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Trygve Seim: Rumi Songs Forcing words into songs is tricky business that rarely works. Critics and prize-committees like to pretend otherwise but almost universally the music suffers resulting in painfully awkward presentations. Hiding behind the avant curtain doesn’t change the truth. These are dissertations that won’t be read. No amount of hard work can change that. The poetry is poison. Don’t get me wrong. I like Rumi. It might not even be so distracting if it were a hybrid attempt at crossing Norwegian experimental with Farsi vocals (that I wouldn’t be able to understand) but the English vocals are untenable. I’ll read Rumi and listen to music separately, thank you. Not recommended. |
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library tapes europe she loves Movie soundtrack of the year. I think it’s a documentary with a lot of tits. I’ll look for it. Has anyone seen it? https://librarytapes.bandcamp.com/al...pe-she-loves-2 |
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larry coryell barefoot man sanpaku This 2016 release turned out to be Coryell’s second to final album before succumbing to heart failure the following year. Coryell was a maverick fusion jazz guitarist and a very productive musician through the years. This record would be an unusual introduction to Coryell’s career and it may have met with little fanfare but this a damn good easy going fusion record. Pianist Lynne Arriale and the reedist from Florida, Dan Jordan, both stand out with excellent solid solos. https://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/...5fc89441e6.jpg Lynne Arriale (sexy!) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...-9A-J_TjTNgd5R |
Thought my 2016 obsession is starting to play like TH’s every 2017 wiki reviews.
Goddamnit I’m a second rate Trollheart I need to get back to writing about **** I think this band is trying to change their name to Hong Kong Express Does this **** even show in the search engines Are these ****ing losers ever going to read this **** New King Sandtimer Mostly industrial noise with the occasional sorry attempt to branch out http://www.firstclassrestaurant.co.u..._slider_05.jpg http://www.babysue.com/13-bs-169.jpg |
galileo dreams best of 2016 chillout ambient space music 2016
One of the best experiences of my life happened by chance when I was looking for monastery in Bodhgaya that Lonely Planet said put up tourists for cheap. I got lost as **** and stumbled on another monastery. There were no other tourists there but when I asked they put me in a room. Bodhgaya is flooded with pilgrims and and tourists but this place wasn’t. In fact, it wasn’t even a monastery but just a place where regular Tibetan dudes dressed up as monks so they could get religious asylum in India. In actuality, they didn’t give a **** about Buddhism except as a rouse to avoid being deported back to Chinese occupied Tibet. If you asked these guys about Tibet they would say you must mean China because Tibet is dead. The movie 7 years in Tibet had come out and the Dalai Lama was already a goofy celebrity. My best guess was these guys were being sponsored by American liberals who took up a trendy cause. They basically had no chance of being deported because India is cool like that so they wore their yellowy-orange monk outfits and then did whatever. They didn’t chant and meditate or contemplate unsolvable riddles. Instead they leisurely ate non-vegetarian meals (sometimes big ass buffalo steaks cooked out on the fire), took naps and had women over. They did get their water from a well, though. You didn’t drop a bucket into it, you pumped it, and the water came out a hose. They had a cement room with a slit in the floor to **** in. I had no idea how they dealt with the waste after that. I guess one of their expenses was having it periodically vacuumed out (maybe by a movie star). My room cost little more than a dollar a week. I think I stayed about 10 days or so. There’s an album review in here. While I was there I went wondering around and ran across a bunch of locals eating bowls of rice. They cost like three cents or some **** so I got one. The rice had so many flies in it I think they were left in intentionally to add nutrients. Not being at risk for starvation I wasn’t very impressed. I picked out the flies and ate it anyway. This album is comparably palatable. http://tiefenbrunwhone.wikispaces.co...bodhgaya01.jpg https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-btdNElxDD...0612152418.jpg I took a nap under this tree. Someone woke me up and said I was being disrespectful. I said Buddha did it too. |
Last time I checked the Chinese government had been moving so many Chinese into Tibet to colonize it that the counry is now majority Chinese. So I'm not sure what freeing Tibet would even accomplish.
