what are you listening to? a second wave

[will]

Mamoru Fujieda - Patterns of Plants

Say more please?

This is the first one that came out in '96, not vol.2 that's about to come out.

Six suites with different combination's (solo, duo, trios) of koto, sho, zither, harpsichord. The Second Collection features two viola da gama and two koto. All instruments are in some kind of well temperment, just intonation or pythagorean tuning, melodies are generated from information collected from plants.

Real pretty stuff...quite accessible. I think I even gave a copy to my sister for xmas one year. More in common with Lou Harrison than La Monte Young.

I hope that helps.

and now:



Earl Brown - SYNERGY

It does help, Tzadik releases so many things by people with whom I'm not at all familiar (basically if it's not Central European festival stuff or produced at a sciency music center in France I'm pretty ???), some of which are probably great. The Elliot Sharp string quartets I was listening to earlier (vol2, also on Tzadik), not so much. On the bright side, Rebecca Saunders' "miniata", on Crimson (Kairos) really came together for me today, the conclusion of the piece revealed some of the structure behind the (standard for her) event-fade dynamic.

[eraritjaritjaka]

va - Musics Of The Soviet Union



Phaze - Phaze 1 12''

[chris himself]

BILLY BAO : dialectics of shit

[7/4]

Mamoru Fujieda - Patterns of Plants

This is the first one that came out in '96, not vol.2 that's about to come out.

Six suites with different combination's (solo, duo, trios) of koto, sho, zither, harpsichord. The Second Collection features two viola da gama and two koto. All instruments are in some kind of well temperment, just intonation or pythagorean tuning, melodies are generated from information collected from plants.

Real pretty stuff...quite accessible. I think I even gave a copy to my sister for xmas one year. More in common with Lou Harrison than La Monte Young.

I hope that helps.

It does help, Tzadik releases so many things by people with whom I'm not at all familiar (basically if it's not Central European festival stuff or produced at a sciency music center in France I'm pretty ???), some of which are probably great. The Elliot Sharp string quartets I was listening to earlier (vol2, also on Tzadik), not so much. On the bright side, Rebecca Saunders' "miniata", on Crimson (Kairos) really came together for me today, the conclusion of the piece revealed some of the structure behind the (standard for her) event-fade dynamic.

Glad to help, it's an old one. I certainly have problems keeping up with Tzadik too, there's a lot of releases.

Now listening to George Crumbs music (including a phone interview with him on WKCR) this morning.

[chris himself]

Edmond De Deyster - Selectie 02

[surfer]

[Dan Warburton]

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[chris himself]

Factums- A Primitive Future OST

[surfer]

Awesome! Both of them! What a great pairing.. Bhob Rainey meets Tower Of Power! Yeah!

Yeah, I havent listened to that Folktales in ages. All three cuts are really great. I wish there was a fourth track with all three of them playing together (Rainey, Mueller, and Wollscheid). I tried to pick up the other two volumes, but they were both OOP. I think the Mueller track is my favorite.

Just checking, yes they are all OOP now, Dan I didnt know you were on the third volume. (!)

[Jason Brogan]

Masafumi Ezaki, Othello / 3 minutes [Slub Music]

[7/4]

Mamoru Fujieda - the Night Chant

[niwi]

[7/4]

Igor Stravinsky - Works of Igor Stravinsky, disk 11

[chris himself]

heavy winged : alive in my mouth

[chris himself]

Living Is Hard: West African Music in Britain, 1927-1929

[7/4]

Igor Stravinsky - Works of Igor Stravinsky, disk 12
Chamber Music & Historical Recordings, V.1





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[Richard Pinnell]

Minoru Sato / Ami Yoshida- COMPOSITION for voice performer (ao to ao) 3"

Hmm, can't say this did anything for me at all.

[jon abbey]

Minoru Sato / Ami Yoshida- COMPOSITION for voice performer (ao to ao) 3"

Hmm, can't say this did anything for me at all.

too many sounds? slow it down by a factor of 10 and pop it in a Wandelweiser package, you'll be all set.

I wouldn't champion that one too much, but I like the contrast between 1997 Ami and 2007 Ami, and I like the 2007 track quite a bit.

[Richard Pinnell]

Minoru Sato / Ami Yoshida- COMPOSITION for voice performer (ao to ao) 3"

Hmm, can't say this did anything for me at all.

too many sounds? slow it down by a factor of 10 and pop it in a Wandelweiser package, you'll be all set.

Hmm, I can see why you don't write reviews...

I quite liked the concept behind the composition, the idea of trying to recreate the same sound over and over with an unreliable "instrument", the human voice, but the end result didn't add much to that really.

[chris himself]

just finished

plastic crimewave sound - st

just started

wolves in the throne room - Two Hunters