buncha sellouts
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 November 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
Lock thread.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 November 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
Snow Palms' Intervals (Village Green) sounds nice, from the clips:
http://www.villagegreen.tv/#project_intervals_45
[Snow Palms = David Sheppard and Chris Leary. David Sheppard = 1/3 of Second Language]
― djh, Sunday, 18 November 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
Overall impression is probably "nice rather than necessary". Wasn't keen on Piano Magic's Life Hasn't Finished With Me Yet (usually a fan); their Home Recordings sounds good from the tracks I've heard online. Memory Drawings didn't have the sense of place of Richard Adams' usual work. The Cloisters haven't really made an impression on me yet. Tyneham House was pretty.
― djh, Monday, 19 November 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
I like Plinth a lot from the little I've heard, though that's basically limited to 'Collected Machine Music'. Been meaning to check out more Michael Tanner things but for whatever reason haven't got round to it.
― alb indys, Monday, 19 November 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
Any thoughts on the few releases that are still available?
― djh, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://textileranch.bandcamp.com/album/polynomials
― djh, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
A Directorsound album is the first in the label's new Library Series, apparently. Colleen album is 4th in the series. No idea what are second and third.
I note that earlier today the label was accusing other labels of plagarism.
― djh, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
(Directorsound album is up for sale on Norman Records but not yet mentioned on Second Language's website).
― djh, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
i hope he's not referring to the other label of the same name, that existed before he started his terrible, boring label
― flaccid archives (electricsound), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
I couldn't for the life of me work out who they were referring to. There's some nice stuff on the label - as well as some boring stuff - but I'm not sure it is a label that is distinctive enough to be claiming others are ripping them off.
― djh, Thursday, 21 February 2013 07:29 (eleven years ago) link
I can see why people might be tempted to subscribe (for the bonus discs).
― djh, Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
Any thoughts on the Directorsound album?
― djh, Monday, 11 March 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
New Piano Magic compilation. Apparently they've split up.
― djh, Friday, 19 July 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
(Perhaps not before time, judging by that reaction).
― djh, Monday, 22 July 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
indeed
― take that, bitterman (electricsound), Monday, 22 July 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
Anyone been keeping up/still interested?
― djh, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
SL025 Various Artists Music & Migration III - ORDER HERE
SL025x The Home Current Mizieb EP - ORDER HERE
SL024 Sharron Kraus Pilgrim Chants & Pastoral Trails - ORDER HERE
SL024x Sharron Kraus Night Mare - SOLD OUT
SL023 Colleen The Weighing Of The Heart - ORDER HERE
SL023x Colleen The Weighing Of The Heart - Iker Spozio ltd edition hand-engraved print - SOLD OUT
SL022 Áine O’Dwyer Anything bright or startling? - ORDER HERE
SL022x Áine O’Dwyer Safely Adrift - ORDER HERE
SL021x Piano Magic Never It Will Be The Same Again - ORDER HERE
SL021 Piano Magic Heart Machinery - A Piano Magic Retrospective, 2001-2008 - ORDER HERE
SL020x Directorsound Sins Of The Leopard Suite - SOLD OUT
SL020 Directorsound I Hunt Alone - ORDER HERE
― djh, Saturday, 21 September 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
Plus Plinth's 'Music For Smalls Lighthouse' re-released via Clay Pipe Music.
― djh, Saturday, 21 September 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
Was the Dollboy album any good?
― djh, Friday, 27 September 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
It is!
Here is a Dollboy/Sone Institute interview and live session for a Podcast that I engineer:
http://www.jointhecircle.net/radio/?p=1868
Also in a related note, Directorsound are playing at the Union Chapel in London tomorrow afternoon (free admission, but suggested donation) for Arctic Circle/Daylight Music whom I am part of.
http://www.unionchapel.org.uk/pages/events-daylight_music-364.html
― many machines on ilx (MaresNest), Friday, 27 September 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
apologies for sucky grammar..
