what are you listening to? a second wave

[tadk]

Burkhard Beins, Michael Thieke, Luca Venitucci - Roman Tics (Cathnor)

I think it is lovely. Music and images work perfectly together to create bright mood.

[Richard Pinnell]

Thanks Tadieusz. Olaf works hard to try and reflect the feel of the music in the sleeve designs so he will be pleased you said that.

[Salty Swift]

I've not heard this for nearly a decade....great stuff all around!

[bonniejones]

Mats Gustafsson / Sleeping Instructions

Sounding pretty interesting to my ear -

http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/Mats%2 ... larartists

[surfer]

Skogen - Skogen


love this

[J.F.]

Swans - Body to Body, Job to Job

I started to flirt a little with the Swans several years ago, and accumulated some pre-Jarboe material, but never really delved into that consequently. Today feels like a good day to eventually start that.

[Joda]

I got turned onto this lovely duet from tracks on those Mississippi tapes... powerful tunes.

[skrobek]

today's playlist:


Warburton / Goodwin - Compendium Maleficarum 3 (Bvhaast)

I love this record. I have listened to it a lot last summer and this was the first time I put it on since then. It makes me think of Robert Burns' songs.


Otomo Yoshihide - Modulation With Two electric Guitars and Amplifiers (Doubt)

I like it but I still think it suffers from the comparison with Nakamura's album done with the same instrumentation... It's good but I can't help comparing since they're so close.


Pedestrian Deposit - Fatale (Hospital)

I don't really understand the 'classic' status of that record in noise circles. The melodic synth parts wear me off, although it gives it a nineties techno feel that's not without charm...


Malfatti / Sugimoto - Futatsu (IMJ) (second disc...)

The track I named my label after is magic.


Korber / Kawasaki - Pocket Size Isolationism (Esquilo)

Very intriguing construction, I hear reminiscences of Taku Unami's later work. It's sure not as immediate as the other one in the batch, Rebecca's Variation n°12, but very interesting to me.


Alexandre Bellenger - 4 Compositions (ARR)

Original improvised music from France, synthesiser rampage for CCCC lovers, and musique concrète pieces...


Michel Henritzi -Nothing (Dyin' Ghost)

Noise blues, in the vein of Howlin' Ghost Proletarians but more intimate.

[fearandpanic]

Persuasion A (Simon Fell, bass; Charles Wharf, sax; Keith Tippett, piano; Pete Minns, sax; Martin Jones, trumpet; Tony Shepherd, drums), Two Steps to Easier Breathing (1988).

Great suite of jazz tunes for sextet with Fell's compositional logic at work throughout.

[Ivan]

Swans - Body to Body, Job to Job

I started to flirt a little with the Swans several years ago, and accumulated some pre-Jarboe material, but never really delved into that consequently. Today feels like a good day to eventually start that.

I'm actually playing the Filth/Body to Body... set right now, definitely my favorite material from the band. Also:

Barney Kessel, The Poll Winners
Lambsbread, Stereo Mars (this one is disappointingly dull)

[Miguel Prado]

Luigi Nono Nono: Complete Works For Solo Tape

listening to some of his hits and smoking too

[Bill Barton]

Steve Lacy - Outings

& before that...

Anthony Braxton - Creative Orchestra Music 1976

[Bill Barton]

Enrico Rava - New York Days

[Jesse]

[Stephen]

OTOMO YOSHIHIDE & XAVIER CHARLES: Difference Between The Two Clocks
(Textile Records, 2008)
Last night: during which one of my housemates walked past and said "that is horrible noise whatever you're doing in there", which struck me as an almost moral objection... Personally I enjoyed the first long track and then rather lost track of things.

[fearandpanic]

OTOMO YOSHIHIDE & XAVIER CHARLES: Difference Between The Two Clocks
(Textile Records, 2008)
... Personally I enjoyed the first long track and then rather lost track of things.

There were only brief moments when I could keep my attention on that one. I had a vague preference for the shorter studio pieces (mostly because they were shorter), but the largely unchanging method of two similar sounding parts (guitar feedback and clarinet) swooshing up and down seemed to be to little musical effect.

Alvin Lucier's "Crossings" pieces seem to do these kind of gliding pitch-relationship pieces with happier results, and I have my doubts that improvised music is the best approach to exploring them.

[onthestrip]

Listening to Oren Ambarchi, "In the pendulum's embrace", "Insulation" and "Suspension". Never heard of him before, but he's playing with Keith Rowe in my neighborhood early february so decided to check him out. Wonderful .. looking forward to the show!

[Stephen]

Alvin Lucier's "Crossings" pieces seem to do these kind of gliding pitch-relationship pieces with happier results, and I have my doubts that improvised music is the best approach to exploring them.

Well yes, re: close pitch-relations the Lucier pieces are hard to beat, but I was pleased to hear on this record a less dry approach, where close timbral relations were given as much attention as pitch - taking on a layer which is all but eradicated from Lucier's pure exposition of beats.

[mono tony]

rhys chatham - a crimson grail (for 400 electric guitars)

a good morning listen. very rich

[MRS]