The "classical" music you buy from Boomkat (2010): a thread to discuss Sylvain Chauveau, Johann Johannsson, Peter Broderick, Olafur Arnalds and others

Recommendations?

Criticisms?

And perhaps to consider this assertion, from a friend: "I have regularly wondered if it's pointless listening to Peter Broderick/Olafur Arnalds when solo piano stuff is probably done best by those who have stood the test of centuries."

Not sure if this is quite inside the Boomkat context, but I'm very fond of this band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR6axzyFX-k

"I have regularly wondered if it's pointless listening to Peter Broderick/Olafur Arnalds when solo piano stuff is probably done best by those who have stood the test of centuries."

But certainly there's more interesting new stuff out there besides quasi-classical music aimed at the indie set?

For the most part, I agree with both of the two previous posts.

I do find Richard Skelton quite moving:

http://www.mixcloud.com/FluidRadio/richard-skelton-exclusive/player/

a lot of that boomkat modern classical kinda stuff is really wonderful

who do you rate in particular?

Richard Skelton is one of my very favourite musicians of the last few years. Everything he's done that I have is amazing; particularly notable is the attention to the physical packaging etc (though even without that, the music is amazing).

What would you go for next, after "Landings"?

i really like Olafur Arnalds. i haven't heard much of his other music, but 'the blue notebooks' by max richter--while a fairly obvious and PFM-approved pick--is really great. 'a box of birch' by a broken consort is good (another skelton project, i think?) would leyland kirby/the caretaker count?

Loving the Kirby album, all three discs of it.

Interesting that Richter's album on the (um, late) Late Junction imprint got picked up by FatCat's neo-classical off-shoot.

these were the other three Type things that arrived from boomkat the other day (in addition to zelienople mentioned elswhere). not listened to it all in depth yet but have shuffled it during last three commutes. i got the On lp (ambient drones), the Goldmund (reminds me of music for airports piano bits) and the recent Helios (like the quiet bits of mogwai)

http://typerecords.com/releases <- handy podcast section

there's also a boomkat winter sale featuring a lot of Type lps, mine came to about £4 each

> "I have regularly wondered if it's pointless listening to Peter Broderick/Olafur Arnalds when solo piano stuff is probably done best by those who have stood the test of centuries."

i kinda thought the same with the goldmund, whether there were classical piano works i should be looking up, but in addition to rather than instead of.

Koogs, thanks for the heads-up on the Boomkat deals. I went for the On record too. Sounds awesome: "SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU AND STEVEN HESS REWORKED BY DEATHPROD... this is the great 'lost' Deathprod album".

that On cover pic as well, is lovely (folded out is even better). a lot of the Type records have covers that remind me of red house painters 4ad sleeves.

Also went for the ON cd ...

Yeah, that whole visual aesthetic is something that I'm quite easily sold on. x-post

(On photographer has more photos here:
http://blog.shawnconvey.com/#57065/Your-Naked-Ghost )

Woah unexpected mental guitars on the last track of Olafur Arnald's Eulogy for Evolution.

Eluvium's piano stuff definitely worth a mention here - An Accidental Memory in Case of Death, When I Live by the Garden and the Sea. Also Copia, and Miniatures under his name of Robert Cooper Clarke, more instrumentation but still of the 'classical' bent.

Would be happy to listen to older stuff if I knew of any that sounded like this, but aside from Satie, I don't. Recommendations welcome!

> Woah unexpected mental guitars on the last track of Olafur Arnald's Eulogy for Evolution.

mental guitars = industrial revolution

so anyway, pilfering the Type podcasts. and there's pme by Simon Scott, ex-ex-ex of slowdive. and there's a link to his blog. and there's an lp by him ('Navigare') and a link to Boomkat who gave it record of the week last october

http://typerecords.com/typecasts/9
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=232012

is in a similar vein to the On record (in the way all ambient stuff sounds the same) but with tinges of the old slowdive sound (or am i imagining that?)

(typed in classical piano to amazon's mp3 downloads site. millions of hits. oh um)

What would you go for next, after "Landings"?

Either "Marking Time" or "Box of Birch", I guess. It's all good though.

On a piano bent, it's not exactly the same as this stuff, but if you don't know Chopin's Nocturnes, you should definitely check them out.

this week's boomkat recommendations (link should be good for future use too):

http://boomkat.com/genres/32/recommendations

the Minamo sounds nice from the samples (but i have more cheap Type records to check out first). the Owen Pallett is miss categorised i think, sounds more like the beach boys.

i also find there's some crossover with the Dark Ambient / Drone / Metal genre

http://boomkat.com/genres/137/recommendations

(the mp3 versions have samples of all tracks, not just the three they choose for the cds)

*Loving* On's Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night.

If you like Johann Johannsson you should investigate ... ? (contemporary or otherwise)

On's a bit bleak for my tastes. Where's the choons?

Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain by Mono & World's End Girlfriend is a bit Johannsonesque. Well it has violins anyway. Pretty miserablist though.

I have never heard of these composers. I assume they sound something like Satie informed by minimalism with subtle O'Rourke-ish electronic touches, with higher production values and lower standards of performance technique than most 'new music'? Which could be great or not, depending.

(Ha, OK, just noticed the Satie comparison.)

Thanks for the Skelton link!

Johann Johannsson & Greg Haines (?) live in London in May:
http://www.last.fm/event/1380575+Arctic+Circle+Presents+-+J%C3%B3hann+J%C3%B3hannsson+-+Greg+Haines

Hildur Gudnadottier's Without Sinking deserves a special mention.

(Any thoughts on her other releases? I haven't heard them).

this thread title cracks me up and is so otm

Do any of these artists get reviewed as "classical" music in anywhere other than the Wire? Do they get coverage in what might be described as "traditional" classical music magazines?

the actual boomkat category is 'classical / home listening / ambient' and it's pretty much a catch all for slow quiet stuff.

Do they get coverage in what might be described as "traditional" classical music magazines?

judging from a cursory search, not at all.

Never bought it myself, but I think that the BBC Music magazine (mostly classical, some jazz too) has Late Junction-type stuff in it (Late Junction being the one mainstream radio programme that plays this sorta stuff).

Nils Frahm added to the Johann Johannsson show.

Akira Rabelais has a new album coming out soon. Everyone should listen to Eisoptrophobia. Lovely, haunted reworkings of gorgeous piano pieces from the likes of Satie et al.

Frahm's The Bells sounded lovely earlier while cleaning the kitchen; Johannsson's Virdulegu forsetar sounding gorgeous now (possibly my favourite classical album ever, up there with my favourite albums of any genre); have also been enjoying Valgeir Sigurdsson's Draumalandid.

Anyone heard the Rachel Grimes album?

BTW, djh, thanks for starting this thread...hadn't heard Chauveau or Arnalds yet and grabbed a bunch of both. The Arnalds albums I got have rapidly become some of my favourites.

