In the notes that accompany the first of the Hearing Metal series by Michael Pisaro, the claim is made that the work is one of intense collaboration between composer and performer. Pisaro writes: The piece evolved as Greg made test recordings based on my suggestions and then sent them to me. AS it happened we […]
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Twig Harper – Twig Harper Hanson Records
posted by lisathatcher
Twig Harper is one of the solid suns around which the various planets rotate that make up the noise band Nautical Almanac along with Carly Ptak. They’re from Baltimore Maryland and stay true to a strong passion for electronic experimentation and the harsher end of the sound spectrum. With a truly bizarre history (check a condensed version out […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 86 – 90
posted by lisathatcher
Impossible not to get excited about this portion from Wire’s list. We’re well into the 1990’s now, and yet as with so many albums on this list, no respect is paid by these great artists to context. Here is music that picks and pulls from many different traditions and ages, leaving us with a taste […]
Maajun – French prog 70’s style with a tiny bit of everything else.
posted by lisathatcher
Oh Prog – how I love thee. Let me count the ways! I’m not completely sure why I love prog rock so much – it may be the drama and the glam – it may be the undisguised theatrics – who knows? It’s probably my generation – I love this post “rock n’ roll” ethic […]
Mune – Claire Bergerault and Jean-Luc Guionnet use sound against the signifier.
posted by lisathatcher
In the journey through sound as a signifier, interruptions to existing symbols are (as anyone who reads this blog regularly knows) considered by myself the most interesting art being practised today. I review a lot of experimental music albums on this site, and will continue to do so, because I think the creative work being done to […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 81 – 85
posted by lisathatcher
The overlaying theme of todays little additives is experimental – but where these guys took that is not into the now rather clichéd world the previous decades of beloved records were taking them. Sure Royal Trux (sigh) had the free jazz undertones, Conlon Nancarrow has electronica sourcings, Fingers say thanks to soul, and if you […]
László Dubrovay – “A² “/ Oscillations Nos. 1-3
posted by lisathatcher
László Dubrovay is a Hungarian composer, born in Budapest on 23 March 1943. Laszlo Dubrovay attended the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Academy of Music, graduating in 1966. His professors of composition were Istvan Szelenyi, Ferenc Szabo and Imre Vincze. On a scholarship of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD),he continued his studies in West Germany between 1972 and […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 76 – 80
posted by lisathatcher
The point of the Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening is that no one was listening and several of the folk on today’s segement of the list have become “huge-after-the-fact”. Arthur Russell was virtually discoverd after his death, his influence being spread over and throughout the music […]
Eiliff – Eiliff (1971): Fuse into a little jazz fusion
posted by lisathatcher
Formed in the late 60’s by Rainer Brüninghaus, Houschäng Nejadepour, Detlev Landmann, Herbert J. Kalveram and Bill Brown, EILIFF were a German instrumental band who turned fusion on its head with a pair of studio albums featuring classy Canterbury-style jamming with bass, guitar and keyboards plus some ethnic instruments thrown in (mostly the sitar). Two […]
Dome #1 – A little retro punk pleasure
posted by lisathatcher
Punk brought us many diverse pleasures, the best of which remain little known and still cushioned in a kind of semi-permanent underground where the authentic gather (one presumes) to laugh at the record collections of the rest of us. In order to gather a little cred with these folk (whoever “they” are – and we all […]
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