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

ólafur Arnalds was brilliant in Brussels last Sunday. The first part of his All Strings Attached tour is nearly over now, here's 75 minutes of the Berlin show on German radio (will be online for a couple more days) : https://www.radioeins.de/programm/index.htm/psdoc=!content!rbb!rad!programm!sendungen!sendungen!154!1805!180517_eins_sch_ne_t_ne_38153.html

From 130701:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=69&v=R1IvMex1geQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpO_8tk6yNQ

How's the new Olafur Arnalds album?

https://soundcloud.com/djfryer/sets/andrew-wasylyk-the-paralian-01022019-athens-of-the-north

Anyone heard this?

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/174651-gideon-wolf-replicas

I've just ordered the cd, will report back.

re: arnalds - I like his previous work better but still going to see the tour again next Sunday

What did you think Le Bateau Ivre?

I got it in the mail yesterday so only played it through one time, but it's gorgeous. Delicate, fragile piano/violin music mostly, very melancholic, at times droney w/ strings. Music instilled with a sense of swelling unease and quiet mourning. There's little that makes me happier :)

Ha! It has sold out since yesterday ... I've had a bit of a poor run on Fluid Audio releases where I've liked the Soundcloud link but then less so the album (though clearly the physical objects are constructed with fuck of a lot of love).

I can hook you up if you like (send me an ilxmail)

(my ilxmail doesn't work, apparently, if you give me an email addy i'll be in touch)

Does using my ilxor webmail work as a way of making contact?

Only one way to find out, sent you a message

Weird. Nearly missed my bus stop after becoming engrossed in the last Bing & Ruth album on my MP3 player, today.

New Crash Ensemble album coming soon, this Nico Muhly piece is beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee4Kidn4aCc

Very beautiful indeed, thanks for linking!

I’ve been listening through my various favorite albums of the years of the 2010s and I’m reminded that this was my very favorite album of 2014: Rebekka Karijord, Music for Film and Theatre.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1ov6TyW9dXfGU6RZTCFOxO?si=-Qxw3dzyTNy3AlFj7Yoqrw

This has been good for home working ...

https://claricejensen.bandcamp.com/album/the-experience-of-repetition-as-death

Any recent recommendations? I've got the next Bing & Ruth on order but haven't discovered anything new since, well, April 6.

I really like max de wardener's music for detuned pianos played by kit downes, very light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHvXYi3xMxQ
http://somekindofpeace.com

new, more minimalist than the previous, album from ólafur Arnalds, being streamed + some stuff on youtube (Q&A etc) planned in the coming hours as well

(so... at 8 PM (your time) it will start playing)

Anything new-ish to recommend? I have £20 to spend at Norman (sorry, Boomkat!)

I'd completely missed this until this evening:

https://angeledavid-guillou.bandcamp.com/album/a-question-of-angles

Even before the Moby album, Deutsche Grammophon seemed to be releasing some unexpected artists (Clark, Balmorhea etc).

I know it's only a small part of what they do but wondering if it can be tracked to anything?

I'd track it to the start of their ReComposed series back in 2009:
https://www.discogs.com/label/660411-Recomposed

Of course. I'd forgotten about them.

I was half wondering if there was one person commissioning these things, some of which seem great and some ... a bit less necessary.

Might be of interest?

"Dustin O'Halloran continues The Classical Takeover with his all-time favourite tunes."

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWXtBjoO4Thyy?si=bcb89bebbc7c482c&nd=1

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

Good, that. Ta.

There might be better threads for this (Fat Cat ones, I guess) but I'm going to put this here:

https://headphonecommute.com/2021/08/10/130701-a-20th-anniversary-mix/

Oh, dear God. Johannsson's "The Cause of Labour ..." sounds magnificent, tonight - but lots of other stuff, including some things I've missed (not heard/not bought).

that's a fantastic mix

Lubomyr Melnyk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr2ofP0Qof4

A Spotify playlist (an edit of a CD made for a holiday):

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2KXOjOAdxsaHdSZYgE4E9g

But, more, heard anything good recently??

15 disc François Bayle box set to go along with the Radigue and Parmegiani boxes ... oh go on then

https://boomkat.com/products/50-ans-d-acousmatique?fbclid=IwAR1ISsvByUMZVhngX4OG0g19njLWphM5OkekwspeEbS7bQq-3vdHYCdkdKE

Heard anything incredible? I'm in the mood to buy something Boomkat Classical.

Shilling for myself here djh, but I've got a record coming out on Sound in Silence soon which may fit the bill -

Preview link - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0zjx6jy8ob32kto/AAChpnpsA1Ja4rZYov7V3dMta?dl=0

Ta - look forward to that later!

would Alison Cotton fit in this thread? plays viola, harmonium. droney. ned's a fan. has a dark folk tinge to it, especially when she sings.

maybe start here (largely because it is cheap)

https://bloxhamtapes.bandcamp.com/album/all-is-quiet-at-the-ancient-theatre

@Maresn3st, it worked! I liked the sustained tension - so I'm going to buy it when it comes out :)

Ah, thank you Stan!

Had wine and made a CD-R for a friend. Here it is as a Spotify playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7yBvydRPnLza5ijwEHKPC7

(Not my most thought-through playlist).

I reviewed five new CDs on the Another Timbre label. link

used to lurk in this fine thread quite a bit a couple of years ago

recently I thought of it again because I started to work on solo piano music that fits the thread title quite well, although with somewhat of a different twist than most of the other artists discussed here

well I just released my first piece and while technically not on boomkat just yet, I’m definitely planning to sell my album there eventually maybe next year or so :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpwN-QxJiGs

(feel free to ignore if this kind of shameful self-promotion is making you nauseous)

Weirdly missed this:

https://bleep.com/release/329892-cate-blanchett-hildur-gunadttir-tar

Enjoyed this - Elizabeth Alker on Radio 3 - Sacred Spaces

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fx2s

Has there been anything good this year??