Anyone else picked up the newish Johannsson soundtrack to the film Varmints? Grabbed it on vinyl and ripped it to MP3 (guess the CD isn't out yet) but there seems to be some weird distortion that comes in on the last track of side one...not sure if that's part of the sound or whether my rip was bad...was perfectly clear up until that point. Either way, enjoyed the album.

the Varmints soundtrack turned up in today's boomkat newsletter (vinyl only until april it says) and actually goes by the snappy title "And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees"

samples here:
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=245281

You can get Varmints on CD - it came out as a tour CD - I got my copy from Insound. It's being re-issued in the UK in April.

Free compilation that partly matches this thread's aesthetic here: http://jointhecircle.net/

nils frahm's wintermusik sounding fucking gorgeous right now (washing the dishes, glass of red on the go).

Want to echo the Richard Skelton love upthread - Landings is great. Maybe I just don't listen to enough of this sort of thing, but the strings on it sound fantastic, there's a really earthy resonance to them.

In the mood to buy a record in this genre ... Any suggestions?

One artist you may want to check out is Harold Budd - a lot of good albums dating back to the 70s, even. It varies a bit, from very piano-heavy to highly processed, so you'll want to preview them first I guess. I have a soft spot for Lovely Thunder and his collab with the Cocteau Twins, Moon and the Melodies but people often point to The White Arcades as a good starting point. (He also has some newer releases too which I'm somewhat less familiar with.)

Also you may want to check out one or more of Ryuichi Sakamoto's more recent works - I really like both BTTB and Playing the Piano for their simplicity and the nice balance between classical sensibilities and modern feel.

Have also been enjoying the Nils Frahm record Winter Musik.

Anyone go to any Bubbly Blue & Green events?

Also, yes, Winter Musik is excellent. I possibly like The Bells even more.

> Anyone go to any Bubbly Blue & Green events?

was at the Isan / Hauschka with Hildur Guðnadóttir on thursday. went for the laptop electronic (with added water driven percussion and splishy sploshy samples), stayed for the prepared piano and modified cello (surprisingly captivating).

another huge thumbs-up for Frahm's The Bells - this is great stuff

new olafur arnalds: http://www.erasedtapes.co.uk/ (though not really *getting it* so far)

The new Greg Haines is getting good reviews:
http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/2010/03/greg-haines-until-the-point-of-hushed-support-sonic-pieces/

Hauschka, the prepared piano dude i mentioned upthread slightly, is in the latest morr mailout as gigging soon.

10.05.2010 — London (GB) — Barbican ( http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=10071 )
12.05.2010 — Cambridge (GB) — Junction
13.05.2010 — Bristol (GB) — St George
14.05.2010 — Oxford (GB) — Holywell Music Room
15.05.2010 — Manchester (GB) — Band On The Wall
16.05.2010 — Edinburgh (GB) — Roxy

also, isan's half of the Bubbly Blue And Green gig is available from their website: www.isan.co.uk (which is a bit off topic but...)

Nils Frahm in Oxford tomorrow!

So I can't make the Johann Johannson show in London on May 27, anyone want a ticket? £12.50, wot a bargain.

what's worth exploring on kning disk?

and were broderick and frahm the only "solo piano" releases on the label?

Hauschka very entertaining live.

bunch of stuff on Type Recordings, including Broderick's Float in the boomkat summer sale for £3.95:

http://www.boomkat.com/labels/?id=2582&format=cd

Have I missed anything?

Looking for suggestions for more stuff like Olafur Arnalds or like, say, Peter Broderick's Float - stuff that is maybe a touch less dissonant than stuff like Landings can be at times (though I love it too). Really need some more stuff that won't jangle the nerves at random intervals!

(Caveat: still want to stay away from new age cheeseorama.)

I have never heard of these composers. I assume they sound something like Satie informed by minimalism with subtle O'Rourke-ish electronic touches, with higher production values and lower standards of performance technique than most 'new music'? Which could be great or not, depending.

OTM

Pondering spending my Xmas Boomkat voucher on Third Eye Foundation's "The Dark" and Philip Jeck's "An Ark For The Listener" but do feel free to persuade me otherwise . . .

Those are both really great listens tbh.

does the Akira Rabeilas' Caduceus album go here? nobody seems to have talked about it much. severely processed guitar w/ traces of field recordings and delicate AM radio interference. so nice

Should start a 2011 thread but uncertain on what classical music is being bought from Boomkat this year . . . .

Had forgotten how much I enjoyed Richard Skelton's Landings (prompted to replay by The Wire).

Has anyone gone for Skura, the 20 disc box set?

a bunch of the Type Recordings releases are in the winter sale, for the next week anyway.

also, here's a link to the Home Listening recommendations

http://boomkat.com/genres/32/recommendations

Go for it if you want to start a new thread, but I would say make it modern classical / ambient / field recordings of rolling tumbleweed cos there's obviously lots of blurring between these things.

New Nils Frahm.

Can't listen to it on headphones (as recommended on the sleeve) as the scrape of pedals etc gets on my nerves too much.

Hasn't moved me as much as previous releases, so far, but it may grow on me.

This is lovely:

http://drownedinsound.com/news/4143522-listen--stream-a-winged-victory-for-the-sullens-self-titled-debut

agree..... my thoughts here

I picked up a dozen or so releases in the recent (1 mo. or so ago?) Boomkat sale... biggest winner is probably Sylvain Chauveau's The Black Book of Capitalism...... gorgeous record all around.

I do hope the ongoing Boomkat sales keeps the Type label ticking over.

http://www.livingroomsongs.olafurarnalds.com/

Came here to post that link. Nice catch. Day 2 is wonderful. Will be ordering the cd/dvd combo, myself.

The thing with announcing that this is going to be released ... what if this week's recordings are rubbish?

Enjoying Johannsson's Fordlandia.

I suppose I'm having difficulty discerning whether some of this music is intentionally difficult or whether it is aiming for pleasure. Not that it matters either way.

Well, the one time I saw him he and the ensemble seemed exceptionally dour. Not sure whether they were just having a day or whether they were trying to be Serious Musicians™, but it didn't exactly project an aura of pleasure. Which doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it, however.

er, having a BAD day...

On the recordings, I like the "whole thing" - the strings, the processing, the production, the electronic bits. When I saw him live, I just kind of thought I'd rather just hear the strings and that the other sounds felt too incongruous.

... Actually, I didn't enjoy it live to a point that it *slightly* put me off the records.

Had forgotten how much I enjoyed Richard Skelton's Landings

― djh, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:36 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark

Man... just discovered this today and it's jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Fantastic, meditative and ethereal music. Shoots straight to my heart.

Anyone else heard the Le Lendemain album called Fires? Got turned onto it by the guy at Penguin who knows I'm into Johannsson etc, and it certainly fits into that whole vein.

