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

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 ...

New Jacaszek album ... can't figure out how to order a copy from Poland, mind.

http://www.nck.pl/artykuly/101279-piesni.html

http://pitchfork.com/advance/321-mccanick/

^ New Johann Johannsson

Right then ... I've got a £20 voucher to spend at Boomkat. Half might go on a Jacaszek re-issue. The rest?

Do you already have the latest Olafur Arnalds disc? That one particularly resonated with me. His seasoning of the album with the occasional song works really well.

http://sonicpieces.bigcartel.com/product/otto-a-totland-pino-2nd-edition-ltd-cd

^ This is very nice, by the way.

Loving this and the album it comes from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLpEb8TbyRI

This album has been knocking me out today - Hildur Gudnadottir: Saman, released a couple of weeks ago.

http://youtu.be/joDTBhYmITE

Need more of this type of thing...

Anything good/recent?

No?

There's a new ep just released by Lucy Claire. It's only two tracks and three remixes but it's kinda great overall. Wish she'd make a full album soon.

lucyclaire.bandcamp.com/album/collaborations-no-1

Did anyone get into Lubomyr Melnyk's Corollaries?

Well I have now...thanks.

and this too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYn7WpgLg48

I'd only heard James Blackshaw before via the Brethren of the Free Spirit albums which I liked also.