^ I hope she didn't renege on the arrangement ...
― djh, Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
New Jacaszek album ... can't figure out how to order a copy from Poland, mind.
http://www.nck.pl/artykuly/101279-piesni.html
― djh, Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/advance/321-mccanick/
― djh, Thursday, 23 January 2014 23:27 (ten years ago) link
^ 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?
― djh, Saturday, 25 January 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
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.
― doug watson, Saturday, 25 January 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link
http://sonicpieces.bigcartel.com/product/otto-a-totland-pino-2nd-edition-ltd-cd
― djh, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
^ This is very nice, by the way.
― djh, Monday, 3 February 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
Loving this and the album it comes from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLpEb8TbyRI
― djh, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link
This album has been knocking me out today - Hildur Gudnadottir: Saman, released a couple of weeks ago.
http://youtu.be/joDTBhYmITE
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 20 July 2014 05:57 (ten years ago) link
Need more of this type of thing...
― Ned Trifle X, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
Anything good/recent?
― djh, Friday, 22 August 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
No?
― djh, Sunday, 24 August 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
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
― doug watson, Sunday, 24 August 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
Did anyone get into Lubomyr Melnyk's Corollaries?
― djh, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
Well I have now...thanks.
― Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
From last year, but I've really been enjoying Christina Vantzou's No. 2 lately. Goes well with the recent weather - chill breezes blowing through the over-ripe vegetation of late summer, the cold hand of death poised to pull a grey veil across a weakening sun, that sort of cheery thing
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
I've been listening to the Vantzou too. That and her first album, also great.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
Wasn't tempted by "Corollaries" when it first came out - played clips on Youtube and dismissed it as "novelty" - but heard again recently and it suddenly sounded impressive. Prompted me to pluck a Charlemagne Palestine album from the shelves but it sounded far too hardcore after a day at work.
Not feeling Vantzou but will give another go.
― djh, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
Augh, apparently I need to check this thread more regularly, just finding out about the Hildur Guðnadóttir album now! (Such is the nature of buying most of my stuff on vinyl and my local no longer carrying CDs...I'm starting to miss some of this stuff when it lands.)
― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
(ps yes I know that it's on vinyl but my local shops don't carry that style o'music on vinyl, generally)
― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link
Just found out Gudnottir is playing in LA later this fall, opening for A Winged Victory for the Sullen.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:25 (ten years ago) link
Okay, I've been listening to little else other than William Ryan Fritch lately. His latest solo release, Leave Me Like You Found Me and his upcoming collaboration with Jon Mueller, Death Blues' Ensemble, are both exceptional. Although the latter isn't out until next week, it's streaming on Soundcloud right now.
― doug watson, Friday, 5 September 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/holly-lalanne/weird-little-piece-rough
― djh, Friday, 5 September 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
i first heard of WRF via this remix, but he's been popping up a lot lately: https://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/track/night-rising-william-ryan-fritch-remix
any suggestions for more pretty, minimal piano music ala Nils Frahm, 'drukqs', etc?
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 5 September 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
Jacaszek tour:
POLAND12.09 GdanskJacaszek + Sylwester Luczak (video+lights) feat. Ania Smiszek-Wesolowska (cello)http://www.nck.org.pl/pl/wydarzenie/2254/koncert-michal-jacaszek-sylwester-luczak
13.09. Zielona GóraJacaszek+Trzaska https://www.facebook.com/events/1450505958570522/
USA TOUR
26.09 PORTLAND at Mississippi Studios Jacaszek feat. Beth Fleenor (clarinet)performing for a special Ghostly International Showcase presented by Project Pabst. http://www.mississippistudios.com/event/638875-jacaszek-portland/
27.09 DECIBEL FESTIVAL Seattle, Venue: The Triple Door Jacaszek feat. Beth Fleenor (klarnet, klarnet basowy)http://dbfestival.com/db2014/optical/5-ghostly-international
30.09 LOS ANGELES „The Golem” live score at Cinefamily, SPECTREFEST http://www.cinefamily.org/films/spectrefest-2014/#the-golem-w-live-score-by-jacaszek
USA tour supported by Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Gdansk Municipal Office.
Tour managed by SpectreVision
― djh, Monday, 8 September 2014 13:16 (ten years ago) link
Mind you, I've yet to play the Touch album all the way through ...
― djh, Monday, 8 September 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
Skelton watch: http://www.corbelstonepress.com/nimrod.htm
― djh, Monday, 15 September 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
I'm a great admirer of Skelton's earlier recordings so this description makes me a bit anxious:
"The tremulous strings that characterised much of his earlier work have all but disappeared as the music is divested of ornament, revealing the coarse grain of its underlying substrate: a dark mass of shifting tonal colours suffused with filigree detail."
Will reserve judgement until hearing it.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 13:30 (ten years ago) link
Not keen on the sound clips, I must admit - at least on initial play - but will go back to them.
― djh, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
The new Winged Victory for the Sullen record, 'Atomos', is very, very beautiful. On my first listen but it's very pastoral and sounds like a soundtrack to a non-existent film. At times it's very reminiscent of Johannssons Virtulegu Forsetar, strings wise.
