I fucking love The Idea of Shackleton but I'm always kind of underwhelmed by the music proper.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:24 (three years ago) link
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.
― fleet doxes (map), Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:33 (three years ago) link
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.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
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.
― fleet doxes (map), Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
Yeah this is an amazing album and the best thing he’s done that I’ve heard
― Tim F, Sunday, 22 November 2020 08:21 (three years ago) link
the best thing shackleton's done?
― the late great, Sunday, 22 November 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
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
― the late great, Sunday, 22 November 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
tlg did you grab the Shackleton & Pinch LP before you signed off?
― lukas, Sunday, 22 November 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
Best single album from Shackleton (incl. the Fabric mix which was my favourite until now).
― Tim F, Sunday, 22 November 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
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
― the late great, Sunday, 22 November 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
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).
― fleet doxes (map), Monday, 23 November 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
https://samshackleton.bandcamp.com/album/tunes-of-negation-like-the-stars-forever-and-ever
― StanM, Sunday, 6 December 2020 14:50 (three years ago) link
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.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 6 December 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
Agreed. I think anyone who enjoys Primal Forms will vibe with this release as well.
― Tim F, Sunday, 6 December 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
the Tunes of Negation "Like the Stars Forever and Ever" album feels very disorienting
― Dan S, Monday, 7 December 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link
Good mix of Tunes of Negation material, some of it new:
https://soundcloud.com/bleep_bot/bleep-mix-152-shackleton
― toby, Friday, 22 January 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
thanks for the link, I like the mix vv much
― StanM, Sunday, 24 January 2021 08:35 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I've listened to it a few times now, it's fantastic.
― toby, Monday, 25 January 2021 09:28 (three years ago) link
I think I just recognised a Werner Herzog sample on the new one (which was briefly and presumably accidentally available to purchase v early).
― toby, Saturday, 3 July 2021 12:47 (two years ago) link
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.
― RobbiePires, Saturday, 3 July 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
https://samshackleton.bandcamp.com/album/departing-like-rivers - September 9
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
immense sounding new releasehttps://open.spotify.com/album/3rwFk3UFJlRJtTcsnOnlZa?si=KbOVHUPgQnKTVKC9bsp_mQ&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1
― Swanswans, Saturday, 11 September 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
oh yeah, I forgot about that - thanks for the reminder
― StanM, Saturday, 11 September 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
Yeah snagged that on Bandcamp, need to give an ear...
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 September 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
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
― Swanswans, Monday, 13 September 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
Werner Herzog sample fits so neatly into the mood of the proceedings as to be redundant.
― lukas, Monday, 13 September 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
different mood this time but still great and innovative. He's a genius, imho.
― StanM, Thursday, 23 September 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/ernest-shackleton-wrecked-ship-endurance-antarctic
― Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 09:36 (two years ago) link
er...
― koogs, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 09:38 (two years ago) link
lol
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 09:51 (two years ago) link
years of clicking on this thread pay off at last (i discover something i was already pointed to outside ilx)
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 10:03 (two years ago) link
funny, the last Shackleton thing I listened too could have had polar soundscape field recordings as pads
― Swanswans, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 10:07 (two years ago) link
new EP : The Majestic Yes
https://www.discogs.com/release/24118721-Shackleton-The-Majestic-Yeshttps://honestjons.com/shop/artist/Shackleton/release/The_Majestic_Yeshttps://honestjonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-majestic-yes
― StanM, Saturday, 20 August 2022 09:02 (one year ago) link
Wow, loving this.
― death generator (lukas), Saturday, 20 August 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
Likewise (and I'd completely missed that it existed, so thanks for posting it).
― toby, Sunday, 21 August 2022 06:54 (one year ago) link
It's amazing! Probably the best thing he's done since Three EPs. Very Skull Discoish
― paolo, Friday, 14 October 2022 13:08 (one year ago) link
this album is absolutely immense Sunday music
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 16 October 2022 09:29 (one year ago) link
https://ra.co/news/78568
Clip sounds good! Shame about the title though
― paolo, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link
Shackleton's collaborations are always the best
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Friday, 3 March 2023 19:45 (one year ago) link
excited!
― StanM, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
is it just me or is this new one ultra weird? i feel like i’ve gotten a bit too used to his tricks, but this one brings back the old “wtf is going on” sensation i’ve been missing since the fabric mix
― the late great, Friday, 16 June 2023 00:20 (nine months ago) link
“serotonin”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbk4oQ_Wncs
― the late great, Friday, 16 June 2023 00:21 (nine months ago) link
Two other new projects, one from last month:https://modernobscuremusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-other-side-of-devastation
One out today:https://boomkat.com/products/choose-mortality
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 16 June 2023 03:30 (nine months ago) link
xxpost - it didn't feel more left field or less accessible than Departing Like Rivers to me?
― StanM, Monday, 19 June 2023 08:46 (nine months ago) link
lol - it's one of his most approachable in years: https://ra.co/reviews/35435
― StanM, Monday, 19 June 2023 09:14 (nine months ago) link
the new one w/ heather leigh is real good, dude is on a roll
― adam, Monday, 19 June 2023 10:11 (nine months ago) link
wouldn't say it's ultra weird by his standards but am enjoying it a lot, I generally prefer it when he goes a bit more percussive like back in the skull disco days than when he goes proggy and Coil-ish
― ava (paolo), Monday, 19 June 2023 10:50 (nine months ago) link
I thought the new one was referring to "The Purge of Tomorrow". Too many new Shackletons!
I wish Flesh & The Dream was on Bandcamp
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Monday, 19 June 2023 13:53 (nine months ago) link
hmm idk sounds different / weirder / more interesting to me!! maybe i have to listen to the prior albums again, but they all sounded to me more or less like a modern (not sure if “bass music”) update on fourth world music
that review is silly btw, never listen to resident advisor
― the late great, Monday, 19 June 2023 16:03 (nine months ago) link
okay! :-)
― StanM, Monday, 19 June 2023 19:12 (nine months ago) link