http://inverted-audio.com/feature/130701-pioneers-of-post-classical/
― djh, Thursday, 22 October 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
this new Lubomyr Melnyk album is beautiful
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 27 November 2015 14:23 (eight years ago) link
a friend of mine just hipped me to Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon, 'Studies I - XVII for Samplers & Percussion' and it is rad.
― expertly crafted referential display name (Jordan), Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo8b_yEil-M
^ been enjoying Yair Elazar Glotman's Études recently, guy's got a good sound
― seb mooczag (NickB), Thursday, 17 December 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
it's not pretty music btw, it's more like a bear growling in your ear
― seb mooczag (NickB), Thursday, 17 December 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
cool record
― poorzingis (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 December 2015 20:10 (eight years ago) link
Spotify has discovered Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch for me. From the safer, AWftS, piano-era Eluvium end of the spectrum.
― ledge, Saturday, 2 January 2016 12:03 (eight years ago) link
this thread put me on Turn of Breath and for that I am forever in its debt, I keep finding new ways to enjoy this record
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Sunday, 3 January 2016 04:52 (eight years ago) link
Boomkat sale is on. Lots of Type Records.
― djh, Sunday, 10 January 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2015/12/07/fact-mix-527-johann-johannsson/
― koogs, Friday, 29 January 2016 14:00 (eight years ago) link
http://www.sonicpieces.com/pattern002.html
― djh, Monday, 15 February 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link
Liking this a lot.
JOHANN JOHANNSSON WITH HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR & ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE - END OF SUMMER
PATTERN 002 CD/DVD "lasercut cardboard packaging with full colored innersleeve" PATTERN 002 LP "lasercut cardboard packaging with full colored innersleeve"
End of Summer captures Johann Johannsson's journey to the Antarctic Peninsula to discover the calm scenery of a landscape changing seasons, barely influenced or even noticed by humanity. The super 8 film is a comforting study of a peaceful setting in one of the most crucial and endangered areas of our planet.
Accompanied by rich and detailed field recordings of the surrounding this footage makes a perfect foundation for Johann's musical compositions, performed together with fellow musicians and friends Hildur Gudnadottir and Robert A. A. Lowe. The varying use of cello, voice, synthesizer and electronics creates a listening experience that reflects both the vast beauty of the quiet scenery and the necessary cautiousness of its inhabitants. As if gliding through the steep ice, its rough edges and the harmonious water movements, organic arrangements are patiently devolving into voice and electronic based ambience that adds warmth to the icy, artefact laden environment.
The soundtrack to End of Summer is an emotional, enduring listen and a compelling experience. Forming a soundscape as broad as the view it was inspired by yet equally heartwarming, devotion to the music will slow down time and provide a moment of harmony within times of change.
LP edition features the soundtrack as well as the film's sound design on the B-Side, exclusively on vinyl; DVD + CD package features the film and accompanying soundtrack.
― djh, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
Glad to know about this, it's great. Put me on a Hildur Gudnottir kick all day today.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 26 February 2016 03:29 (eight years ago) link
Might be of interest:
https://www.fat-cat.co.uk/release/like-water-through-the-sand
(Revived 130701 imprint).
― djh, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
Recent obsessions:
Colin Stetson: Sorrow -- sax-based reinterpretation of Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songshttp://open.spotify.com/album/0SnAsW09FjjOYZ2oHYliyL
Julia Kent - Asperities -- cello-heavy wonderfulnesshttp://open.spotify.com/album/5on5Q09vRTjw24GmaK3pMz
― 🐸 a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly i (James Morrison), Thursday, 28 April 2016 23:06 (eight years ago) link
http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music/sarah-neufeld-playlist/#wX1tPVS2S4xq4Sxz.97
(I have to confess the comment underneath made me chuckle).
― djh, Monday, 2 May 2016 16:11 (eight years ago) link
I have to say, getting the weekly Boomkat email of new albums, going through it and finding almost all the intriguing looking stuff on Spotify, and settling in a for a day's listening at work is very satisfying. Today there's a new Peter Broderick (Partners), the new Scott Walker OST for The Childhood of a Leader, Marielle V Jakobsons, Chino Amobi's 'Airport Music for Black Folk', stuff like that.
― James Morrison, Friday, 19 August 2016 00:22 (seven years ago) link
Like bits of the Ben Lukas Boysen (on Erased Tapes).
― djh, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
Actually, love this track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCpFvn7jTPo
― djh, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Apparently, there's a feature in this month's Uncut on some of these types.
― djh, Friday, 21 October 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
> these types
Pun!
― koogs, Friday, 21 October 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, the Boyson, Christopher Tignor and Ian William are good 2016 additions
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 21 October 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
*Ian William Craig
Peter Broderick's PlaylistStuart Maconie's Freakier Zone
Stuart's guest from the Freak Zone this week, Peter Broderick, offers a 60-minute playlist of music from his studio in Oregon called The Sparkle which he has just closed. Featuring a bounty of unreleased tracks from The Sparkle's archive including Portland's Shelley Short, harpist Desiree Rousseau's band Brumes and his sister Heather Woods Broderick.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082q70v
interview in the main freak zone show too
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04fzm50
― koogs, Monday, 14 November 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
Some temptation here:
https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/2016-in-review-journeys-in-modern-classical/
Their "Sense of Place" list is also interesting.
