Cheers my friend....and nice one followed too in your next post!cybot wrote:As good a reason as any , I suppose! I'll keep them coming anyway :-)fergus wrote:Really....you know that I only come here for the pictures!!!! LOL!!!
Electronica - what are you listening to?
Re: Electronica - what are you listening to?
To be is to do: Socrates
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
To do is to be: Sartre
Do be do be do: Sinatra
Re: Electronica - what are you listening to?
Glad you like them fergus....fergus wrote:Cheers my friend....and nice one followed too in your next post!cybot wrote:As good a reason as any , I suppose! I'll keep them coming anyway :-)fergus wrote:Really....you know that I only come here for the pictures!!!! LOL!!!
Re: Electronica - what are you listening to?
Listening to these at the moment and having a ball! Again, not for gentle hearted but would definitely suit the open minded among you :-) Still, the Daphne Oram set is shockingly good and it's a pity she's just another anonymous thing who used to work for the esteemed BBC - shame on them....She died in 2003. The reviews are just a little guide to the music within (or not!)....
Raven Chacon - At the point where the rivers crossed, we drew our knives
Reduced from £14.99 to £6.95!
*Dark and harrowing drones and location recordings from this mysterious American avant-garde/noise composer - limited to 200 copies for the world* Following on from his incredible collaboration with William Fowler Collins under the 'Mesa Ritual moniker, Raven Chacon returns with this super-rare vinyl outing after a string of releases on tape and CDR. The first side on this album is dominated by 'The Totem of the Total Siren', a harrowing piece using resonating snare rattle, bone whistle and nylon stringed guitar. The recording gradually builds on the snare's nervous shudder, gradually turning into a swarm of subdued noise, coalescing with a low-pitched whistle placing us directly in the eye of a swirling storm. 'La'ts'aadah' is more intimate, a primitive piece for solo violin recorded close to the performer (Mark Menzies) with a worn-down microphone sounding like a dramatic, ancient middle eastern lament for a grandmother on her deathbed. Finally, a chamber piece for the Mary Washington Wind Ensemble entitled 'Hasta'aadah' layers sombre melodies into a thick drone, offering an eerily detailed composition, almost like Edward Williams score for 'Life On Earth' but with a far more sinister and chaotic arrangement scored for unconscious creatures. Limited to 200 copies only for the world and housed in a screen-printed cover by Jaycee Beyale
*Extremely special artefact from electronic music pioneer and founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Daphne Oram. None of this material has ever been available on vinyl before, that's over 155 minutes / 8 sides of vinyl cut at D&M and housed in a heavyweight, beautiful 300gm gatefold sleeve featuring rare archival photographs.* Daphne Oram was the founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a department she more or less single-handedly created in 1958 camping out at the BBC studios for nights on end splicing tapes and working with various modified machines to carefully arrange her abstract soundscapes. Eventually the BBC bent under her pressure and in studio 13 created the soon-to-be-legendary Radiophonic Workshop, with Oram its first director. Among her countless other achievements, Oram is cited as the first woman ever to design and build an electronic musical instrument, one that worked around the 'drawn-sound' technique whereby strips of 35mm film would be manipulated before being fed into her home-made 'Oramics' machine which would convert and 'read' the film into sound. Despite her considerable and historic list of achievements, Oram's life and work remain largely unknown by the wider public. As this remarkable 44-track collection shows, however, her work ranks amongst the most varied and pioneering ever made, it's quite incredible to think that this is the first time any of these precious recordings have been available on vinyl. As opposed to so much of the Radiophonic-era material that has surfaced over the last few years, Oram's work is often characterised by a much more layered and introspective quality, offsetting classic playful interludes and commercial recordings with beautiful, immersive pieces like the breathtaking "Pulse Persephone" and "Bird of Parallax" - pieces that simply have no equal in electronic music made at the time. It would be impossible to over-emphasise the importance and brilliance of this material - it really is compulsory listening for anyone with even just a passing interest in electronic music - her influence can be charted through pretty every musical current shaping the sounds of today.
