Head Dress Ted James Butler is a sound artist and musician actively recording under the name Head Dress. He hosts the long running cassette-based underground and experimental music podcast, Norelco Mori. In recent years, he has contributed sound design to both Arturia and Inear Display’s software instruments and effects.
Employing the use of guitars, fixed and modular synthesis, heavily processed vocals, an arsenal of drum machines, samplers and a liberal use of archaic recording techniques, Butler’s sound is characteristically hard to pin down. WarrenWarsaw Confidence IntervalsObituary Forced Appeal
Continuing going through jazz albums downloaded in eMusic days and not played much, if at all, since then. This is one I did play a few times but not since February 2020.
One of my favorite prog-ish albums of the last few years. According to a comment on their website there is supposed to be a follow-up album out tomorrow.
Well, I had to buy the Wilson too, and add the recent new Bruce Cockburn album - both very worthy additions to already rich catalogs. Between these and Bruce Soord and the new UPF album it's not been a cheap week.
@Germanprof Bruce Cockburn brought back memories of living in Canada in the late 70s.
Whilst Bruce Soord, another personal favourite. brought back memories of those excellent early The Pineapple Thief albums particularly "Little Man", "Tightly Unwound" and the compilation "3000 Days".
VERY excited to find this remastered version of this great album:
Michael Hoenig's classic debut from 1978 which I carefully remastered from April to September 2023 for better sound quality.
When released back in 1978, the album was met with mixed reviews and was compared to the works of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. However, Hoenig adopted a different approach towards composition than his friends (he collaborated with both of the above mentioned). Instead of improvising the tracks, he spent 20 months carefully composing and recording the music for the album. The primary sources of his inspiration were American minimal music composers - on the album, he used the language of polyrhythms, phase shifts and tonally centered compositions as popularized by Steve Reich, Terry Riley or Philip Glass.
Hoenig never released another album in this specific style. Later on, he contributed some cues for the soundtrack to the cult movie Koyaanisqatsi (1982, dir. Godfrey Reggio, music by Philip Glass), in 1987 he released a slightly more pop-oriented album Xcept One, followed by soundtracks to a horror movie and to a computer game.
You can download the remastered album here:
https://uloz.to/file/d3Ir0dW5Tn5w/mic...
Apart from lossless tracks, included are retouched high-resolution scans of the original album cover, an informative booklet, a demo of the title track (very interesting, even if low quality audio) and a browser-based player with side-by-side comparison of the remaster and the original album.
"So the point is that so much words existing, and we get better and better to use them for hiding the truth. You can use sound in the same way, stimulating some nice and warm feeling in middle of chaos, but from time to time we all should stimulate strictness, clearness, intensity, directness, set free some anger to bring up the basic truth of our present.
Noise can be seen as the chance to go into the back of things, as a therapy which is able to confront ourselves with others lesser good looking sides of life without getting frustrated by this. See it as a source of very special energies, it gives power to see more clear and swim against."
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Ted James Butler is a sound artist and musician actively recording under the name Head Dress. He hosts the long running cassette-based underground and experimental music podcast, Norelco Mori. In recent years, he has contributed sound design to both Arturia and Inear Display’s software instruments and effects.
Employing the use of guitars, fixed and modular synthesis, heavily processed vocals, an arsenal of drum machines, samplers and a liberal use of archaic recording techniques, Butler’s sound is characteristically hard to pin down.
Warren Warsaw
Confidence Intervals Obituary
Forced Appeal
Continuing going through jazz albums downloaded in eMusic days and not played much, if at all, since then. This is one I did play a few times but not since February 2020.
Heldon
Electronique Guerilla (Heldon I) Allez-Teia (Heldon II)
It's Always Rock'n'Roll (Heldon III) Agneta Nilsson (Heldon IV)
Particularly if I'm playing "Even Less" off their "Stupid Dream" album!
If only the reformed band would come and play live in Australia!
