https://youtu.be/EyEB2AEqHxchttps://youtu.be/ABXcIsmyLJk
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Sunday, 6 December 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
ALBOMBS
Esther Stephens & The Means - Esther Stephens & The MeansAverage Rap Band - Stream Of NonsensenessCaitlin Blake - Neo Tokyo EPDaymé Arocena - Nueva EraEncouragement - Encouragement
(5/uh, better leave it at that. For me the real World Cup Final is Vote Now for ILM's WORST SONG of 2015 - Voting Ends December 31, 2015)
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Thursday, 24 December 2015 10:30 (eight years ago) link
You could always extend the deadline a while past Jan 1st... For this poll, prolonging the agony is highly appropriate.
Melody Thomas discussed the badness of "Dead Future Husband" or w/e the title is, on Radio New Zealand's Matinee Idle (which is a bit like this thread for older people).
Meghan Trainor's "Better When I'm Dancin'" is an improvement, dare I say it? Though she does fail to pronounce the word "music". She calls it "moozic", for some reason.
Thanks to all contributors for an entertaining and informative year of crappery. On some level, the world probably needs bad moozic, in order for there to be so much great moozic.
For my ballot, I've decided not to vote for the properly hateful shit, since it would mean a very grim ballot topped by "I Love Females". And as heinous as that is as a (mis)use of music, I feel bad giving it any credit at all. Even in this.
So instead, I went for the super awesome funny-but-crap option. Songs that remind me of talent, even if they display little of it. They're also the ones that gave me the most laughs, which is why I enjoy these threads after all:
5: Baby Dic - "Death Metal Dizzle"Baby Dic is one outrageous dude. A totally outrageous paradigm.
4: Black Eyed Peas with David Guetta - "Awesome (This Is Awesome)"It's not awesome. BUT hearing a band desperately pad out a song to four times its official "full" length... that's awesome.
3: Roslyn Moore - "In the Burbs"The sub-burbs really aren't as cool as Roslyn thinks, nor as hellish as she makes them sound. Tune's okay, in a kind of annoying way.
2: Chris Holmes - "Born Work Die""Shove this tuner up your ass". Six minutes.
1: AronChupa - "I'm an Albatraoz"All kinds of daft. I like it (from a distance). This song's stupidity has also infected the Wikipedia article about it:
Ekberg raps about a woman who she calls a mouse and refers to in a vulgar way.The word albatraoz is a made up word, created to reference an albatross[4] and the group itself. Mouse is also a play on words, as the Swedish for mouse is 'mus', which also means vagina, or pussy, which can also mean 'cat'.
The word albatraoz is a made up word, created to reference an albatross[4] and the group itself. Mouse is also a play on words, as the Swedish for mouse is 'mus', which also means vagina, or pussy, which can also mean 'cat'.
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Saturday, 26 December 2015 08:28 (eight years ago) link
You may need extra booze
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
What's the deal with Slem Igen?
Niels could explain more, but the Danish "Blak & Jimillian" lyrics, when translated into amusing cack-handed English, come off as fairly Thicke-esque. (Or Thicke's-ghostwriter-esque or whatever.)
