PAUL DOLDEN

or decide that its finished. maybe its never finished. he could always add to it.

New record this week

http://www.starkland.com/st220/index.htm

Anyone here heard it?

No but I'm excited!

stoked!

got it. sonically crazy as always. his last record 'Délires De Plaisirs' (the one with that ridiculous cover showing him riding a motorcycle through the air while playing a violin with a mountainscape in the background) had this increasingly wacky sense of humor to it that I wasn't always sure worked for me -- all those hyper-accelerated time-compressed 128th note guitar solos still sounded too much like real 70's fusion guitar solos at heart. on that record, the humor almost took away from the intensity & impossibility of the sonics -- this one adds narration at times with someone framing all the instruments & sounds being in competition with each other, which pretty much takes it all the rest of the way into a comedy record where your mileage may vary (it'll probably make the record more approachable for as many people who prefer the music to stay on the abstract side). still utterly untouchable as far as amazing ear candy goes.

"L'ivresse de la vitesse", still one of the most impossible sounding records of any time, and if you can find this one - http://www.discogs.com/Paul-Dolden-The-Threshold-Of-Deafening-Silence/release/1555768 - grab it. But if you can't find it, he remastered most of it for the album "Seuil De Silences", which drops one (great) piece and breaks up the program with two new pieces in the later style.

One thing about the new album -- 2-5 minute tracks! With 'Délires De Plaisirs' or 'L'ivresse' it was always symphonic-form 15-20 minute tracks often with long intros you had to strap yourself in for, but it's very much worth noting on this new album, he's taken what he does and made them really work as individual bursts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdT7MVwYOt0

pdf of the score to 'veils', pretty fascinating

http://res.electrocd.com/partition_pdf/Dolden_Veils.pdf

thanks to this blog for the pointer - http://wave-edge.blogspot.com/2014/11/paul-dolden-capac-7.html

Going to a John Oswald/Paul Dolden retrospective concert tonight! Excited!