Early Music: RFI

Way too soon

But he was clearly one of those ppl who burned brightly -- that wears on a person. RIP.

the photography in the renaissance book is incredible too
http://scontent-b.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpf1/t51.2885-15/10724738_586121424827944_474405121_n.jpg

Omg love

was listening to laura cannell just this morning - so good!

have had good luck picking up a bunch of munrows in charity shops of late but haven't really had the chance to digest tehm properly

I'm dying dying dying for a substantial bio of munrow. I really hope someone has been chipping away at it as his fellow emclers are starting to die (rip hogwood)

friend sent me this early music mix if anyone is interested! looks good. https://soundcloud.com/gabecelestino/sunne-under-wode-part-1
Sunne Under Wode Part 1 or 3.

1.Allemaingne (Tielman Susato) performed by Rene Clemencic
2.Polorum regina (Llibre Vermell) performed by Hesperion XX
3. Veni Sancte Spiritus (John Dunstable) performed by The Hilliard Ensemble
4. Vos que'm semblatz dels corals amadors (Gaucelm Faidit) performed by Hesperion XX
5. O quanta qualia (Peter Abelard) performed by Studio Der Frühen Musik
6. Avendo me falcon (Jacopo Da Bologna) performed by Ensemble Project Ars Nova
7. El rey de Francia tres hijas tenia (anonymous) performed by Hesperion XX
8. Kabinettorgel, um 1670 (Orlando Gibbons) performed by Albert de Klerk

never really listened to the hilliard ensemble outside of that celebrated collab with jan garbarek, which i just did not like whatsoever

they are good, a bit sterile sounding at times.

listened to Huelgas Ensemble - A Secret Labyrinth (music of Agricola) yesterday and it was too unearthly beautiful to listen to at work, I could not get anything done at all

ha, that's the worst/best!

i'd still like more recommendations for istampitta/saltarello type tunes
i haven't found anything i like better than the ones i have, or anything i like as much

for those looking for new vocal music, Cinquecento has been pumping out albums and they have all been good.

In my neverending quest to find all of the wildest David Munrow recordings, I picked up three things while on vacation recently --
1) LP box of The Art of Courtly Love (I have the CD but couldn't resist because of the book/notes/lyrics)
2) CD of Music for Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
3) Henry VIII and his Six Wives film score

So far the highlight (as far as what I'm after, generally speaking) has been the track "Ethiop Masque", which was apparently incidental music in the film (which I haven't seen, but stars Charlotte Rampling!) The whole album is on youtube but a clip of that tune is easier to access here http://www.allmusic.com/album/david-munrow-henry-viii-and-his-six-wives-mw0001382560

I never get sick of this stuff!

yeahhh, i have to get that henry viii soundtrack. i saw some of that series a million years ago on pbs.

oh wait maybe i am thinking of a different henry viii 70s thing? there are so many.

Idk -- I'm not familiar with the film or miniseries but the music is great!! There's another really driving tune called "Street Music" iirc

yeahhh, i have to get that henry viii soundtrack. i saw some of that series a million years ago on pbs.

The new Laura Cannell album Simultaneous Flight Movement is a really stunning collection of one take improvisations, totally beautiful stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFop7BWHjJ0
Her fleet and beautiful double recorder+echo title track is very timeless and ancient sounding, and very moving as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/01/from-the-classical-archive-march-1971-david-munrow-profile-not-even-mick-jagger-has-such-versatile-lips

whoa thanks for the heads up on that laura cannell, sounds amazing.

Munrow still RULES

I'm aware it's an unseemly & gratuitous opinion to have of such a niche artist but I kind of hate cannell's relentless melodrama. rarely approve of the word but it comes off as pretentious & it's such a one-note slog, I just want some space, some awareness but it's always fluttering around in its own shadow. it's close to being something I'd love but imo aiming for 'ancient-sounding' v directly, which I think it is, is shooting yourself in the foot. you end up sounding twee

I enjoyed it both in my kitchen at loud volume and wandering through greenbelt with my headphones, so it gets a double thumbs up from me. But I can understand how some will think it twee , but idk it just works for me.

This new Laura Cannell album fits my mood fairly well. (Was not familiar with her.)

I haven't had much of an appetite for this sort of thing in a very long time, but Musica Secreta's Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter is very welcome at the moment.

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

Music Of The Gothic Era or Music From The Crusades...
I already have these on CD, but would totes buy LPs if I saw them.

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I was lucky enough to grab a pristine copy of the Music Of the Gothic Era 3 LP set for $15 a few days ago. I've appreciated this music digitally for years, but studying the liner notes and texts has illuminated it big time, especially with the ars antiqua and ars nova motets.

This is deeply strange music--two (or three) different texts sung simultaneously, alternately harmonizing and hocketing with each other. Sometimes the texts are closely related to each other, and sometimes sung from different/contrasting perspectives. Of course I don't understand Latin or medieval French, but I'd imagine if I did understand the language, listening to these motets would be even more of a head-spinning experience, figuring out which text to follow or attempting to keep track of both at the same time.

So I'm wondering if there are examples of motets or other music with a similar effect in English, from that era or beyond (The Velvet Underground "The Murder Mystery" is what immediately comes to mind for me). It seems like after the gothic era composers tended to base compositions around a single text rather than two or more overlapping texts, but maybe I'm wrong about that...

I just put together a show about pre-historic music, interviewed Simon O'Dwyer of Ancient Music Ireand, he reconstructs bronze age / iron age instruments and figures out how they were played.

https://centuriesofsound.com/2023/09/11/centuries-of-sound-radiopod-prequel-special-1-ancient-sounds-with-simon-odwyer-of-ancient-music-ireland/

They've also just launched a sound library called Paleosonic - https://www.ancientmusicireland.com/sound-library

this is so great!

Thanks, I was surprised at how much was out there, I had the idea that it was just the Hurrian hymn, but could've put together several hours.

Yoooo