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**** Tibet. From what I've read it was a terrible ****ing place before the Chinese came and now it's a slightly less and in a more chinesy way terrible place. If you care enough to have some ****ty Tibet bumper sticker you're a dumb hippy and I hate you.
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Batlord and the Tibetan dudes I met in India both said basically the same thing. There’s no Tibet left to save. For all I know those guys may have been part Chinese themselves. People ****. But in a real “Free Tibet” campaign the ethnic Chinese would quickly become the Palestinians of western China. So what the **** are you going to do? Those stickers are just feel good do nothing bull**** and probably manufactured in China. |
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lucy claire collaboration no. 2 Maybe a little like Grouper? Fantastic atmospheric music with great vocals. I think this may be picking up steam. Deserves to be way more popular. https://lucyclaire.bandcamp.com/albu...1621249_10.jpg |
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Ryuichi Sakamoto, 'Nagasaki: Memories Of My Son' Sakamoto is one of the most respected Japanese composers and Yellow Magic Orchestra is an important band to know about. With this original soundtrack Sakamoto is tasked with providing the score for a film with painful and difficult subject matter. Most tracks have a traditionally tonal neo-classical form. He seems to borrow from Copland, Bartok, Shostakovich, and even John Williams’ less campy material. Other times uses the relatively recent 4th world tradition that he himself help pioneer. I have no complaints about this music as a stand-alone record by a Japanese composer. However, and this is a difficult criticism, but for the content of the film the sound almost ironically Western. While I respect that Europe does not hold a monopoly on traditional symphonic music there’s no hints at all of traditional Japanese music and it’s a film about the aftermath of the Nagasaki bombing. |
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Devendra Banhart Ape in Pink Marble You’re really doing yourself a disservice by ignoring this record. There’s way too much about his wouldashouldacouldas but goddamnit what you got here is a damn fine lyricist and song writing kicking the **** back and making a really cool mellow record that doesn’t give a **** about giving a ****. Nods to Lou Reed, nods to Syd Barrett, nods to Leonard Cohen, nods to cheezy 80’s whatever, nods to nodding, nods to not nodding, and most importantly not nodding to nods. |
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Artists featured on Max Richter’s Sleep Remix Grace Davidson Mogwai Clark Ben Russell Yuki Numata Resnick Jürgen Müller Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Clarice Jensen Marconi Union |
Have you listened to this one yet?
Scott Johnson : Mind Out Of Matter AOTY so far for me and one of the best and most entertaining albums ever. |
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HOPELESSNESS Anohni
Drone Bomb Me is about wanting to get ****ed into HIV positivity Only 4 Degrees is about wanting to witness the spectacle of global warming. Watch Me - Is about enjoying the exhibitionist opportunity offered by NSA surveillance. Execution - Celebrates the the death penalty I Don’t Love You Anymore- abandoning your sense of self from the despair of rejection (Traditional love song) Obama- Obama is just another piece of **** Violent Men- is about peace through letting humanity die out through voluntary extinction before it kills itself. Why did you separate me from the earth? Finds her humanity as a barrier from nature and implies suicide or death will return her to the earth Anger at her parents for creating her Crisis - a song about how shameful it is to be an American Hopelessness- a song about how repulsive it is to be a human Marrow - how the rest of the world has followed America’s lead and given the world cancer Unassailable The best pop record of this era. |
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Echoes from Outer Silence Album by Alphaxone Dark Ambient. I know that Schoenberg predates relativity but there’s still a cultural evolutionary connection between impossible tonality and discoveries that contradict intuition. Several composers who dealt with this duality are named in my all time top 40. That still shapes us but in the post 2000 era acceptance has sunk back in and it’s mostly back to the fragility of life which is also amplified by science. Voyager 1’s Blue Dot picture. Hubble images making us smaller and smaller still. Climate and environmental catastrophe and mass extinctions. But one need not be among an elite chosen few to express what this sounds like. A laptop and an internet connection and there it is for the world. Perhaps lost in the volume but still there to be found. Music like this isn’t singularly triumphant like Stockhausen or Wagner. Instead it’s a healthy part of an ecosystem in a return to anonymity not seen since Gregorian Chant. And the sonic similarities are there too. |
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Ches Smith With Craig Taborn And Mat Maneri: The Bell This is really fantastically balanced expressive atonal third stream jazz. Highly recommended |
I didn't fully understand the instructions I received via PM, but I made it to the journal, at least.
