Says Paul: We can think of the wood or forest as a metaphor for the mystery of the human psyche. Like the human soul, it can be a place of hidden meanings and unrevealed secrets. I wanted to try and evoke this through the music and worked hard on finding the right balance of electronic and organic sound samples across a broad range of musical genres_ This is an interesting label, founded in Brussels, 1980. See link to their stable of recordings.
Boyd is a bassist, designer and composer, mxing solo work, band projects as well as working and improvising with other musicians. Runs the label Obsolete Media Objects. Recorded at the second annual Joyful Noise holiday party in Indianapolis, Indiana with all proceeds donated to Second Helpings, non-profit that provides culinary job training for disadvantaged adults.
Per liner notes on Bandcamp: _It’s hard to tell on first listen, but the L.A.-based Gendel made every sound on his new album using his alto saxophone. In notes, the artist writes that it and the other eight pieces were inspired by the motion picture “The Labyrinth & the Long Road,” [directed by Daniel Oh] for which Gendel contributed the score,
Kawasaki (February 25, 1947 – April 13, 2020) was a Japanese jazz fusion guitarist, composer and band leader, best known as one of the first musicians to develop and popularize the fusion genre and for helping to develop the guitar synthesizer in collaboration with Roland Corporation and Korg. In 1973, Kawasaki arrived in New York. A friend picked him up at the airport and offered him an immediate gig with Joe Lee Wilson playing at the Lincoln Center as part of the Newport Jazz Festival. Soon Kawasaki was jamming regularly as part of the jazz community's _loft scene_, and was invited to play with Bobbi Humphrey. A few months later, Kawasaki walked up to his apartment and found a stranger waiting for him at his front door. It was Gil Evans and he invited Kawasaki to join The Gil Evans Orchestra which was then working on a jazz recording of Jimi Hendrix compositions. In the mid-1980s, Kawasaki drifted out of performing music in favour of writing music software for computers. He also produced several techno dance singles, formed his own record company called Satellites Records, and later returned to jazz-fusion in 1991. - wiki
"Van den Broeke, now a renowned architect, self released most of his music on cassettes and CDR's. Recently some of his stuff was reissued through labels such as EE Tapes or Walhalla Records, but this is his first career spanning compilation, covering over 30 years of music, carefully selected by Nosedrip and Jan himself. Van den Broeke tried to cover the gap between ambient and song, with music assembled in layers, using electronic and acoustic instruments and samples from radio, tv, field recordings, old tapes, movies and so on. Heinrich Ludwig (Lou) Gehrig was a renowned American baseball player for the New York Yankees. On July 4, 1939, with less than two years to live, he shared his feelings to an enraptured audience in a heartbreaking and memorable speech. “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Malcolm X (1925–1965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. In The Luckiest Man an unknown woman is bringing both men together in a trip through a whole series of emotions: happiness, hope, resignation, melancholy, mystery, angriness... - YouTube notes "
Theme song, Mary Tyler Moore Show. Prior to the Riot grrrl movement, all-female rock bands did not have a wide scope, nor were they political or feminist. One of the first to receive significant hype was The Runaways, a group of musical amateurs in their mid teens whose sleazy, jailbait image and Svengali-like management proved both beneficial and detrimental. Among these streetwise progeny was rhythm guitarist and songwriter Joan Jett, who modelled herself after Suzi Quatro. Jett's rebel-girl persona, magnetic stage presence, defiant sneer and punk rock attitude prevailed and she later took over as lead vocalist. After achieving huge popularity in Japan, the Runaways crashed and burned due to poor marketing, '70s rock excess and interpersonal conflicts, freeing Jett to pursue other projects, namely joining forces with Kenny Laguna to independently release her first solo record. Upon generating interest and proving her rock chick credentials to previously reluctant labels, Jett signed a record contract and, in keeping with rock 'n' roll tradition, hired a backing band, whose name - The Blackhearts - would be officially appended to her own.
This was a London based indie band spanning 1987-1991 and comprised of Annemari Davies, Bobby Wratten, Harvey Williams, Mark Dobson, Michael Hiscock. This _postumous_ release sold more copies than any of the group's previous studio releases
Dandruff is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1974. It was the first of three LPs that Cutler released through Virgin Records in the mid-1970s. Cutler wrote this tune, and accompanies himself on all the cuts on the album (piano, harmonium, keyboards).
Per liner notes on Bandcamp: _It’s hard to tell on first listen, but the L.A.-based Gendel made every sound on his new album using his alto saxophone. In notes, the artist writes that it and the other eight pieces were inspired by the motion picture “The Labyrinth & the Long Road,” [directed by Daniel Oh] for which Gendel contributed the score,
Lodestar Trio is a ground-breaking new collaboration between stars of the Scandinavian folk scene Erik Rydvall (nyckelharpa) and Olav Luksengard Mjelva (hardanger fiddle), and British violin virtuoso Max Baillie. Together they bring a spirit of groove and improvisation into Baroque music by bringing it into a folk sound world where the Swedish nyckelharpa and the Norwegian hardanger fiddle meet the violin. - discogsLodestar Trio
Howe wrote this poem (At Seaport) as part of an exhibition at the ICA in Boston Feb 2023-Jan 2024 curated by Taylor Davis entitled Invisible Ground of Sympathy -- a title associated w/ Taoism, whereby _achievement is not merely that of the concept of unity of dualities or the identification of opposites. For the Taoist there is also a unity in multiplicity, a wholeness of parts. In the Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu presents a very simple explanation of wholeness: Invisible ground of sympathy_ - blissviews.wordpress.com
This group is described on Boomkat as expressing an inventive and riveting take on Eastern and Western minimalist traditions, African rhythms, and early electronica._Mkwaju_ is derived from a Swahili word standing for _tamarind tree_ in English. Members are Junko Arase, Midori Takada, and Yoji Sadanari
Devandra Obi Banhart (b 1981) is an American-Venezuelan singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Texas, and raised in Venezuela and California. In 2000, he dropped out of the San Francisco Art Institute to pursue a musical career. This is his 5th studio release, and the cover references the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.
