"On the Keira EP Susso, aka double bassist/ producer Huw Bennett, created music inspired by, and by directly sampling, the magnificent sounds of the Mandinka people, recorded during a trip to Gambia in 2013. Initially traveling with the aim of gaining perspective as a musician, and to discover some great music, Huw found himself humbled beyond belief by such a welcoming community of artists."
Just dropped my car off to be repaired. The guy who drove me home asked me if work had eased off now that the summer break is here. Wrong question. Been pulling loooong hours for several weeks on some big research projects. No, academics do not do nothing all summer. (And in my world hours have little to do with pay). /rant.
@ GP - Having been there and got the tee-shirt I know exactly what you mean! Teaching PGCE, which was the first course to start each year and the last to finish, even colleagues in other faculties used to annoy us by similar comments. And then school teachers used to think we had 13 or 14 week holidays. I could go on....but you know exactly the situation. For us the only time you could do serious reading, research etc was the summer period.
Streaming from Bandcamp, A Story of The City: Constantinople, Istanbul by Schola Cantorum, Ensemble Trinitas, The New England Mehterhane and five different DÜNYA ensembles. Falls into the "early music" category, with a middle eastern flavor.
@greg, yes, and this summer has ended up worse than most. Partly a victim of success - went for two big-ish research grants last year and ended up landing both of them. The downside of landing big grants is that they then expect you to do some work for them...:-) while the normal work doesn't necessarily stop to wait until you're done.
After two listens through both, I like the Tafelmusik collection better. Don't know Telemann enough yet to know if it's the music or the performance, but this collection often feels a bit affectively flat to me.
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"On the Keira EP Susso, aka double bassist/ producer Huw Bennett, created music inspired by, and by directly sampling, the magnificent sounds of the Mandinka people, recorded during a trip to Gambia in 2013. Initially traveling with the aim of gaining perspective as a musician, and to discover some great music, Huw found himself humbled beyond belief by such a welcoming community of artists."
Available for £5 at Bandcamp
Just dropped my car off to be repaired. The guy who drove me home asked me if work had eased off now that the summer break is here. Wrong question. Been pulling loooong hours for several weeks on some big research projects. No, academics do not do nothing all summer. (And in my world hours have little to do with pay). /rant.
Craig
@ GP - Having been there and got the tee-shirt I know exactly what you mean! Teaching PGCE, which was the first course to start each year and the last to finish, even colleagues in other faculties used to annoy us by similar comments. And then school teachers used to think we had 13 or 14 week holidays. I could go on....but you know exactly the situation. For us the only time you could do serious reading, research etc was the summer period.
Craig
LA Priest - Inji
Dripped by Domino this week. Downtempo electro soul. Pretty enjoyable really.
Craig
Anybody remember Beachwood Sparks?
Loading some old albums to my MP3 today:
Bliss - Quiet Letters
Rank _ The Smiths
followed by
Mr Hudson & The Library - A tales of 2 cities
Girlpool - Before The World Was Big
Teresa Rampazzi - Musica Endoscopica