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Thursday, 31 December 2015 01:25 (eight years ago) link
<img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/fefc606610e03e0a7a337eaac18b3d30/tumblr_mut3ltJOvw1rqyxf8o1_500.gif" width="100">
― home organ, Thursday, 31 December 2015 03:33 (eight years ago) link
http://photos-5.dropbox.com/t/2/AAD8MlM9vAT4TDyr0r-MRJTYgdThaSohG_WJ_hoadrGoZA/12/23900143/png/32x32/1/_/1/2/Screenshot%202016-01-01%2013.37.36.png/EJK-_REY4voIIAIoAg/k8XQd1fxCP24rwdHjXUbdvolk6cZEwPr_SdnNtBlfO4%3Fsize%3D1280x960%26size_mode%3D3
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 January 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link
http://photos-5.dropbox.com/t/2/AAD8MlM9vAT4TDyr0r-MRJTYgdThaSohG_WJ_hoadrGoZA/12/23900143/png/32x32/1/_/1/2/Screenshot%202016-01-01%2013.37.36.png/EJK-_REY4voIIAIoAg/k8XQd1fxCP24rwdHjXUbdvolk6cZEwPr_SdnNtBlfO4
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― sbahnhof, Saturday, 2 January 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
http://i4.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article10673595.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/JS79535758.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 3 January 2016 12:44 (eight years ago) link
http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7411/9412310898_25012fc07f.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 9 January 2016 03:17 (eight years ago) link
http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7411/9412310898_25012fc07f_m.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 9 January 2016 03:18 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACDxsA5luV4
― saer, Saturday, 9 January 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
Rolling Afrobeats / Afropop 2016
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 January 2016 19:57 (eight years ago) link
Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2015
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 January 2016 06:49 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/QGbCCIe.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/QGbCCIe.gif
― christmas capybara (nakhchivan), Friday, 15 January 2016 14:38 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/QGbCCIe.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/QGbCCIe.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/QGbCCIe.gif
― christmas capybara (nakhchivan), Friday, 15 January 2016 14:39 (eight years ago) link
HEY KIDS LISTEN TO THESE
Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing – Scrying in Infirmary Architecture (comedy folk gothic industrial no wave post-punk religious)Ron Gallipoli – Agrocomplex (ambient experimental industrial tropical Auckland)She's So Rad – Tango (fuzz)Mareko – Hong Kong Food City (all the real life shit…)Coolies – Kaka (punk reggaeton beatmaking female mc oi)Caitlin Blake – Neo Tokyo EPShe's So Rad – "Cool It" ("mad Brian May")i.e. crazy – "You're a Stranger (to me now)"The Magnets with their excellent song "Lorde"Scuba Diva's "Marimba" (a sparse yet hooky slice of... uh... good)A great interview with Mille Lovelock from Astro Children http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nat-music/audio/201787465/astro-childrenAnd a new track from these guys and girls: Stack & Piece x CampusKit - "Break Control" (feat. Diaz Grimm, LarzRanda and Samahra Eames)Clearly, it's a celebration of the cricket season, through the coded messages "I won't let it bounce away", and LarzRanda's "I feel less afraid and a lot more BOWLED"http://img.cricketcb.com/i/news/fth/300x200//stories/2015/mar/28/prv_97813_1427603303.jpg defend dammit
― sbahnhof, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 09:53 (eight years ago) link
OK KIDS, NOW THAT YOU'VE HEARD THOSE, WHY NOT DROP THE NEEDLE ON THESE ON YOUR IPOD
Listening LINKS -- (*) = 1 track online. Plz feel free to correct if possible
Art Melody - Moogho
FIDLAR - Too (thread)
Esther Stephens & The Means - Esther Stephens & The Means
Poulenc/Louis Lortie/Hélène Mercier/BBC Phil./Edward Gardner - Piano Concertos; Aubade (previews)
Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle (thread)
Maria Schneider Orchestra - The Thompson Fields (previews), (about), (thread)
Molly Nilsson - Zenith (previews), (* "1995")
State Champion - Fantasy Error
White Out / Nels Cline - Accidental Sky (NC thread)
Adult Mom - Momentary Lapse of Happily
Average Rap Band - Stream Of Nonsenseness
Fatima Yamaha - Imaginary Lines
Northaunt - Istid I-II
Oshun - Asase Yaa
Power Monster - White Single Female
Thomas Brinkmann - What You Hear (Is What You Hear)
Tribulation - The Children of the Night
Zomes - NetWorks Album 2: Phase Portraits
muffin - 茂みとイバラ Bushes and Briars (previews)
Chuck Bettis - Pixel Bleed
Gacha - Send Two Sunsets
Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon (thread)
Magic Circle - Journey Blind
Matthew Shipp Chamber Ensemble - The Gospel According to Matthew and Michael url=Matthew Shipp](thread)[/url]
Miami Horror - All Possible Futures
Nadia Reid - Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs
Sevish - Rhythm and Xen (thread)
― sbahnhof, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 22:09 (eight years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/a77b23ae0d11eb0a06b7b612f1c26622/tumblr_n02ttfbgEv1t13eyho1_400.gifhttp://markmanson.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/bunk_250_optimized.gif
― from the perspective of a gay man, i will post them now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 February 2016 04:46 (eight years ago) link
http://cdn1.theodysseyonline.com/files/2015/10/15/635805362411119546-1401372307_tumblr_nr7zqaDQjg1roohd8o1_400.gif
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 February 2016 05:08 (eight years ago) link
http://s16.postimg.org/9vffjv785/stonecoldmagic.png https://www.sandwichrec.com/PhotoPool/Large/53668_17066.jpg http://s16.postimg.org/6sepghs9h/sam_the_wizard.png
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 7 February 2016 03:24 (eight years ago) link
Sevish (Microtonal IDM/Chiptune Guy) - some unexpected Microtonality late in the poll. A pretty easy listen all in all - if anything, maybe it could do with being more strange, but accessible is what Sevish was aiming for (while totally missing the point of blurbs. They're supposed to be pretentious!)