Raven Chacon - At the point where the rivers crossed, we drew our knives
Reduced from £14.99 to £6.95!
*Dark and harrowing drones and location recordings from this mysterious American avant-garde/noise composer - limited to 200 copies for the world* Following on from his incredible collaboration with William Fowler Collins under the 'Mesa Ritual moniker, Raven Chacon returns with this super-rare vinyl outing after a string of releases on tape and CDR. The first side on this album is dominated by 'The Totem of the Total Siren', a harrowing piece using resonating snare rattle, bone whistle and nylon stringed guitar. The recording gradually builds on the snare's nervous shudder, gradually turning into a swarm of subdued noise, coalescing with a low-pitched whistle placing us directly in the eye of a swirling storm. 'La'ts'aadah' is more intimate, a primitive piece for solo violin recorded close to the performer (Mark Menzies) with a worn-down microphone sounding like a dramatic, ancient middle eastern lament for a grandmother on her deathbed. Finally, a chamber piece for the Mary Washington Wind Ensemble entitled 'Hasta'aadah' layers sombre melodies into a thick drone, offering an eerily detailed composition, almost like Edward Williams score for 'Life On Earth' but with a far more sinister and chaotic arrangement scored for unconscious creatures. Limited to 200 copies only for the world and housed in a screen-printed cover by Jaycee Beyale
*Extremely special artefact from electronic music pioneer and founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Daphne Oram. None of this material has ever been available on vinyl before, that's over 155 minutes / 8 sides of vinyl cut at D&M and housed in a heavyweight, beautiful 300gm gatefold sleeve featuring rare archival photographs.* Daphne Oram was the founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a department she more or less single-handedly created in 1958 camping out at the BBC studios for nights on end splicing tapes and working with various modified machines to carefully arrange her abstract soundscapes. Eventually the BBC bent under her pressure and in studio 13 created the soon-to-be-legendary Radiophonic Workshop, with Oram its first director. Among her countless other achievements, Oram is cited as the first woman ever to design and build an electronic musical instrument, one that worked around the 'drawn-sound' technique whereby strips of 35mm film would be manipulated before being fed into her home-made 'Oramics' machine which would convert and 'read' the film into sound. Despite her considerable and historic list of achievements, Oram's life and work remain largely unknown by the wider public. As this remarkable 44-track collection shows, however, her work ranks amongst the most varied and pioneering ever made, it's quite incredible to think that this is the first time any of these precious recordings have been available on vinyl. As opposed to so much of the Radiophonic-era material that has surfaced over the last few years, Oram's work is often characterised by a much more layered and introspective quality, offsetting classic playful interludes and commercial recordings with beautiful, immersive pieces like the breathtaking "Pulse Persephone" and "Bird of Parallax" - pieces that simply have no equal in electronic music made at the time. It would be impossible to over-emphasise the importance and brilliance of this material - it really is compulsory listening for anyone with even just a passing interest in electronic music - her influence can be charted through pretty every musical current shaping the sounds of today.
Re: Electronica - what are you listening to?
Listening to some of my purchases from yesterday :-)
Fenn O' Berg - In Stereo
Roedelius - Lustwandel
Sleep Whale - Little Brite
Fenn O' Berg - In Stereo
Roedelius - Lustwandel
Sleep Whale - Little Brite
Re: Electronica - what are you listening to?
Cybot,
I remember you recommending this on the old site.
Stunning quality.A must for electronic fan.
Fernando Corona is out there on his own.This is like nothing
you will have heard before and I think it will bring the best
out in any system.
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jadarin,jadarin wrote:
Cybot,
I remember you recommending this on the old site.
Stunning quality.A must for electronic fan.
Fernando Corona is out there on his own.This is like nothing
you will have heard before and I think it will bring the best
out in any system.
At long last, here's sombody who does listen to my inane mutterings!! Well done jad, you've made my day....again! If you check back I recommended his albums here again but to no avail. Lads, you really don't know what you're missing.... BTW his second album comes very highly recommended by me too.Just make sure your room is not too boomy :-)
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The 'difficult' albums and a 12" ('Ullysses')
