Shackleton

https://www.factmag.com/2019/08/15/shackleton-tunes-of-negation-album/
https://soundcloud.com/cosmo-rhythmatic/tunes-of-negation-nowhere-ending-sky

This album is so good and the best thing he's done since the Drawbar Organ EPs at least. This technically isn't a Shackleton album but apart from the vocals I'm not really sure what the other musicians are bringing to the table that he couldn't have done himself.

Yes, this is wonderful. It does have more of wide open and ensemble feel than typical for Shackleton, and with all the reedy organ tones it's giving me some similar vibes to the recent James Holden and Amon Tobin albums.

new track on this as well: https://fabricrecords.bandcamp.com/track/shackleton-drawn-and-quartered

This is great too: https://samshackleton.bandcamp.com/album/primal-forms

oh wow

Saw him play live, I dunno, four or five years ago. Most of his set was the top-notch unrelenting tension he's known for, but the end of his set actually was like ten or fifteen minutes of ecstatic release. Not sure if I imagined it, or if it's in his recorded catalogue and I hadn't heard it, or if it really was what it seemed - a treat he rolled out just for a live audience.

ten or fifteen minutes ok probably five

Zimpel's collab with Holden this year is really great too, and his solo album Massive Oscillations.

I'm really liking the new one too. Never heard of this Zimpel chap before so will need to check out more of his work.

thanks for the reminder re: Shackleton/Zimpel!

I was supposed to see that duo do a live set last year but Shackleton fell through and it ended up being a Holden/Zimpel show instead. Kind of a slow start and I wasn’t sure if they’d played live together after having recorded. Good, though

Primal Forms is wonderful. The first full Shackleton album I've unreservedly loved.

Primal Forms is wonderful. The first full Shackleton album I've unreservedly loved.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, August 17, 2020 8:03 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Came here to post something similar (although at the time I unreservedly loved Music for the Quiet Hour / Drawbar Organ). I'm a massive Zimpel fan and I think this is a match made in Reichian (Riley-an?) heaven

Yum, another Tunes of Negation album to be released in November
https://thequietus.com/articles/29047-shackleton-tunes-of-negation-like-the-stars-forever-and-ever-album-details

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Primal Forms is an absolutely phenomenal record.

finally listened to it, really good wow! it's jammy in the best way, great energy. reminds me of amon duul lol.

Primal Forms is an absolutely phenomenal record.

― Matt DC, Friday, October 9, 2020 6:47 PM (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

qft

Primal Forms is the witchy neo-krautrock nww-list album I didn’t know i needed this year

I fucking love The Idea of Shackleton but I'm always kind of underwhelmed by the music proper.

Have you heard this one? If you like amon duul ii violin jams you’ll like this. It’s not super sharp or brainy, just good old fashioned psychedelic electronic goodness with some impassioned playing from zimpel. Idk it’s what I want right now, some unpretentious deep state lost in a forest stuff.

I did, yeah. It was pleasant enough but it didn't really grab me. I'll give it another spin soon 'cause I'm definitely all for Amon Düül II violin jams.

There’s one section that goes all in with it (the violin jamming that is). It’s an easy album to sort of let float by and set a mood but i think it also breathes a lot and has great energy.

Yeah this is an amazing album and the best thing he’s done that I’ve heard

the best thing shackleton's done?

or zimpel?

definitely stopped checking shackleton after the fabric mix but i still listen have time for the fabric mix, three eps and skull disco comps

tlg did you grab the Shackleton & Pinch LP before you signed off?

Best single album from Shackleton (incl. the Fabric mix which was my favourite until now).

yeah i did and i still have it. looks like i briefly discussed my impressions of it upthread. eight years ago, which would have been about a year after it came out. i don’t recall exactly how long it took me to find a copy so i don’t know how long i’d had it at that point but i definitely haven’t gone back to it much since then because i can’t recall a single track off it... in fact i don’t even know if I recall a single solo pinch track off the top of my head aside from “qawwali”.

fabric mix on the other hand ... i can practically hear the whole thing in my head ... “you’re beginning to come up come up come up” ... “everyone starts from point one” ... etc

i haven't followed him closely at all. i had some skull disco tracks, "death is not final" and another one. then i was super into "freezing opening thawing." this album though feels more lived in than anything i remember hearing. idk that might be in my head because it's hard to point it why - it just sounds like it's not trying to impress but drawing a lot of strength from a kind of pagan energy, flowing pretty seamlessly, inhabiting in-between spaces very consciously (don't get me wrong, zimpel's playing is pretty impressive in parts, i don't know everything he's playing but i'm sure it's more than just the saxophone, maybe recorders and the violin?). and there's some callbacks to psychedelic music of yore that i appreciate. (i'm sure he was always doing that to some degree and always coming out of a nww / current 93 axis).

https://samshackleton.bandcamp.com/album/tunes-of-negation-like-the-stars-forever-and-ever

With the new Tunes of Negation album and Primal Forms, it feels as though he's finally hitting the heights he had the potential for. lovely stuff.

Agreed. I think anyone who enjoys Primal Forms will vibe with this release as well.

the Tunes of Negation "Like the Stars Forever and Ever" album feels very disorienting

Good mix of Tunes of Negation material, some of it new:

https://soundcloud.com/bleep_bot/bleep-mix-152-shackleton

thanks for the link, I like the mix vv much

Yeah, I've listened to it a few times now, it's fantastic.

I think I just recognised a Werner Herzog sample on the new one (which was briefly and presumably accidentally available to purchase v early).

Furnace of Guts was the last thing I got from him. His latest album material is a bit too coil-y for me, and I've never really been into that ancient England aesthetic. The track simply titled (turku) on Erkin Koray's elektronik Turkuler album from 73 does that mystical vibe for me much better, and rocks much harder with the zurna than any of those pagan-y artists.

The organ stuff is great though, proper rumbling psychedelia.

https://samshackleton.bandcamp.com/album/departing-like-rivers - September 9

immense sounding new release

https://open.spotify.com/album/3rwFk3UFJlRJtTcsnOnlZa?si=KbOVHUPgQnKTVKC9bsp_mQ&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

oh yeah, I forgot about that - thanks for the reminder

Yeah snagged that on Bandcamp, need to give an ear...

listening to this now, is it produced with Bill laswell?!? Not so familiar with shackleton but really liked the primal drones release, this is much more global ambient than dark ambient at times

Werner Herzog sample fits so neatly into the mood of the proceedings as to be redundant.

different mood this time but still great and innovative. He's a genius, imho.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/ernest-shackleton-wrecked-ship-endurance-antarctic

er...

lol

years of clicking on this thread pay off at last (i discover something i was already pointed to outside ilx)