Forget the dance music tropes, this music ain't for DJs - it's for armchairs and road trips. And it's also the perfect music for blocking mind-altering radiation.
Latest thread on xenharmonics etc was Strange scales and temperament, tracks and discussion
― sbahnhof, Monday, 8 February 2016 00:03 (eight years ago) link
https://images.newrepublic.com/884edf8e4f3c630d4ce8fa7c5f7f8d111bfa019d.jpeg?w=800
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 12 February 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/indian-bystanders-watch-as-a-wild-elephant-walks-along-a-busy-street-picture-id509337766
― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 13 February 2016 00:07 (eight years ago) link
https://youtube/GQQMLE4FuIQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=34&v=GQQMLE4FuIQ
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Monday, 15 February 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
http://youtube/vcPODNAmXBs
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Monday, 15 February 2016 14:31 (eight years ago) link
http://youtu.be/vcPODNAmXBs
Testing [color=red]testing[/color] testing.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 11:29 (eight years ago) link
<iframe src="https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify%3Aalbum%3A2W9gHde4uAkgJii1f8HNNU" width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 25 February 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
http://a65.tinypic.com/wtsrup.jpg
― Jeff, Friday, 26 February 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
OK OK, that's enough of us losers.
Other losers will be selected tonight in these countries:
http://s30.postimg.org/s2rd9cagx/Eurovision_Feb_27_2016.png(times CET or local(?) - see the ESC site)
Germany has chosen the highly inoffensive "Ghost" by Jamie-Lee Kriewitz - https://youtu.be/Qp5hRoU9HgQ
...while shamefully snubbing "Masters of Chant" by Greg Orion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfwRxhGxjn4
ROBBED
And in minor developments, they're changing the Eurovision voting system again
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=biggest_change_to_eurovision_song_contest_voting_since_1975
It's not very well-explained on there, but apparently Melodifestivalen in Sweden has used something similar.
AIUI there'll be twice as many points awarded – a full set of points from each country's jury, and another set from each country's televote. Then (correct me if wrong) they'll announce the jury results in the normal way. And finally, at the end, the host reveals each country's total televote points in ascending order from 26th to 1st, to guarantee massive tension.
It might well be a better way, but they make it sound like neuroscience. Or something else.
After viewers have cast their votes by telephone, SMS or using the official app, each national spokesperson from the 43 participating countries will be called in to present the points of their professional jury. After the presentation of the scores from the juries, the televoting points from all participating countries will be combined, providing one score for each song. These televoting results will then be announced by the host, starting with the country receiving the fewest points from the public and ending with the country that received the highest number of points, building towards a guaranteed climax.
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 27 February 2016 05:15 (eight years ago) link
test
― clemenza, Saturday, 12 March 2016 14:38 (eight years ago) link
― clemenza, Saturday, 12 March 2016 14:39 (eight years ago) link
☎
― am0n, Monday, 21 March 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
✠
― am0n, Monday, 21 March 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
𝓈 𝒽 𝒾 𝓉
― am0n, Monday, 21 March 2016 20:39 (eight years ago) link
𝔽𝕌𝔾
― am0n, Monday, 21 March 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link
The Simon Shaheen interview from 2003 is still available (on Web Archive) and still a fascinating read - http://web.archive.org/web/20030818015403/http://www.afropop.org/multi/interview/ID/39/Simon%20Shaheen%20on%20the%20oud
My first oudist was Waed Bouhassoun from Syria, and her live concert for Radio France Musique from September 2015 - http://www.francemusique.fr/player/resource/106453-118451 - concert starts at 3:00 mins and is available online until Jun 2018
Not sure how Bouhassoun compares to anyone else, but it's a really hypnotic sound, just oud and voice. (More info on the program page.)
― sbahnhof, Thursday, 24 March 2016 09:56 (eight years ago) link
http://web.archive.org/web/20101228042512/http://www.afropop.org/multi/interview/ID/39/Simon+Shaheen+on+t
― sbahnhof, Thursday, 24 March 2016 10:04 (eight years ago) link
*Shaheen
UK number 1, U.S. #3
Say Anything
the Funny Girls comedy rapping "Work from Home" their previous album?