Have really learned to love the Winged Victory album - it's also put me onto the solo Dustin O'Halloran albums and all of the Stars of the Lid stuff, too - all of them are on Rdio thankfully!

For my birthday last year my wife got me one of Richard Skelton's special editions - a CD of exclusive tracks and a beautiful box containing various cool things. I don't have physical copies of any other music these days, but all of his stuff is so gorgeously packaged that I have them all out on display.

We're definitely moving into the time of year where I listen to Skelton every weekend morning around dawn.

Have really learned to love the Winged Victory album - it's also put me onto the solo Dustin O'Halloran albums and all of the Stars of the Lid stuff, too - all of them are on Rdio thankfully!

awesome!

Anyone else heard the Le Lendemain album called Fires? Got turned onto it by the guy at Penguin who knows I'm into Johannsson etc, and it certainly fits into that whole vein.

― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, November 5, 2011

This is a great record. I'm going to put it on right now in fact...

I've been revisiting Rachel's Systems/Layers a lot lately. I wish this was available on vinyl.

I'd like to recommend this band also: http://hedia.bandcamp.com/

'Systems/Layers' is an ultimate winter album for me

This sounds like it has potential:

http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/jacaszek-glimmer?utm_source=tgs-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TGS111611

A new Jacaszek always has potential! Thanks for the link.

Ah, surprised I'd not heard of him before:

http://soundcloud.com/miasmah/sets/jacaszek-treny/

A Winged Victory For The Sullen play Manchester, Glasgow and London in January: https://www.facebook.com/awvfts

London tickets here: http://bit.ly/rEacMQ

Happy to see that Sleepingdog are supporting as I missed them at Cafe Oto this week.

Their record is worth mentioning in this thread:
http://www.gizehrecords.com/gzh31.html

In the same vein as A Winged Victory, the Christina Vantzou album is worth a listen on Spotify. She's the other half of The Dead Texan btw in case the name's not familiar.

can someone give me guidance on these Sylvain Chauveau albums (all on Type)? i have "The Black Book of Capitalism" already, it kills, just want to know what else is really good vs. skippable

right now i could get:

- S
- Nuage
- Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)

??? thanks

all(?) the cds are in the boomkat winter sale btw (which might be why you're asking). lots of other Type bargains too.

actually, boomkat has samples (more samples if you click on the mp3 version)

Syvain Chauveau-related: I recommend the Deathprod-mixed On album.

On is great yes.

As for Sylvain Chauveau, I think you should get Nuage and/or S. And if you dare also try and find 'Down to the Bone: An Acoustic Tribute to Depeche Mode', which is fantastic. Cover album of DM tracks with Sylvain singing. Hauntingly beautiful

psyched for matt bourne's new album on leaf

http://www.theleaflabel.com/en/artists/view/51

Items shipped to you:

Ordered Title Price (GBP) Dispatched Subtotal

1 ON (SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU / STEVEN HESS), Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not, CD £4.50 1 £4.50
1 RENE HELL, The Terminal Symphony, CD £4.99 1 £4.99
1 ROLL THE DICE, Roll The Dice, CD £4.50 1 £4.50
1 SVARTE GREINER, Kappe, CD £4.50 1 £4.50
1 SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU, Nuage, CD £4.50 1 £4.50
1 SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU, Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), CD £4.50 1 £4.50

Subtotal: £27.49

all(?) the cds are in the boomkat winter sale btw (which might be why you're asking). lots of other Type bargains too.

yup! exactly why i asked. i got "Black Book of Capitalism" last winter sale. i usually try to get 5-6 Type things each year. got the other On album last year. waited on this one... i thought it'd be discounted this year... sure enough! yay boomkat

still lots to explore, i haven't checked out the Zelienople, North Sea, Xela, or a bunch of others yet.... those any good?

Oh man, you should get Xela's 'For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights'! Warm bubbly electronica, the last great album in its genre as far as I'm concerned.

Totally recommend Zelienople's last album, Give It Up. Really good ambient rock along the lines of late Talk Talk, Bark Psychosis or Dean Roberts/Autistic Daughters.

awesome, thanks guys!

Got the Richard Skelton SKURA box (the DVD edition) for my birthday, so now I have everything (I was missing maybe 6 CDs before). Have been listening to it a lot; it's all great, of course.

Do you *really* need more than Landings?

(That isn't meant to sound as polemical as it does.)

I dug out his Wolf Notes LP, as *AR this weekend and loved it. Quite a different feel to Landings, mostly due to the vocals: http://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/ar-wolf-notes

Landings and Wolf Notes are probably the best, I agree.

I'd like Wolf Notes more if it didn't have singing (or had a different singer).

Is SKURA a good use of fifty quid?

i love Landings and havent heard the *AR thing, but also recommend Marking Time, which was reissued widely last year (well... as widely as a Richard Skelton release is likely to be reissued)

Quite enjoying the new Ryan Teague album - it sounded incredible in the shop.

Can't seem to find any talk about the new bvdub double cd.. I sounds a small departure from previous works, more vocals and different rhythms.. anyone heard it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDqIzhHnV0

since this is one of the only threads that had a discussion about it i just want to reiterate how awesome *AR is

Can't stand the voice on *AR.

yeah i can see that but she doesnt bother me

new record 'griis' on low point is p rad btw

Was that A Winged Victory For the Sullen on Countryfile, just now?

I could imagine buying SKURA in a moment of weakness thought not fully keen on the idea of buying MP3s.

The new Richard Skelton, Verses Of Birds, is fantastic, very striking and rich but rather dreamy at the same time.

enjoying this new daphne oram collection:

http://boomkat.com/cds/507123-daphne-oram-the-oram-tapes-volume-one-deluxe-2cd-edition

is there any overlap with the Oramics 2xcd thing?

(have been to see the oramics machine in the science museum a couple of times now. but am not entirely convinced by what i've heard of the actual recorded output)

SKURA dvd: is it a case of just putting the disc in your computer and then ripping to another format to play? is the package nice?

packaging is fairly nice iirc. dvd is properly tagged mp3 files, just drag and drop to your computer.

v tempting. i don't think i can bring myself to commission one of those one off cd box sets ...

Pleased with SKURA although I'd probably have preferred finished CDs.

The new album is very good, too.

Working my way through SKURA.

Any thoughts on it?

A cracker - and the literal embodiment of this thread - http://boomkat.com/cds/556557-morton-feldman-crippled-symmetry-at-june-in-buffalo

SKURA was fifty quid well spent. Some beautiful stuff on there - though I have to confess I had to copy it all onto CD.

