Jute Gyte

It's not up there with Perdurance for me, yet, but I think it's a great album. And I love the change in dynamics; the 'quiet' sections still have so much going on in them.

Been listening to Ghost Sickness and it's great. Also, which is as odd as how kinda groovy Young Eagle turned out to be, it's mostly just very straightforwardly pretty.

yeah that one is mostly just pretty, sad electro with an excellent cover. dude has range

He does. Eagerly awaiting his "straightforwardly pretty" black metal album now

'isolation' has a very straightforwardly pretty opening track!

happy new four-hour Jute Gyte ambient album day!

https://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/

EVERYONE's copying Autechre now haha

not that keen on his electronic stuff but out of four hours theres surely something good nestled away in there. fucking hell, this guy is insanely prolific

Temple of Roon

twp lol

it does say it was created 2002-2018 - this is clearly an ongoing project that's finally ready (like most of his stuff)

so far it isn't quite as gloriously fucked as Dialectics but it is pleasantly unsettling

I've never been into his electronic albums before but I'm actually really digging this five tracks in.

It's fucking amazing is what it is, this. I've never heard a single ambient Jute Gyte track before in my life, didn't know he did this!

Between Autechre's NTS sessions and this: I do not for the life of me know why we deserve such beauty.

I made it to I think the second track before I heard some growling. Are my ears deceiving me? Because I know the dude's background, but I'm really not in the mood for growling these days.

I'm hearing little to no growling? Plunged in at the 5th track, 'The cave is empty', and that was me sorted. I did not know this man could deal in mournful bliss as well.

Do you mean "growling" as in extreme metal vocals? Because I don't remember any on the whole album but tbf there were times when I had it on the background while doing other things?

Maybe it was just generally distressed vocals? I'm thinking of the start of "Another Pioneer," sort of Ligeti meets throat singing.

I hear layered chopped up and processed voices there but not growling.

OK, moaning, then.

for me JG is often kinda like -- idk -- some of those doorstop authors you might have in your library who you know you'll probably enjoy when you get to 'em, but at the same time they're kind of a slog & eat up all yr time so you get to 'em less than you might. I have two albums, have listened to 'em some, but I very seldom say "you know what'd hit the spot right now is some Jute Gyte" - it's like doing critical theory, I enjoy the ride very occasionally. But fuck if this ambient one doesn't sound fantastic

"the cave is empty"

Oviri now has a vinyl option on Bandcamp.

'birefringence' out july 1st. gird yourselves

Hammershøi represent.

would love to attend an exhibition of the paintings he uses for covers

I'd watch that, imagine if he'd get those all in one museum!

Stoked for the new album. Reading the wiki on 'birefringence' gave me a blank stare for about five minutes straight, I trust the album to make more sense.

would it make more sense if i told you birefringence or double refraction is a key concept in pynchon's 'against the day', which i basically made jute gyte read lol

So you're the culprit/philanthropist.

we all need a little more dual-reality in our lives tbh

More of an infinite fractal reality man myself but yeah.

ahaha... see, a Jute Gyte I can handle (unlike many). An Imago-infected Jute Gyte though? Sign me up!

announcing an album in advance....he's going corporate on us

fifth track of this is some kind of insane slowcore electro trap lullaby

Is this not on bandcamp?

spotify, bandcamp will be up any minute now

can't get over The Foam That Flows From The Mouths Of Wild Boars, it's as tt said 'basically a Katie Dey song' but there's Low and whatnot in there too

here https://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/birefringence

Thanks!

The central portion of "Dissected Grace" is drawn from William Blake's Europe: A Prophecy. This album is additionally indebted to Morag Josephine Grant's Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics; Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day; Carlo Michelstaedter's Persuasion & Rhetoric; Keiji Nishitani's The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism; Walter Benjamin; György Lukács; James Tenney; Robinson Jeffers."

Walter Benjamin!

The Brian Ferneyhough of metal.

it isn't quite metal or anything else but the 'insane slowcore electro trap lullaby' that is The Foam That Flows From The Mouths Of Wild Boars is more or less the most stunning thing I've heard in a very long time, and I want everyone on ILM to hear it

Wasn't sure about the first track but the rest sounded very good.

the song imago speaks of goes absolutely nowhere

or have i got the songs mixed up? the last song is the one i speak of

5th track. closer is an ambient classical piece

My problem with what little I've heard of his music is that it's usually less interesting than that of his avant-garde and classical touchstones, although the cultivated art brut vibe does add something different (and very American) to the equation, bringing to mind someone like Harry Partch. I mentioned Ferneyhough earlier (because he wrote an opera on Walter Benjamin, Shadowtime, and 'Angelus Novus' is a fairly transparent allusion to the 'Theses on the Philosophy of History') and I always wonder why LJ never reps for that kind of notated maximalist stuff.

Anyway, I'm halfway through Birefringence right now and so far it's won me over, including that first track.

simple answer: ferneyhough et al rarely recorded a definitive version of their works and released it as an object of art. my idiot consumer brain still can't deal with the notion of notated music. too many interpretations, too much responsibility on the performers. this is my failing obviously

i *can* however deal with live recordings (or live performances i attend) of previously-released material, so maybe the mere existence of a definitive version with a release date and a length is enough to validate subsequent reworkings. i also like it when artists cover other artists' songs

what am i on about, sorry

The good news is there are plenty of composer-supervised, even composer-approved recordings of 20th and 21st century works, although in Ferneyhough's case it raises inextricable paradoxes insofar as his music is all about the tension between reading, listening and playing.

I'd also like to point out that your take (which I share to some degree, as I'm still very much attached to the figure of the auteur – or autrice – regardless of art form) is distinctly un-Benjamin-esque: the aura thus no longer clings to a given performance, having shifted towards the endlessly reproducible recording itself.

The Brian Ferneyhough of metal.

― pomenitul, Monday, 1 July 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Please don't lol

On account of the Benjamin reference. So I was half-joking.

Are you still keeping up with new 'new' music?

Not really, no, a bit sad about it but there's little to no time to invest in it. But I do want to make it to some concerts.