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)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 1 November 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
Nobody ever reads me :(
Oh yes. I blame alcohol.
― djh, Sunday, 1 November 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
yeah what happened to this new solo album
― akm, Sunday, 1 November 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
Who knew? An actual standalone Rustin Man album due next year, first single here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyrGv1d8gFk
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
!!!
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 16 November 2018 02:11 (five years ago) link
Brand new Twitter account for Beth
pic.twitter.com/lJiqSZyxMN— Beth Gibbons (@realbethgibbons) January 28, 2019
― groovypanda, Monday, 28 January 2019 12:50 (five years ago) link
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.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 31 January 2019 10:52 (five years ago) link
Eh, I much prefer the Soviet-era recordings – the first one, with Stefania Woytowicz and Ernest Bour in particular.
Looking forward to this.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 11:05 (five years ago) link
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
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link
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
― groovypanda, Thursday, 31 January 2019 13:42 (five years ago) link
Also I believe Rustin Man has a new album out tomorrow?
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
^^^that's the one I'm excited about
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
Yes! I preordered it and the pre-release downloads are all very nice.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
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)
― 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).
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Thursday, 31 January 2019 18:55 (five years ago) link
Yeah, the Stetson is great
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 31 January 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
I'm enjoying the Rustin' Man; his voice is very like Robert Wyatt / late Bowie.
― fetter, Friday, 1 February 2019 10:08 (five years ago) link
bit of a bill fay vibe in places too. enjoying it so far!
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Friday, 1 February 2019 13:16 (five years ago) link
yeah the three tracks I listened to last night were great.
― akm, Friday, 1 February 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
Wow, this is excellent and he totally has that Wyatt / later Bowie timbre in his voice. Pretty stellar year, even this early.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 1 February 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
He sounds like a mixture of Davids Palmer and Bowie!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 1 February 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
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.
― akm, Friday, 1 February 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
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.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 1 February 2019 23:10 (five years ago) link
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.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Saturday, 2 February 2019 00:13 (five years ago) link
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
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Saturday, 2 February 2019 00:16 (five years ago) link
Ah so Lee Harris plays on there!
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 2 February 2019 02:15 (five years ago) link
“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
― gray say nah to me (wins), Saturday, 2 February 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
Anyone heard Beth Gibbons & The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra - Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs)?
― djh, Monday, 25 March 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
cOMES OUT ON fRIDAY, i THINK. mY COPY IS ALLegedly in the post, sorry caps lock falure.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 25 March 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
Possible I'm being a dick but the Youtube "teaser" didn't really, um, tease enough to prompt a purchase.
― djh, Monday, 25 March 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
whoa this record
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
the new rustin man i mean, though out of season rules
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
its amazing that he was learning all to play all the instruments on this album as he made it
― . (Michael B), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
This is definitely one of the best folk records ever recorded, but somehow it slipped under my radar untill recently.
― nostormo, Saturday, 11 January 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
Drift Code has been growing on me gradually over the last year, at the moment I'm listening to little else.
― fetter, Saturday, 11 January 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 11 January 2020 21:41 (four years ago) link
One hell of a "besides"..
― nostormo, Saturday, 11 January 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
I listen to Out of Season all the time.
― akm, Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link
I like him, he sounds like David Bowie combined with Edward Ka-Spel
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
― nostormo,
lol, right?
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 12 January 2020 01:00 (four years ago) link
I'm actually laughing like fuck at that post and your response.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 12 January 2020 01:03 (four years ago) link
Yeah, classic excelsior
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 12 January 2020 09:04 (four years ago) link
I love his voice. "Drift Code" is easily the best album of the year for me.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Sunday, 12 January 2020 09:25 (four years ago) link
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
― a thousand keening bullshit-detectors (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 12 January 2020 10:13 (four years ago) link
This hasn't really clicked for me until today. The Wyatt thing is clear but, if anything, it reminds me of a muted Super Furries or even Gorky's.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Sunday, 12 January 2020 11:25 (four years ago) link
It took a while to make the first album, the second one seems to have come about a lot quicker: Clockdust, to be released in March!
― willem, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
Das Triadische Ballett on the cover! A very encouraging sign even if this is Bethless.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
Great news! Live dates too
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
Listening to the new album now, feels more restrained but more confident than Drift Codes. Voice perhaps a bit stronger.
― fetter, Friday, 20 March 2020 10:44 (four years ago) link
Clockdust has proved to be a lockdown staple for me, I prefer it to Drfit Code. Also being listening a lot to the first Orang album which has recently appeared on Spotify (or maybe I just couldn't find it before - Orang is not the most searchable name). Beth Gibbons appears on it, pre-Portishead (I think).
― fetter, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link