I love your adventuresome taste but this one flat out hurts my ears LOL.
What is new in my music library? (recent purchases I enjoy)
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Some cuts are little too intense, but it should grow on you, if you listen to it few times.... Most of John Zorn's later works have been on the intense side.
"Here’s an experiment: Grab your nearest record geek, preferably one who’s been known to worship at the psych-folk altar. Drag them away from transcribing the commentary track of their Wicker Man Blu-ray and play them Only the Void Stands Between Us. Tell them it’s a recently reissued ultra-rarity recorded in a New Zealand cave by candlelight in 1971, originally released in a micro-pressing heard only by the artist’s immediate family. Maybe add that Julie Beth Napolin was a UFO tracker and self-styled mystic last seen camped out in a crop circle and never heard from again.
The odds of your ruse being accepted as fact are overwhelmingly in your favor. Not because Napolin’s debut is operating in a retro sphere, but because it occupies a place that exists somewhere outside of time and space. It inhabits a musical continuum including the likes of ‘70s head trippers Comus and Popol Vuh; ‘80s outliers Opal and Dead Can Dance; and ‘90s ambient-folk adventurers Tower Recordings and Charalambides, where the cosmic, earthbound, ancient, and eternal meet.
In fact, Charalambides guitarist Tom Carter pops up on the opening track of Only the Void, adding some liquid lead guitar lines alongside Napolin’s spectral murmur. The combo could spur images of Nico sitting in on a circa-’69 Grateful Dead “Dark Star” exploration."
CS + Kreme – The Butterfly Drinks the Tears of the Tortoise. Defies categories, ambient experimental I guess
CALEB LAUNDRY JONES
Fantastic, little the Beatles-nesque on some cuts, but even more complex... One of the best album of this year for sure!
Fantastic, little the Beatles-nesque on some cuts, but even more complex... One of the best album of this year for sure!
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“Ensemble d4” – named after a frequent opening move in chess, which is ideally followed by an extended game – was founded in 1995 to play works that are rarely heard in “normal” concert life. Since 2017, the ensemble of recorder, baroque violin, viola da gamba, harpsichord, theorbo, baroque guitar, and percussion has repeatedly performed concerts with the programmatic title “Baroque Disco,” featuring Spanish music in which elements of the later flamenco are clearly to be heard. The fact that the list of names, including Kapsberger, Sanz, Soler, de Murcia, and other contemporaries, results in a veritable “dance festival” is due to the truly “fiery orchestral” arrangements developed by the international ensemble – to be experienced on the now available first “d4 CD.”
David A. Jaycock - Music for Space Age Shopping
"This record explores the relationships between mid century architecture, consumerism and community. The gradual or sometimes brutal removal and change of places in the name of progress. These changes leave traces that people have to deal with on a psychological level but probably never really acknowledge."
Alvin Curran - ARCHEOLOGY // ARCHEOLOGIA
A Note from AlvinIt has taken me over 50 years to write these words. Since my initial successes in the 1970’s many have urged me to “release” unpublished works from the same period, pieces that featured the VCS3 synths or the amazing Serge (which I regret not having used enough) or pieces featuring soundscapes from my classic environmental composition style.
For reasons of persistence and empathy, Lawrence English at Room 40 was the most persuasive; now, nearly 3 years after our agreement, a new publication composed with materials from that inceptive period has come to fruition.
While I’m condemned to live evermore in the past, it is the future where I continue to put my remaining creative energies. Nonetheless, in the creation of these 2 “new” works I did all I could to avoid sentimentalism or get buried by my own history and the musical riches of the late 20th Century.
Relistening to these forgotten fragments of old tapes included inspiring and useful surprises.
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