Lucrecia Dalt - Anticlines Very interesting electronic music. It reminds me a lot of last year's Felicia Atkinson Hand in Hand, similar style rather than similar sound. Anticlines, by Lucrecia Dalt
Great album. Saw it performed live. Just been playing Otomo and band's Revolutionary Peking Opera v1 this week. Or rather the unversioned release on Trigram label. Still not sure what the difference is between the Trigram and the ReR Megacorp version (need to compare), but what a great album. I still remember it coming out and it opening up the debate about sample-based composition, because it seemed to take the idea further than anyone else had at that time. Still sounds as fresh and accomplished today as it did then.
Has anyone else here exploring Bandcamp? It took a while to come around myself, but there are a number of labels that function, well, as labels. I've been following and getting updates from New Focus Recordings for a bit, and I like what they're about. So far, Muriel Roberts - Cartography and Robert Honstein: An Economy of Means have made into my collection. "An Economy" is an interesting exploration of solo Vibes on the first six tracks, and Piano on the rest. I'll need to figure out a way to burn these to a format that won't be available in the future.. Here's a link to the Honstein recording. Robert Honstein: An Economy of Means, by Doug Perkins, Karl Larson
There is some incredible music on Bandcamp, and I explore it all the time. Most of my favorite labels are on there, which makes it easy. I live discovering music by following people and seeing what they purchase. Thanks for the Honstein recommendation.
ELISION CIKADA Deborah Kayser mezzo-soprano Carl Rosman clarinets Daryl Buckley electric guitar Christian Eggen conductor DARK MATTER, scored for an ensemble of 19 performers (including soprano, electric guitar and a vast array of percussion) plus live and pre-recorded electronics, sets secret Egyptian texts carved on the walls of sarcophagi in the pyramids of 2400 BC - possibly the oldest known religious texts in the world - alongside fragments from Lucretius and other Greek writers on the nature of matter, the stars and other worlds and ending with Samuel Beckett’s ‘Sounds’.
Not that new 1989 but great fun.Luigi Nono piece for Violin, 8 magnetic tapes and 8 to 10 music stands.
Well, guys - I finally pulled the trigger on this: It wasn't super cheap, but it did pop up on Amazon for £54, and I jumped. I've had this on my Wish List for literally years. Tracking it over 4 years, the price really hasn't changed very much. In fact, this was the first time I'd seen anything like a deal. 4 CD's, huge book, lots of bits and pieces. The CD's are available individually, but would cost more than I paid for the whole set. Charlotte Moorman: Cello Anthology. This qualifies as a bucket-list item for me, very pleased.
Before sequencers you had the tape loop. Sequencers brought a lot to the party, but there's a rich rough crudeness to the "real deal" of a spliced tape run around and around and around. Solo'd over this is the sound of glass fixed with contact mikes, with the performers drawing circles with thimbles to create a tearing/scratching effect.
Okay - this album is nuts. Derek Bailey doing what Derek Bailey does, angular soloing, razor sharp tone, a little madness. However, the backing duo are playing a groove. And I'm not talking a sort of groove, or a jazz groove, but a FUNKY groove.
Alan Braufman - Valley of Search 1974, India Navigation Alan Braufman – Saxophone Cooper-Moore – Piano, dulcimer, recitation Cecil McBee – Bass David Lee – Drums Ralph Williams - Percussion My first time listening to this album, just reissued and available on Bandcamp... Probably the first of many.
Mark Fell: Intra An interesting new release performed by the Drumming Grupo De Percussão on the Sixxen metallophone system: a set of six microtonally tuned instruments originally conceived by Iannis Xenakis in 1976.
I looked into this a few days ago, but sadly wasn't able to find a physical release (CD). Looks interesting though. Sadly, I don't do downloads.
Boomkat has LPs. I've never ordered an LP from them, but I have ordered CDs, including an LP sized set. Those all came well packed. MARK FELL - Intra - Boomkat I also see LPs on discogs, Juno and Bleep
