Here We Go Magic’s new CD Pigeons many not be for everyone, but there is something here that I am really enjoying. The texture, the highs and lows. It just seems to fit the place that I am in today.
Archive for the ‘Experimental’ Category
Here We Go Magic
Monday, June 14th, 2010Dark was the Night
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
This is a collection of songs that 4AD has released with profits benefitting the Red Hot Organization – an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS.
Dark was the night, has something for everyone. It really is a who’s who of alternative music. The first disc I am really enjoying the tracks Train Song, Cello Song and Knotty Pine, but I for see that it will be only a matter of time that the rest starts growing on me.
let the cold wind blow
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
It must be that time of year. Everything is colder and the New England weather chases me to emotional epic music. The work has pilled up and the need to think and work, during these times I often find the dramatic based music, works the best. In 2009 or should I say this end of 2008 has left us with some great emotionally centering music.
To start your winter of 09 collection of emotional classics, we should start with Johann Johannsson “Fordlandia”. This is a large work that at times reminds me of the music of Arvo Part, ebbs and flows of strings and emotions. Very moving music, is based on string arrangements that can take you to dark places, giving us places to reflect and pushes us forward.
If strings are not for you and you prefer the beeps and cracks of the modern electric sound. Fennesz “Black Sea” takes you for a ride if amazingly full textures of sound, what weave melodic states and emotional friction of sound. This is probably Fennesz most excess-able CD since Venice.
I can not forget looking a Sigur Ros for some emotional solstice. Their CD “Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust” that came out this year hits every energy source know to our being. Laughter and forgetting, reflection and pain can all be found in these tracks that I can not understand vocally, but I don’t need to. I have been hovering around the song Festival and the title track a lot lately.
Happy New Year! and hear is to the hope of more great music in 2009.
Peace.
Why am I smiling…Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Brian Eno and David Byrne are coming out with a new CD this month.
Byrne is going on tour with the new music and they have offered a free track for your e-mail address. Well worth the e-mails, it’s a great track.
Learn more and get the free track at their new website.
Free Tom Waits!
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
There is a pun in there somewhere.
If there is one man that changed the way that I listen to environments it would be Tom Waits. Complete, with raw sounds and voice. He takes story telling to a new level of life. Mr. Tom has just finished up a tour in the USA and has graced us with publishing a 2 hour show on NPR for us to download.
It is a great selection of old an new classic Tom.
The easiest way that I found to download it is through the iTunes link above released on 7/28/08.
Bang on a can
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
When I first heard of the Bang on the Can cover of the classic Brian Eno CD Music for Airports I was very skeptical that anyone could rework this selection of music and bring something new to it without ruining it. After the first listen, I felt like I was hearing this masterpiece for the first time again. They brought something new and creative, bringing it into there world, without destroying the core of the tracks. In the days, of today, when everyone is doing covers, it is nice to hear one that lives up to the original.
The amazing sound of Nusrat Fateh
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Artist: Gaudi
Album: Dub Qawwali
Rating: out of 5
Media: CD
Year: 2007
Label: Six Degrees
UPC for CD: 657036113725
More Surprises. At least that is what a long trip to Tanzania will bring out in a ipod. I have for some time been a fan of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan music. This is due mostly to the work he did with Michael Brook before his death. So, before I left I noticed that Gaudi (who I had never heard of before) had done a CD of Dub music with his sing over lad it. At first listen I was not very impressed by it, but I put it on my ipod for a future listen.
On the first night of my trip this CD was found and from that point on every night it became my sleeping music. To note this music is not for everyone. If you do not like the Qawwali chant sound one might feel like it sounds like someone crying, but I find some amazing emotion and peace in this type of music. Plus the mixture of Dub and Qawwali is a pleasant surprise.
More brillance
Friday, October 12th, 2007
I just love this stuff… watch for the watermelon.
Fred sings Brazil
Friday, July 27th, 2007
Artist: Cornelius
Album: Point
Rating: out of 5
Media: CD
Year: 1998
Label: Matador Records
UPC for CD: 744861030027
When does strange turn to really enjoyable? When there is a cover the song “Brazil” that sends you into Terry Gilliam flash backs?
Cornelius, who yes does a cover of Brazil, is on of the modern artist that I have been watching and “Point” is a very approachable abstract almost dance music that explores music in a no conventional almost noise form. He fits somewhere between “The Books” and Fennesz, playing with loops and pressing on with a message of understand the “point” of view. I have to say I hate “I hate hate” thought I have been caught chuckling at the power cords once, I debate if the song is worth the hard-drive space.
I fall into the more laid back songs, Tone Twilight Zone and Brazil on this CD, but there are treats to be found if you are looking for it… Yes I think that is Fred… that Macintosh voice that visits on the weekends…
Another Drummer, Beating To His Own Drum
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Artist: Tony Allen
Album: HomeCooking
Rating: out of 5
Media: CD
Year: 2003
Label: Narada
UPC for CD: 724358225723
Tony Allen for many are three different people. For many listeners of Afro-beat he was the drummer for the late Fela Kuli band, for others he was a powerful Nigeria drummer that has had a successfully solo career and modern listeners think of him as the drummer for The Good, The Bad & The Queen.
HomeCooking is a solo CD that mixes the Afro-beat funk with a fusion of smart London hip-hop. It foundation is a very powerful bass and bass drum selection of songs that at times remind me Holger Czukay and then of Lilly Allen (no relation) . Though for the most part it is beats and hip-hop that has the underline theme of self awareness.