The "classical" music you buy from Boomkat (2010): a thread to discuss Sylvain Chauveau, Johann Johannsson, Peter Broderick, Olafur Arnalds and others

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.

Glad to know about this, it's great. Put me on a Hildur Gudnottir kick all day today.

Might be of interest:

https://www.fat-cat.co.uk/release/like-water-through-the-sand

(Revived 130701 imprint).

Recent obsessions:

Colin Stetson: Sorrow -- sax-based reinterpretation of Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
http://open.spotify.com/album/0SnAsW09FjjOYZ2oHYliyL

Julia Kent - Asperities -- cello-heavy wonderfulness
http://open.spotify.com/album/5on5Q09vRTjw24GmaK3pMz

http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music/sarah-neufeld-playlist/#wX1tPVS2S4xq4Sxz.97

(I have to confess the comment underneath made me chuckle).

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.

Like bits of the Ben Lukas Boysen (on Erased Tapes).

Actually, love this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCpFvn7jTPo

Apparently, there's a feature in this month's Uncut on some of these types.

> these types

Pun!

Yeah, the Boyson, Christopher Tignor and Ian William are good 2016 additions

*Ian William Craig

Peter Broderick's Playlist
Stuart 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

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.

I had no idea Touch had a bandcamp

https://highplainskranky.bandcamp.com/

^oh hey, i'm friends with that cellist

I must buy that Claire M Singer album. The bits I've heard sound great.

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?

Any recommendations, Wimmels?

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...

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.

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?

Good question

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

The new Gavin Bryars album on ECM, The Fifth Century, is a choir and sax quartet thing. Very lovely it is too.

New Jacaszek coming up on Ghostly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpAlyO5855s

New Ian Hawgood:

https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/love-retained

Just ordered the Resina album ...

https://soundcloud.com/fatcatrecords/sets/resina-resina-cd13-23

and looking forward to the Olivier Alary compilation.

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

^ Actually it wasn't that good.

Anyway:

http://www.npr.org/2017/03/09/519048493/first-listen-jacaszek-kwiaty

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 ...

It was all right but I don't remember much about it.

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.

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.

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)

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

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:

https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/love-retained

I've checked and it isn't a mistake.

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/168476-otto-a-totland-the-lost

I loved his previous one

http://olafurarnalds.com/tour-dates/ touring with strings again

This includes some good stuff, much of which is "the classical music you buy from Boomkat":

https://banbantonton.com/2017/12/31/2017-dave-howell-130701/

Particularly enjoying this:

https://vanessaamara-poshisolation.bandcamp.com/

Not yet made my way through this (posting so I can find it later):

https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2017/12/31/2017-in-review-journeys-in-modern-experimental-classical/

That all looks promising, will investigate: cheers

Since Vanessa Amara was mentioned above, she has a new record next month again on Posh Isolation and you can hear a beautiful track off it on her bandcamp:

https://vanessaamara-poshisolation.bandcamp.com/album/manos

Also enjoying this Swoop and Cross record on Time Released Sound
https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/stories-of-disintegration

the keyboard player from super furry animals composed something. it's pretty good imo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIbS4ekCNmY

https://www.discogs.com/Cian-Ciaran-Rhys-a-Meinir/release/11266106

Sure there are a lot of Reich-isms, but this Anenon record is beautiful, very pleasant listening. Really nice textures (all that breath sound on the saxophone) and room sound.
https://anenon.bandcamp.com/album/tongue

thanks for the Anenon, sounds good

New ólafur Arnalds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAhO5eegMfY

there's a new BBC Radio 3 show that covers this stuff:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b02sl2

"Elizabeth Alker with music by an exciting new generation of unclassified composers and performers, breaking free of the constraints of practice rooms and concert halls."

6 episodes, first one was last sunday at 23:30 but available (everywhere?) via iplayer radio

Cool, thanks!