Strategies Against Architecture - The Avant Garde/Experimental Album Club

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra · 04-05-2011, 09:17 AM

link me!

TockTockTock · 04-05-2011, 04:30 PM

I completely forgot about nominating that album. Good to see it finally won, though.

TockTockTock · 04-05-2011, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by clutnuckle

got this myself recently; haven't yet sunk my teeth into it.

Yea, I've already listened to it twice, and I can tell you I was not disappointed.

clutnuckle · 04-08-2011, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Jack Pat

Yea, I've already listened to it twice, and I can tell you I was not disappointed.

Just listened to it myself; I like it. Not an outstanding release but the diversity of the drone as time goes on is very engaging, and the historical value of it is very endearing as well.

dankrsta · 04-08-2011, 05:20 PM

The poll is open.

dankrsta · 04-11-2011, 04:54 PM

And this week we're listening to Konstantin Raudive - Voices of the Dead

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Since my suggestion won I would like to toss another out there for the next list:

Voices of the Dead
by Konstantin Raudive

Voices of the Dead | CD WOW! Deutschland

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Voices of the dead - a fascinating project taken out of a mysterious past and relocated in the present - an important documentation and reinterpretation of early recordings, electronic experiments and oral history. featuring DJ Spooky, Scanner, Random Inc, Lee ranaldo, Ensemble, David Toop, CM Von hausswolff, Calla. for many, the first traces of the Raudive Tapes were in William Burroughs fictions and articles. The fact is, these mysterious magnetic tapes, which capture the voices of the dead, and were recorded by the baltic scientist Konstantin Raudive, are not a fiction but a reality (we are not here to judge their scientific objectivity ). featuring archives + exclusive pieces of music based on the Raudive material. Excellent packaging and artwork. Great bio and liner notes in English.

dankrsta · 04-15-2011, 12:33 PM

You can start voting. The poll is open.

OccultHawk · 04-16-2011, 10:44 AM

I have a new candidate:

Ives Plays Ives The Complete Recordings of Charles Ives at the Piano, 1933-1943

Amazon.com: Ives Plays Ives The Complete Recordings of Charles Ives at the Piano, 1933-1943: Charles Ives: Music

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Ives recorded seventeen different pieces, ranging from the early March No. 6 and rejected Largo for Symphony No. 1 to the “improvisations” that indeed may have been freshly created in front of the microphone in 1938. But most of the music recorded—the Four Transcriptions from “Emerson,” the Studies Nos. 2, 9, 11, and 23, and the “Emerson” movement of Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass.—is related closely to Ives’s early, unfinished Emerson Overture for Piano and Orchestra (circa 1910–11). This reissue restores this historic recording, originally issued by CRI but unavailable for several years, to the catalogue

dankrsta · 04-16-2011, 02:04 PM

It's time I suggest something again. Don't see her mentioned on this forum at all. Therefore, I suggest:

Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music (1981)

This suggestion is partly inspired by this month's minimalist compilation and partly by the fact that we haven't listened to any vocal acrobatics in this album club. Those of you who are familiar with Meredith Monk, I guess you already know this album. She's a New York minimalist composer best known for her unique and brave vocal explorations. She's also a filmmaker and some of her works include theater and dance. This album is probably best known of her work. It showcases her innovations as a vocalist, accompanied by minimal music. Despite being very adventurous and unpredictable in that regard, it's wonderfully listenable, which is something I admire greatly. No matter how stumped you may be at first, her voice evokes a wide range of emotions, from deeply personal to those universal and archetypal.

starrynight · 04-16-2011, 04:06 PM

Yes Meredith Monk is good.

But I wonder how you define experimental as it can crossover into over areas like jazz and classical. I would say Charles Ives for instance is classical.

View Poll Results: What next?
Hermann Nitsch - Requiem für meine Frau Beate (Musik der 56.Aktion)	0	0%
Scissor Shock - Psychic Existentialist	0	0%
Art Zoyd - Berlin	2	66.67%
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music	0	0%
Minimal Man - The Shroud Of	1	33.33%
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04-08-2011, 05:20 PM	#305 (permalink)
dankrsta ... Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,776	The poll is open. __________________ Last.fm

04-15-2011, 12:33 PM	#307 (permalink)
dankrsta ... Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,776	You can start voting. The poll is open. __________________ Last.fm

04-16-2011, 02:04 PM	#309 (permalink)
dankrsta ... Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,776	It's time I suggest something again. Don't see her mentioned on this forum at all. Therefore, I suggest: Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music (1981) This suggestion is partly inspired by this month's minimalist compilation and partly by the fact that we haven't listened to any vocal acrobatics in this album club. Those of you who are familiar with Meredith Monk, I guess you already know this album. She's a New York minimalist composer best known for her unique and brave vocal explorations. She's also a filmmaker and some of her works include theater and dance. This album is probably best known of her work. It showcases her innovations as a vocalist, accompanied by minimal music. Despite being very adventurous and unpredictable in that regard, it's wonderfully listenable, which is something I admire greatly. No matter how stumped you may be at first, her voice evokes a wide range of emotions, from deeply personal to those universal and archetypal. __________________ Last.fm

04-05-2011, 04:30 PM	#302 (permalink)
TockTockTock They/Them Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,914	I completely forgot about nominating that album. Good to see it finally won, though.

04-16-2011, 04:06 PM	#310 (permalink)
starrynight Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 937	Yes Meredith Monk is good. But I wonder how you define experimental as it can crossover into over areas like jazz and classical. I would say Charles Ives for instance is classical.