what are you listening to? a second wave

[tadk]

mengele quartet - mongolo bat bi hiru (Larraskito)
kakofunk - happy gestapo (Larraskito)

I hope their music is better than the name and the title.

today:

[SOZ]

The Cortet - HHHH

Akron/Family - Love Is Simple

Big Youth - Natty Universal Dread (Reggae Phenomenon - 1973-1975)

Art Ensemble of Chicago - The Spiritual

[bedouin]

Jean Barraqué: Sonate pour Piano (Herbert Henck)

Extraordinary!
There is a review of the 3 available recordings of this here:
A Piano Sonata Created From Fire and Ice

[Dan Warburton]

I have a preference for the old Claude Helffer vinyl, though that seems to be way OOP.
Great piece though - and a great composer.

[walto]

I do love Scott Walker.

[lukaz]

two new little fine releases on Compost And Height label. Check their blog for more upcoming releases and some fine free downlads:

http://www.compostandheight.blogspot.com

Alfredo Costa Monteiro . Lee Patterson |



Alfredo Costa Monteiro: Clair de bee

Clair de bée is a piece where the only sound source is paper, and clearly places itself into the continuity of ‘musique concrète'. Here, as in other paper pieces, the proposal is to track the sound where it's hidden in its less obvious form: the paper matter is transfigured, metamorphosed into a particular musicality. Through a phenomenological approach, "Clair de bée" is an unveiling of the sound matter which is melted until confusion.
Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Barcelona, july 2008

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Lee Patterson: Springwork #1

Springwork 1 is the first in a series of works exploring the timbral and tonal complexities generated by plucking selected springs. Chosen carefully from my collection of found and retrieved springs, they were attached to a contact mic'd metal plate and recorded. Subsequent editing included the removal of each sounds attack and then increasing the gain of the decaying sound. Recorded in Manchester. Summer 2008

Ben Owen . Michael Pisaro |



Ben Owen: 2 over, -1. Scored instruction for durations

recorded: 20080527
52° 29' 41.12" N
13° 25' 32.23" E
Landwehrkanal, Berlin, Germany

The score is 10 minutes in duration. When the piece is played this
specified duration is left to the perception of the performer, rather
than the clock, to follow. The performance that takes place within
this perceived 10 minutes is then shaped by the performer's sense of
time. The actions occur as a result of these delineated durations.

For this recording, a radio was the instrument. The setting was an
early May morning along the Landwehrkanal in Kreuzberg, Berlin. The
sound of a generator is in close proximity, along with wind, people
passing, morning songbirds, and a vehicle.

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Michael Pisaro: Ascending Series (2.1) (to Joachim Eckl)

Performers: Antoine Beuger, flute, Jürg Frey, clarinet, Marcus Kaiser, violoncello, Radu Malfatti, trombone, André Möller, guitar, Christoph Nicolaus, stone harp.

Live Recording Date and Location: 25 July 2008, Neufelden, Austria (heim.art). (Engineered by Michael Pisaro)
Field Recording of the Grosse Mühl, taken near the Neufelden train station made by Michael Pisaro at ca. 5 p.m. on 21 July 2008.

Score published by Edition Wandelweiser, Haan, Germany.

This piece consists of a score (Ascending Series (2)) arranged in this case for the ensemble at hand during the Wandelweiser days in Neufelden in July, 2008. We were there as guests of artist Joachim Eckl (heim.art). The piece is to be played outdoors and/or accompanied by a field recording. The field recording used here was made by the composer near a waterfall in the river Die Grosse Mühl that runs through the Oberösterreich region and into the Danube. Besides the water itself, the town bells, cicadas and various voices and autos from the nearby train station are clearly audible, along with a host of unidentified environmental sounds. The recording was played back into the small concert space and there a simultaneous live recording was made of the ensemble piece. (We thus have a field recording situation for the recording of the piece itself.) The instrumental score stands in a somewhat variable relation to the recording environment. At times it is completely submerged, at other times, clear harmonies emerge: mostly it floats between these poles.

[skrobek]

mengele quartet - mongolo bat bi hiru (Larraskito)
kakofunk - happy gestapo (Larraskito)

I hope their music is better than the name and the title.

It is, not as good as Maurizio Bianchi's Symphony For a Genocide , though.

[Dan Warburton]

It is, not as good as Maurizio Bianchi's Symphony For a Genocide , though.

You like that thing?

[Joda]

[Salty Swift]

Marvin Ayers - Cellosphere



Fotheringay 2

[skrobek]

It is, not as good as Maurizio Bianchi's Symphony For a Genocide , though.

You like that thing?

got me Dan

nahh not really, just going on with the fascist references...

I like Death In June though...

[tadk]

Satanicpornocultshop - Takusan No Ohanasan

label info:
Japanese Satanicpornocultshop comes back with the new, this time less experimental, but more melodic material. Takusan No Ohanasan includes 26 perfectly composed tracks which present futuristic eclectic mix of modern electronic hip hop, reggeae, turntablism, easy listening and plunderphonics.
Intelligent 21st century quasi-pop for demanding listeners.

[Salty Swift]

Trio Sowari - Shortcut



Hank IV - Refuge in Genre



V/A - Expedition_3



Meat Puppets - Huevos

[dave quam]

look at that SHREADER

[MRS]

look at that SHREADER

Oh my goodness, is that a Steinberger?

[7/4]

Fred Frith - Back to Life

[Salty Swift]

look at that SHREADER

Oh my goodness, is that a Steinberger?

Wow! This is definitely sexy
Cover of the year Cover of the century

[7/4]

Fred Frith - Allies
Fred Frith - UpBeat



Fred Frith - Ayaya Moses

[niwi]

revolutionary ensemble - vietnam

[Chromosome]

Derek Bailey - Aida [Incus]
I don't know what to say or think.