This is in Quicktime even though the file says m4a. It is playable in Winamp. - "Archival 1991 originated as two compositions created in 1991 with analog and digital synthesizers. In the summer of 2003, the original analog recordings were then revisited and utilized as source material for this new work. While the original compositions have been reprocessed and combined via digital means into something different, I have attempted to maintain the general aesthetic of my sound work from that time period."
Thirty Days of the Dead, a new 320Kb Mp3 every day for November, with a "Guess the Venue" contest. Today is Shakedown Street, about 15 minutes of Shakedown Street to be precise.
Thanks BT for this, it has been a total disaster this weekend as my hard disk went to meet its maker, at least virtually all my music was backed up, just spent the rest of the weekend getting back to normal after getting the computer repaired.
Virtually, as in on a virtual drive, nearly all of it, or in the classical sense, by manly endeavors?
Glad to know this is picking you up.
I've been checking out NYCTAPER, a blog of (approved) taped concerts. Many have excellent sound quality, and there offered in both mp3 (240 range) and flac. Downloading, however, is slow. I'll put up a list of my favorites in a few days.
Also on Assembly Field, this one sounds nice too, also free:
Tone Color is the solo music project of Andy Lomas from Manchester, UK.
Recorded between October 2011 and September 2013, The Last Day is a collection of ambient / experimental tracks created using warm synth tones, guitar, virtual tape plugins and environmental sounds.
Bhob Rainey - Levitate
Soundtrack to a short film by Leah Ross.
- With Chris Forsyth: guitar
"Floating docks, a flag holder, playground equipment, hail, rubber gloves, linear congruential chaos, Xynthi, geese, one of those toys where you have a small tank with plastic things floating in liquid and you push a button that sends a little jet through the tank and the jet makes the things float.
"Lektion III is a 1,5 hour-long journey through music history and beyond build from thousands of sampled pieces lifted off more than 250 old vinyl records from 51 different countries on six continents. A musical odyssey that blends everything from Moroccan traditional songs, Indian hymns and field recordings of Cameroonian Pygmies to forgotten Yugoslav psych, French avant-garde rock and early German electro into a dark and giddy, genre-melting trip.
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- "A spectacular bastard ( ) where Den Sorte Skole rolls out an impressive map of samples. A global ghost-orchestra, where voices and sounds of the past and from completely different places and cultures come together to jam. Isolated elements from old records are fascinatingly merged like they were destined to meet each other and keep the collective sub-consciousness of musical culture together."
- Information (Danish newspaper)
Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain. Don't forget to grab the last of the Day of the Dead downloads, today's is 20 minutes long! Only one day left for the promo.
Been out a while, but latest DiN label sampler is announced as free only until the end of December. Other DiN releases on sale til then too, though not super cheap. The samplers are usually good. Analog synth stuff.
"Too Loose in Toulouse" = The Nicholas Payton XXX in a great-sounding live French radio broadcast. Posted several weeks ago, but the DL link still appears to be live.
Just in case anyone other than me enjoys listening to hip hop in other languages, here's a free self-released EP by a Norwegian rapper that I am quite enjoying.
Look for the line that says "Kaveh - Alt Eller Ingenting EP (Last ned GRATIS her)" and click on "her".
Judging by google translate the lyrics are pretty standard fare. But it doesn't matter, because they are in Norwegian... It should also be said I am no connoisseur of hip hop beats.
Free Chris Herbert release (email required for the download link) on Room40
Wintex-Cimex 83 is a collection of four pieces taken from the same source material as the forthcoming album, Constants. Although emerging from the same sound-world, these four oblique, highly personal works stand alone as experiments in stasis and function as a sibling release. Recorded between 2007 and 2013, the material was assembled in fragments: a continually evolving and shifting process that allowed refinement and reworking of idiosyncratic recording and compositional techniques.
Thematically, these works are informed by "radar, dying stars, aeronautics, ailing short waves flickering in the troposphere, the ghost of JG Ballard". The pieces extend Chris' long-standing interest in the extensive manipulation of found sounds and environmental sources. Vertical movement and flecks of cellular detail hint at the implication of rhythm within subtly shifting sound layers.
SPYROS POLYCHRONOPOULOS (WITH ANTONIS ANISSEGOS) - PIANO ACTS - "Spyros Polychronopoulos is a tireless experimenter. Restless with convention he seeks to uncover that which lies in parallel to the well trodden path. That which is reachable, yet still, so often overlooked.
With PIano Acts, he creates swelling masses of treated pianos. Compositions that expand and contract with an unerring sense of pace and Taking cue from American Minimalism, he burrows further into reductionism examining phase and looping at both macro and micro perspectives. The results of this examination speak to his skill as both composer and technician.
