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[mudd]

that's grisha's new album, leave/trace. really great, grisha!

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[Dan Warburton]

Great cover for sure. Meanwhile, just listened to this again for the first time in a few years and was absolutely blown away

[Yii]

Kuchiroro - Manpower

[faster]

Great cover for sure. Meanwhile, just listened to this again for the first time in a few years and was absolutely blown away

One of my very favorites. Super underrated. All musicians should listen to and learn from (and against) the many, complex ways CK deals with (and against) AY's intensity and single-mindedness. She rips shit up too, of course, if not as blood-curdlingly as on soba to bara.

[mono tony]

Anne Guthrie/Richard Kamerman - Sinter

decidedly "meh" on this. feels muddled, or comprised of uninteresting sound events for the most part.

Graham Stephenson/Aaron Zarzutzki - touching

very crisp, energized and direct, in comparison to sinter.. more the level of quality i've come to expect with Erstwhile.

[Wombatz]

Miles Davis Quintet - Live in Europe 1969, the Bootleg Series Vol. 2

Davis/Shorter/Corea/Holland/DeJohnette are all just killing it. Awesome.

Listened to the first CD earlier and was rather disappointed. Quip would be: it's not a lost quintet, it's five lost musicians. Miles' own playing is very interesting, though, he's dismantling his stuff, sometimes I thought he barks out his licks like Dylan lovingly destroying own old evergreens live. Also, changes in the voice of the open trumpet from goatherd to compressed croon and back ...

[mono tony]

ambient news - zweite sendung

[Jesse]

Anne Guthrie/Richard Kamerman - Sinter

decidedly "meh" on this. feels muddled, or comprised of uninteresting sound events for the most part.

antithesis: decidedly piqued on this. i feel powerless to let it play as background, sinter is always diegetic music.
many of the sound events evince WTF! - by itself not an evaluative thing, but in the context of how much music i hear, a remarkable (v."meh") thing. a grower, resistant to easy conclusions.
plus, a fantastic, sibilant, unlocatable title.

[jon abbey]

yeah, I love 'Sinter', my 2013 record of the year to date, in a year where the first few months has been filled with quality music.

plus, a fantastic, sibilant, unlocatable title.

p.77, Age of Wire and String

[Jesse]

ah, here it is (i just finished the flame alphabet recently, haven't gotten to this one yet):
"sky interception, or sinter..."
marcus makes word mashups like joyce and cummings - "it's a funanimal world", "when the world is mudlusicous", etc etc.

[Uroboros]

I love Sinter too, a captivating listen. The way I hear it, it has some things in common with stuff like Motubachii and Teatro Assente. I don't think it's quite as exciting as those two, but still a lot of fun and full of lovely, unexpected twists. Touching didn't really do anything for me I'm afraid (I like Graham's Defiantly Not from last year more than this one), but my favourite of the three is clearly Dystonia Duos. So much detail, patience, control, so dynamic despite the fact that a large part of it is a merciless blast of noise. I love every second of it.

[Daniel Jones]

I too hear Sinter very much in a lineage with other releases such as Motubachii and also (to my ears) Air Supply and The Breadwinner... I like it very much indeed.

Horses for courses though eh!

[mono tony]

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/5560 ... onia-Duos/

nice lil write-up on erstwhile/dystonia duos

[bryan]

My Bloody Valentine - m b v
Despite its flaws I love this album and have been listening to it regularly. The sequencing of tracks makes much more sense as two sides of the LP vs. on CD or MP3. "Who sees you" slays me, high point of the musical year.


Kevin Drumm - Crowded
Excellent and another one that seems specifically composed for LP. "Repetitive Algae" is a really enjoyable journey into the bowels of sound, and perhaps this is too limited a reference, but I feel the spectre of "Concret PH".

[Antoine]

Third World All Stars - Rebel Rock
Reissued by Pressure Sounds.
http://www.pressure.co.uk/store/PS78/th ... ebel-rock/

[javier4w]

[joeperucki]

I love Sinter too, a captivating listen. The way I hear it, it has some things in common with stuff like Motubachii and Teatro Assente. I don't think it's quite as exciting as those two, but still a lot of fun and full of lovely, unexpected twists. Touching didn't really do anything for me I'm afraid (I like Graham's Defiantly Not from last year more than this one), but my favourite of the three is clearly Dystonia Duos. So much detail, patience, control, so dynamic despite the fact that a large part of it is a merciless blast of noise. I love every second of it.

I had some anticipation going in (matching what Uroboros got out of them) and came out the exact opposite of what I expected. Never thought I'd enjoy Touching but I love it - my fav of the 3 - that intense/spontaneous/aggressive energy really grabs me - I'm finally getting comfortable with that harshness. As for Sinter, I enjoy all the peculiarities from start to finish. The one that I'd expect most to love but do not is Dystonia Duos - my issue is the percussion - it's just me but not interested in how it kills the detail - smothering. Maybe I think too much of Clearing, Polluted or I like a little space in my music. It's obviously more mature, refined, controlled, and Pisaroesque than Clearing, Polluted but I'll take the loose / reckless abandon nature any day.

[undo]

heh, well that's a refreshing/disorienting change of pace from the 'so... where is the percussion?' response we've occasionally received...

[fslmy]

i had a stack of releases to listen to this weekend but can't move past Sinter..

[mono tony]

http://ceephax.bandcamp.com/album/cro-magnox