Article Response: Charlemagne Palestine

Can we do a S/D or maybe recommend a good place to start with Mr. Palestine?

Strumming Music was an instant <3<3<3 for all time for me. But I still have yet to investigate anything else.

Maximin (Palestine/Coulter/Mathoul, from a few years ago on Young God Records) was pretty great. New 2-CD From Etudes To Cataclysims: For the Doppio Borgato (on Sub Rosa, featuring a strange Italian-made double piano) is the best going-asleep-to record I've heard this year, high praise indeed. (Don't think I've ever heard anything else.)

Strumming Music and Four Manifestations on Six Elements are the ones to go with in my opinion. The new one on Alga Marghen that features Terry Jennings on accompanying sax looks pretty fine too, I think that's called Sharing a Sonority

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also this one:

http://www.posteverything.com/2006/11/10/17046/sr204_328.jpg

"Karenina" is beautiful. Mournful falsetto with harmonium, two discs worth! Also "Schlongo!!!daLUVdrone" and "Schlingen-Blangen", both of which feature organ, are really transcendant.

I think you have to like repetition/drone to really appreciate Palestine. I'm looking forward to the new "From Etudes To Cataclysms" and the new one on Alga Marghen...

Yestrday I finally found a copy of Charlamagne palestine's 'Four manifestations on six elements' and I really enjoyed the whole thing, especially the cascading piano drones (?!) on the fifth track ('sliding fifths').
Any other recommendations?

-- Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, January 19, 2003 9:38 AM (5 years ago)

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