Collaborating with Antonis Anissegos on two of the pieces, Polychronopoulos Piano Acts is a timely reminder of the profound nature of tonal percussion, time and treatment."
I'm sure I have posted this before, but Niels Frahm's double piano performance reminded me about this brilliant version of:
On October 2006, Russian pianist Peter Aidu performed this composition with an absolutely unique technique. While playing on two pianos, with a left hand on one instrument and the right hand playing separately on the second piano, he was recreating the sounding of two performers! This fantastic act was accurately recorded, and now is available exclusively on top-40.org. . . .
From reading this article that somebody (maybe GP?) shared a while back about musicians surviving on Spotify, I discovered dj/rupture (one of the interviewees) has a large chunk of his catalog available for free download. Gold Teeth Thief! Minesweeper Suite! Uproot! And lots more; this is great stuff.
Oops; I put the article link as the free music link too! [/fixed]
Steve Collins, the founder of English Folk label Stone Tape Recordings, has made many of the recordings by Owl Service, his former band, on NYOP (no email required) at Bandcamp. It's good Folk Rock, a little samey in the arrangements, but nonetheless solid. I recommend
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- "Archival 1991 originated as two compositions created in 1991 with analog and digital synthesizers. In the summer of 2003, the original analog recordings were then revisited and utilized as source material for this new work. While the original compositions have been reprocessed and combined via digital means into something different, I have attempted to maintain the general aesthetic of my sound work from that time period."
Thirty Days of the Dead, a new 320Kb Mp3 every day for November, with a "Guess the Venue" contest. Today is Shakedown Street, about 15 minutes of Shakedown Street to be precise.
Brooke Waggonner- Originator, free at Noise Trade
Bixiga 70, a decet from Brazil that combines Latin, Jazz, and Afro-Soul. Fun, and wild. (greg, you should get this one).
This has al least cheered me up a bit.
Glad to know this is picking you up.
I've been checking out NYCTAPER, a blog of (approved) taped concerts. Many have excellent sound quality, and there offered in both mp3 (240 range) and flac. Downloading, however, is slow. I'll put up a list of my favorites in a few days.
(app. 30 kb./sec.)
Free Various Artists compilation from the Assembly Field label.
01 Silmus - After Waiting
02 Maps and Diagrams - rASB
03 Transmission 13 - Foreland
04 Alonefold - Isolation Horizon
05 Halftribe - I Can't Do This Alone
06 Ashlar - Bluecoat Chambers
07 Offthesky - Pseudo Symmetry
08 Cousin Silas - Grid Reference 9.076
09 Caught In The Wake Forever - Temple Walkway
10 Brice Salek - Prehistoric Music
11 Hilyard - Detritus
Bhob Rainey - Levitate
Soundtrack to a short film by Leah Ross.
- With Chris Forsyth: guitar
"Floating docks, a flag holder, playground equipment, hail, rubber gloves, linear congruential chaos, Xynthi, geese, one of those toys where you have a small tank with plastic things floating in liquid and you push a button that sends a little jet through the tank and the jet makes the things float.
Really, I just wanted you to have this."
Best wishes,
Bhob
Another Guvera-ton of free ambient music from Future Sequence, Sequence7. Get it while it's free.
Been out a while, but latest DiN label sampler is announced as free only until the end of December. Other DiN releases on sale til then too, though not super cheap. The samplers are usually good. Analog synth stuff.
Bob Dylan - Royal Albert Hall, 2013 (Second Night), on the BigO
Look for the line that says "Kaveh - Alt Eller Ingenting EP (Last ned GRATIS her)" and click on "her".
Judging by google translate the lyrics are pretty standard fare. But it doesn't matter, because they are in Norwegian... It should also be said I am no connoisseur of hip hop beats.
L:Ron:Harald - M
SPYROS POLYCHRONOPOULOS (WITH ANTONIS ANISSEGOS) - PIANO ACTS
- "Spyros Polychronopoulos is a tireless experimenter. Restless with convention he seeks to uncover that which lies in parallel to the well trodden path. That which is reachable, yet still, so often overlooked.
With PIano Acts, he creates swelling masses of treated pianos. Compositions that expand and contract with an unerring sense of pace and Taking cue from American Minimalism, he burrows further into reductionism examining phase and looping at both macro and micro perspectives. The results of this examination speak to his skill as both composer and technician.
Collaborating with Antonis Anissegos on two of the pieces, Polychronopoulos Piano Acts is a timely reminder of the profound nature of tonal percussion, time and treatment."
- According to the other board, only available in urope . . .
Oops; I put the article link as the free music link too! [/fixed]