Un rêve sans conséquence spéciale (Heldon V) Interface (Heldon VI)
Stand By (Heldon VII) Richard Pinhas, Heldon, Schizo, T.H.X.
- Single Collection 1972-1980
Well, I had to buy the Wilson too, and add the recent new Bruce Cockburn album - both very worthy additions to already rich catalogs. Between these and Bruce Soord and the new UPF album it's not been a cheap week.
Whilst Bruce Soord, another personal favourite. brought back memories of those excellent early The Pineapple Thief albums particularly "Little Man", "Tightly Unwound" and the compilation "3000 Days".
So, many thanks for taking me down memory lane!
German composer, born November 27, 1935 in Stuttgart.
After his music studies (piano a.o.) at the Stuttgart Conservatory, Helmut Lachenmann went on to study composition first in Venice with Luigi Nono, then with Karlheinz Stockhausen.
His first works marked the beginning of his systematic exploration of the various modes of instrumental playing, electing as the very project of his oeuvre the noises produced during instrumental playing and the dynamic qualities of such sounds.Lachenmann likes to describe it as "instrumental musique concrète". He is acknowledged as the leader of the "Klang Composition" school.
Gran Torso / Salut Für Caudwell Allegro Sostenuto/Pression/Dal Niente/Intérieur I
ubu.com archive.org
Ausklang / Tableau Kontrakadenz/Klangschatten-mein Saitenspiel/Fassade
archive.org archive.org
Brilliant, simple as that
Michael Hoenig's classic debut from 1978 which I carefully remastered from April to September 2023 for better sound quality. When released back in 1978, the album was met with mixed reviews and was compared to the works of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. However, Hoenig adopted a different approach towards composition than his friends (he collaborated with both of the above mentioned). Instead of improvising the tracks, he spent 20 months carefully composing and recording the music for the album. The primary sources of his inspiration were American minimal music composers - on the album, he used the language of polyrhythms, phase shifts and tonally centered compositions as popularized by Steve Reich, Terry Riley or Philip Glass. Hoenig never released another album in this specific style. Later on, he contributed some cues for the soundtrack to the cult movie Koyaanisqatsi (1982, dir. Godfrey Reggio, music by Philip Glass), in 1987 he released a slightly more pop-oriented album Xcept One, followed by soundtracks to a horror movie and to a computer game. You can download the remastered album here: https://uloz.to/file/d3Ir0dW5Tn5w/mic... Apart from lossless tracks, included are retouched high-resolution scans of the original album cover, an informative booklet, a demo of the title track (very interesting, even if low quality audio) and a browser-based player with side-by-side comparison of the remaster and the original album.
NOISE AS A LANGUAGE
"So the point is that so much words existing, and we get better and better to use them for hiding the truth. You can use sound in the same way, stimulating some nice and warm feeling in middle of chaos, but from time to time we all should stimulate strictness, clearness, intensity, directness, set free some anger to bring up the basic truth of our present.
Noise can be seen as the chance to go into the back of things, as a therapy which is able to confront ourselves with others lesser good looking sides of life without getting frustrated by this. See it as a source of very special energies, it gives power to see more clear and swim against."
(Helmut Schaefer)
Zbigniew Karkowski & Helmut Schäfer Isolated Irritation archive.org
- Disruptor archive.org
Kraków, 05.03.05 Bandcamp nyop Thought Provoking III archive.org
Johan Graden - Piano
Josefin Runsteen - Violin
Johan Lindström - Pedal Steel Guitar
Mattias Ståhl - Vibraphone
Petter Eldh - Bass
Konrad Agnas - Drums
Yup. I agree. Thanks for the info. I'm in the middle of track 4
and I can already tell that this is gonna get some airplay on "Random..."
thanks again!
AMG says "Veneer is a striking collection of hushed and autumnal indie pop bedroom songs"
Oh yes this is ticking a lot of boxes. Thanks for the heads up! Do you know the previous albums?