Julia Holter - Loud City SongAlternative Editions of Contemporary Music.
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Exquisite choice John. I have only one album featuring Julia - see next post - and I've kind of shied away from her solo stuff for reasons only known to myself :) However the new one sounds intriguing indeed.....Thanks for posting.jadarin wrote:
I see also she's coming to Dublin for two gigs on Nov. 17 and 19th in the Unitarian Church and Whelan's respectively.
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Michael Pisaro - Tombstones
When one works with Michael Pisaro, it quickly becomes apparent that the man has an immense knowledge of various musical genres, despite his highly specialized compositional style. Although Pisaro is famous for his studies of silence as sound with the Wandelweiser collective, he’s equally fascinated by gangster rap, Prince, harsh noise, and The Rolling Stones, among many, many other things. In some ways, I think that all of these disparate sources are perhaps unconsciously present in a lot of Pisaro’s other works.
However, with Tombstones, Pisaro seems to address this part of his musical history in a much more explicit way. Tombstones is guided by two major ideas: (1) The question of “what happens to old political songs?” and (2) Taking “tiny fragments of old and not-so-old songs and [putting] them into an experimental music situation, introducing them to a kind of chaos, where the arrangement of the written-out material is up for grabs.” In this way, Pisaro creates a kind of acoustic/compositional sampling, but this isn’t a John Oswald-esque plunderphonics excursion. Nor is it Pisaro’s attempt to make an overtly pop move. Instead, Tombstones works beautifully because it takes a hidden element of Pisaro’s music and slyly pushes it ever so slightly into the foreground without sacrificing his aesthetic in the process. The result is a gorgeous deconstruction of both popular song form and a fascinating recontextualization of Pisaro’s craft in the process. Mad props to Pisaro’s ensemble (which prominently features the voice and harmonium of Julia Holter) for their great interpretation of this material.
After months of the initial limited run being sold out, Tombstones is available again from Human Ear Music or Experimedia. You can stream excerpts of the record below:
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Thanks for that,Dermot...I'll have a look out for that album..
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cybot wrote: Another stunner from the Derek sessions :) It's his first album and the only one I have of him solo! The new one with Frahm is a double set (on vinyl). I haven't got round to getting it yet....
- listen
His new album with Nils Frahm...
I remember the wonderful atmosphere from the extracts that you played in Derek's that day Dermot. That track that you posted makes for very easy listening. There is also some interesting music in the extract with Nils Frahm with some nice development in the second half.
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Thanks for your positive comments Fergus :)
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cybot wrote:Brand new double vinyl helping of live Budd solo piano in memory of his old mate James Tenney.
Absolutely spellbinding and heartbreaking. Beautifully recorded. Time doesn't exist in Budd's world. A Love Supreme indeed....
A lovely gentle piece for solo piano; a very pleasant work.
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
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Do be do be do: Sinatra