Some new Richard Skelton oddities:

http://www.corbelstonepress.com/support.htm

New Nils Frahm:

http://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/sets/nils-frahm-screws

Michael Tanner on his new album:

The Cloisters, Michael reveals, was conceived during a time of deep personal dissatisfaction with the drone/ambient/classical minimalist ‘scene’ – one seemingly populated by “the same 30 blokes, making the same music in Ableton [loop-based music software], more often than not sporting the same beard. It was made under an awareness that I was lumped in with them, and internalising if/how I was really so different. It became an attempt to see if I could retain the style of music I’ve been making for 12 years now, but still try and get out of the box, so to speak.”

Never really thought about the process behind making this music and/or Ableton. Can we name the 30 blokes?

There's another Skelton album, too, by the way.

More importantly can we name the beard?

Haven't managed to work out who any of these bearded people might be.

This sounds nice ...

http://www.gogoyoko.com/album/Stafnbui

Some new-old Richard Skelton:

http://www.corbelstonepress.com/archival-riftmusic2.htm

Weird. Would have had Skelton down as popular on here.

I think he is? But I don't ever hear his stuff when it comes out - by a long-standing arrangement, my wife buys it and keeps it until my birthday/Christmas. So probably I'll have something to say about it in January!

I really like the new Olafur Arnalds album, but it is very straightforward in a way that a lot of the stuff in this thread (at least, the stuff I am familiar with) doesn't seem to be.

Any thoughts on the new Nils Frahm?

http://www.clashmusic.com/videos/nils-frahm-toilet-brushes

Must admit I prefer him when he is just tapping away at the keys than we he is doing anything more than this.

"when" not "we"

ha, i was blown away listening to 'says' the other day and checked out some other pieces...i love the more percussive, effected-out, synth-heavy pieces a lot, but the piano-only ones i heard don't hit me as hard.

Says is awesome, really into the rest of the album too. Great bedtime listening.

I swear, I have never heard of Nils Frahm, and suddenly he is EVERYWHERE this week. Will have to investigate further.
I am enjoying Toilet Brushes!

How was the Olafur Arnalds album?

* I think he is? But I don't ever hear his stuff when it comes out - by a long-standing arrangement, my wife buys it and keeps it until my birthday/Christmas. So probably I'll have something to say about it in January!

― toby, Monday, June 3, 2013 5:49 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink*

How was Xmas, toby?

I think it's been saved for my birthday (next week)...

Happy Birthday toby ...

^ I hope she didn't renege on the arrangement ...

New Jacaszek album ... can't figure out how to order a copy from Poland, mind.

http://www.nck.pl/artykuly/101279-piesni.html

http://pitchfork.com/advance/321-mccanick/

^ New Johann Johannsson

Right then ... I've got a £20 voucher to spend at Boomkat. Half might go on a Jacaszek re-issue. The rest?

Do you already have the latest Olafur Arnalds disc? That one particularly resonated with me. His seasoning of the album with the occasional song works really well.

http://sonicpieces.bigcartel.com/product/otto-a-totland-pino-2nd-edition-ltd-cd

^ This is very nice, by the way.

Loving this and the album it comes from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLpEb8TbyRI

This album has been knocking me out today - Hildur Gudnadottir: Saman, released a couple of weeks ago.

http://youtu.be/joDTBhYmITE

Need more of this type of thing...

Anything good/recent?

No?

There's a new ep just released by Lucy Claire. It's only two tracks and three remixes but it's kinda great overall. Wish she'd make a full album soon.

lucyclaire.bandcamp.com/album/collaborations-no-1

Did anyone get into Lubomyr Melnyk's Corollaries?

Well I have now...thanks.

and this too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYn7WpgLg48

I'd only heard James Blackshaw before via the Brethren of the Free Spirit albums which I liked also.

From last year, but I've really been enjoying Christina Vantzou's No. 2 lately. Goes well with the recent weather - chill breezes blowing through the over-ripe vegetation of late summer, the cold hand of death poised to pull a grey veil across a weakening sun, that sort of cheery thing

I've been listening to the Vantzou too. That and her first album, also great.

Wasn't tempted by "Corollaries" when it first came out - played clips on Youtube and dismissed it as "novelty" - but heard again recently and it suddenly sounded impressive. Prompted me to pluck a Charlemagne Palestine album from the shelves but it sounded far too hardcore after a day at work.

Not feeling Vantzou but will give another go.

Augh, apparently I need to check this thread more regularly, just finding out about the Hildur Guðnadóttir album now! (Such is the nature of buying most of my stuff on vinyl and my local no longer carrying CDs...I'm starting to miss some of this stuff when it lands.)

(ps yes I know that it's on vinyl but my local shops don't carry that style o'music on vinyl, generally)

Just found out Gudnottir is playing in LA later this fall, opening for A Winged Victory for the Sullen.

Okay, I've been listening to little else other than William Ryan Fritch lately. His latest solo release, Leave Me Like You Found Me and his upcoming collaboration with Jon Mueller, Death Blues' Ensemble, are both exceptional. Although the latter isn't out until next week, it's streaming on Soundcloud right now.

https://soundcloud.com/holly-lalanne/weird-little-piece-rough

i first heard of WRF via this remix, but he's been popping up a lot lately: https://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/track/night-rising-william-ryan-fritch-remix

any suggestions for more pretty, minimal piano music ala Nils Frahm, 'drukqs', etc?

Jacaszek tour:

POLAND
12.09 Gdansk
Jacaszek + Sylwester Luczak (video+lights) feat. Ania Smiszek-Wesolowska (cello)
http://www.nck.org.pl/pl/wydarzenie/2254/koncert-michal-jacaszek-sylwester-luczak

13.09. Zielona Góra
Jacaszek+Trzaska
https://www.facebook.com/events/1450505958570522/

USA TOUR

26.09 PORTLAND at Mississippi Studios
Jacaszek feat. Beth Fleenor (clarinet)performing for a special Ghostly International Showcase presented by Project Pabst.
http://www.mississippistudios.com/event/638875-jacaszek-portland/

27.09 DECIBEL FESTIVAL Seattle, Venue: The Triple Door
Jacaszek feat. Beth Fleenor (klarnet, klarnet basowy)
http://dbfestival.com/db2014/optical/5-ghostly-international

30.09 LOS ANGELES „The Golem” live score at Cinefamily, SPECTREFEST
http://www.cinefamily.org/films/spectrefest-2014/#the-golem-w-live-score-by-jacaszek

USA tour supported by Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Gdansk Municipal Office.

Tour managed by SpectreVision

Mind you, I've yet to play the Touch album all the way through ...

Skelton watch: http://www.corbelstonepress.com/nimrod.htm

I'm a great admirer of Skelton's earlier recordings so this description makes me a bit anxious:

"The tremulous strings that characterised much of his earlier work have all but disappeared as the music is divested of ornament, revealing the coarse grain of its underlying substrate: a dark mass of shifting tonal colours suffused with filigree detail."

Will reserve judgement until hearing it.

Not keen on the sound clips, I must admit - at least on initial play - but will go back to them.

