noise dudes, recommend some Phill Niblock

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I just picked up disseminate and it's very good. want more.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

my favorite is young person's guide to phill niblock with touch food a close second

disseminate is the exception to his discography, he has a string orchestra actually play his massed drones live. usually he creates those drones through overdubbing.

young person's guide to phill niblock is an overview of the early work, single instruments multipled with sound-on-sound magnetic tape -- the analog tape saturation is as much a part of the fuzzy mysterious sound as the source instruments

recently he's been using Pro Tools, no sound degredation at all -- the first record of this stuff was touch works for voice & hurdy gurdy which I didn't like -- I thought I was missing the analog sound degredation, but also I'm not a fan of Tom Buckner's voice & I thought Jim O'Rourke's hurdy gurdy piece was better.

but then he put out the 2 CD touch food using the same technique, and it's outstanding, especially the 2nd disc's piano piece...

and "five more string quartets" is great too. he's very consistent, it's just a matter of slight degree

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

i think "touch food" and "disseminate" are the only ones i don't have. def. recommend "young person's guide," "Touch Works, for Hurdy Gurdy and Voice" and "G2, 44+1x2"

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

YPGTPN

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

also "Niblock for Celli" on lp. kinda hard to find, tho not as hard as the other niblock lp.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

"Disseminate" sounds ok despite being on mode?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

it made me want to listen to young person's guide -- it wasn't bad, was interesting to hear him try it, I should listen again, it's definitely not the one I usually reach for though. something precisely weird happens when you close-mic the same instrument that many times, very different effect from simply having an orchestra play it live

mode bugs me too, despite having a few good releases

niblock's record label is fairly consistent: http://www.xirecords.org/xi/

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

the only thing i have on xi is a panyuhusen (sp?) disc i never listen to.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Ellen Fullman yo!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

ok listening to ypgtpn for the first time in ages.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

G2, 44+1x2 - there's kind of a suggestion in the liner notes to this as well, but I just kept thinking this needs to be WAY LOUD, and ideally live. Louder (and live-r) than I could play it, anyway.

― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Monday, 7 November 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

touch works is good, dudes. saw a copy of "nothing to look at, just a record" at fmu record fair but too broke to buy.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 November 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

touch food is pretty amazing..i gave it its 1st spin while sitting on a cabin porchabove a big valley in rural pa and it ruled...

though i lost one of the discs and the case while in transit back from siad cabin

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

last night i had dream that PHIL NIBLOCK was in PINK FLOYD.

EPIC SHIT.

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

oh shit! that's kinda rad.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Shine On You Crazy Diamond parts 10 - 999

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

http://www.newmusicbox.org/1110/images/poure_sm.jpg

http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=6675

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)

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