through a box of old DAT tapes can be worthwhile. Here are unreleased improvisations from the 90s together with rare versions of snippets from Shadow Weaver/ Malachai. Enjoy. . ."
- Edward Ka-Spel.
I've never really sought out anything in the 8-bit/chiptune scene, but I saw the artwork for this and really wanted the physical copy. It's very cool if you like that style.
This is a new project from Yair Yona, and it is quite a departure. His previous work has been solo acoustic guitar in the John Fahey / Leo Kottke tradition. Farthest South is improvisation, with elements of post-rock (Godspeed!, Explosions in the Sky)) and Jazz ("including the free jazz and improvisation maestro Albert Beger"). The Bandcamp page has two other NYOP albums, they look like practice tapes, I have not sampled them yet. Line up: Yair Etziony - electronics; Yair Yona - bass + effects; Barry Berko - guitar; Sivan Zeimer - visuals.
There is a video, or you can stream the 4-track, forty minute album at Bandcamp. It is worth the $4.
- "Outstanding Organ-infused tropicalia and homemade ethnodelic amazonian fantasies. Piotr Kurek is a musician, composer and enthusiast collector of instruments and vintage studio equipment. He is the author of numerous pieces for theatre and contemporary dance performances. In the late 1990s he was the co-founder of the electronic group Slepcy and since then hes been releasing music for various record labels and has participated in international theatre and music festivals.
Piotr Kureks Heat was originally released in December 2011 as a limited edition cassette by Digitalis LTD (sold out shortly after the original release date). Most of the sounds in Heat originate from various exotic records, from documentary movies or archives, or were recorded in studio using vintage organs, electric piano and synthesizers. Starting from an original idea of creating a specific music concrete album deeply rooted in archival nature, Heat emerged as a rich organ-infused tropicalia where everything was blurred in greenish-brown and sultry air"
- Soundohm - http://www.piotrkurek.com/
The label Glistening Examples also has a soundcloud page with excerpts, including from Lescalleet's touching memorial to his father, The Pilgrim.
Outstanding saxophone performance by Mr. Butcher:
To say that John Butcher has made a science of the saxophone is no idle chatter. By the time he earned a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College in 1977, Butcher had already turned his attention to the saxophone. Over the ensuing decades, he has developed a thoroughly unique language based on an intense understanding of the properties of air moving through a tube. Few have done as much to advance the language of the saxophone since John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders and the fiery explosion of the 1960s than Butcher has.
In more recent years he has extended his sound chamber to include the whole of the space hes playing in sometimes as large as an empty water cistern in Scotland, a 400-foot tall gas pipe in Germany or a lava-carved cavern in Japan. He has played in windstorms, allowing the elements to blow through the mouthpiece as he positioned and fingered the horn. And he has reduced the playing field to the horns interior, using a microphone positioned inside the bell to create what is essentially a device for controlling and modifying feedback. . . . .