2019 Albums You're Digging

Mondo Bungle · 02-15-2019, 05:11 PM

jeez these breakdowns

OccultHawk · 02-18-2019, 09:32 PM

Xièxie by Celer

https://celer.bandcamp.com/album/xi-xie

another drone winner - dude keeps knocking them out

rostasi · 02-19-2019, 12:37 PM

Actually from 1986, but released just last week.

Incredible 1986 lost recordings, an amazing adventure of a musicological and botanical research on the psychoacoustic qualities of the green world. Black Sweat has always focused its gaze on a diverse series of genres, from an equally diverse number of geographies and eras. Equally, the label represent one of the great, focused efforts in illuminating the output of the Italian avant-garde - an endlessly exciting, but all too neglected vein within the history of recorded sound. Central to the beginnings of this movement is the legendary ensemble, Aktuala - a project which laid the groundwork for many of the defining characteristics of subsequent movements and scenes, with its members, and those who were inspired them, creating a remarkable body of work which stretches across the decades. Black Sweat's latest batch begins with a long lost release by one of Aktuala's most important members, Walter Maioli - equally noted for his contributions to the seminal projects, Futuro Antico, Amazonia 6891, Gruppo Afro Mediterraneo, etc, made in collaboration with the composer Nirodh Fortini, between 1986 and 89.

Never before released, Taraxacum is a journey back in time - a window into what so much of the Italian avant-garde was all about - visionary, creatively ambitious, and relentlessly democratic - drawing inspiration from a diverse number of global traditions, as well as the sounds of the natural world. Drawing from musicological and botanical research on the psychoacoustic qualities of the Green World - an investigation of an organic symbiosis - the pharmacological properties of plants and the sound emitted by their material essence, these are the realms music which few have explored - singular fruit born of a juncture between the visionary mind of Maioli and the music therapist and eclectic composer, Agostino Nirodh Fortini - a specialist in the field of sound and video applied to body therapies and meditation.

Zhanteimi · 02-19-2019, 02:23 PM

^whoa

**Frownland** · 02-19-2019, 06:07 PM

Bangin

OccultHawk · 02-23-2019, 07:44 PM

Simon Scott, the drummer for Slowdive, released a really good record on 2/22. It’s called Soundings and it’s neo-classical field recordings ambient.

Mojo · 02-25-2019, 07:07 PM

DAVID TERRY & EYE SPIRIT - THE WHITE HORSE OF THE SUN

Two hours of accordion and cello drone with additional chanting-style vocals. Melancholic, sombre and beautiful, even if the scale is perhaps a little intimidating.

MONO - NOWHERE NOW HERE

Still churning out relevant and beautiful records after all these years. Grand, large-scale, cinematic post-rock that tugs at the heart strings - and one brief, frankly unwelcome, vocal moment in an otherwise instrumental affair.

A.A WILLIAMS - E.P

Drawing comparisons to Chelsea Wolfe, Cat Power and Emma Ruth Rundle. Beautiful vocals, post-rock-style guitar leads and plenty of melody.

Max Renn · 03-03-2019, 10:14 AM

So far, I haven't heard much but I do like the Ithaca album (The Language of Injury) and the new self titled Westkust album.

Alexabbuehl · 03-03-2019, 10:46 AM

I absolutely adore this album!!! It's so catchy while still being quite authentic and fresh

rostasi · 03-03-2019, 10:53 AM

^^^^^^ Size matters ^^^^^^

02-18-2019, 09:32 PM	#2 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Xièxie by Celer https://celer.bandcamp.com/album/xi-xie another drone winner - dude keeps knocking them out __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

02-19-2019, 02:23 PM	#4 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	^whoa __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

02-19-2019, 06:07 PM	#5 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Bangin __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-23-2019, 07:44 PM	#6 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Simon Scott, the drummer for Slowdive, released a really good record on 2/22. It’s called Soundings and it’s neo-classical field recordings ambient. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

02-25-2019, 07:07 PM	#7 (permalink)
Mojo Melancholia Eternally Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: England Posts: 5,018	DAVID TERRY & EYE SPIRIT - THE WHITE HORSE OF THE SUN Two hours of accordion and cello drone with additional chanting-style vocals. Melancholic, sombre and beautiful, even if the scale is perhaps a little intimidating. MONO - NOWHERE NOW HERE Still churning out relevant and beautiful records after all these years. Grand, large-scale, cinematic post-rock that tugs at the heart strings - and one brief, frankly unwelcome, vocal moment in an otherwise instrumental affair. A.A WILLIAMS - E.P Drawing comparisons to Chelsea Wolfe, Cat Power and Emma Ruth Rundle. Beautiful vocals, post-rock-style guitar leads and plenty of melody. __________________ Last.FM \| Echoes and Dust

02-19-2019, 12:37 PM	#3 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,010	Actually from 1986, but released just last week. Incredible 1986 lost recordings, an amazing adventure of a musicological and botanical research on the psychoacoustic qualities of the green world. Black Sweat has always focused its gaze on a diverse series of genres, from an equally diverse number of geographies and eras. Equally, the label represent one of the great, focused efforts in illuminating the output of the Italian avant-garde - an endlessly exciting, but all too neglected vein within the history of recorded sound. Central to the beginnings of this movement is the legendary ensemble, Aktuala - a project which laid the groundwork for many of the defining characteristics of subsequent movements and scenes, with its members, and those who were inspired them, creating a remarkable body of work which stretches across the decades. Black Sweat's latest batch begins with a long lost release by one of Aktuala's most important members, Walter Maioli - equally noted for his contributions to the seminal projects, Futuro Antico, Amazonia 6891, Gruppo Afro Mediterraneo, etc, made in collaboration with the composer Nirodh Fortini, between 1986 and 89. Never before released, Taraxacum is a journey back in time - a window into what so much of the Italian avant-garde was all about - visionary, creatively ambitious, and relentlessly democratic - drawing inspiration from a diverse number of global traditions, as well as the sounds of the natural world. Drawing from musicological and botanical research on the psychoacoustic qualities of the Green World - an investigation of an organic symbiosis - the pharmacological properties of plants and the sound emitted by their material essence, these are the realms music which few have explored - singular fruit born of a juncture between the visionary mind of Maioli and the music therapist and eclectic composer, Agostino Nirodh Fortini - a specialist in the field of sound and video applied to body therapies and meditation.

03-03-2019, 10:14 AM	#8 (permalink)
Max Renn Groupie Join Date: Mar 2019 Posts: 3	So far, I haven't heard much but I do like the Ithaca album (The Language of Injury) and the new self titled Westkust album.

03-03-2019, 10:46 AM	#9 (permalink)
Alexabbuehl Groupie Join Date: Mar 2019 Posts: 2	I absolutely adore this album!!! It's so catchy while still being quite authentic and fresh

03-03-2019, 10:53 AM	#10 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,010	^^^^^^ *Size matters* ^^^^^^