― definite classic, predicting a solid 8/10 from the p-fork boys (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 12:08 (nine years ago) link
Getting a big Michael Nyman/Piano vibe - albeit not as full and dramatic - from it too.
― definite classic, predicting a solid 8/10 from the p-fork boys (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 12:27 (nine years ago) link
I've been listening to it nonstop for the last couple of days. I think it's a big improvement on their debut (which, mind you, is also good). It passes through more movements, there's more variety and changing of pace - more push and pull between the different instruments.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
Streaming here:
http://thequietus.com/articles/16418-a-winged-victory-for-the-sullen-atomos-album-stream
― djh, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, love Atomos. Also enjoying the Kiasmos album -- it's Ólafur Arnalds and some other guy
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
Atomos is getting better with every listen.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 9 October 2014 03:48 (nine years ago) link
Trying to find the appropriate forum to discuss my Erased Tapesophobia. Not a dislike of the music they put out, I have it on in the home a great deal. But listening to Atomos these arguments come up again, the same frustration I had with heyday GYBE or Rachels'. The "soundtrack to Myst" quality of it. It's new-age-with-classical-instruments but gets discussed as new-classical. It's so completely easy on the ears that it challenges my laissez-faire attitude towards consonance. That it could actually be improvised by anybody in a few minutes. Between Max Richter being New Music Composer #1, Tim Hecker being Noise Musician #1, I can't tell if I want to embrace The New Consonance or fart on it.
― fgti, Friday, 10 October 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
Of course everything I'm saying is not a potshot but a salute
― fgti, Friday, 10 October 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
I think I mostly think of it as new age or ambient. I really like it. But some new classical classical is kinda New Consonance as well. Those long serene Morton Feldman pieces. Arvo Pärt. Gavin Bryars (whose most famous album was released by Eno). Gorecki's third. And the new pulitzer-prize winning Become Ocean by John Luther Adams, that I mentioned on the rolling classical thread, and which is rapidly becoming one of my favourite albums of this year, and which you really should all check out!
― Frederik B, Friday, 10 October 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
all the people I know who've studied composition hate max richter
― ogmor, Friday, 10 October 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
Yeah Frederick I don't fuck with any of those composers you mentioned, except Feldman and a very rare Pärt. Younger I would've argued against them, now I'm just happy there are composers putting asses in seats. More just like I come home and my bf has got Lukas Foss on the turntable and I'm like "yesssssssss" but ultimately he wants Atomos and not Mica Levi. I'm trying to place consonance in a global, current context, trying to figure out what it means and why people respond to nicey-nice sounds so much more in film score, concert music, noise, ambient, drone etc. than they do in any other genres, where it'll make your track sound sickly
― fgti, Friday, 10 October 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
What do you mean by "classical" and "new age", fgti? (That's a non-snarky question, by the way).
― djh, Friday, 10 October 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
And why do those who've studied composition hate Richter, ogmor?
― djh, Friday, 10 October 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
Yeah it sounds as if I'm pissing on new-age I guess but I'm not. Just that the language is so safe and sound. It's nice when things are a little challenging, you know? Or maybe not?
― fgti, Friday, 10 October 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
Maybe not. There have definitely been points in my life where consonance has been outside my comfort zone/more challenging than dissonance.
― djh, Friday, 10 October 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
fgti's remarks have lead me to self-asses my opinion on this a bit. Because I definitely get that the music seems 'safe and sound'. But in the end, I think that is where the quality lies. Safe and sound is not a disqualification per se, and this ties in with what djh says about consonance.
I don't see Winged Victory as 'new age' myself; I find it a broody, emotional moving piece of work albeit in a very subtle, subdued way. Perhaps it's also because I've been a long time SotL fan and for some reason have grown to respect Adam Wiltzie but also Dustin O'Halloran for their compositional qualities to not take it for generic new-age music (as my personal definition of 'new-age' tends to be: generic soothing music, which I quite frankly can't stand).
But it's a very fine, personal line.
― definite classic, predicting a solid 8/10 from the p-fork boys (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 10 October 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
Yeah. I can't really describe why Vanessa Carlton is bad and Tori Amos is good or Clint Mansell's soundtrack to "Requiem for a Dream" is bad but Michael Nyman's for "Prospero" is good without getting exceedingly nebbish about things
And I'm typing this as an enormous fan of Atomos VII-- haven't heard the new album proper-- but also as somebody who found the s/t kind of disappointing bc it lacked the extreme long-form nature of the best of SotL and instead had prettystrings
― fgti, Friday, 10 October 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
Yeah. I agree about the Winged Victory s/t, I didn't take to that and while listening to it more and more thought of it as a 'lazy' affair (despite hating myself for thinking of that term while listening, as it can't have been lazy, made with the best intentions too, but prettystrings seemed intentional). I do think the new one is quite different though. Well thought out and despite its subdued nature has a lot going on. It is ephemeral, whimsical at times, but it does really carry me away and take me on a journey. If you took to Atomos VII I'd be very interested to hear what you think of the whole record, I think it deserves an honest chance before you lump it together with erasedtapes prettystrings :)
― definite classic, predicting a solid 8/10 from the p-fork boys (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 10 October 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
Not lumping anything in :) just always hoping to implement some aesthetic corrections in my listening
― fgti, Friday, 10 October 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link