c90/cdr - alastair galbraith

i don't know if he plays violin on it, but goddamn is it a good track.

also: SPECTRA TO THREAD.

AG-featuring stuff been listening to lately:
Cakekitchen - "World Of Sand"
Alastair Galbraith & Demarnia Lloyd - Tae Keening
various Fire Organ jams

very comforting to finally have some good news the last couple of days

has anyone seen head in the clouds? the alastair galbraith/peter jefferies american tour documentry? i'm absolutely craving it. i ordered it a few days ago from the only place i could find but apparently they're out of PAL copies. pretty gutted.

yeah, it's good. alastair does his hippy routine pretty naturally. peter jefferies starts quoting daniel johnston when he's drunk. good performances, but alastair's shyness sometimes impedes the translation to video.

jesus christ i want it even more now. i'm in new zealand so you think i'd be able to find it. but apparently not.

I'm the guy who made "Head In The Clouds" - thanks for your interest. If you're looking for copies, feel free to write me at airstreamdriver at yahoo dot com.

here there! just sent you an email. cool.

There is still so much stuff by this guy that I have not heard, like the Cry CD mentioned upthread. Also several singles that are hard to track down... dude needs a box set.

the new LP on Siltbreeze, Mass, is just glorious. A perfect mix of styles.

I also haven't heard the more recent Orb or the Time-Lag LP with Youngs * Neilson. I bet Orb is great too.

This guy can craft a beautiful song! Has anyone heard Co-Ordinated Universal Time / Dream For Fire Organ And Voices?

I would spend quite a bit of money on a deluxe vinyl box set of complete albums with a rarities and singles, compilation tracks. VOD, somebody....

alastair is dope as heck. that last(?) album on siltbreeze from a few years ago is beautiful in a way i don't normally go for.

National treasure.

Ppl (esp keyth!) shld check out Maxine Funke; gorgeous stuff & there's some A.Galbraith production/accompaniment.

Also:

http://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/alastair-galbraith

At the very least a career anthology would be very welcome!

also worth checking out: galbraith, funke and mike dooley aka the hundred dollar band

Quite nice to hear minimal/drone composer Sarah Davachi talk about Alastair Galbraith's Cry on this podcast:
http://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/features/12349

Thanks - will listen later

A heads up from him via Bandcamp:

New album called Loss will be available on Bandcamp only (Yay! I'm through with "labels") by 1st of April 2021.

Said Bandcamp:

https://alastairgalbraith.bandcamp.com/

This little distro/shop techniquestreet.com has a clutch of Alastair's Next Best Way cd's if anyone's looking.

yesssss thanks for the bump Ned, fabulous news

Loss is gorgeous!

I really should finish off that mix, huh? Been dipping back into Alastair's catalogue after reading J0hn D's book which mentions him a few times (the Orange Raja, Blood Royal 7" and a nod to "As In A Blender").

Catching up on Loss - had also missed Seconds Mark III on A Colourful Storm from 2020 and 2024's Lagash on Nice Music (both Aussie rather than Kiwi labels, hmmmn).

The latter's press kit has a nice Sarah Davachi quote:

"It’s hard to describe how Alastair’s music makes me feel, and it’s something that I’ve been trying to do for myself ever since I first fell in love with his records many years ago. In a concrete way, there’s a kind of intimacy and quietude, a sort of functional aloneness, that I admire so deeply in his music and that I aspire to in my own music. I’m consistently obsessed with the production and arrangement in his records. His songwriting is so beautifully sparse in its base structure, and that’s something that I appreciate on a technical level because I know how hard it is to be simple and reduced for the sake of a specific meaning. But Alastair somehow manages to touch that negative space further and make its emptiness tangible. And I suppose that this intimacy speaks to the emotional aspects that I latch onto in his music as well – from my perspective, what Alastair is so incredible at achieving in his music is the idea that one could take a moment or a feeling, and suspend it in time as a miniature or a sculpture of sorts that you can walk around and observe and maybe just sit with for a while. It’s an experience unlike much else. The first two pieces of Lagash (‘Bakunin’ and the instrumental ‘Air Wedding By Water’) recall this feeling very clearly in that they pull you into a sound world that, for me, is so private, warm and delicate. The Richard Youngs cover at the close of the album’s first side, ‘The Valley In Flight’, is a particular highlight of the album for me, in part because it serves as the perfect bridge into the side-long instrumental ‘Lockdown in Lagash’. Alastair’s rendering of ‘The Valley In Flight’ is so markedly different in feeling and pacing from the original that it’s rather unfair to even consider it as being in reference to something else. That difference is distilled into ‘Lockdown in Lagash’ and then extended over a much longer period of time and in a much larger physical or spatial environment than I’m accustomed to hearing from Alastair. It’s overwhelming and unsettling in the best way possible and has me extremely excited about where this slower and longer figure might move to next."