Got my box in today - it was held while I was on vacation - got a similar breakdown as you. I owned exactly one cd already (one of the Merzbow CDs) - and had roughly half of them on my wantlist. Can't wait to get back to the office and finding time to listen to all of them!
This album is great... it was my introduction to Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengrass. I love the super slow, drone-like reggae chant vibe.
He kinda has two periods, his 60s more rootsy stuff and his 70s electric Carnatic stuff of which the above is an example.
Very interesting one this. Both pieces are for 10 musicians, but they're all working on the same piano, at the same time. Obviously, none of them are doing anything as ordinary as playing the keyboard (well, most of the time). Instead they bow, stroke, pluck, and place sets of strings within a loop of string so they can be played continuously. The results are drones that don't quite cross over into "sounds like electronic music". The drones are too fibrous, the overtones too prominent. So what we have is a moving continuum of sound that is obviously from a stringed instrument, yet not much like an actual piano. For drone fans who don't mind a sprinkling of other sounds, as though a string quartet had joined the party.
Been digging through a trove of unopened New Albion discs I bought many years ago through a consolidator: Peter Scott Lewis: Night Lights
Craig Taborn and Ikue Mori - Highsmith Just the two of them improvising, on Tzadik. I like the combination a lot. Mori pulls Taborn a little out and in turn Taborn restrains Mori some. So it's more out than Taborn's ECM albums and not as out as Mori's solo albums. Samples are available on boomkat, also the cheapest place to buy a lossless download. Samples are also available on allmusic and junodownload. Nothing is available on youtube.
I spent three happy evenings from Thursday through Saturday at Cafe Oto for the residency of Han Bennink. so...by day he had the following guests play with him. Day 1: Pat Thomas and John Edwards. Plus a Q&A session with Steve Noble Day 2: Alex Hawkins, Steve Noble, Terrie Ex, and Mary Oliver Day 3: Steve Beresford, Spring Heel Jack (Ashley Wales, John Coxon), Terrie Ex, and Mary Oliver. Spring Heel Jack don't appear very often so seeing them play with Bennink was a real pleasure.
As usual, someone I'd like to see will be playing right after I leave London. I'll be flying home on October 15 when The Art Ensemble of Chicago start a residency.
Picked this up at Cafe Oto the other might. Although I have the AMM releases with Cardew I knew nothing about his other work or compositions until now. . John Tilbury (piano), Michael Duch (bass), Rhodri Davies (harp)
Bardo Pond + Tom Carter - 4/23/03 An incredible release from my favorite record label, Three Lobed Recordings.
First listen to an album from the 100 CDs from Important records and it's a good one. Sort of ambient/classical with a mix of acoustic and electronic instruments. Not quite as out there as a lot of the music posted on this thread, but not really appropriate for any other thread I know of either. Anoice – Remmings
Just ordered this (and Wooden Wand's latest). Been meaning to dig deeper into this label. Only have some of their MV & EE stuff.
Crys Cole & Oren Ambarchi - Hotel Record Dreamlike music with warbled vocals... Pretty interesting. Just finished the first track.
Ok guys, direct me: what should I pick up in this Experimedia sale? Specials : Experimedia, Exceptional Independent Music Sales
You may have to spend a little more than you'd like on this - but damn. Collab with Pansonic: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shall-I-Do...F8&qid=1506117489&sr=8-4&keywords=Keiji+Haino
