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

Actually, love this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCpFvn7jTPo

Apparently, there's a feature in this month's Uncut on some of these types.

> these types

Pun!

Yeah, the Boyson, Christopher Tignor and Ian William are good 2016 additions

*Ian William Craig

Peter Broderick's Playlist
Stuart Maconie's Freakier Zone

Stuart's guest from the Freak Zone this week, Peter Broderick, offers a 60-minute playlist of music from his studio in Oregon called The Sparkle which he has just closed. Featuring a bounty of unreleased tracks from The Sparkle's archive including Portland's Shelley Short, harpist Desiree Rousseau's band Brumes and his sister Heather Woods Broderick.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082q70v

interview in the main freak zone show too

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04fzm50

Some temptation here:

https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/2016-in-review-journeys-in-modern-classical/

Their "Sense of Place" list is also interesting.

I had no idea Touch had a bandcamp

https://highplainskranky.bandcamp.com/

^oh hey, i'm friends with that cellist

I must buy that Claire M Singer album. The bits I've heard sound great.

Sampling some of these I haven't heard, I'm sorta taken aback by the homogeneity of a lot of this stuff. Guess I hadn't realized until now what a big shadow Erased Tapes really cast, but so much of this is just really conservative, featherlight furniture music that makes Satie sound like Jerry Lee Lewis. Guess I just don't get it?

Any recommendations, Wimmels?

Well, if you're asking, some of the younger Scandinavian pianists on ECM fill this void for me quite nicely. It's music that often surprises me while still capturing / evoking icy or bucolic or mellow moods. It too can occasionally be overly polite and antiseptic, but even then I find it more adventurous and challenging than a lot of the stately, grandiloquent somber / pretty music in this thread. I also don't understand why I should listen to frustrated post-rockers play bootleg Debussy through effects pedals when something like this exists.

To be clear, I'm not dismissing the entire above list. I like a few of these artists. But of the ones I'd never heard, most of the samples did not make me want to investigate further. Claire M. Singer is probably the lone exception, that's definitely something I need to look into, based on the sample...

Thanks Wimmels. I kind of in agreement with you and it's why this thread was started. There's a lot of "classical music you buy from Boomkat" that I like (including some Erased Tapes) but I'm mindful that there's also a lot of stuff that I hear simply because ... it's on my radar and I've always had a suspicion that there's better stuff out there.

I did enjoying finding that Stationary Travels list to play through, though (even if ultimately there wasn't much I needed to hear again). Of that list I have Boysen, Arnalds/Frahm and Johannsson (though I'd Have chosen "End of Summer" over the album listed) and the Claire M Singer album was the one I hadn't heard but have felt the need to order.

I've noticed that with this sort of style they pretty much always use an instrumental palette of piano and/or string instruments. There must be some exceptions though. Are there any people out there doing this type of thing with woodwind or brass instruments?

Good question

Colin Stetson? Lots of sax and suchlike. His version of Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, 'Sorrow', is one of my favourite albums from 2016

The new Gavin Bryars album on ECM, The Fifth Century, is a choir and sax quartet thing. Very lovely it is too.

New Jacaszek coming up on Ghostly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpAlyO5855s

New Ian Hawgood:

https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/love-retained

Just ordered the Resina album ...

https://soundcloud.com/fatcatrecords/sets/resina-resina-cd13-23

and looking forward to the Olivier Alary compilation.

Haven't yet played this but my Sunday evening now seems sorted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fry9l?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_6_music&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=radio_and_music

^ Actually it wasn't that good.

Anyway:

http://www.npr.org/2017/03/09/519048493/first-listen-jacaszek-kwiaty

Anyone rate the new Hauschka? I've not heard it yet but think I might have reached the point where I don't need anymore Hauschka ...

It was all right but I don't remember much about it.

I'm at that point too, djh. Same with Peter Broderick tbh. I thought it would happen with Max Richter, but he continues to amaze me.