The new Winged Victory for the Sullen record, 'Atomos', is very, very beautiful. On my first listen but it's very pastoral and sounds like a soundtrack to a non-existent film. At times it's very reminiscent of Johannssons Virtulegu Forsetar, strings wise.

Getting a big Michael Nyman/Piano vibe - albeit not as full and dramatic - from it too.

I've been listening to it nonstop for the last couple of days. I think it's a big improvement on their debut (which, mind you, is also good). It passes through more movements, there's more variety and changing of pace - more push and pull between the different instruments.

Streaming here:

http://thequietus.com/articles/16418-a-winged-victory-for-the-sullen-atomos-album-stream

Yeah, love Atomos. Also enjoying the Kiasmos album -- it's Ólafur Arnalds and some other guy

Atomos is getting better with every listen.

Trying to find the appropriate forum to discuss my Erased Tapesophobia. Not a dislike of the music they put out, I have it on in the home a great deal. But listening to Atomos these arguments come up again, the same frustration I had with heyday GYBE or Rachels'. The "soundtrack to Myst" quality of it. It's new-age-with-classical-instruments but gets discussed as new-classical. It's so completely easy on the ears that it challenges my laissez-faire attitude towards consonance. That it could actually be improvised by anybody in a few minutes. Between Max Richter being New Music Composer #1, Tim Hecker being Noise Musician #1, I can't tell if I want to embrace The New Consonance or fart on it.

Of course everything I'm saying is not a potshot but a salute

I think I mostly think of it as new age or ambient. I really like it. But some new classical classical is kinda New Consonance as well. Those long serene Morton Feldman pieces. Arvo Pärt. Gavin Bryars (whose most famous album was released by Eno). Gorecki's third. And the new pulitzer-prize winning Become Ocean by John Luther Adams, that I mentioned on the rolling classical thread, and which is rapidly becoming one of my favourite albums of this year, and which you really should all check out!

all the people I know who've studied composition hate max richter

Yeah Frederick I don't fuck with any of those composers you mentioned, except Feldman and a very rare Pärt. Younger I would've argued against them, now I'm just happy there are composers putting asses in seats. More just like I come home and my bf has got Lukas Foss on the turntable and I'm like "yesssssssss" but ultimately he wants Atomos and not Mica Levi. I'm trying to place consonance in a global, current context, trying to figure out what it means and why people respond to nicey-nice sounds so much more in film score, concert music, noise, ambient, drone etc. than they do in any other genres, where it'll make your track sound sickly

What do you mean by "classical" and "new age", fgti? (That's a non-snarky question, by the way).

And why do those who've studied composition hate Richter, ogmor?

Yeah it sounds as if I'm pissing on new-age I guess but I'm not. Just that the language is so safe and sound. It's nice when things are a little challenging, you know? Or maybe not?

Maybe not. There have definitely been points in my life where consonance has been outside my comfort zone/more challenging than dissonance.

fgti's remarks have lead me to self-asses my opinion on this a bit. Because I definitely get that the music seems 'safe and sound'. But in the end, I think that is where the quality lies. Safe and sound is not a disqualification per se, and this ties in with what djh says about consonance.

I don't see Winged Victory as 'new age' myself; I find it a broody, emotional moving piece of work albeit in a very subtle, subdued way. Perhaps it's also because I've been a long time SotL fan and for some reason have grown to respect Adam Wiltzie but also Dustin O'Halloran for their compositional qualities to not take it for generic new-age music (as my personal definition of 'new-age' tends to be: generic soothing music, which I quite frankly can't stand).

But it's a very fine, personal line.

Yeah. I can't really describe why Vanessa Carlton is bad and Tori Amos is good or Clint Mansell's soundtrack to "Requiem for a Dream" is bad but Michael Nyman's for "Prospero" is good without getting exceedingly nebbish about things

And I'm typing this as an enormous fan of Atomos VII-- haven't heard the new album proper-- but also as somebody who found the s/t kind of disappointing bc it lacked the extreme long-form nature of the best of SotL and instead had prettystrings

Yeah. I agree about the Winged Victory s/t, I didn't take to that and while listening to it more and more thought of it as a 'lazy' affair (despite hating myself for thinking of that term while listening, as it can't have been lazy, made with the best intentions too, but prettystrings seemed intentional). I do think the new one is quite different though. Well thought out and despite its subdued nature has a lot going on. It is ephemeral, whimsical at times, but it does really carry me away and take me on a journey. If you took to Atomos VII I'd be very interested to hear what you think of the whole record, I think it deserves an honest chance before you lump it together with erasedtapes prettystrings :)

Not lumping anything in :) just always hoping to implement some aesthetic corrections in my listening

In the case of AWVFTS in particular - I definitely think of what they're doing as an evolution from ambient music, not a lazy take on classical.

For me, Stars of the Lid really opened my ears with Tired Sounds and Refinement of the Decline--when they shifted from making drone from guitars into making something more beautiful and more powerful with a small string section. Everything they've done since then--Brian McBride's solo albums and A Winged Victory--feels like steps from that point. For A Winged Victory it's less about "ambient" because of Dustin O'Halloran's piano, but to me it still feels related.

As for the rest of the Erased Tapes catalog (Nils Frahm, Olafur Arnaulds, etc), I don't really know where those guys are coming from musically to say it's "safe" or some kind of indie/poser-classical. I only know that I found my way to Erased Tapes via A Winged Victory for the Sullen so in my own mind I'm approaching it all from that perspective. That is absolutely subjective, though.

In any case I really hesitate to call it New Age, a term which has a pejorative whiff to it. I also bristle at "safe" as a descriptor of this music. I guess I don't really understand what I'm supposed to contrast that against. What would make Atomos dangerous? And would that necessarily make it better?

And as far as Atomos vs their debut - the new one is definitely superior. In the context of SotL I kinda get how you could perceive the debut as somewhat rote and less inspired. But I think on Atomos they more clearly show that they are trying to do something different. It's not just SotL with piano. (And for that matter I also like it more than a lot of the other Erased Tapes material I've heard.)

Yes yes I am not sure I love ATOMOS but it is amazingly well written and executed, holy cow. I've listened to it ten times now and it's still surprising me with how well paced it is, subtle expansions from track to track, really impressed.

Has there been anything good recently?

djh did you see the Textura EOY list posted int he Year-End Polls thread? Lots of great stuff on that list. Currently transfixed by Ian William Craig's Turn of Breath. Also digging Marvin Ayres's Ultradian Rhythms and Vicky Chow's Tristan Perich: Surface Image, among others.

And don't walk past Kyle Bobby Dunn's 'And The Infinite Sadness'.

Been fascinated lately by Aaron Martin's Comet's Coma and Elisa Luu's Enchanting Gaze.

Thanks all.

Ian William Craig's Either Or is nice; quite reminds of Rice Boy Sleep. "A Turn of Breath" seems to be sold out.

