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OK...Beside the aforementioned Jon Hassell, I've had lots of raga vocalists--Lakshmi Shankar, etc.; Let It Bleed ( for old time sake, and quite honestly, I fucking love that album!!) Adam Hurst, a local celloist in a vein somewhat like Zoe Keating --I highly recommend him!; plus... and here I wax narcissistic, lots of my own found sound pieces--I've been recording every crazy sound I hear lately---local MAX train ( like BART) waterfalls, AM radio sound bites, people -especially "foreign" tongues heard at the mall, our -Portlands-Saturday Market crowds. Mixing beats, tones, etc. Some good stuff coming out of it. I will post the recordings asap so comments will be welcome! Just off a mid-summer high desert vacation and loving it.. J.D.Devros deafrose58 > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:22:42 -0700 > From: looppool@cruzio.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: OT: What's on your iPod/CDplayer/Turntable > > I'm just loving a few things that I'm listening to right now > and not only wanted to share them with you all but wanted > to know what people are currently listening to. > > 1) When I was in Zurich, I got the chance to go see > Nik Bartsch's RONIN play at their legendary 'Montags' > shows (with a really nice opening solo looping set > by our own Bernhard Wagner). > I was just blown away. It's the best live instrumental > music I've seen in a very long time. Minimal, textural > compositions/improvisations exploring the realms of > polyrhythms and odd time signatures. Every member of his > ensemble firing on all cylinders (bass and contrabass clarinet. > innovative percussion, fretless 6 string bass and traspset) all > mixing with Nik's amazing grand piano/prepared acoustic piano/ > electric piano improvisations. Two fisted on two instruments he > was playing simultaneously in two different time signatures in > waves of acoustic 'loops' that cycled to and from each other. > The sound was amazing to boot. They record every night > so they have the sound in this venue dialed in. > > Nik Bartsch's RONIN ---- 'Holon' > > just doesn't leave my car stereo for very long. I'm in love and it's > also inspiring because > this music is just made for live looping experiments (as Bernhard's lovely > and funky set in Rome and Zurich proved. > > 2) All day (and as I type) I've been listening to the lovely new > > John Hassell CD , "Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the > Street" > > . This record is as good as any past Hassell records > and that says volumes as he has a half dozen that are in my top 50 list > of favorite CDs of all times. It is beautiful, haunting, melancholy, > foreign > and even alien sounding and as intelligent as it gets for a close to > ambient record. And thanks, Massimo, for hipping me to this little > gem. > > 3) Just recently I discovered the music of the superlative and creative > jazz > drummer/composer Brian Blade so I've purchased both of his jazz CDs > with Brian Blade and the Fellowship. > In the past I've tended to avoid drummer led jazz projects (a horrid > prejudice > since I'm a writing drummer) but Blade completely avoids having his records > sound like vehicles for drumming. He's a really good writer and these > are as > good as any recent releases in jazz. > > Then when I heard that he was also writing singer songwriter material I > was, > again, skeptical. > > Brian Blade "Mama Rosa" is just a revelation! > > He has written a beautiful melancholy meditation on growing up. He has > a lovely > voice. The songs are really well written. His chordal vocabulary is > sophisticated > so the record is really interesting but it doesn't sound sophisticated. > It's just simply put, lovely. > > 4) Chris and I are driving down to Los Angeles (500km) to see the > British pop band, Elbow's only west coast > appearance. There first three CDs are fantastic and incredibly > inventive. The production is a marvel, > full of fascinating timbral choices of traditional instruments, found > sounds and electronics. > Imagine if a band with the stylistic scope of the Beatles were playing > in the Naughties only > further north in England and with a decidedly darker/moodier and more > melancholic vibe. > > Elbow "Asleep in the Back' > Elbow "One of Thousands' > Elbow "Leaders of the Free World" (which I'd start with first, it's > there third) > > I'm actually not as enamored of their latest release but it doesn't > matter because the first three are so good. > > 5) Then I sit not 100 feet away from the window of my brother's studio. > He's writing, recording and developing material for his new CD. For > having played frequently > with someone for a very long time, I"m always amazed that every couple > of days I hear music > come out of his studio (and it wafts through our compound on these hot > summer days when > the windows are open) that is beautiful thought provoking and which has > me constantly > asking him, "how did you do that". I promote and demonstrate the > Looperlative LP-1 but Bill is just becoming a master at using it and > leaves me far in the dust > in terms of his creative depth in using it. > It's not out yet and I'd probably get one free for being family, but I"m > gonna buy this > sucker when it gets released. > > Bill Walker "As Yet Untitled" > > > What are you guys and gals listening too? > Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Search, add, and share the web’s latest sports videos. Check it out. |