search or destroy:: piano magic

found myself browsing their site, and was struck by the beauty of their first record covers, which I'd never seen -

wrong french:
http://www.piano-magic.co.uk/images/wrong_french.jpg

wintersport:
http://www.piano-magic.co.uk/images/wintersport.jpg

for engineers:
http://www.piano-magic.co.uk/images/for_engineers.jpg

popular mechanics:

http://www.piano-magic.co.uk/images/popular_mechanics.jpg

wonder if anyone could *cough* lend me the (out of print) recent second language cd-r thing?

second language is releasing the new klima album in october. wonderful news.

Has everyone lost interest? Can't see much fuss about their final album.

A CD-R:

For Engineers A
Certainty
I Came To Your Party
Wintersport/Cross Country
I Am The Sub-Librarian
Dark Secrets Look For Light
Saint Marie
No Closure
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
I Am The Teacher's Son
This Heart Machinery
Incurable
Password
The End of A Dark, Tired Year
Postal.

(Disclaimer: Didn't really have a plan for the CD-R - it's not a best of or a perfectly poised overview, more just what ended up on the CD tonight).

Over the years I've come to the conclusion that The Troubled Sleep of Piano Magic has their best songs of anything up to Part-Monster (I haven't heard any of the albums after that).

the new album is great, prefer it to the last one. they're friends so I give them a pass even when they haven't been exceptional. Troubled Sleep is a lovely album; so is Disaffected. The new one is largely a kind of 'song' album, as opposed the assortment of oddments albums that were par for the course early on.

Those are both great, Artist's Rifles still a favourite when driving at night. Will def check the new one out.

always had a lot of affection for this band - for some personal reasons (I learned of them just as we were becoming stablemates) and then also because their music was distinctive: no one else really like them in my view! hadn't heard there was a latest, keen to listen

I had no idea they were still going! I thought the 'Heart Machinery' comp of a year or so ago was their final release. New one has been duly ordered!

'Ovations' is a great record is anyone is looking to explore their more recent output.

So ... Piano Magic's "Closure" or Angele David-Guillou's "En Mouvement"?

Closure is a good album for them to finish up on though it falls short of being one of their best. Angele's album is sublime.

I thought Klima was her completely solo thing but there was someone else in that.

I really like Closure, I will need to check out the other one

I'm struck by how much of Piano Magic's back catalogue I enjoy these days ... I don't think my journey alongside them has always been a straight-forward one - I've often come round to albums long after the fact.

several people from piano magic backed her on the Klima albums (not glen)

Having a prolonged Piano Magic "phase". Really enjoying the "Heart Machinery" compilation. Strangely, "Artists Rifles" seems like a "classic" these days. I was fairly ambivalent at the time, wanting them to carry on making music along the lines of "For Engineers".

Y'all aware of this?

https://cedricpinglenjohnson.bandcamp.com/

Genuinely amazed how long it has taken Pin/Johnson to sell 200 copies of this ((or 185, there are still 15 copies left with the free cassette). I'd kind of imagined that Johnson would have a "fan base"/"market".

Eight copies left!

(I feel like I'm street-teaming).

They - Piano Magic rather than Pin/Johnson - were sounding amazing on my headphones, tonight.

Was playing the compilation above and this run ...

Saint Marie
No Closure
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
I Am The Teacher's Son

... was just incredible.

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TIL what agrestic means

“English radiophonic soundscapers.”

New music from Glen:

https://textileranch.bandcamp.com/track/unbosoming

New radio show from Glen:

https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/arcane-delights-08th-august-2020/

Live album on Bandcamp:

https://pianomagic.bandcamp.com/album/piano-magic-live-in-ferrara-20-7-06

New Johnson/Pin album:

https://secondlanguagemusic.bandcamp.com/album/isotech

love we don't just disappear and surprised that they're doing a second album under this name. "demolitions" is great and a perfectly eerie mood for fall. yep, excited for this one.

I know Piano Magic is/was a London-based band but is Glen Johnson from WMidlands environs? I was listening to their cover of "How Does It Feel?" and the accent sounded rather natural, nearly Brummy.

Nottingham, I believe.

meep, help a dumb American out then.... Technically more Black Country then? Is that consistent with the Spacemens?

"search or destroy"?