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 26 March 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
"Soft Offering (For the Oft Suffering)"
The parentheses of embarrassment. That's the opposite of the ellipsis of anticipation. It just depends how proud you are of the pun.
Less punny threads include.Funniest song titlesWhat makes a "good" song title?Songtitles referring to major news eventsWhat is the greatest song with a comma in it's title?The Megadeth one
― sbahnhof, Friday, 1 April 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
^ Track possibly a joke about what Drake sounds like in ILMers' heads. Okay I'll do it, "in ILMers' heads"
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 2 April 2016 07:47 (seven years ago) link
QUOTH THE GATE-VEN
Since all of Hensel’s works were created for presentation at her Sunday musicales, it is important to remember that her choice of genres was largely dictated by the performing forces at her disposal. It was also probably determined to some extent by the fact that her brother discouraged her from writing large-scale works. However, on the evidence of such beautifully crafted, extended compositions as the Op. 11 Piano Trio, the E flat major String Quartet, and the G minor Piano Sonata, one is led to speculate that, given the same encouragement and professional opportunities as her brother, she might well have become his rival as a symphonist.
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was both a victim and a survivor. In light of her upbringing, it must have taken enormous courage for her to defy convention by making the leap from the private sphere of the salon – her allotted place as a female creator – to the public sphere of the published composer. To borrow the words of a recent critic, "Although no one may have danced to her 'piping' during her lifetime, to ignore her now would be a very large loss indeed." (James Parsons, 1986)
Since all of Hensel’s works were created for presentation at her Sunday musicales, it is important to remember that her choice of genres was largely dictated by the performing forces at her disposal. It was also probably determined to some extent by the fact that her brother discouraged her from writing large-scale works. However, on the evidence of such beautifully crafted, extended compositions as the Op. 11 Piano Trio, the E flat major String Quartet, and the G minor Piano Sonata, one is led to speculate that, given the same encouragement and professional opportunities as her brother, she might well have become his rival as a symphonist.Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was both a victim and a survivor. In light of her upbringing, it must have taken enormous courage for her to defy convention by making the leap from the private sphere of the salon – her allotted place as a female creator – to the public sphere of the published composer. To borrow the words of a recent critic, "Although no one may have danced to her 'piping' during her lifetime, to ignore her now would be a very large loss indeed." (James Parsons, 1986)
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 10 April 2016 01:31 (seven years ago) link
A couple of pieces by Mendelssohn-Hensel to start with:
One of her largest-scale ones, "Oratorio on Scenes from the Bible" No it's not "Bachian", f*** you <- Note to self
And the Four Songs for Piano, op 8, from 1850 (her third collection with that title). Sounds like a vinyl rip, tho I dunno if it can be
Obscurity and reputation
Yes, I am being obscurist. I'm not sorry, U can all eat it ;)
Got to be done... With regard to female composers, it's surely inevitable that there'll be more historical revisionism in future, just like in any field that was so male-dominated for so long. From Fanny's story, it's shocking how this state of affairs was maintained through 'politeness' and presumptions, rather than outright threat. It was Berlin high society, with its ingrained idea that a woman couldn't and wouldn't become a composer, and certainly not one of any merit. Even Fanny herself is quoted doing down the 'femininity' and inferiority of her works. Some news reports on her piano recitals didn't name her, to protect her modesty. She still won many supporters, and she was having her work published for a short time before she passed away.
On a related topic, thinking about shifts in reputation over time: have many obscure older composers gained traction in the past 30-50 years? Which ones do you think? (Obv inspired by that thread, "Vanilla Ice went from hero to zero".)
Fanny's music was performed in a 2010 Juilliard concert series in New York City:http://www.juilliard.edu/journal/out-shadows-showcase-works-fanny-mendelssohn-hensel
At the moment it looks like she gets played a lot in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and not so much elsewhere:http://www.fannyhensel.de/hensel_eng/konzf_frame.htm
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 10 April 2016 03:02 (seven years ago) link
Spring and All 2k16 / what are you reading now?
(strip the hostname from the url and it'll work for both www.ilxor.com and ilxor.com)
(in theory...)
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 12:37 (seven years ago) link
Putney Swope (1969)
― los blue jeans, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 03:20 (seven years ago) link
Cheers Jon. With the Fanny Hensel book, I was lucky to stumble across it in the city library among the rock biogs. Which just proves she 'rocks', or "she's the dope", or however the young people are expressing admiration nowadays.
