Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man - Out Of Season

I never expected a member of portishead and a member of talk talk to be snappy with a follow-up tho tbh

What are the other Talk Talk guys up to, Hollis aside?

I can't find any signs of activity from any of them. Is Webb definitely involved with new gibbons album?

Not new but new to me (and not mentioned here):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-mc7D6hs5U

relistened to this tonight. i still remembered most songs as if they had been engraved in my brain though i hadn't listened to them for maybe ten years. i was a little disappointed, in my memory the music was stronger, the tunes were less obvious. sometimes it would be better not to revisit old albums, as it is almost impossible to relive the original enthusiasm.

The only song I remember from the list of songs is "Tom the Model," which is the only one with a strong melody, iirc. I did see Gibbons and Webb and band live, but remember nil.

Not new but new to me (and not mentioned here):

― djh, Saturday, October 31, 2015 10:16 PM (Yesterday)

Hah why did you have to do such a nefarious pairing? I meant collabs like out of season or that black sabbath cover she did.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, October 30, 2015 5:51 PM (2 days ago)

Nobody ever reads me :(

Oh yes. I blame alcohol.

yeah what happened to this new solo album

Who knew? An actual standalone Rustin Man album due next year, first single here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyrGv1d8gFk

!!!

Brand new Twitter account for Beth

pic.twitter.com/lJiqSZyxMN

— Beth Gibbons (@realbethgibbons) January 28, 2019

Presumably that photo is tied to the release of this:

http://www.resident-music.com/image/cache/data/advance/feb19/beth-500x500.jpg

Looking forward to hearing this. I highly doubt it will be as good as the definitive Dawn Upshaw recording, but we shall see.

Eh, I much prefer the Soviet-era recordings – the first one, with Stefania Woytowicz and Ernest Bour in particular.

Looking forward to this.

Speaking of that recording, the French label Erato re-released it in 1986 as the soundtrack to Maurice Pialat's Police, with Gérard Depardieu and Sophie Marceau, heh:

https://img.discogs.com/E8gAfbYUv7ANkUqNIomWRrPBTGU=/fit-in/600x593/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2603833-1502194195-9231.jpeg.jpg

Details here

‘Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)’ will be released on heavyweight deluxe vinyl with a mounted 16page booklet insert, bonus concert film DVD and a limited edition photo print signed by Beth.

Order: https://t.co/mxpVYRYzdZ pic.twitter.com/icCuYMmYvA

— Beth Gibbons (@realbethgibbons) January 31, 2019

Also I believe Rustin Man has a new album out tomorrow?

^^^that's the one I'm excited about

Yes! I preordered it and the pre-release downloads are all very nice.

I highly doubt it will be as good as the definitive Dawn Upshaw recording, but we shall see.

― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram)

I agree that the Dawn Upshaw recording is probably the definitive one, but I don't think that surpassing it was the goal here. Gibbons has a vocal style that's miles away from classically trained sopranos, so I'm very curious to hear her version. The performance got very good reviews when it took place here back in 2014, so I'm excited it's finally being released. I think in general the 3rd Symphony lends itself well to modern reinterpretations (loved Colin Stetson's take on it, too, especially live).

Yeah, the Stetson is great

I'm enjoying the Rustin' Man; his voice is very like Robert Wyatt / late Bowie.

bit of a bill fay vibe in places too. enjoying it so far!

yeah the three tracks I listened to last night were great.

Wow, this is excellent and he totally has that Wyatt / later Bowie timbre in his voice. Pretty stellar year, even this early.

He sounds like a mixture of Davids Palmer and Bowie!

also yes if I heard this out somewhere I would have assumed it was a Robert Wyatt album I'd never heard before. Finally gave the whole thing a listen, excellent.

I'd love to know what's prompted him to record another album at this point. Perhaps Bowie and the thought of his own morality.

'The World's In Town' is still so new, but such an amazing song. . . it doesn't even seem real at this point.

from what I can glean he has been making the album for many years and he wanted to play most parts himself so learned a lot of instruments well enough to be able to play them and recorded the requisite parts over a long period of time then assembled and mixed them into tracks.

here it is

"Apparently he wanted to learn the assorted instruments he plays on it well enough to be comfortable recording himself, and had to build up the arrangements as his capabilities increased. Each instrument’s contribution to the album was recorded in turn, rather than track by track"

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/01/rustin-man-drift-code-review

Ah so Lee Harris plays on there!

“Robert Wyatt sings Blackstar” is eerily spot-on. It’s actually a bit distracting at first, like when you watch Christian Slater and it takes a few minutes to spot Christian Slater behind the guy practicing his Nicholson impression in the bathroom mirror.

That said I love the shit out of this

Anyone heard Beth Gibbons & The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra - Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs)?

cOMES OUT ON fRIDAY, i THINK. mY COPY IS ALLegedly in the post, sorry caps lock falure.

Possible I'm being a dick but the Youtube "teaser" didn't really, um, tease enough to prompt a purchase.

whoa this record

the new rustin man i mean, though out of season rules

its amazing that he was learning all to play all the instruments on this album as he made it

This is definitely one of the best folk records ever recorded, but somehow it slipped under my radar untill recently.

Drift Code has been growing on me gradually over the last year, at the moment I'm listening to little else.

drift code would be nice if he would not sing. his voice really sounds like an old man without any teeth left. it reminds me of robert wyatt but i love wyatt's voice. the main difference being that webb's voice is about two octaves lower and so absolutely unmusical. just terrible. besides that a fine album for sure.

One hell of a "besides"..

I listen to Out of Season all the time.

I like him, he sounds like David Bowie combined with Edward Ka-Spel

One hell of a "besides"..

― nostormo,

lol, right?

I'm actually laughing like fuck at that post and your response.

Yeah, classic excelsior

I love his voice. "Drift Code" is easily the best album of the year for me.

I don't love his voice, but there's definitely some interesting tension between the big pop moments on this record--like, say, the chorus of Our Tomorrows, or the climax of The World's in Town--and the vehicle chosen to deliver those payoff moments, which plays a large part of what makes the album memorable for me