The "classical" music you buy from Boomkat (2010): a thread to discuss Sylvain Chauveau, Johann Johannsson, Peter Broderick, Olafur Arnalds and others

On the recordings, I like the "whole thing" - the strings, the processing, the production, the electronic bits. When I saw him live, I just kind of thought I'd rather just hear the strings and that the other sounds felt too incongruous.

... Actually, I didn't enjoy it live to a point that it *slightly* put me off the records.

Had forgotten how much I enjoyed Richard Skelton's Landings

― djh, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:36 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark

Man... just discovered this today and it's jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Fantastic, meditative and ethereal music. Shoots straight to my heart.

Anyone else heard the Le Lendemain album called Fires? Got turned onto it by the guy at Penguin who knows I'm into Johannsson etc, and it certainly fits into that whole vein.

Have really learned to love the Winged Victory album - it's also put me onto the solo Dustin O'Halloran albums and all of the Stars of the Lid stuff, too - all of them are on Rdio thankfully!

For my birthday last year my wife got me one of Richard Skelton's special editions - a CD of exclusive tracks and a beautiful box containing various cool things. I don't have physical copies of any other music these days, but all of his stuff is so gorgeously packaged that I have them all out on display.

We're definitely moving into the time of year where I listen to Skelton every weekend morning around dawn.

Have really learned to love the Winged Victory album - it's also put me onto the solo Dustin O'Halloran albums and all of the Stars of the Lid stuff, too - all of them are on Rdio thankfully!

awesome!

Anyone else heard the Le Lendemain album called Fires? Got turned onto it by the guy at Penguin who knows I'm into Johannsson etc, and it certainly fits into that whole vein.

― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, November 5, 2011

This is a great record. I'm going to put it on right now in fact...

I've been revisiting Rachel's Systems/Layers a lot lately. I wish this was available on vinyl.

I'd like to recommend this band also: http://hedia.bandcamp.com/

'Systems/Layers' is an ultimate winter album for me

This sounds like it has potential:

http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/jacaszek-glimmer?utm_source=tgs-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TGS111611

A new Jacaszek always has potential! Thanks for the link.

Ah, surprised I'd not heard of him before:

http://soundcloud.com/miasmah/sets/jacaszek-treny/

A Winged Victory For The Sullen play Manchester, Glasgow and London in January: https://www.facebook.com/awvfts

London tickets here: http://bit.ly/rEacMQ

Happy to see that Sleepingdog are supporting as I missed them at Cafe Oto this week.

Their record is worth mentioning in this thread:
http://www.gizehrecords.com/gzh31.html

In the same vein as A Winged Victory, the Christina Vantzou album is worth a listen on Spotify. She's the other half of The Dead Texan btw in case the name's not familiar.

can someone give me guidance on these Sylvain Chauveau albums (all on Type)? i have "The Black Book of Capitalism" already, it kills, just want to know what else is really good vs. skippable

right now i could get:

- S
- Nuage
- Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)

??? thanks

all(?) the cds are in the boomkat winter sale btw (which might be why you're asking). lots of other Type bargains too.

actually, boomkat has samples (more samples if you click on the mp3 version)

Syvain Chauveau-related: I recommend the Deathprod-mixed On album.

On is great yes.

As for Sylvain Chauveau, I think you should get Nuage and/or S. And if you dare also try and find 'Down to the Bone: An Acoustic Tribute to Depeche Mode', which is fantastic. Cover album of DM tracks with Sylvain singing. Hauntingly beautiful

psyched for matt bourne's new album on leaf

http://www.theleaflabel.com/en/artists/view/51

Items shipped to you:

Ordered Title Price (GBP) Dispatched Subtotal

1 ON (SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU / STEVEN HESS), Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not, CD £4.50 1 £4.50
1 RENE HELL, The Terminal Symphony, CD £4.99 1 £4.99
1 ROLL THE DICE, Roll The Dice, CD £4.50 1 £4.50
1 SVARTE GREINER, Kappe, CD £4.50 1 £4.50
1 SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU, Nuage, CD £4.50 1 £4.50
1 SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU, Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), CD £4.50 1 £4.50

Subtotal: £27.49

all(?) the cds are in the boomkat winter sale btw (which might be why you're asking). lots of other Type bargains too.

yup! exactly why i asked. i got "Black Book of Capitalism" last winter sale. i usually try to get 5-6 Type things each year. got the other On album last year. waited on this one... i thought it'd be discounted this year... sure enough! yay boomkat

still lots to explore, i haven't checked out the Zelienople, North Sea, Xela, or a bunch of others yet.... those any good?

Oh man, you should get Xela's 'For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights'! Warm bubbly electronica, the last great album in its genre as far as I'm concerned.

Totally recommend Zelienople's last album, Give It Up. Really good ambient rock along the lines of late Talk Talk, Bark Psychosis or Dean Roberts/Autistic Daughters.

awesome, thanks guys!

Got the Richard Skelton SKURA box (the DVD edition) for my birthday, so now I have everything (I was missing maybe 6 CDs before). Have been listening to it a lot; it's all great, of course.

Do you *really* need more than Landings?

(That isn't meant to sound as polemical as it does.)

I dug out his Wolf Notes LP, as *AR this weekend and loved it. Quite a different feel to Landings, mostly due to the vocals: http://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/ar-wolf-notes

Landings and Wolf Notes are probably the best, I agree.

I'd like Wolf Notes more if it didn't have singing (or had a different singer).

Is SKURA a good use of fifty quid?

i love Landings and havent heard the *AR thing, but also recommend Marking Time, which was reissued widely last year (well... as widely as a Richard Skelton release is likely to be reissued)

Quite enjoying the new Ryan Teague album - it sounded incredible in the shop.

Can't seem to find any talk about the new bvdub double cd.. I sounds a small departure from previous works, more vocals and different rhythms.. anyone heard it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDqIzhHnV0

since this is one of the only threads that had a discussion about it i just want to reiterate how awesome *AR is

Can't stand the voice on *AR.

yeah i can see that but she doesnt bother me

new record 'griis' on low point is p rad btw

Was that A Winged Victory For the Sullen on Countryfile, just now?

I could imagine buying SKURA in a moment of weakness thought not fully keen on the idea of buying MP3s.

The new Richard Skelton, Verses Of Birds, is fantastic, very striking and rich but rather dreamy at the same time.

enjoying this new daphne oram collection:

http://boomkat.com/cds/507123-daphne-oram-the-oram-tapes-volume-one-deluxe-2cd-edition

is there any overlap with the Oramics 2xcd thing?

(have been to see the oramics machine in the science museum a couple of times now. but am not entirely convinced by what i've heard of the actual recorded output)

SKURA dvd: is it a case of just putting the disc in your computer and then ripping to another format to play? is the package nice?

packaging is fairly nice iirc. dvd is properly tagged mp3 files, just drag and drop to your computer.

v tempting. i don't think i can bring myself to commission one of those one off cd box sets ...

Pleased with SKURA although I'd probably have preferred finished CDs.

The new album is very good, too.

Working my way through SKURA.

Any thoughts on it?

A cracker - and the literal embodiment of this thread - http://boomkat.com/cds/556557-morton-feldman-crippled-symmetry-at-june-in-buffalo