Leafing through to try and find the bit where Todd writes the academic equivalent of "Fanny > Felix lol"... uh, I couldn't find it. Instead here's some sibling squabbling, which is also quite enlightening:
"Writing to Felix, Fanny observed that her brother had successfully worked his way through Beethoven's late style and 'progressed beyond it [...] my lengthy things die in their youth of decrepitude; I lack the ability to sustain ideas properly and give them the needed consistency.'
[...] Matters indeed came to a head in the fall of 1834 when she completed between August 23 and October 23 one of her most ambitious works, the String Quartet in E-Flat Major (H-U 277). This was the composition, as we shall see, that prompted Felix to write a critique in January 1835, to which Fanny replied with the self-deprecating comments cited above.
[...] [The first three movements] use tonality in an expressive way that further separates her from the eighteenth-century traditions in which [Carl Friedrich] Zelter had trained her and Felix. She deemphasizes the keys of the three movements so that the tonal hierarchy rests more on harmonic associations and implications than on conventional, dominant-to-tonic cadential gestures.
[...] Felix praised the tonal swaying ('Wanken' lol) between E-flat major and C minor at the outset of the quartet as 'schön', but the subsequent persistent appearance of F minor in the first movement and some tonal ambiguities in the second and third convinced him that Fanny had mistakenly embraced a mannerism ('Mannier'). For Felix, tonal clarity was an imperative, and form enhanced that clarity. 'Don't consider me a Philistine,' he insisted; 'I am not, and believe I am right in having more respect than before for form and proper craft, or however one calls the trade terms. Just send me soon something nice, for otherwise I'll think you have struck me dead as a critic.'
What Fanny sent in her next letter was a healthy dose of her own criticism, though not, she assured him, 'a tit-for-tat action'."
(from pp178-186 of Fanny Hensel. Full disclosure, I dunno what all the words mean, but quoted for truthiness)
The quartet, in all its controversy(!), is at https://youtu.be/biWrI7O0s1U
On a related topic, thinking about shifts in reputation over time: have many obscure older composers gained traction in the past 30-50 years? Which ones do you think?
Don't make me challops this thread in order to create a semblance of "debate". Well, you leave me no choice. Here are some Comp-Rep Facts which are literally undebateable:
1. Nobody had heard of Haydn, Telemann, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Rameau, or Mozart until the 1985 Britannica encyclopedia came out (see table on page 8 of the PDF)2. The Three B's are all no longer alive. Also Beethoven wrote Peanuts3. Elizabeth Lutyens, Arthur Bliss, William Walton and Humphrey Searle have totally sold out4. Nicolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky and Josquin des Prez used to be bigger than Jesus[/challops]
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 23 April 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
Wow, "Lost Boy" is really boring. And it's so long. I guess she was praying we would all get younger while listening to it. Billboard has wrongly called it "The Strangest Hit Song On The Please Click This".
HOWEVER, there are mitigating factors:1. At least there's no ukuleles2. I had just listened to "Fucked Over", which is some true no 1 contender shit
Is it a kind of "Hotline Bling" rip-off, or is there an entire genre that just sounds like "Fucked Over"?
Nice as it is to hear an inferior version of "HighClass Bling" mixed with Baby Dic, but what you get is actually very annoying, sadly. (Oh wait, there may be a bit of Eamon's "Fuck It" in the mix too.)
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 24 April 2016 08:18 (seven years ago) link
Few people remember that actor Jon Bernthal started his showbiz career as a member of Kriss Kross.
https://i.imgur.com/Y2xJtmU.jpg
― Wes Brodicus, Friday, 12 January 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
can i do this with quotes?