aka Michael David Fuller was a hard drinking singer, poet, and artist. (see link). He was killed at age 39 by his friend Concho January's son Carey after confronting Carey about stealing his father's welfare & pension checks. Filmmaker Kevin Triplett made a documentary in 2011 called Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah.
Sampler and electronics manipulations – Kimmo Vennonen; Tape manipulations and Sound Maltreatments – Rik Rue; Tape, Keyboards – James Fielding; Vocals, Text By – Sherre DeLys ; Wind – Jim Denley. DeLys is also an acclaimed radio producer who worked extensively for years with ABC Radio Australia.
aka Lukas Mayo is based in Christchurch, NZ and, according to their bio, while earlier releases pulled from the world of mumblecore films, Cosmonaut pulls from science fiction and space travel,
The Brit TV series -- The Beatles Anthology -- aired in 1995. In this excerpt, the three sit on a park bench on a green lawn somewhere in/on George's sprawling estate. From Youtube notes: Baby, What You Want Me to Do,” with George laying down guitar-like lead lines. They then play a snippet of the Beatles’ “I Will,” after which George struggles to recall the lyrics of an unrecorded song of his— “Dehradun”— written during the Beatles’ stay in Rishikesh, India in 1968. They then launch into the 1920s vaudeville tune “Ain’t She Sweet,” a perfect ukulele vehicle.
Hendrikson (1944-2000) was an Estonian who fled as a child the Russian invasion of 1944. She ended up in Sweden, then to Canada, and to Boston of all places, where she made a mark as part of the folk scene that flourished here for a time. I was led to her in meandering associate with a film I watched recently, In the Crosswinds. Very beautiful, and a little hard to find on -line. Search via JustWatch.com I found it for $3.99
Per liner notes on Bandcamp: _It’s hard to tell on first listen, but the L.A.-based Gendel made every sound on his new album using his alto saxophone. In notes, the artist writes that it and the other eight pieces were inspired by the motion picture “The Labyrinth & the Long Road,” [directed by Daniel Oh] for which Gendel contributed the score,
Monks traveling with Francis wrote this account of the experience of his preaching to a flock of birds they came upon. He felt they were looking at him, and was compelled to speak to them: _My sweet little sisters, birds of the sky. You are bound to heaven, to God, your Creator. In every beat of your wings and every note of your songs, praise him. He has given you the greatest of gifts, the freedom of the air. You neither sow, nor reap, yet God provides for you the most delicious food, rivers, and lakes to quench your thirst, mountains, and valleys for your home, tall trees to build your nests, and the most beautiful clothing: a change of feathers with every season. You and your kind were preserved in Noah's Ark. Clearly, our Creator loves you dearly, since he gives you gifts so abundantly. So please beware, my little sisters, of the sin of ingratitude, and always sing praise to God._ and while Francis said these words, all those birds began to open their beaks, and stretch out their necks, and spread their wings, and bend their heads reverently toward the earth, and with acts and songs, they showed that the holy father [Francis] gave them great pleasure. - learnreligions.com
Van den Broeke, now a renowned architect, self released most of his music on cassettes and CDR's. Recently some of his stuff was reissued through labels such as EE Tapes or Walhalla Records, but this is his first career spanning compilation, covering over 30 years of music, carefully selected by Nose drip and Jan himself. Van den Broeke tried to cover the gap between ambient and song, with music assembled in layers, using electronic and acoustic instruments and samples from radio, tv, field recordings, old tapes, movies and so on. - YouTube notes"
Over the course of a nearly 50 year romantic and creative partnership sound artist Annea Lockwood and the late pioneering electronic composer Ruth Anderson have shared space on a number of significant releases of early electronic and tape music. The couple additionally taught a course on the history of women’s music-making, at Hunter College, called Living Women, Living Music. Throughout their time together, they co-authored a number of Hearing Studies designed for people with no formal musical training. They spent most of their private life between Crompond, NY and the house they built themselves at Flathead Lake, Montana. Although Ruth passed away in 2019, the composers’ dialogue continues today with Tête-à-tête, a collection of unreleased archival and new material. It all began with a telephone call. In 1973, Ruth Anderson was seeking a substitute to cover a yearlong sabbatical from her position as the director of the Electronic Music Studio she had founded at Hunter College in New York City. Her friend Pauline Oliveros too recommended Ruth call Annea Lockwood—then living in London—about the post. Annea jumped at the opportunity and within days of meeting in person the pair were, in her words, “joyously entangled.” Over the next nine months, while Ruth was living in Hancock, New Hampshire, the couple would speak daily by phone in between visits. Ruth recorded these phone calls and, in 1974, surprised Annea with a cassette containing “Conversations,” a private piece she composed by dexterously collaging fragments of their conversations