Sunday night drunkenness. The last Douglas Dare album is hitting the spot though I've felt ambivalent about it at points. It doesn't really have much to do with "classical you buy from Boomkat" aside from being on Erased Tapes, mind.

new Peter Broderick / Peter Liversige Late Junction session here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05d78x0

(think the download is uk only, but non-britishers should be able to stream)

Ólafur Arnalds' Island Songs, the movie: tomorrow on iTunes (except for North America: soon)

Island Songs, the film. Out FRIDAY on @iTunes!
(US date coming soon) pic.twitter.com/S1amATRvAn

— Ólafur Arnalds (@OlafurArnalds) September 13, 2017

It pains me a bit but one of my favourite albums of the year is being sold for a quid *for the CD* on Bandcamp:

https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/love-retained

I've checked and it isn't a mistake.

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/168476-otto-a-totland-the-lost

I loved his previous one

http://olafurarnalds.com/tour-dates/ touring with strings again

This includes some good stuff, much of which is "the classical music you buy from Boomkat":

https://banbantonton.com/2017/12/31/2017-dave-howell-130701/

Particularly enjoying this:

https://vanessaamara-poshisolation.bandcamp.com/

Not yet made my way through this (posting so I can find it later):

https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2017/12/31/2017-in-review-journeys-in-modern-experimental-classical/

That all looks promising, will investigate: cheers

Since Vanessa Amara was mentioned above, she has a new record next month again on Posh Isolation and you can hear a beautiful track off it on her bandcamp:

https://vanessaamara-poshisolation.bandcamp.com/album/manos

Also enjoying this Swoop and Cross record on Time Released Sound
https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/stories-of-disintegration

the keyboard player from super furry animals composed something. it's pretty good imo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIbS4ekCNmY

https://www.discogs.com/Cian-Ciaran-Rhys-a-Meinir/release/11266106

Sure there are a lot of Reich-isms, but this Anenon record is beautiful, very pleasant listening. Really nice textures (all that breath sound on the saxophone) and room sound.
https://anenon.bandcamp.com/album/tongue

thanks for the Anenon, sounds good

New ólafur Arnalds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAhO5eegMfY

there's a new BBC Radio 3 show that covers this stuff:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b02sl2

"Elizabeth Alker with music by an exciting new generation of unclassified composers and performers, breaking free of the constraints of practice rooms and concert halls."

6 episodes, first one was last sunday at 23:30 but available (everywhere?) via iplayer radio

Cool, thanks!

http://fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/product/moss-covered-technology-and-his-many-seas

Female artist spotlight on last Sunday's episode of Unclassified

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zmvmw

perhaps relevant:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b1pgkm

Sunday midnight
Nightingales
Slow Radio

A magical late night listening experience - six musicians go into the Sussex woods to play nocturnal music with the nightingales, who gather there to sing at night each Spring. The soloists taking turns to respond musically to the nightingales are Clive Bell (Japanese bamboo flute); Laura Moody (cello and vocal); Sam Amidon, (violin and vocal), John Baily (rubab) with Veronica Doubleday (frame drum and vocal) ,and Sam Lee (vocal & harmonium). The entire programme takes place in the woods, recorded on one night in April. Verity Sharp presents, leading the listener into the wild nocturnal environment and describing the atmosphere, and folk singer and outdoorsman Sam Lee will explain the migratory behaviour of the birds, the character of their songs, and the habitats that they favour for singing.

This is a Slow Radio experience, immersing the listener in the remarkable and magical experience of the nocturnal songs of nightingales. They are rarely to be heard in England today, but this programme will lead your ears into one of the woods where they still migrate every Spring, to sing through the night.

And who knows what other sounds may be captured on the night - a fox bark, an owl hoot, frogs calling, the wind in the branches...

ólafur Arnalds was brilliant in Brussels last Sunday. The first part of his All Strings Attached tour is nearly over now, here's 75 minutes of the Berlin show on German radio (will be online for a couple more days) : https://www.radioeins.de/programm/index.htm/psdoc=!content!rbb!rad!programm!sendungen!sendungen!154!1805!180517_eins_sch_ne_t_ne_38153.html

From 130701:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=69&v=R1IvMex1geQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpO_8tk6yNQ

How's the new Olafur Arnalds album?