During the period that concerns us, Saturn was a singles label. The first three Arkestral releases were on 45s (though some reappeared on LP much later). There were just two LPs: Supersonic Jazz, which came out in 1957, after it was clear that there would be no more Transitions, and Jazz in Silhouette, from 1959. An item in the Chicago Defender, from June 1959, announced that Saturn had released 6 singles by then. The bulk of the Arkestra's Chicago recordings would go unreleased until 1965, and some waited a good deal longer.(...)As 1957 began, the Arkestra was still at Budland, sometimes restricted to the Monday morning "breakfast dance." Cadillac Bob must have regretted the expense after Dinah Washington did a return engagement over the holidays. In the future, it was Herman Roberts of Roberts Show Lounge who would lay out the fees she demanded. No longer would Budland regularly book big-name singers from out of town. During the first six weeks of the year, gigs at the club were not being advertised and the place was nearly empty. But organ trios were suddenly popular in the Black community and Cadillac Bob decided to put one together in mid-Febuary. By early March, Tom Archia was fronting the trio on tenor sax and customers were returning. For the next six months, the club was able to sustain itself, but its resurgent advertisements kept passing over Sunny's contribution.Studio time cost money, too. For the next couple of years, Ra and Abraham usually made do with tapes cut at rehearsals or in the clubs. The 1957 Arkestra isn't well documented on records—just a handful of instrumental tracks were ever released, all of them from rehearsals. By the beginning of 1958 there had been major alerations to the lineup. An adventuresome alto saxophonist from Indianapolis named James Spaulding (1938- ) came into the fold in July or August of 1957. Spaulding sounded the same then as he would years later — about halfway between Cannonball Adderley and Ornette Coleman. Alto saxophonist Marshall Allen (born May 25, 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky) had wandered into Chicago in 1952, after a sojourn in Europe. Playing in his spare time while he maintained a day job at the Rivier Camera Company, he sought out Sun Ra after hearing the Transition album. He and Spaulding added their flutes to the Arkestral armamentarium. And then there was bassist extraordinaire Ronnie Boykins (born in 1932), another graduate of DuSable High School who had been playing in R&B bands.(...)Despite the sore lack of publicity, the band did get some use out of Budland. One of Sunny's conditions on any club gig was that the Arkestra be allowed to rehearse at the club when it was empty. The next session was recorded at such a rehearsal.
(...)
As 1957 began, the Arkestra was still at Budland, sometimes restricted to the Monday morning "breakfast dance." Cadillac Bob must have regretted the expense after Dinah Washington did a return engagement over the holidays. In the future, it was Herman Roberts of Roberts Show Lounge who would lay out the fees she demanded. No longer would Budland regularly book big-name singers from out of town. During the first six weeks of the year, gigs at the club were not being advertised and the place was nearly empty. But organ trios were suddenly popular in the Black community and Cadillac Bob decided to put one together in mid-Febuary. By early March, Tom Archia was fronting the trio on tenor sax and customers were returning. For the next six months, the club was able to sustain itself, but its resurgent advertisements kept passing over Sunny's contribution.
Studio time cost money, too. For the next couple of years, Ra and Abraham usually made do with tapes cut at rehearsals or in the clubs. The 1957 Arkestra isn't well documented on records—just a handful of instrumental tracks were ever released, all of them from rehearsals. By the beginning of 1958 there had been major alerations to the lineup. An adventuresome alto saxophonist from Indianapolis named James Spaulding (1938- ) came into the fold in July or August of 1957. Spaulding sounded the same then as he would years later — about halfway between Cannonball Adderley and Ornette Coleman. Alto saxophonist Marshall Allen (born May 25, 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky) had wandered into Chicago in 1952, after a sojourn in Europe. Playing in his spare time while he maintained a day job at the Rivier Camera Company, he sought out Sun Ra after hearing the Transition album. He and Spaulding added their flutes to the Arkestral armamentarium. And then there was bassist extraordinaire Ronnie Boykins (born in 1932), another graduate of DuSable High School who had been playing in R&B bands.
Despite the sore lack of publicity, the band did get some use out of Budland. One of Sunny's conditions on any club gig was that the Arkestra be allowed to rehearse at the club when it was empty. The next session was recorded at such a rehearsal.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 00:15 (six years ago) link
yup :)
i.m. dumm
These tracks were unearthed by Michael Anderson and issued in 2011 on The Eternal Myth Revealed Volume 1 (Transparency 0316, a 14-CD set). The recording was made live at Budland, with the tape recorded parked on the bandstand. Clyde Williams was featured on all three numbers but is markedly off-mike; the influence of Joe Williams is nonetheless noticeable on "Roll 'em Pete."
