storymilo

I would love a link as well... please.

So am I supposed to pm Lateralus or Bulldog? Or both?

Dr_Rez

Wuuu fivesome!

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^ Bulldog...

I'll get you both the link.

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Schizotypic sent me this one...

Jade - In Pursuit


This is the best I could do with album art because apparently, this is quite a rare album!

Start with the Children - Just starting the album and knowing how relatively unknown this album seems to be, I'm already intrigued by the quality of the music. Just this song alone seems to be worth the price of entry. It immediately catches my interest in the album. From the horns and guitars to Jade's voice, it is a very solid opener.

Music Slave - Very 70's at the start. Very 70's-ish guitars. Not as solid as the first track, but still a good song. Very danceable.

Home Orpheus - I'm really liking this song. Slow and...well...soulful. I'm loving the chilled out guitars. I'm noticing how intricate Jade is and how all the instruments compliment each other so nicely. The piano is subtle until it needs to be. Again, I am totally confused that Jade seems to be relatively unknown.

Heaven Or Hell You Got To Choose - Starts off like it might be another slower song, but picks up quickly. Copious use of the cowbell, and another very 70's type song imo. Another danceable track.

The World is a Merri-Go Round - Solid track, but nothing too groundbreaking. After this song and the few that precede it, I can safely say a fan of 70's soul would probably love this album.

Tomorrow May Be Too Late - Starting to sound a bit the same as some of the other tracks (just in style - not necessarily the music itself). Solid, but easily forgettable.

Evil Ways - Well, well...a Santana cover. Pretty solid cover, too. And refreshing.

Little Jam No. 1 - Instrumental, and exaclty as the title implies. I love jam tracks, and this one is really good. A great way to close the album!

Overall, a really good soul album. As I mentioned, a fan of 70's soul/funk would love this album. Since I've never really tried to get into soul this was a relatively new experience for me. I like it and wouldn't mind getting into it more...especially if these guys are the ones that didn't get famous. Makes me wonder what else is out there. Standout tracks for me: Start With the Children, Home Orpheus, and Little Jam No. 1.

Overall, 7/10

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Contemporary Noise Quintet - Pig Inside the Gentleman
provided by Zarko



I just completed my second listen to this album, the first being approximately a week ago around the same time of day. When I first put it on last week, it seemed like my enjoyment of it would be limited. Very jazzy/loungy, and I don't listen to much of this type of music. Jazz-influenced, sure, plenty of that. Lots of downtempo and chill-out music too. But this is more straight-up jazz than I'm used to. Anyway as it went on there were definitely parts I enjoyed. I was reminded of The Budos Band at times, a band I enjoy quite a bit, most likely due to the horns. They are more jazz-funk though. There were parts of this album that also reminded me of some jazz-influenced electronic acts that I enjoy, such as Amon Tobin, The Landau Orchestra (an orchestra-based project from the guys in Landau, the artist I happened to trade to Zarko), Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (not that electronic actually), and maybe Bersarin Quartett. Anyway...on to my second listen. I like this, it's very chill despite not being downtempo. Lounge-y definitely. I like the piano, horns, chello, and whatever else...the only parts I found my self not liking were when the sax was present. I don't know what it is...but it's a bit irritating to me. A bit cheesy also. Sometimes I could deal with it, but most of the time not. Overall I'll definitely play this again at some point, as it's pretty good, but I didn't enjoy it to the point of keeping it in heavy rotation. Definitely worth a listen if you like jazz though.

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I've got one of the two albums I'm in for, so I'll be getting my review typed up here fairly soon.

Don't forget that the next trade begins on Monday at the earliest, so best to start thinking about whether or not you want in nowish. 50/50 as to whether or not it's gonna be themed - depends if I can think of a good one or not (unless anyone else has any ideas).

Schizotypic

Good review there, glad you enjoyed the album as much as I do. Anyway, I'll probably be getting my review up within the next few days, can't wait to unzip that sucker as you seem to know your music. Cheers!

Dieselboy

From abdullah424:

William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops Vol. 1

I'd never heard of this before. In case anyone else hasn't either, here's part of the description he sent me as well:

"It's impossible: no one could create a script this contrived. Yet, apparently, it happened. William Basinski's four-disk epic, The Disintegration Loops, was created out of tape loops Basinski made back in the early 1980s. These loops held some personal significance to Basinski, a significance he only touches on in the liner notes and we can only guess at. Originally, he just wanted to transfer the loops from analog reel-to-reel tape to digital hard disk. However, once he started the transfer, he discovered something: the tapes were old and were disintegrating as they played and he recorded them. As he notes in the liner notes, "The music was dying." But he kept recording, documenting the death of these loops."




So yeah, that's what this is. I only received the first session from abdullah, which is nothing more than a one-hour recording of the same 5-second classical sounding sample repeated over and over until the end. The looped sample "dies" as you listen to it over the course of sixty odd minutes and in the end, is little more than warbly static.
It's hard to sum up how the sound makes you feel after listening to it for so long. At points I felt like maybe a baby in a mothers womb might fit accurately. Another time during the listen I thought of floating away from the earth very slowly into outer space. I even thought it could be the soundtrack to a very slow death, or even just slowly dying over your lifetime if the tape were stretched out that long.
Interesting thought's, but at the same time listening to the full hour felt more like work to me than enjoyment. I'm proud to say I finished it, without skipping ahead once, though the temptation was very great.

Another element to this whole thing is introduced with a very strange story. Apparently Basinski and his friends listened to these on the roof of his NY apartment on 9/11...as they watched the towers burn and then finally crumble. They watched, "an old skyline fall and a new one begin." As they listened to the tapes die and be reborn.
Interesting...very interesting. That adds a whole nother element to the music. I can picture watching that happening live with this playing...would be beyond...well I can't even describe how that would feel really.
As I listened, I read around some reviews here and there. There were some negative accusations going on about how he simply linked his music to 9/11 in order to over-emotionalize the significance of what he had. After thinking that through...with the loop still playing...I think what he tried to present might be a little too perfect, and I decided he might have just linked them for those obvious reasons. I got a little angry about this, cause that would be f*cking lame, but I calmed down again. I mean...who really know if its true right? I don't. /shrug

In conclusion...I'm just really not sure what to think of all this. It's quite the journey abdullah, despite what it is...just a simple loop. This is not my kind of music at all. I think I'm glad I listened to it. I'm pretty sure I'll never listen to it again though. I think once was enough, but again, who knows.
If an acquaintance ever asked me if I'd heard this, I don't think I'd be able to say, "Yeah that's cool." or, "Yeah that sucks." I'd simply just say, "Yeah I'm aware of it."
I probably sound like an idiot with all this talk about not being able to make up my mind. It might sound like I don't enjoy challenging concepts, but that's not true. This is just...strange. :|


Anyway, thx for sending this, it was educational. I doubt I woulda had the guts to send this to someone else in a trade if I knew of it, so props.

Rickenbacker

Inspiring and interesting review, Dieselboy. That is, until you used "a whole nother"

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Dieselboy

Lol, the spell checker caught that of course. I just decided it didn't sound too weird or anything and left it. Is it really that big a deal?