Yeah, Ian William Craig's Turn of Breath is really good - it was the most recent Guardian 100 weirdest (but great) albums on Spotify entry

http://tape-dust.tumblr.com/casolli

a winged victory for the sullen, anyone?

i enjoyed the prom. first i'd heard of them was last week's latitude coverage on Late Junction and this week they're on tv playing the Royal Albert Hall...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0640mhj (28 days left)

(some chat here: The "classical" music you buy from Boomkat (2010): a thread to discuss Sylvain Chauveau, Johann Johannsson, Peter Broderick, Olafur Arnalds and others )

Enjoying the new Hauschka EP A NDO C Y very much.

It cheers me up when this thread is revived.

Doing my very best. One interesting addition regarding relatively straightforward (though a bit unpolished) solo piano might be Martin Kohlstedt.
Dude was playing live way more experimental processing his tunes, but somehow his albums connect with me really well in their own subdued way. Moreso, a supercharming individual.

Wrote up two albums by Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir for Burning Ambulance today.

I'm really enjoying Olli Aarni's Puu Tuulessa (which was ridiculously limited on Cotton Goods).

http://olliaarni.bandcamp.com/album/puu-tuulessa

http://inverted-audio.com/feature/130701-pioneers-of-post-classical/

this new Lubomyr Melnyk album is beautiful

a friend of mine just hipped me to Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon, 'Studies I - XVII for Samplers & Percussion' and it is rad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo8b_yEil-M

^ been enjoying Yair Elazar Glotman's Études recently, guy's got a good sound

it's not pretty music btw, it's more like a bear growling in your ear

cool record

Spotify has discovered Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch for me. From the safer, AWftS, piano-era Eluvium end of the spectrum.

this thread put me on Turn of Breath and for that I am forever in its debt, I keep finding new ways to enjoy this record

Boomkat sale is on. Lots of Type Records.

http://www.factmag.com/2015/12/07/fact-mix-527-johann-johannsson/

http://www.sonicpieces.com/pattern002.html

Liking this a lot.

JOHANN JOHANNSSON WITH HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR & ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE - END OF SUMMER

PATTERN 002 CD/DVD "lasercut cardboard packaging with full colored innersleeve"
PATTERN 002 LP "lasercut cardboard packaging with full colored innersleeve"

End of Summer captures Johann Johannsson's journey to the Antarctic Peninsula to discover the calm scenery of a landscape changing seasons, barely influenced or even noticed by humanity. The super 8 film is a comforting study of a peaceful setting in one of the most crucial and endangered areas of our planet.

Accompanied by rich and detailed field recordings of the surrounding this footage makes a perfect foundation for Johann's musical compositions, performed together with fellow musicians and friends Hildur Gudnadottir and Robert A. A. Lowe. The varying use of cello, voice, synthesizer and electronics creates a listening experience that reflects both the vast beauty of the quiet scenery and the necessary cautiousness of its inhabitants. As if gliding through the steep ice, its rough edges and the harmonious water movements, organic arrangements are patiently devolving into voice and electronic based ambience that adds warmth to the icy, artefact laden environment.

The soundtrack to End of Summer is an emotional, enduring listen and a compelling experience. Forming a soundscape as broad as the view it was inspired by yet equally heartwarming, devotion to the music will slow down time and provide a moment of harmony within times of change.

LP edition features the soundtrack as well as the film's sound design on the B-Side, exclusively on vinyl;
DVD + CD package features the film and accompanying soundtrack.

Glad to know about this, it's great. Put me on a Hildur Gudnottir kick all day today.

Might be of interest:

https://www.fat-cat.co.uk/release/like-water-through-the-sand

(Revived 130701 imprint).

Recent obsessions:

Colin Stetson: Sorrow -- sax-based reinterpretation of Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
http://open.spotify.com/album/0SnAsW09FjjOYZ2oHYliyL

Julia Kent - Asperities -- cello-heavy wonderfulness
http://open.spotify.com/album/5on5Q09vRTjw24GmaK3pMz

http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music/sarah-neufeld-playlist/#wX1tPVS2S4xq4Sxz.97

(I have to confess the comment underneath made me chuckle).

I have to say, getting the weekly Boomkat email of new albums, going through it and finding almost all the intriguing looking stuff on Spotify, and settling in a for a day's listening at work is very satisfying. Today there's a new Peter Broderick (Partners), the new Scott Walker OST for The Childhood of a Leader, Marielle V Jakobsons, Chino Amobi's 'Airport Music for Black Folk', stuff like that.

Like bits of the Ben Lukas Boysen (on Erased Tapes).

Actually, love this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCpFvn7jTPo

Apparently, there's a feature in this month's Uncut on some of these types.

> these types

Pun!

Yeah, the Boyson, Christopher Tignor and Ian William are good 2016 additions

*Ian William Craig

Peter Broderick's Playlist
Stuart Maconie's Freakier Zone

Stuart's guest from the Freak Zone this week, Peter Broderick, offers a 60-minute playlist of music from his studio in Oregon called The Sparkle which he has just closed. Featuring a bounty of unreleased tracks from The Sparkle's archive including Portland's Shelley Short, harpist Desiree Rousseau's band Brumes and his sister Heather Woods Broderick.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082q70v

interview in the main freak zone show too

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04fzm50

Some temptation here:

https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/2016-in-review-journeys-in-modern-classical/

Their "Sense of Place" list is also interesting.

I had no idea Touch had a bandcamp

https://highplainskranky.bandcamp.com/

^oh hey, i'm friends with that cellist

I must buy that Claire M Singer album. The bits I've heard sound great.

Sampling some of these I haven't heard, I'm sorta taken aback by the homogeneity of a lot of this stuff. Guess I hadn't realized until now what a big shadow Erased Tapes really cast, but so much of this is just really conservative, featherlight furniture music that makes Satie sound like Jerry Lee Lewis. Guess I just don't get it?

Any recommendations, Wimmels?

Well, if you're asking, some of the younger Scandinavian pianists on ECM fill this void for me quite nicely. It's music that often surprises me while still capturing / evoking icy or bucolic or mellow moods. It too can occasionally be overly polite and antiseptic, but even then I find it more adventurous and challenging than a lot of the stately, grandiloquent somber / pretty music in this thread. I also don't understand why I should listen to frustrated post-rockers play bootleg Debussy through effects pedals when something like this exists.

To be clear, I'm not dismissing the entire above list. I like a few of these artists. But of the ones I'd never heard, most of the samples did not make me want to investigate further. Claire M. Singer is probably the lone exception, that's definitely something I need to look into, based on the sample...

Thanks Wimmels. I kind of in agreement with you and it's why this thread was started. There's a lot of "classical music you buy from Boomkat" that I like (including some Erased Tapes) but I'm mindful that there's also a lot of stuff that I hear simply because ... it's on my radar and I've always had a suspicion that there's better stuff out there.