― budo jeru, Monday, 22 January 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
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― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 08:09 (six years ago) link
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― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
Alexis Taylor - Listen With Piano - pop ambient piano London Hot Chip front manAlison Moyet - Other - pop legend and relentless explorerCabo Boing - Blob On A Grid - experimental electronic pop New York yellow cassetteChristopher Willits - Horizon - best experienced on: 1. Normal headphones 2. Within an Envelop listening space 3. A DIY Ambisonic system (minimum of 4 speakers)Daphni - Fabriclive 93 - aka Caribou aka Dan Snaith aka I dunnoDaphni - joli maiEyvind Kang - Plainlight - (Only previews online?) - brilliant composer and multi-instrumentalistIT IT - Formal Odors - experimental barf rock experimental pop soundscapeImajinary Friends - The Imajinary Friends - cosmic rock telescopes the brian jonestown massacre tipsyJack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, John Medeski & John Scofield - Hudson - jazz jam band jazz New YorkMary Lattimore - Collected Pieces - ambient harp Los AngelesDJ Haus - Defected Presents DJ Haus In The House - a colourful array of raw and jacking soundsJames Elkington - Wintres Woma - “It’s not folk music,” he asserts.Matt Jencik - Weird Times - electronic drone ambient metal shoegaze ChicagoMelkbelly - Nothing Valley - noise rock chicagoMiranda Lee Richards - Existential Beasts - folk rock chamber psychedelicNew Dawn - The Dying Light - contemporary dark ambient drone strings synth ChristchurchOlamide - Lagos Nawa! (Wobey Sound) - Nigeria's most sort after serial hit makerOrchestra Baobab - Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng - West Africa’s most iconic dance-band are backPalehound - A Place I'll Always Go - alternative lol dog rockPeople Like You - Verse - jazz punk emo indiePierre Kwenders - MAKANDA at the End of Space, the Beginning of Time - afrobeat afrofuturismRez Abbasi - Unfiltered Universe - infused with the various, colorful strands of traditional music from his Pakistani/Indian homelandRia Hall - Rules Of Engagement - maori pacific r&b reggae roots soulRoss From Friends - You'll Understand - chicago detroit deep house LondonThe Fun Years - Heroes of the Second Story Walk-Up - dim and moody fits of blurred post-rockThe Horrors - V - an attempt to reconnect with the “unsettling” spirit of their garage-rock rootsThe New Year - Snow - overseas rock bedhead kadane TexasTony Allen - The Source - hybrid album of jazz and Afrobeat, long-time Fela Kuti drummerWWWINGS - A+G - electronic Russia[url=https://soundcloud.com/godmodemusic/sets/yaeji-yaeji-ep-godmode]Yaeji - ep1 - "Shit is crazy"
― sbahnhof, Friday, 2 February 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
Yaeji - ep1 - "Shit is crazy"
― sbahnhof, Friday, 2 February 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
Alexis Taylor - Listen With Piano - pop ambient piano London Hot Chip front manAlison Moyet - Other - pop legend and relentless explorerCabo Boing - Blob On A Grid - experimental electronic pop New York yellow cassetteChristopher Willits - Horizon - best experienced on: 1. Normal headphones 2. Within an Envelop listening space 3. A DIY Ambisonic system (minimum of 4 speakers)Daphni - Fabriclive 93 - aka Caribou aka Dan Snaith aka I dunnoDaphni - joli mai - electronic LondonEyvind Kang - Plainlight - (Only previews online?) - brilliant composer and multi-instrumentalistIT IT - Formal Odors - experimental barf rock experimental pop soundscapeImajinary Friends - The Imajinary Friends - cosmic rock telescopes the brian jonestown massacre tipsyJack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, John Medeski & John Scofield - Hudson - jazz jam band jazz New YorkMary Lattimore - Collected Pieces - ambient harp Los AngelesDJ Haus - Defected Presents DJ Haus In The House - a colourful array of raw and jacking soundsJames Elkington - Wintres Woma - “It’s not folk music,” he asserts.Matt Jencik - Weird Times - electronic drone ambient metal shoegaze ChicagoMelkbelly - Nothing Valley - noise rock chicagoMiranda Lee Richards - Existential Beasts - folk rock chamber psychedelicNew Dawn - The Dying Light - contemporary dark ambient drone strings synth ChristchurchOlamide - Lagos Nawa! (Wobey Sound) - Nigeria's most sort after serial hit makerOrchestra Baobab - Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng - West Africa’s most iconic dance-band are backPalehound - A Place I'll Always Go - alternative lol dog rockPeople Like You - Verse - jazz punk emo indiePierre Kwenders - MAKANDA at the End of Space, the Beginning of Time - afrobeat afrofuturismRez Abbasi - Unfiltered Universe - infused with the various, colorful strands of traditional music from his Pakistani/Indian homelandRia Hall - Rules Of Engagement - maori pacific r&b reggae roots soulRoss From Friends - You'll Understand - chicago detroit deep house LondonThe Fun Years - Heroes of the Second Story Walk-Up - dim and moody fits of blurred post-rockThe Horrors - V - an attempt to reconnect with the “unsettling” spirit of their garage-rock rootsThe New Year - Snow - overseas rock bedhead kadane TexasTony Allen - The Source - hybrid album of jazz and Afrobeat, long-time Fela Kuti drummerWWWINGS - A+G - electronic Russia[url=https://soundcloud.com/godmodemusic/sets/yaeji-yaeji-ep-godmode]Yaeji - ep1 - "Shit is crazy"
