Haven't heard from Matt Sweet in a while. He has a new EP, developing his sound into fantastic new yet familiar territory, coming out on the Belgian label Morc Tapes, who specialize in experimental music with a folkish bent. I've been a fan of Boduf Songs' dark, brooding, and often minimalist songs since hearing the debut on Kranky Records ages ago. Here's a taste of the new EP, available on 10" vinyl:
And you might like a podcast from Kranky Records (also from ages ago) featuring Boduf Songs live with a lovely sparse droney sound. RSS feed for krankykasts:
http://kranky.net/krankykast_rss.xml
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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Comparisons - branches
Hello hackers, stalkers, friends, foes, people, travelers, lovers, haters, ghosts, drifters, nobodies, etc... I'm spilling some thoughts today.
I got to see Colin Stetson open for Godspeed You Black Emperor a while back in Madrid. He is a most impressive saxophone player. I highly recommend his live performance. His recordings are also great, but this 10" caught my attention more than other recordings I'd heard. His breathwork and fingerwork is quite inspiring, and you know I'm a fan of this sort of "intuitive composition" or whatever you like to call it, Philip Glass-like and such...
Anyway, I was immediately reminded of some lovely electronic music that I've talked about before here on this blog:
Keith Fullerton Whitman is still going strong with his modular synth automatic/generative compositions and performances. I almost went to see him a couple of weeks back in Madrid, but had too much going on. I used to own the Einstein on the Beach LP box set (Philip Glass & Robert Wilson). I bought it when I worked at Manifest Discs, and I sold it back in Nijmegen, before I realized it would be important to me.
I did however make a primitive, extremely lo fi, very flawed, very painstaking sort of electronic reworking of it before I knew what I was doing. Still don't know exactly what I'm doing, but I know more of why. I don't hesitate to post it:-)
View from the window where I made it. Don't know if the date is accurate or not.... Probably not, but it's just there.
I got to see Colin Stetson open for Godspeed You Black Emperor a while back in Madrid. He is a most impressive saxophone player. I highly recommend his live performance. His recordings are also great, but this 10" caught my attention more than other recordings I'd heard. His breathwork and fingerwork is quite inspiring, and you know I'm a fan of this sort of "intuitive composition" or whatever you like to call it, Philip Glass-like and such...
Anyway, I was immediately reminded of some lovely electronic music that I've talked about before here on this blog:
Keith Fullerton Whitman is still going strong with his modular synth automatic/generative compositions and performances. I almost went to see him a couple of weeks back in Madrid, but had too much going on. I used to own the Einstein on the Beach LP box set (Philip Glass & Robert Wilson). I bought it when I worked at Manifest Discs, and I sold it back in Nijmegen, before I realized it would be important to me.
I did however make a primitive, extremely lo fi, very flawed, very painstaking sort of electronic reworking of it before I knew what I was doing. Still don't know exactly what I'm doing, but I know more of why. I don't hesitate to post it:-)
View from the window where I made it. Don't know if the date is accurate or not.... Probably not, but it's just there.
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