July Listening Thread

Nice - competely forgotten about the listening thread.

Mark Osborn - Vinculum Substantiale, from 2000, one of those obscuro d/ls but is one of my fave works for orchestra precisely bcz it sounds so unlike an orchestral work. All the best things I love about chamber music (what I reallt love and where all the action is at, for me) transfered to the larger arena. The *tone* it strikes is also quite proper for rainy miserable summer we're having.

James Clarke CD (Ensemble SurPlus and Nicolas Hodges on piano). Needs more listening. A good sign.

Been going to a few concerts - highlights were the work for clarinet and piano by Richard Barrett, which bought some sound and fury to this church in London. Then Chris Dench work for piano - confusing and yet very engaging.

Hoping to do some more soon - another church. I'm sure the heating won't be on :-(

I heard Yale Cellos play some pieces by de Falla, including the one mentioned above, and it was terrific. I listened to all the reviews on Indie Pages and discovered some terrific songs by. among others, Julie Doiron. I have also been listening to Sunday Rain by the Ultrasounds.

The Gossip album, some Autechre (which Ophelia absolutely loves), a little bit of Ray Charles,...

bicycles by the clientele

Sundar, how's the the genesis treating you?

I love it.

I've also been listening to Bartok: Hungarian Peasant Songs, Hungarian Sketches, Roumanian Folk Dances, Dances of Transylvania, Roumanian Dance, The Miraculous Mandarin (Budapest Festival Orchestra)

and M. S. Subbulakshmi's '66 UN concert.

Where did you dl that piece, Julio? You would have loved the June In Buffalo festival. Arditti played some Lachenmann and Dusapin. There was some great vocal music by Wuorinen.

And it's good to meet other de Falla fans! What I know of his music just has so much life to it. Too bad he hasn't been as canonized as other composers of that time. I don't know Yale Cellos though.

dodheimsgard - satanic art
dodheimsgard - 666 international
fields of the nephilim - earth inferno
dinosaur jr - where you been

"Where did you dl that piece, Julio?"

s*s*

Buffalo fest sounds fantastic - wish I ws there. Lachenmann's quartet is terrific, a key piece.

v/a -- Nothing Much
The North Sea -- Dead Birds
Corsican Paintbrush -- s/t (I think)

Today I listened to, and enjoyed very much, Twelve by Patti Smith.

Garth Hudson, The Sea To The North. It's mostly a rather lovely record.

that Bat For Lashes album is pretty good, I like "Trophy" and "What's A Girl To Do"

Various things from:

William Beauvais - Traces
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Don Henley - "The End of the Innocence"
Fennesz/Sakomoto - Cendre
Charles Ives - Orchestral Works
Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star
Let My People: A Sexual Musical - Original Cast Recording

And Drainolith!

pandora station for Lisa Stansfield's 'Change' has been very good to me today. Not very Lisa Stansfieldy or Changey at this point but still goodness.
otherwise the past week has been all Webb Pierce all the time with a dash of George Jones.

AFI - Decemberunderground

Catching up on new stuff yesterday:
Chemical Brothers - We are the Night
Mumiy Troll - Amba
Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts
Justice - †/Cross/Justice/whatever you call it
Crowded House - Time on Earth
Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War

Coming up today:
Sophie Ellis-BotoxtorBextor - Trip the Light Fantastic
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

(No duds in the pack, but really too much too absorb over such a short period of time, if i'm honest. gut reaction is that the first two are the best of a good bunch.)

Drifted away to sleep by listening to Ferneyhough's "Music for Flute" disc.

Went to a choral music recital last thurs, with pieces by Alvin Lucier. That ws terrific in a complexity-within-a-note thing but there ws a great mix, as when EXAUDI sang this fantastic 15th century Latin choral piece (by 'Anonymous'). The whole thing ended with a Lucier tape piece, which, for some reason, the girl sitting a few places away from me kept laughing at whenever it got to this loud whirring sound. She made at least two other ppl laugh and smile. Prob the strangest performance of a tape piece I'll ever see.

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love & The Dreaming
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier
Sarah McLachlan - Afterglow
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine & Year Zero
lots of random podcasts

You enjoying Diary, Sundar? I came to SDRE through How it feels to be something on, which is still my favorite, but I haven't played their albums in a long time...

I started today with Avey Tare and Panda Bear's Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished which turns out to be a great daystarter. (one of "Chocolate Girl"'s melodies reminds me of "(Reach Out) I'll Be There")