Recollection GRM (Editions Mego), February 5, 2021
LA GRANDE VALLÉE (1993/95), 20’41
Musical composition, design and sound production carried out at the INA grm Studios (Paris) in 1993/95
MICRO-CLIMAT (1989/90), 21’33
Micro-climat is the first movement of the Sirrus cycle (Micro-climat, Passerelle, Sirrus) composed in 1989/90
and available here on Lionel's Bandcamp, which is classified chronologically…
Stuart Staples was already nurturing seeds for a different kind of
Tindersticks album before lockdown halted their tour in early 2020. If
2019’s “No Treasure but Hope” saw the band rediscovering themselves as a
unit, the follow-up reconfigures that unit so that everything familiar
about Tindersticks sounds fresh again. “Distractions” is an album of
subtle realignments and connections from a restless, intuitive band.
Rich in texture and atmosphere, it lives between its open spaces and
details, always finding new ways to connect with a song.
If it’s an album that resists easy summation, at least one thing is
clear: though it isn’t untouched by the lockdown, “Distractions” is not
‘a lockdown album’. As Staples says, “I think the confinement provided
an opportunity for something that was already happening. It is
definitely a part of the album, but not a reaction to it.”
- is the album created using the
stems of the Alkisah album by Indonesian duo Senyawa, featuring
reinterpretations by regional artists GOD IS WAR, FRKTL, Prophän and
fatalism; and local artists jinjin, SKYLA, 1800s Internet, and Bashar
Suleiman.
Alkisah is co-released by over 40 independent record labels from all
over the globe. This remix cassette tape tells the story of doomsday in a
variety of musical genres from sacred ambient to club, highlighting
Senyawa's wizardry.
This CD premieres ten works from David Lee Myers, the “Darwin of electromagnetic lifeforms."
The album’s content spontaneously emerged
from Myers’ self-designed, hand-built conglomerations of elaborately
interconnected sound processing devices, with no external audio input.
Some call the results “sounds from the ether” (hence this album’s
title).
The CD’s music is distinctive and enticing. We hear an hallucinatory
trip to a Martian jungle; irregular bongos overlaid with frog-croaked
arpeggios; a rapidly sputtering, helium-inhaling synthesizer; a demented
organ, gasping for life; all concluding with the placid atmosphere of dorsal streaming, tinged with calming panpipe-like chuffing.
"My sound works are the result of capture,
selection, processing and combination. Essentially, I do not create
sounds or compose, but allow latent or unseen forces and processes to
present themselves via simple technologies. I select the methods, set
the stage, and as the phenomena emerge I of course introduce my own
aesthetic judgements to the mix. Therefore the sounds which are
presented are neither completely random science nor the gesture of an
artist's hand, but something between the two, and I believe this to be
the most effective approach toward evoking meaningful impressions of
unseen worlds."
Collaborations with other artists
have included Asmus Tietchens, Tod Dockstader, Ellen Band, Marco
Oppedisano, Thomas Dimuzio, Gen Ken Montgomery, Alexander Ross, and
VidnaObmana.
released March 19, 2020 David Lee Myers: feedback matrices and sound mangling at Pulsewidth studio, Black Spring day one
"Audio drama for your ears and mind. Suggested for play in the dark!"
released March 5, 2021
- "Two Eventide H9 processors go at each other in a battle to the death via
matrix mixing. The result was both curiously satisfying and impossible
to duplicate. All sounds generated by the H9s, no oscillators,
sequencers etc. Certainly no organs! Rather lo-fi at points, but perhaps
better to present this as-is since it cannot be recreated."
“Ann Elisha Westergaard Hansen, songwriter, singer and guitarist, and
Ole Tin Westergaard Hansen, songwriter, producer, trumpet-player and
multi- instrumentalist – have made a masterpiece of an album here in the
beginning of 2021.
Melodic power and lyrics that touches you right away. A production with
so many details and layers that alone for that reason should be
mandatory for music lovers. It has a sublime wood-like - and at the same
time floating - aesthetic, and is also just basically catchy. Yet, it
is not an easily digestible diet suited for dishwashing. It calls for
re-listening and immersion. And it makes invitation to go to a place
that I think many of us longs for. A place where - in the same breath –
one can find stillness and yet stretch the neck to see and understand
more of the world and oneself. The album rotates in my home around the
clock at the moment.”
Laurie Pepper's Straight Life - her book about Art Pepper is a widely praised biography of her husband. Now she is reading it and the files are available (MP3 and FLAC) at Bandcamp for NYOP.