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Ambient Guitar by Matt Borghi https://mattborghi.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-guitar Sort of like if Mark Knopfler decided to make an ambient record. Plankton could do something like this on his electric ukulele but it would be more Steve Howe than Mark Knopfler and it would probably bore Plankton to tears making it. I’d like it though. |
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lodestar shirley collins At first I thought the search engine was ****ing with me but this 2016 comeback masterpiece apparently has gone without mention on Music Banter. Octogenarian Shirley Collins fills a space carrying the torch for English folk music that positively must be filled. And no one could possibly do it better. Her age, the time in absence (38 years), the needed response to Americana- all of it a perfect storm. An instant unassailable classic. |
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orrin evans knowing is half the battle This guy has joined or is joining The Bad Plus. I think of The Bad Plus as a pretty good band. Are they a poor man’s Martin Medeski and Wood or is it the other way around? Or is there no reason to associate the two bands? I also don’t know if this record is nu jazz or smooth jazz or what. Seriously, tell me if you know. I dislike how it’s marketed. I mean the cover. Mr. Serious Jazz Musician. Gin and tonic. Some stupid hotel. There’s better stuff coming out all the time mentioned in my free jazz 2018 thread. But why am I so bitter? This isn’t even very famous and it’s actually pretty good except some vocals. Don’t ****ing sing. Oh. My. Gawd. It’s a terrible David Bowie cover. Kooks from Hunky Dory. Oh Jesus that’s ****ing awful. Kevin Eubanks from Jay Leno and Branford. He’s really good but it’s hard not to hate. Now you know. |
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ulises conti bremen Ulises Conti is a good composer from Argentina. This album, Bremen, is a collection of field recordings he made in Germany. Here he is playing piano on a rooftop in an unrelated video |
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Damien Jurado - Visions of Us on the Land He’s been making good music for a while now. As long as he keeps it stripped down it still works here. The big production stuff sucks though. Keep your trigger finger on the skip button. |
Mark Kozelek Sings Favorites
This 2016 release is a good reminder that it’s not always a good idea to do something just because you can. Same goes to you too Ryan Adams. |
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Kodak Black - lil BIG pac The album cover is a homage to Ready to Die. The title references Biggie and Pac. However, musically and lyrically there’s no connection. It’s just an eye catcher album cover. Saying that Kodak’s guest rappers all drop better rhymes than he does is like saying Malcolm was the second best guitarist in AC/DC. Kodak (from Florida) is an Atlanta style trap rapper. Well, poor man’s trap. Mumble Rap. It’s all groove. It’s all hypnosis. 100% on track. No distractions. This isn’t music to reflect on. This is drug music. Lean. Weed. Booze. Volume. Abandon. This is music you surrender to. Don’t worry. He does no wrong. It’s always that trippy demonic accent that is exactly how he really talks. Definitely one of the best hip hop recordings of 2016. Formulaic perhaps but it’s the newest formula and he implements it like he was born to do it because he was. **** your Nas wannabes. |
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Fantômas by Amiina Tries to be atmospheric while also exploring traditional musical motifs but doesn’t quite hit the spot. |
Still wading through 2016
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Eola - Dang Neo-psych that doesn't suck. Electronically processed a capella performances with psychedelic, blues, gospel, Gregorian, and 50s/60s pop inflections. Definitely an underrated gem of 2016. |
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