Just hit a motherload of old files on a back-up of a retired external drive. Just two tracks, the first a slow piece for solo veena the second an up tempo rhythmic work out. Very good recording. From sharity blog days. Sighs...
Thanks for those links. I've heard plenty of veena music previously (live on a couple of occassions) and plenty of Carnatic music. One thing I haven't got sorted in my head is the essential differences in the northern and southern styles. I have it in my head that Hindustani music broadly equates to a more rigid or courtly style while the south brings us something all together loser. This is probably completely wrong.
Anyway Random Radio 53 was a great listen yesterday as events unfolded, ok collapsed at Westminster and I'm looking forward to RR #77 after I've done my morning file exploring starting here
Bingo Miki & The Inner Galaxy Orchestra - Montreux Cyclone on the great 3 Blind Mice label!
Thanks for those links. I've heard plenty of veena music previously (live on a couple of occassions) and plenty of Carnatic music. One thing I haven't got sorted in my head is the essential differences in the northern and southern styles. I have it in my head that Hindustani music broadly equates to a more rigid or courtly style while the south brings us something all together loser. This is probably completely wrong.
Anyway Random Radio 53 was a great listen yesterday as events unfolded, ok collapsed at Westminster and I'm looking forward to RR #77 after I've done my morning file exploring...
Actually, your differentiations are correct, but you have them reversed. Carnatic music of South India is the more structured and refined of the two while the Hindustani of the North is more of an improvisational style. This is kinda simplistic, but a breakdown and description of Persian influence on the North or the emphasis on spiritual subject manner on the South plus so much else would stretch this out to many paragraphs, but, yes, essential differences are definitely there and can be very mood enhancing either way.
Hope you enjoy #72 (if that's what you meant) - and #77 (if you're into dancehall)!
eythian - I picked up this and The Theory of Everything last week on Bandcamp. Someone IRL recommended Nightwish, and poking around there led me to Arjen Anthony Lucassen / Ayreon. I have fallen into the deep rabbit hole of Finnish and Dutch prog metal...
Also check out his side projects, there's a few of them, the only one that comes to mind right now is Star One. Northern Europe prog metal is a pretty deep rabbit hole indeed. I'm also fond of Anathema (British), and mostly the stuff from Eternity and afterwards, that's about when they moved from doom metal to prog metal. There's a spinoff band called Antimatter also which might appeal.
Another great Prog Metal band (though not Finnish or Dutch!) is O.S.I. (Office of Strategic Influence), particularly their first s/t album.
The band is made up of members from Dream Theater, Chroma Key and Fates Warning. It also features one of my all-time favourite Prog artists, Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree.
Attaching Softness is a collection of detailed microsound pieces
including collaborative works with Calika and Henry Duclos. It includes
the original full-length version of Attaching Softness to a Shell. This
track amplifies and recontextualises the musicality of natural sounds,
setting them in an environment musical and rhythmic flows. At times the
track is pure recordings (incorporating the work of Professor Andrea
Polli - who extrapolated data regarding hurricanes and used this to
generate sound).
One of those records that got rediscovered a few years back. Valente (aka Chet Powers by birth and other names depending) was on the West Coast involved with assorted groups such as the proto Quicksilver Messenger Service, he joined a later version of that band around 1970. Previously was a folk singer (and this lp sounds a little like a mellow Tim Buckley). Album recorded after he'd done a year in prison after a drug bust. The album got a boost when Valenete opened for Hendrix at some Winterland shows. There's a photo online of Hendrix brushing Valente's hair which is a bit of a laugh. There's a good version of the John Phillips composed, made famous by The Grateful Dead song Me and me Uncle I've yet to hear the Joni Mitchell version!
Giving the drummer some on a Sunday morning - not that you'd necessarily realise these were both solo albums by a drummer. The musical saw alone is worth the price of admission. Your milage may vary.
Soon after I got my current iPhone about two years ago, I'd added around 380 or so albums in Lossless format, nearly 20 days worth. That has now gone upto 420 albums, some of then double or even treble CDs. I decided that I'd play each track at least once during 2021 on a random basis. I've just finished 22 months later with a track from this album. That's around 7200 items. I've played other music too in that time and some albums have been played way more than once. I've now selected another 320 albums, mostly downloaded from eMusic to try to play at least once by the end of 2023 alongside all the other listening I do.
I've played this a number of times since buying it last month but over the hi-fi it didn't really grab me, probably because we tend to keep the volume low while reading. Listening this morning on headphones and its a whole other deep listening experience.
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If you’re interested in more of the Carnatic style, you might want to listen to this.
It’s a mix that features quite a bit of the veena:
https://www.mixcloud.com/rostasi/random-radio-053-ವಣ-ವದ-ವಷ-veena-veda-veeshi/
The Hindustani corollary can be found here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/rostasi/random-radio-072-ವಣ-ವದ-ವಷ-veena-veda-veeshi-2/
Carnatic music of South India is the more structured and refined of the two
while the Hindustani of the North is more of an improvisational style.
This is kinda simplistic, but a breakdown and description of Persian influence
on the North or the emphasis on spiritual subject manner on the South plus
so much else would stretch this out to many paragraphs, but, yes, essential
differences are definitely there and can be very mood enhancing either way.
Hope you enjoy #72 (if that's what you meant) - and #77 (if you're into dancehall)!
but that was over two years ago. Shivkumar Sharma has since died.
The band is made up of members from Dream Theater, Chroma Key and Fates Warning. It also features one of my all-time favourite Prog artists, Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree.
Braxton Quartet (San Jose), 1976
Attaching Softness is a collection of detailed microsound pieces including collaborative works with Calika and Henry Duclos. It includes the original full-length version of Attaching Softness to a Shell. This track amplifies and recontextualises the musicality of natural sounds, setting them in an environment musical and rhythmic flows. At times the track is pure recordings (incorporating the work of Professor Andrea Polli - who extrapolated data regarding hurricanes and used this to generate sound).
バーチャルボーイＡ ｔ ｓ ｕ in my library.
夕方の犬 = Dog In The Evening - Low Temperature Room
all are NYOP
Soon after I got my current iPhone about two years ago, I'd added around 380 or so albums in Lossless format, nearly 20 days worth. That has now gone upto 420 albums, some of then double or even treble CDs. I decided that I'd play each track at least once during 2021 on a random basis. I've just finished 22 months later with a track from this album. That's around 7200 items. I've played other music too in that time and some albums have been played way more than once. I've now selected another 320 albums, mostly downloaded from eMusic to try to play at least once by the end of 2023 alongside all the other listening I do.
Sunk Ice Heritage
The Eye Within