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

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.

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

I've been listening to the Vantzou too. That and her first album, also great.

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.

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.)

(ps yes I know that it's on vinyl but my local shops don't carry that style o'music on vinyl, generally)

Just found out Gudnottir is playing in LA later this fall, opening for A Winged Victory for the Sullen.

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.

https://soundcloud.com/holly-lalanne/weird-little-piece-rough

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?

Jacaszek tour:

POLAND
12.09 Gdansk
Jacaszek + 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 Góra
Jacaszek+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

Mind you, I've yet to play the Touch album all the way through ...

Skelton watch: http://www.corbelstonepress.com/nimrod.htm

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.

Not keen on the sound clips, I must admit - at least on initial play - but will go back to them.

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.

Getting a big Michael Nyman/Piano vibe - albeit not as full and dramatic - from it too.

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.

Streaming here:

http://thequietus.com/articles/16418-a-winged-victory-for-the-sullen-atomos-album-stream

Yeah, love Atomos. Also enjoying the Kiasmos album -- it's Ólafur Arnalds and some other guy

Atomos is getting better with every listen.

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.

Of course everything I'm saying is not a potshot but a salute

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!

all the people I know who've studied composition hate max richter

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

What do you mean by "classical" and "new age", fgti? (That's a non-snarky question, by the way).