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

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

SKURA was fifty quid well spent. Some beautiful stuff on there - though I have to confess I had to copy it all onto CD.

Some new Richard Skelton oddities:

http://www.corbelstonepress.com/support.htm

New Nils Frahm:

http://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/sets/nils-frahm-screws

Michael Tanner on his new album:

The Cloisters, Michael reveals, was conceived during a time of deep personal dissatisfaction with the drone/ambient/classical minimalist ‘scene’ – one seemingly populated by “the same 30 blokes, making the same music in Ableton [loop-based music software], more often than not sporting the same beard. It was made under an awareness that I was lumped in with them, and internalising if/how I was really so different. It became an attempt to see if I could retain the style of music I’ve been making for 12 years now, but still try and get out of the box, so to speak.”

Never really thought about the process behind making this music and/or Ableton. Can we name the 30 blokes?

There's another Skelton album, too, by the way.

More importantly can we name the beard?

Haven't managed to work out who any of these bearded people might be.

This sounds nice ...

http://www.gogoyoko.com/album/Stafnbui

Some new-old Richard Skelton:

http://www.corbelstonepress.com/archival-riftmusic2.htm

Weird. Would have had Skelton down as popular on here.

I think he is? But I don't ever hear his stuff when it comes out - by a long-standing arrangement, my wife buys it and keeps it until my birthday/Christmas. So probably I'll have something to say about it in January!

I really like the new Olafur Arnalds album, but it is very straightforward in a way that a lot of the stuff in this thread (at least, the stuff I am familiar with) doesn't seem to be.

Any thoughts on the new Nils Frahm?

http://www.clashmusic.com/videos/nils-frahm-toilet-brushes

Must admit I prefer him when he is just tapping away at the keys than we he is doing anything more than this.

"when" not "we"

ha, i was blown away listening to 'says' the other day and checked out some other pieces...i love the more percussive, effected-out, synth-heavy pieces a lot, but the piano-only ones i heard don't hit me as hard.

Says is awesome, really into the rest of the album too. Great bedtime listening.

I swear, I have never heard of Nils Frahm, and suddenly he is EVERYWHERE this week. Will have to investigate further.
I am enjoying Toilet Brushes!

How was the Olafur Arnalds album?

* I think he is? But I don't ever hear his stuff when it comes out - by a long-standing arrangement, my wife buys it and keeps it until my birthday/Christmas. So probably I'll have something to say about it in January!

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How was Xmas, toby?

I think it's been saved for my birthday (next week)...

Happy Birthday toby ...

^ I hope she didn't renege on the arrangement ...