I did enjoying finding that Stationary Travels list to play through, though (even if ultimately there wasn't much I needed to hear again). Of that list I have Boysen, Arnalds/Frahm and Johannsson (though I'd Have chosen "End of Summer" over the album listed) and the Claire M Singer album was the one I hadn't heard but have felt the need to order.

I've noticed that with this sort of style they pretty much always use an instrumental palette of piano and/or string instruments. There must be some exceptions though. Are there any people out there doing this type of thing with woodwind or brass instruments?

Good question

Colin Stetson? Lots of sax and suchlike. His version of Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, 'Sorrow', is one of my favourite albums from 2016

The new Gavin Bryars album on ECM, The Fifth Century, is a choir and sax quartet thing. Very lovely it is too.

New Jacaszek coming up on Ghostly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpAlyO5855s

New Ian Hawgood:

https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/love-retained

Just ordered the Resina album ...

https://soundcloud.com/fatcatrecords/sets/resina-resina-cd13-23

and looking forward to the Olivier Alary compilation.

Haven't yet played this but my Sunday evening now seems sorted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fry9l?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_6_music&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=radio_and_music

^ Actually it wasn't that good.

Anyway:

http://www.npr.org/2017/03/09/519048493/first-listen-jacaszek-kwiaty

Anyone rate the new Hauschka? I've not heard it yet but think I might have reached the point where I don't need anymore Hauschka ...

It was all right but I don't remember much about it.

I'm at that point too, djh. Same with Peter Broderick tbh. I thought it would happen with Max Richter, but he continues to amaze me.

Sunday night drunkenness. The last Douglas Dare album is hitting the spot though I've felt ambivalent about it at points. It doesn't really have much to do with "classical you buy from Boomkat" aside from being on Erased Tapes, mind.

new Peter Broderick / Peter Liversige Late Junction session here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05d78x0

(think the download is uk only, but non-britishers should be able to stream)

Ólafur Arnalds' Island Songs, the movie: tomorrow on iTunes (except for North America: soon)

Island Songs, the film. Out FRIDAY on @iTunes!
(US date coming soon) pic.twitter.com/S1amATRvAn

— Ólafur Arnalds (@OlafurArnalds) September 13, 2017

It pains me a bit but one of my favourite albums of the year is being sold for a quid *for the CD* on Bandcamp:

https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/love-retained

I've checked and it isn't a mistake.

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/168476-otto-a-totland-the-lost

I loved his previous one

http://olafurarnalds.com/tour-dates/ touring with strings again

This includes some good stuff, much of which is "the classical music you buy from Boomkat":

https://banbantonton.com/2017/12/31/2017-dave-howell-130701/

Particularly enjoying this:

https://vanessaamara-poshisolation.bandcamp.com/

Not yet made my way through this (posting so I can find it later):

https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2017/12/31/2017-in-review-journeys-in-modern-experimental-classical/

That all looks promising, will investigate: cheers

Since Vanessa Amara was mentioned above, she has a new record next month again on Posh Isolation and you can hear a beautiful track off it on her bandcamp:

https://vanessaamara-poshisolation.bandcamp.com/album/manos

Also enjoying this Swoop and Cross record on Time Released Sound
https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/stories-of-disintegration

the keyboard player from super furry animals composed something. it's pretty good imo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIbS4ekCNmY

https://www.discogs.com/Cian-Ciaran-Rhys-a-Meinir/release/11266106

Sure there are a lot of Reich-isms, but this Anenon record is beautiful, very pleasant listening. Really nice textures (all that breath sound on the saxophone) and room sound.
https://anenon.bandcamp.com/album/tongue

thanks for the Anenon, sounds good

New ólafur Arnalds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAhO5eegMfY

there's a new BBC Radio 3 show that covers this stuff:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b02sl2

"Elizabeth Alker with music by an exciting new generation of unclassified composers and performers, breaking free of the constraints of practice rooms and concert halls."

6 episodes, first one was last sunday at 23:30 but available (everywhere?) via iplayer radio

Cool, thanks!

http://fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/product/moss-covered-technology-and-his-many-seas

Female artist spotlight on last Sunday's episode of Unclassified

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zmvmw

perhaps relevant:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b1pgkm

Sunday midnight
Nightingales
Slow Radio

A magical late night listening experience - six musicians go into the Sussex woods to play nocturnal music with the nightingales, who gather there to sing at night each Spring. The soloists taking turns to respond musically to the nightingales are Clive Bell (Japanese bamboo flute); Laura Moody (cello and vocal); Sam Amidon, (violin and vocal), John Baily (rubab) with Veronica Doubleday (frame drum and vocal) ,and Sam Lee (vocal & harmonium). The entire programme takes place in the woods, recorded on one night in April. Verity Sharp presents, leading the listener into the wild nocturnal environment and describing the atmosphere, and folk singer and outdoorsman Sam Lee will explain the migratory behaviour of the birds, the character of their songs, and the habitats that they favour for singing.

This is a Slow Radio experience, immersing the listener in the remarkable and magical experience of the nocturnal songs of nightingales. They are rarely to be heard in England today, but this programme will lead your ears into one of the woods where they still migrate every Spring, to sing through the night.

And who knows what other sounds may be captured on the night - a fox bark, an owl hoot, frogs calling, the wind in the branches...

ólafur Arnalds was brilliant in Brussels last Sunday. The first part of his All Strings Attached tour is nearly over now, here's 75 minutes of the Berlin show on German radio (will be online for a couple more days) : https://www.radioeins.de/programm/index.htm/psdoc=!content!rbb!rad!programm!sendungen!sendungen!154!1805!180517_eins_sch_ne_t_ne_38153.html

From 130701:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=69&v=R1IvMex1geQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpO_8tk6yNQ

How's the new Olafur Arnalds album?

https://soundcloud.com/djfryer/sets/andrew-wasylyk-the-paralian-01022019-athens-of-the-north

Anyone heard this?

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/174651-gideon-wolf-replicas

I've just ordered the cd, will report back.

re: arnalds - I like his previous work better but still going to see the tour again next Sunday

What did you think Le Bateau Ivre?

I got it in the mail yesterday so only played it through one time, but it's gorgeous. Delicate, fragile piano/violin music mostly, very melancholic, at times droney w/ strings. Music instilled with a sense of swelling unease and quiet mourning. There's little that makes me happier :)

Ha! It has sold out since yesterday ... I've had a bit of a poor run on Fluid Audio releases where I've liked the Soundcloud link but then less so the album (though clearly the physical objects are constructed with fuck of a lot of love).

I can hook you up if you like (send me an ilxmail)

(my ilxmail doesn't work, apparently, if you give me an email addy i'll be in touch)

Does using my ilxor webmail work as a way of making contact?

Only one way to find out, sent you a message

Weird. Nearly missed my bus stop after becoming engrossed in the last Bing & Ruth album on my MP3 player, today.