Maestro melodist Christophe Petchanatz (aka Klimperei) and all around
music fanatic David Fenech engage remotely in a repetitive exchange of
recordings and overdubs on their debut album titled ‘Rainbow de Nuit’,
sporadically spanning over the last decade. Evocations of experimental
and improvised jazz, chansonesque songs, bluesy folk, and outsider music
undulate harmoniously across the record. From music boxes and
walkie-talkies down to plastic straws, plucking various stringed
instruments such as the charrango and banjo, kazoos and snake-charmer
ocarina and flutes, all the way through the sweet accordion and
melodica, found and traditional tuned percussion - there is far from a
shortage of sound sources on this freakishly inviting record. What
germinates as an imaginative and emotional chord progression played by
Klimperei, evolves with Fenech layering additional recordings, which
would then find their way back home to Klimperei yet again, and so on,
and so forth. This recursive compositional and improvisational loop,
combined with Fenech’s musique-concrete-like mixing and editing
techniques, transforms the acoustic recordings by way of compression,
saturation, and reverberation or simple pitch changes - resulting in the
duo’s recordings seemingly sound like
they may very well be an octet in real time. While the majority of the
recordings have been ping-ponged remotely, David and Christophe unite
under one roof to record the closing track of the album.
The pieces presented on ‘Rainbow de Nuit’ treat the ears to a carousel
ride waltzing through a multiverse made up of surrealist puppet
theaters, dramatic film noir act changes, and a mosaic of polyphonic
instruments and toys alike. In other words, a score to a fable brought
to life with haunting yet charming melodies and occasional hallucinatory
voices reminiscent of laughter and infantile epiphanies which we hear
on Tarzan en Tasmanie and Madrigal for Lola. This is taken a step
further by Fenech, to a brief libretto of incomprehensible tongues on
Pocarina. Amid the mysterious and dark (Septième Ciel and Rugit Le
Coeur) also lies tender and simple compositions (Rainbow de Nuit and
Chevalier Gambette), murky suspenseful melancholy (Levy Attend and Eno
Ennio), and casually slipping into pensive psychedelic backdrops (Un
Cercueil à Deux Places) - forming a colorful blend of sounds. A world of
echoes. A tale of tales. One persistent earworm that you’ll likely be
whistling and humming along to on a first listen.
Due out September 24 on Concord. Corea, Patitucci & Weckl performing as the Akoustic Band some 33 years after their first release as the Elektric Band. Like that 1985 release (Live from Elario's) this is from a live performance. 2 cds or 3 lps.
Just to point out that many of the releases on the WBGO list - which is pretty much a list of all the interesting jazz coming this fall - are available for pre-order at Bandcamp. However, none of the labels for these releases have current albums available at eMusic.
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Musical composition, design and sound production carried out at the INA grm Studios (Paris) in 1993/95
Micro-climat is the first movement of the Sirrus cycle (Micro-climat, Passerelle, Sirrus) composed in 1989/90
and available here on Lionel's Bandcamp, which is classified chronologically…
Senyawa
Alkisah is co-released by over 40 independent record labels from all over the globe. This remix cassette tape tells the story of doomsday in a variety of musical genres from sacred ambient to club, highlighting Senyawa's wizardry.
new piece on bandcamp for string quartet #minimalism
Alice Bag – vox
Jherek Bischoff – double bass
John Congleton – optigan, granular sampler
Zachary Dawes – double bass, bass guitar
Deb Demure – vox
Valerie Diaz – vox
Haley Fohr – vox
Liz Harris – vox
David Kendrick – drum kit, bongos, percussion
Charlie Looker – guitar, bass guitar
Jonathan Meiburg – vox, animal calls
Owen Pallett – vox
Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo – vox
Susanne Sachsse – vox
Gwendolyn Sanford – vox, experimental vox
Greg Saunier – vox, guitar, bass guitar, cymbals, synth, sampler
Angela Seo – vox, piano, harmonium, gongs, percussion, bass synth
Jamie Stewart – vox, bass guitar, guitar, organ, drum box, autoharp, viola, stylophone, xylophone, bajo quinto, mandolin,
synth, banjo, percussion, sampler
Twin Shadow – vox, saxophone
Sharon Van Etten – vox
Chelsea Wolfe – vox
so, yeah, they're hanging in there.
https://www.mosaicrecords.com/genres.asp?dept=98
There is going to be a monster-sized (12 LP, 8 CD) new "Complete Live at the Lighthouse" set. Looks like the full Mosaic-style package, though issued by Blue Note https://www.wbgo.org/music/2021-06-03/a-legendary-stand-by-the-lee-morgan-quintet-finally-sees-full-release-as-the-complete-live-at-the-lighthouse