December 2011
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“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via misswallflower)
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WatchSimply wonderful. A must listen.
“Not really a mix but more of an old school mixtape, the kind you would make for girls in the hope of securing illicit lip locks under the stairs during the school disco! Not that it ever worked out that way, you still lived in hope that the right mix of songs could aid you in the quest for a young girls heart.” — Andrew Hargreaves
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David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette :: The... →
Swedish Pianist David Wenngren is best known for his Neo-Classical project Library Tapes. Christopher Bissonnette is a Canadian sound artist who began his career studying fine art at the University of Windsor. For the album ‘The Meridians Of Longitude And Parallels Of Latitude’ they merged their aural vocabulary to create a sonic experience that feels warm and dense like your...
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WatchFascinated by the patina of time and themes of folklore, Aspidistrafly’s second album ‘A Little Fable’ narrates a surrealist procession of tales, twelve compositions simmering one into the other lyrically and picturesquely. This album sees the duo returning to a warm, organic palette of closely-whispered vocals, fingerpicked guitar, string arrangements and their trademark...
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Aspidistrafly — I Hold a Wish for You
Aspidistrafly is a Singapore-based unit comprising of April Lee (vocal, programming) and Ricks Ang (guitar, programming). Since 2006, their participations in media art installations and performances have gained attention for their sound and visual works.
Their second album ‘A Little Fable’ has been recorded in Autumn and Winter of 2010. April and Ricks released it this month on...
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Birds of Passage :: Winter Lady →
A masterwork of minimalism, ‘Winter Lady’ — Alicia Merz’s sophomore solo effort as Birds of Passage sees a return to the desolate and melancholic soundcscapes of her highly acclaimed debut, ‘Without the World’.
With ‘Winter Lady’, Alicia presents us with an endearing invitation into her fragile world, a captivating journey through the landscapes of her...
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Turn Down the iPod to Save Your Hearing →
Today’s ubiquitous MP3 players permit users to listen to crystal-clear tunes at high volume for hours on end — a marked improvement on the days of the Walkman. But according to Tel Aviv University research, these advances have also turned personal listening devices into a serious health hazard, with teenagers as the most at-risk group.
One in four teens is in danger of early hearing loss...
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“At least on the Web, you can amend. The ethic of the Web is to say what you know...”
– David Carr: A Media Omnivore Discusses His Diet : NPR (via thisistheverge)
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Dafydd Bullock :: Piano
Dafydd Bullock was born in Llanberis, Gwynedd, Cymru (Wales). A composer, conductor, arranger and teacher, he graduated in Music at the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Musi where he studied with George Hadjinikos, and took a Master’s Degree in International Relations at the University of Sussex. In 1993 and 1994 he won first prizes at the National Eisteddfod of...
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Sylvain Chauveau :: S.
Since his 2000 debut ‘Le Livre Noir Du Capitalisme’ Sylvain Chauveau has been a pioneering figure in the world of modern classical/electronic music.
His 2007 release ‘S.’ saw Chauveau taking a daring new direction, moving away from the haunting strings and piano work of his best known works he has stepped into the world of minimal electro-acoustics, resulting into what possibly was the most...
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“Melancholy shouldn’t be confused with depression. Melancholy is an active state....”
– Alexander Stutterheim, post on Melancholy & Creativity
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Christina Vantzou :: Nº1
Christina Vantzou is an artist, musician, and composer. She was born in Kansas City, studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and moved to Brussels in 2003 where she currently resides.
Her debut album ‘No. 1’ has been one of the most well-received works in the field of Neo-Classical and Ambient music. A bit earlier this year, she gave us an impression how the...
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Flossin :: White Anaconda and the Rainbow Boa →
Flossin’s latest offering ‘White Anaconda and the Rainbow Boa’ is an unbridled creative explosion of electronic, rock, jazz, noise featuring Christopher Willits, Zach Hill, Matmos, Nate Boyce and Carson McWhirter.
Recorded at Prairie Sun Studios in Cotati, CA. during a two day session, this improvisational album reveals a limitless bombast of sound that might possibly vibrate...
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“It came about that owners no longer worked on their farms. They farmed on paper;...”
– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
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Daco :: Round & Round
Daco (aka David Connally). This space cadet has been delicately making music since the dance crossover effect of the early 90’s.
Always in league with the thrill of exploration and the genre ‘good music’, Daco’s pace, depths and decades of influence endlessly journey through jazz, soul and disco, funk, electro and house.
His latest ‘Aquarium EP’ is available...
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“We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless.”
– Rumi (via nirvikalpa)
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Emmanuelle Parrenin :: Maison Rose →
Emmanuelle Parrenin is a true pioneer of Ambient Folk. Her debut album ‘Maison Rose’ was released back in 1977 and combined French chanson-esque lyrics with electro-acoustic experiments.
Here’s something that caught my attention: In 1993, she was caught in a domestic fire that stripped her of her hearing. Intuitively, she says, she began playing instruments as a form of...
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WatchPaul Jebanasam, in celebration of his relaunch of the Subtext label and in anticipation of his forthcoming album on the label, presents a live concert recorded in May this year at the first Subtext event held at the Church of St John the Baptist, a 14th-century church in Bristol’s Old City wall.
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Nils Frahm :: A Number of Tracks for the Winter —... →
Neo-classical composer and pianist Nils Frahm put together a very special and unique Christmas mix of winterly pearls of fine music for you. You will be surprised, I promise.
Click here to download ‘A Number of Tracks for the Winter — Plagiat’ for free.
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The Dybbuk Quartet :: A Collection
The Dybbuk Quartet is a creative collective of multi-intrumentalists making Klezmer tinged Neo-classical, Jazz and Electronica around clarinetist Daniel Gouly a.k.a. Sephirot.
Corresponding artworks for each piece can be found on Daniel Gouly’s tumblelog. Click here and here.
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Scissors and Sellotape :: For The Tired And Ill At... →
As Part Timer, John McCaffrey concentrates on mixtures of delicate folk flavours and electronic augmentation. Upwards Arrows is an outlet for his drone material. Scissors And Sellotape is a different beast, an articulate mix of subtle electronic manipulation, field noise, restrained melody and maudlin texture.
Recorded in three hours at St Mary’s Church in Thornbury, ‘…For the Tired And Ill At...
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WatchNewsmotion is an innovative platform for civic media, public art, and original documentary reportage. The crew behind it is harnessing the power of independent voices, technology, and collaborative storytelling to help the critical issues of our time engage new audiences and find new solutions.
Help them funding their project at Kickstarter.com.
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Eugene Charles Kaufmann :: Suite in D →
“I had always heard remarkable stories about my maternal Grandfather, Eugene Charles Kaufmann, and how he had sung solo as a boy for (German) Kaiser Wilhelm, so when I came across five sheets of manuscript paper headed with his name whilst searching through some family archives, I was delighted! As I am not a piano player myself, I got my my friend Olan Roy Duglisse of the Dybbuk Quartet to...
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Jakob Bro :: Time
Jakob Bro is a Jazz guitarist and composer living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark.
After briefly receiving musical training at the Royal Danish Academy of music Jakob Bro decided to go his own ways. This naturally led him to the U.S., where he studied at Berklee in Boston and subsequently at the New School in Manhattan.
So far Jakob has received four Danish Music Awards, among which are...