― sbahnhof, Friday, 2 February 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
Surely you mean
Alexis Taylor - Listen With Piano - pop ambient piano London Hot Chip front manAlison Moyet - Other - pop legend and relentless explorerCabo Boing - Blob On A Grid - experimental electronic pop New York yellow cassetteChristopher Willits - Horizon - best experienced on: 1. Normal headphones 2. Within an Envelop listening space 3. A DIY Ambisonic system (minimum of 4 speakers)Daphni - Fabriclive 93 - aka Caribou aka Dan Snaith aka I dunnoDaphni - joli mai - electronic LondonEyvind Kang - Plainlight - brilliant composer and multi-instrumentalist, preview on https://www.juno.co.uk/products/eyvind-kang-plainlight/665384-01IT IT - Formal Odors - experimental barf rock experimental pop soundscapeImajinary Friends - The Imajinary Friends - cosmic rock telescopes the brian jonestown massacre tipsyJack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, John Medeski & John Scofield - Hudson - jazz jam band jazz New YorkMary Lattimore - Collected Pieces - ambient harp Los AngelesDJ Haus - Defected Presents DJ Haus In The House - a colourful array of raw and jacking soundsJames Elkington - Wintres Woma - “It’s not folk music,” he asserts.Matt Jencik - Weird Times - electronic drone ambient metal shoegaze ChicagoMelkbelly - Nothing Valley - noise rock chicagoMiranda Lee Richards - Existential Beasts - folk rock chamber psychedelicNew Dawn - The Dying Light - contemporary dark ambient drone strings synth ChristchurchOlamide - Lagos Nawa! (Wobey Sound) - Nigeria's most sort after serial hit makerOrchestra Baobab - Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng - West Africa’s most iconic dance-band are backPalehound - A Place I'll Always Go - alternative lol dog rockPeople Like You - Verse - jazz punk emo indiePierre Kwenders - MAKANDA at the End of Space, the Beginning of Time - afrobeat afrofuturismRez Abbasi - Unfiltered Universe - infused with the various, colorful strands of traditional music from his Pakistani/Indian homelandRia Hall - Rules Of Engagement - maori pacific r&b reggae roots soulRoss From Friends - You'll Understand - chicago detroit deep house LondonThe Fun Years - Heroes of the Second Story Walk-Up - dim and moody fits of blurred post-rockThe Horrors - V - an attempt to reconnect with the “unsettling” spirit of their garage-rock rootsThe New Year - Snow - overseas rock bedhead kadane TexasTony Allen - The Source - hybrid album of jazz and Afrobeat, long-time Fela Kuti drummerWWWINGS - A+G - electronic Russia[url=https://soundcloud.com/godmodemusic/sets/yaeji-yaeji-ep-godmode]Yaeji - ep1 - "Shit is crazy"
― sbahnhof, Friday, 2 February 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
Was ist das
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 4 February 2018 02:47 (six years ago) link
jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxFmnkuz9M
― saer, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
hai
― budo jeru, Friday, 9 February 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/Piul8Gvos4M
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, 15 February 2018 02:11 (six years ago) link
huh
― RYMsnitch, Friday, 16 February 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
wtf
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― budo jeru, Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
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― budo jeru, Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
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― had (crüt), Saturday, 3 March 2018 05:16 (six years ago) link
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― omar little, Friday, 23 March 2018 04:27 (six years ago) link
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― francisF, Friday, 30 March 2018 02:53 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/j7A5WnR.jpg
― francisF, Friday, 30 March 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link
― francisF, Friday, 30 March 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link
― francisF, Friday, 30 March 2018 03:00 (five years ago) link
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She would've been such a cool president.
― pplains, Thursday, 12 April 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
Anyway,
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