New Crash Ensemble album coming soon, this Nico Muhly piece is beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee4Kidn4aCc

Very beautiful indeed, thanks for linking!

I’ve been listening through my various favorite albums of the years of the 2010s and I’m reminded that this was my very favorite album of 2014: Rebekka Karijord, Music for Film and Theatre.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1ov6TyW9dXfGU6RZTCFOxO?si=-Qxw3dzyTNy3AlFj7Yoqrw

This has been good for home working ...

https://claricejensen.bandcamp.com/album/the-experience-of-repetition-as-death

Any recent recommendations? I've got the next Bing & Ruth on order but haven't discovered anything new since, well, April 6.

I really like max de wardener's music for detuned pianos played by kit downes, very light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHvXYi3xMxQ
http://somekindofpeace.com

new, more minimalist than the previous, album from ólafur Arnalds, being streamed + some stuff on youtube (Q&A etc) planned in the coming hours as well

(so... at 8 PM (your time) it will start playing)

Anything new-ish to recommend? I have £20 to spend at Norman (sorry, Boomkat!)

I'd completely missed this until this evening:

https://angeledavid-guillou.bandcamp.com/album/a-question-of-angles

Even before the Moby album, Deutsche Grammophon seemed to be releasing some unexpected artists (Clark, Balmorhea etc).

I know it's only a small part of what they do but wondering if it can be tracked to anything?

I'd track it to the start of their ReComposed series back in 2009:
https://www.discogs.com/label/660411-Recomposed

Of course. I'd forgotten about them.

I was half wondering if there was one person commissioning these things, some of which seem great and some ... a bit less necessary.

Might be of interest?

"Dustin O'Halloran continues The Classical Takeover with his all-time favourite tunes."

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWXtBjoO4Thyy?si=bcb89bebbc7c482c&nd=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFRdoYfZYUY

Good, that. Ta.

There might be better threads for this (Fat Cat ones, I guess) but I'm going to put this here:

https://headphonecommute.com/2021/08/10/130701-a-20th-anniversary-mix/

Oh, dear God. Johannsson's "The Cause of Labour ..." sounds magnificent, tonight - but lots of other stuff, including some things I've missed (not heard/not bought).

that's a fantastic mix

Lubomyr Melnyk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr2ofP0Qof4

A Spotify playlist (an edit of a CD made for a holiday):

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2KXOjOAdxsaHdSZYgE4E9g

But, more, heard anything good recently??

15 disc François Bayle box set to go along with the Radigue and Parmegiani boxes ... oh go on then

https://boomkat.com/products/50-ans-d-acousmatique?fbclid=IwAR1ISsvByUMZVhngX4OG0g19njLWphM5OkekwspeEbS7bQq-3vdHYCdkdKE

Heard anything incredible? I'm in the mood to buy something Boomkat Classical.

Shilling for myself here djh, but I've got a record coming out on Sound in Silence soon which may fit the bill -

Preview link - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0zjx6jy8ob32kto/AAChpnpsA1Ja4rZYov7V3dMta?dl=0

Ta - look forward to that later!

would Alison Cotton fit in this thread? plays viola, harmonium. droney. ned's a fan. has a dark folk tinge to it, especially when she sings.

maybe start here (largely because it is cheap)

https://bloxhamtapes.bandcamp.com/album/all-is-quiet-at-the-ancient-theatre

@Maresn3st, it worked! I liked the sustained tension - so I'm going to buy it when it comes out :)

Ah, thank you Stan!

Had wine and made a CD-R for a friend. Here it is as a Spotify playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7yBvydRPnLza5ijwEHKPC7

(Not my most thought-through playlist).

I reviewed five new CDs on the Another Timbre label. link

used to lurk in this fine thread quite a bit a couple of years ago

recently I thought of it again because I started to work on solo piano music that fits the thread title quite well, although with somewhat of a different twist than most of the other artists discussed here

well I just released my first piece and while technically not on boomkat just yet, I’m definitely planning to sell my album there eventually maybe next year or so :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpwN-QxJiGs

(feel free to ignore if this kind of shameful self-promotion is making you nauseous)

Weirdly missed this:

https://bleep.com/release/329892-cate-blanchett-hildur-gunadttir-tar

Enjoyed this - Elizabeth Alker on Radio 3 - Sacred Spaces

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fx2s

Has there been anything good this year??

Didn't know where else to put these modern percussion ensemble pieces, but album title of the year for sure:
https://juliansartorius.bandcamp.com/album/rllrlrllrrlrlrlrllrlrlr?label=1968817536
Julian Sartorius - RLLRLRLLRRLRLRLRLLRLRLR

This video of one of the pieces is fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ4HRiNTQC4

Quite enjoyed this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/erx84f (Available on iPlayer)

Proms as follows:

The Echo Society featuring Robert Simonsen and Brendan Angelides
Postcard from Earth - excerpts

Bryce Dessner
Sing Sing - excerpts

Anna Meredith
The End We Start From - excerpts

Son Lux
Everything Everywhere All at Once - excerpts

Tamar-kali Brown
The Last Thing He Wanted - Connecting the Dots

Colin Stetson
The Menu - Amuse Bouche

Herdis Stefansdottir
Knock at the Cabin - excerpts

Isobel Waller-Bridge
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - excerpts

Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann)
All Quiet On the Western Front - excerpts

Hildur Guðnadóttir
Tár - For Petra

Jung Jae-il
Squid Game - excerpts

Jed Kurzel
Monkey Man - excerpts

Max Richter
On The Nature of Daylight

Jerskin Fendrix
Poor Things - excerpts

Playing Hildur Guðnadóttir recently-ish - and specifically the track below - two guests independently said "Oh, this reminds me of [insert name of classical composer]." I'd had buckets of wine though and have no memory who they suggested. Any ideas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTDYtmHRqa4

Playing Hildur Guðnadóttir recently-ish - and specifically the track below - two guests independently said "Oh, this reminds me of [insert name of classical composer]." I'd had buckets of wine though and have no memory who they suggested. Any ideas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTDYtmHRqa4

Oh, that's weird. The first time I posted it looked like it was playing the Julian Sartorius track above it.

Michael Gordon perhaps?

What's the point of specifically namedropping "boomkat"?

Well, it could have been lots of places, I suppose. At the time, it's where I would have bought (or heard of) most of this stuff and where a lot of the enthusiasm for these releases came from. A lot of the releases on Type were often discounted, too. There was probably some comedy involved and there was probably something about Boomkat being some kind of signifier.

the actual boomkat category is 'classical / home listening / ambient' and it's pretty much a catch all for slow quiet stuff.

― koogs, Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:26 AM

I recall Boomkat being the first retailer to really formalize this emerging (and what would become very broad) genre. In hindsight I wouldn't include, say, Richard Skelton but the concept worked well enough at the time.