― many machines on ilx (MaresNest), Friday, 27 September 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
Ta. Was pondering whether to buy the re-issued Ghost Stations.
― djh, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link
Slightly surprised this thread doesn't have more traffic.
― djh, Friday, 22 November 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
SL030 Silver Servants s/t - ORDER HERE
SL030x Silver Servants Cold Lazarus - ORDER HERE
SL029 Oliver Cherer Sir Ollife Leigh & Other Ghosts - ORDER HERE
SL029x Oliver Cherer A Millying & Mor
SL028 Robin Saville Public Flowers - ORDER HERE
SL028x Robin Saville Hybrids
SL027 littlebow Pi Magpie - ORDER HERE
SL027x littlebow Five White Feathers
SL026 Dollboy Ghost Stations / Geisterbahnhöfe - ORDER HERE
SL026x Dollboy Sidings
― djh, Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
i have no idea what a lot of these things are, but all the littlebow records i have heard have been very lovely things
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
Mildly tempted by the Mark Fry album.
― djh, Monday, 29 September 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
Not strictly Second Language (it's on Wayside and Woodland) but I'm fond of this for reasons that I can't quite figure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEvx8T3gOqQ
― djh, Saturday, 30 September 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
From the Durutti Column thread:
https://olivercherer.bandcamp.com/
Vini's guitar being used well.
― djh, Wednesday, February 6, 2019 7:45 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
saw this revive and simultaneously experienced two very different and extreme emotions:
VINI DIED.
VINI'S BACK.
both with this facial expression: O_O
glad i was wrong.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, February 6, 2019 10:47 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh, he is literally using one of Vini Reilly's guitars!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, February 6, 2019 10:55 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
x-post.
Yes, I have previously proposed a ban on this thread just because I always jump to the first of these.
Haven't actually heard the story of the guitar and wonder if it is mundane as "Vini sold his guitar"? Still, I have time for Cherer.
Might move this conversation to the Second Language thread - less traumatic for those watching.
― djh, Wednesday, February 6, 2019 11:03 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― djh, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
This sounds really promising, based on the first track. His Gilroy Mere project also got a lot of play here last year.
― doug watson, Thursday, 7 February 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
Quite enjoying Glen's Arcane Delights:
https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/arcane-delights-05th-september-2020/
― djh, Monday, 7 September 2020 12:48 (three years ago) link
New one:
https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/arcane-delights-03rd-october-2020/
― djh, Sunday, 11 October 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
Clay Pipe not Second Language but the new Andrew Wasylyk ("Balgay Hill - Morning In Magnolia") is very nice to have trickling along in the background.
― djh, Saturday, 2 October 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
I've greatly enjoyed the two EPS released this year by Theory of Ghosts, which has also prompted a deeper dive into the Piano Magic/Second Language discography. Glen's songwriting is really strong with this latest project. One of my top picks for 2023.
― sawdust lagoon, Saturday, 2 December 2023 17:49 (five months ago) link
This is my Piano Magic "Best of", albeit the "Best of" on the night/week/whatever that I compiled it:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3mNbqSlhPB6b9rw7A5EqMt
At different times it would have contained more whirring and clicking.
― djh, Sunday, 3 December 2023 22:26 (five months ago) link
very nice list
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 4 December 2023 01:36 (five months ago) link
btw, the Theory of Ghosts EPs are pretty good. I know glen a bit but haven't asked him specifically why he essentially just changed the name of the band, but maybe it's just because he retired PM, then felt like still making music, but didn't want to pull an LCD Soundsytem and return two years later. I know the ToG lineup plays PM songs live though. If there's a difference, it's that it's focused more on the 'rock' side of PM which always fluctuated in prominence
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 21:29 (five months ago) link
Glen gets into those questions in the interview he did with Sound of Violence earlier this year
― sawdust lagoon, Thursday, 7 December 2023 03:12 (five months ago) link
Also thanks djh for the playlist
― sawdust lagoon, Thursday, 7 December 2023 03:14 (five months ago) link