Lifting its title from a Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks song from their 1995 album, Orange Crate Art, this sublime new Klimek album engages with that age-old idea of creating soundtracks for films that don't exist. The actual track titles themselves reveal inspiration has been taken from famed film theorist and philosopher Slavoj Zizek, with feelgood names like 'Exposed to Life In Its Brutal Meaninglessness' littered ambiguously throughout the sequence. The musical content plays against the pre-conceptions of what we expect from film soundtracks - often by integrating sliced up field recordings and location sound with digitally dissected orchestral figures. The customary levels of depth and sonic richness you'd expect from a Sebastian Meissner production are abundant throughout Movies Is Magic, although there's a knowingly 'meta' approach to its cinematic soundscaping that makes you very aware of its processes; this isn't so much a suite of film music as it is an electroacoustic project about film music in general. Meissner strives to evoke images with acousmatic sound rather than accompany existing ones, and in this pursuit he proves highly successful, immersing the listener in a sound world that's populated by menacingly veiled environmental details and the dangerous faux-romanticism of orchestral syrup. Above all - it's just an incredibly beautiful album and another precious addition to the already formidable Klimek archive. Essential Purchase. - boomkat
Was introduced to her on the Jeff Beck Rock and Roll Tribute to Les Paul program, and until that comes out in February (that was her band on the show BTW), I ordered this from Amazon - Love Tattoo, currently $9.97.
@Brighternow, cool, you're welcome. I've just tagged Dedications part 2 as a continuation of the original album so I hear them both when I go there. And yes, Movies is Magic has some magic too - they are both albums that got overtaken too quickly by the next thing I downloaded a while back - I've got them pegged for some more revisiting this weekend :-).
the first documented collaboration between Phillips (Line, Non Visual Objects, and/oar) and Laplante (for4ears) is an investigation and manipulation of deliberate, miniscule acoustic sounds. They created the sounds together at Laplante's studio in montreal and then went their separate ways to take their sounds and form them into works individual to each artist.
With this latest work, Gordon brings us a sublime composition in four parts, composed of nothing but solo lap steel guitar, performed to utter perfection. The best word we can use to describe this album is "dreamy". While listening, one feels as if one is floating in the clouds, softly drifting with the breeze in a sky of purest blue...We listen to a lot of ambient music, but we would be very hard pressed to find a more delightfully comforting album than this one.
(OK, this label can get sappy, but this is indeed a beautifully dreamy record.)
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Stepping outside of my comfort zone to give this a listen.
Left my stupid external HD at home...
Chiming guitars, reverbed harmonies, what's not to love? Name you price.
self consciously "chillwave." likeable. free.
The kid has had The Nightmare Before Christmas playing everyday for the last week so this felt right.
Doing some virtual crate digging, haven't heard this one in a few years.
Unearthing some forgotten goodness.
free sampler. real nice so far.
So delightful: Dub House infused Swing.
coming soon to a neighborhood near you
Dedications by Klimek
Under the Greenwood Tree: Carols of Hardy's Wessex
The Mellstock Band on authentic instruments
These are truly "oldies". Highly recommended.
Re: Dedications by Klimek
Oh boy ! This is just soooo brilliant !
I found it in one of my Amie folders together with:
Dedications pt. 2 (not on emu) (boomkat)
- And this totally mindblowing album:
Movies is Magic - What can I say but thank you very very much !
One of my favorite releases of '08: funky, dirty, and drizzled with staggeringly drunk paranoid beats.
A pleasant bit of avant garde from d'incise and others. Free.
From the NW/CRI drop--awesome!
"Monodrama", a 31 minute piece. Excellent. It's one of the albums in Dacapo's advent calendar, so the track was free.
- Excellently performed straight forward popmusic.
Edit: the label, afmusic is also on eMusic.
Tomas Phillips & Chantale Laplante - Chair Bell Floor
- Also @ Bandcamp.
Listen or download here or here
(OK, this label can get sappy, but this is indeed a beautifully dreamy record.)
- With Amanda "fucking" Palmer.
Another one of those name your price "things".
- Once you get started with Bandcamp, there's really no end to the pleasant surprises !
edit: Amanda's Bandcamp page
After which I broke down on:
actually, Marc Bolan was first choice as the replacement for Brian Jones*....didn't work out though,
seems he hopped too much for Mick's liking
*bold faced lie
- Earcandy for all experimental/electronic/avantgarde "art bears".
(NYP @ BC)
Must consolidate to 80 minutes.