9906 Sainkho Namtchylak – Who stole the sky? (2003) It’s easy to understand why Tuvan Sainkho Namtchylak has been an avant-garde icon for a long time; she’s remarkable at producing the unexpected. But unlike many in her field, she also possesses a strong ear for melody, which makes her music accessible to a much wider [...]
9900 Hugh Davies – Warming Up With The Iceman ” The former musical biography of Hugh Davies is worthy of a legend: the 58 year-old from London was an assistant of Karl-Heinz Stockhausen for a long time in the 60′s. He was the successor of the famous Stockhausen dissident Cornelius Cardew. When he returned to [...]
9895 Bernard Parmegiani : L’Oeil coute 1973 An enduring reflection of the essence of time perceptible in its own right, can be established through the act of intimate listening where the self becomes immersed in re-living the experience of a journey or the immortalised passing of something disclosed as streaming images. As with all concrete [...]
9889 Luc Ferrari – Le Banquet [Patajaslocha - 1984 / L'Escalier des Aveugles 1991] Patajaslocha Suite de danses (1984) 1. Paso-doble; 2. Tango; 3. Java; 4. Slow; 5. Cha-cha-cha dure: 27’52” L’escalier des aveugles (tracks 6 to 18 on this cd) Recueil de Nouvelles (1991) 1. L’escalier des aveugles; 2. Intermde; 3. Suzanne et le [...]
9878 Chie Mukai – Kokyu Improvisation The prolific and lovely Chie shines on this solo release of one long, gratingly transcendent improv for the kokyu. While this isn’t for the meek (think Conrad’s more mischievous material), there’s an undeniable gracefulness amidst all the discordant droning. Drip on down to the base of the candle and [...]
9872 Jon Rose – Violin Music In The Age of Shopping From jazzy swank to the unscrambled reality of Muzak, aka Truzak as it’s played here, Rose & co. offer up the most form-fitting musical experience for the task at hand. Just in time to take all those gifts back, too! Featuring the ultra-consumerists Otomo [...]
9867 Charles Gayle Trio : Consider the lilies 2006 Sax legend Charles Gayle in a trio with double bass player Hilliard Greene and drummer Jay Rosen playing a series of Gayle compositions. “Gayle sounds like no one else. But he sounds so much like himself that his albums melt together into an indistinguishable mass. It [...]
9861 Walter Smetak-Smetak LP,1974,Switzerland/Brasil Walter Smetak was born in 1913 in Switzerland and died in 1984 in Brasil.He was a cellist,composer, inventor, playing and conducting music by instruments he invented(some of them depicted on the fotos above).This is a strange unusual experimental LP released in Brasil in 1974. Smetak was deeply involved in the Brasilian [...]
9855 Tellus #14 ‘Just Intonation’, 1986 What exactly is Just Intonation? Just Intonation is any tuning system in which all of the intervals can be represented by whole-number ratios, with a strong preference for simple ratios. (From the Tellus #14 booklet) Side A Harry Partch ‘O Frabjous Day! (The Jobberwack)’ (3:08) Ralph David Hill ‘Malachite’ [...]
9852 Gentle Fire : Group Composition IV 1972 BRITISH ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC MUSIC FROM THE 70s Gentle Fire: an Early Approach to Live Electronic Music Hugh Davies ABSTRACT The author describes the circumstances of the formation and development of the live electronic music group Gentle Fire, in discussing both aspects affecting electronic music in general and those [...]