― djh, Sunday, 8 January 2017 12:36 (seven years ago) link
I had no idea Touch had a bandcamp
― Dinsdale, Sunday, 8 January 2017 12:56 (seven years ago) link
https://highplainskranky.bandcamp.com/
― djh, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link
^oh hey, i'm friends with that cellist
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link
I must buy that Claire M Singer album. The bits I've heard sound great.
― djh, Saturday, 14 January 2017 19:03 (seven years ago) link
Sampling some of these I haven't heard, I'm sorta taken aback by the homogeneity of a lot of this stuff. Guess I hadn't realized until now what a big shadow Erased Tapes really cast, but so much of this is just really conservative, featherlight furniture music that makes Satie sound like Jerry Lee Lewis. Guess I just don't get it?
― Wimmels, Saturday, 14 January 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link
Any recommendations, Wimmels?
― djh, Saturday, 14 January 2017 22:56 (seven years ago) link
Well, if you're asking, some of the younger Scandinavian pianists on ECM fill this void for me quite nicely. It's music that often surprises me while still capturing / evoking icy or bucolic or mellow moods. It too can occasionally be overly polite and antiseptic, but even then I find it more adventurous and challenging than a lot of the stately, grandiloquent somber / pretty music in this thread. I also don't understand why I should listen to frustrated post-rockers play bootleg Debussy through effects pedals when something like this exists.
To be clear, I'm not dismissing the entire above list. I like a few of these artists. But of the ones I'd never heard, most of the samples did not make me want to investigate further. Claire M. Singer is probably the lone exception, that's definitely something I need to look into, based on the sample...
― Wimmels, Saturday, 14 January 2017 23:36 (seven years ago) link
Thanks Wimmels. I kind of in agreement with you and it's why this thread was started. There's a lot of "classical music you buy from Boomkat" that I like (including some Erased Tapes) but I'm mindful that there's also a lot of stuff that I hear simply because ... it's on my radar and I've always had a suspicion that there's better stuff out there.
I did enjoying finding that Stationary Travels list to play through, though (even if ultimately there wasn't much I needed to hear again). Of that list I have Boysen, Arnalds/Frahm and Johannsson (though I'd Have chosen "End of Summer" over the album listed) and the Claire M Singer album was the one I hadn't heard but have felt the need to order.
― djh, Sunday, 15 January 2017 14:02 (seven years ago) link
I've noticed that with this sort of style they pretty much always use an instrumental palette of piano and/or string instruments. There must be some exceptions though. Are there any people out there doing this type of thing with woodwind or brass instruments?
― mirostones, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 23:34 (seven years ago) link
Good question
― calstars, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 00:23 (seven years ago) link
Colin Stetson? Lots of sax and suchlike. His version of Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, 'Sorrow', is one of my favourite albums from 2016
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 02:44 (seven years ago) link
The new Gavin Bryars album on ECM, The Fifth Century, is a choir and sax quartet thing. Very lovely it is too.
― heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 08:56 (seven years ago) link
New Jacaszek coming up on Ghostly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpAlyO5855s
― djh, Friday, 27 January 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link
New Ian Hawgood:
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/love-retained
― djh, Monday, 30 January 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
Just ordered the Resina album ...
https://soundcloud.com/fatcatrecords/sets/resina-resina-cd13-23
and looking forward to the Olivier Alary compilation.
― djh, Monday, 13 February 2017 21:45 (seven years ago) link
Haven't yet played this but my Sunday evening now seems sorted:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fry9l?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_6_music&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=radio_and_music
― djh, Sunday, 19 February 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
^ Actually it wasn't that good.
Anyway:
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/09/519048493/first-listen-jacaszek-kwiaty
― djh, Thursday, 9 March 2017 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Anyone rate the new Hauschka? I've not heard it yet but think I might have reached the point where I don't need anymore Hauschka ...
― djh, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 18:55 (seven years ago) link
It was all right but I don't remember much about it.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link
I'm at that point too, djh. Same with Peter Broderick tbh. I thought it would happen with Max Richter, but he continues to amaze me.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link
Sunday night drunkenness. The last Douglas Dare album is hitting the spot though I've felt ambivalent about it at points. It doesn't really have much to do with "classical you buy from Boomkat" aside from being on Erased Tapes, mind.
― djh, Sunday, 20 August 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
new Peter Broderick / Peter Liversige Late Junction session here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05d78x0
(think the download is uk only, but non-britishers should be able to stream)
― koogs, Friday, 25 August 2017 11:48 (six years ago) link
Ólafur Arnalds' Island Songs, the movie: tomorrow on iTunes (except for North America: soon)
Island Songs, the film. Out FRIDAY on @iTunes!(US date coming soon) pic.twitter.com/S1amATRvAn— Ólafur Arnalds (@OlafurArnalds) September 13, 2017
― StanM, Thursday, 14 September 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
It pains me a bit but one of my favourite albums of the year is being sold for a quid *for the CD* on Bandcamp:
I've checked and it isn't a mistake.
― djh, Monday, 23 October 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/168476-otto-a-totland-the-lost
― djh, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link