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― jermainetwo, Sunday, 27 January 2008 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
wonder if anyone could *cough* lend me the (out of print) recent second language cd-r thing?
― djh, Saturday, 4 September 2010 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
second language is releasing the new klima album in october. wonderful news.
― keythhtyek, Sunday, 5 September 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Has everyone lost interest? Can't see much fuss about their final album.
― djh, Sunday, 8 January 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
A CD-R:
For Engineers ACertaintyI Came To Your PartyWintersport/Cross CountryI Am The Sub-LibrarianDark Secrets Look For LightSaint MarieNo ClosureThe Journal of a Disappointed ManI Am The Teacher's SonThis Heart MachineryIncurablePasswordThe End of A Dark, Tired YearPostal.
(Disclaimer: Didn't really have a plan for the CD-R - it's not a best of or a perfectly poised overview, more just what ended up on the CD tonight).
― djh, Thursday, 19 January 2017 22:01 (seven years ago) link
Over the years I've come to the conclusion that The Troubled Sleep of Piano Magic has their best songs of anything up to Part-Monster (I haven't heard any of the albums after that).
― Tim F, Thursday, 19 January 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
the new album is great, prefer it to the last one. they're friends so I give them a pass even when they haven't been exceptional. Troubled Sleep is a lovely album; so is Disaffected. The new one is largely a kind of 'song' album, as opposed the assortment of oddments albums that were par for the course early on.
― akm, Thursday, 19 January 2017 23:31 (seven years ago) link
Those are both great, Artist's Rifles still a favourite when driving at night. Will def check the new one out.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 20 January 2017 11:25 (seven years ago) link
always had a lot of affection for this band - for some personal reasons (I learned of them just as we were becoming stablemates) and then also because their music was distinctive: no one else really like them in my view! hadn't heard there was a latest, keen to listen
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 20 January 2017 12:38 (seven years ago) link
I had no idea they were still going! I thought the 'Heart Machinery' comp of a year or so ago was their final release. New one has been duly ordered!
'Ovations' is a great record is anyone is looking to explore their more recent output.
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Friday, 20 January 2017 13:49 (seven years ago) link
So ... Piano Magic's "Closure" or Angele David-Guillou's "En Mouvement"?
― djh, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
Closure is a good album for them to finish up on though it falls short of being one of their best. Angele's album is sublime.
― akm, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
I thought Klima was her completely solo thing but there was someone else in that.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
I really like Closure, I will need to check out the other one
― Simon H., Wednesday, 6 December 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
I'm struck by how much of Piano Magic's back catalogue I enjoy these days ... I don't think my journey alongside them has always been a straight-forward one - I've often come round to albums long after the fact.
― djh, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
several people from piano magic backed her on the Klima albums (not glen)
― akm, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
Having a prolonged Piano Magic "phase". Really enjoying the "Heart Machinery" compilation. Strangely, "Artists Rifles" seems like a "classic" these days. I was fairly ambivalent at the time, wanting them to carry on making music along the lines of "For Engineers".
― djh, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
Y'all aware of this?
https://cedricpinglenjohnson.bandcamp.com/
― djh, Sunday, 22 July 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
Genuinely amazed how long it has taken Pin/Johnson to sell 200 copies of this ((or 185, there are still 15 copies left with the free cassette). I'd kind of imagined that Johnson would have a "fan base"/"market".
― djh, Sunday, 5 August 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
Eight copies left!
(I feel like I'm street-teaming).
― djh, Sunday, 12 August 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
They - Piano Magic rather than Pin/Johnson - were sounding amazing on my headphones, tonight.
Was playing the compilation above and this run ...
Saint MarieNo ClosureThe Journal of a Disappointed ManI Am The Teacher's Son
... was just incredible.
― djh, Saturday, 20 October 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.filigreeandshadow.co/products/incurable
― djh, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link
TIL what agrestic means
― doug watson, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
βEnglish radiophonic soundscapers.β
― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
New music from Glen:
https://textileranch.bandcamp.com/track/unbosoming
― djh, Sunday, 12 April 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
New radio show from Glen:
https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/arcane-delights-08th-august-2020/
― djh, Monday, 10 August 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
Live album on Bandcamp:
https://pianomagic.bandcamp.com/album/piano-magic-live-in-ferrara-20-7-06
― djh, Friday, 18 December 2020 10:15 (three years ago) link
New Johnson/Pin album:
https://secondlanguagemusic.bandcamp.com/album/isotech
― djh, Thursday, 22 September 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
love we don't just disappear and surprised that they're doing a second album under this name. "demolitions" is great and a perfectly eerie mood for fall. yep, excited for this one.
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Thursday, 22 September 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
I know Piano Magic is/was a London-based band but is Glen Johnson from WMidlands environs? I was listening to their cover of "How Does It Feel?" and the accent sounded rather natural, nearly Brummy.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 12 June 2023 18:19 (eleven months ago) link
Nottingham, I believe.
― djh, Monday, 12 June 2023 18:45 (eleven months ago) link
meep, help a dumb American out then.... Technically more Black Country then? Is that consistent with the Spacemens?
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 12 June 2023 18:55 (eleven months ago) link
"search or destroy"?
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 June 2023 19:11 (eleven months ago) link