Janjuggler Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Hi All, The next Radiohead album JJ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kafunis Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Rickie Lee Jones- Kicks, another covers album from RLJ, this one featuring a variety of tunes from Elton John, Steve Miller, Bad Company and others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janjuggler Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Hi All, Next up, Amnesiac JJ 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Vintage Cucumber - Bahama Lama -- an enjoyable listen this ... kinda spiky instrumental krautrock / stoner shiz. "Name Yer Price" lossless download from Bandcamp. --Geoff 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmt Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 A rare night time session (at least its dark outside) courtesy of Thursday late shopping. Though I'd spend the time with one very sexy lesbian. How could my wife object to that? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbuzzardstubble Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Polwechsel - Archives Of The North. Personnel: Burkhard Beins: drums, percussion; Martin Brandlmayr: drums, percussion; John Butcher: tenor and soprano saxophones; Werner Daveldecker: double bass; Michael Moser: cello, computer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThirdDrawerDown Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Just some musos who know how to carry a song and create a mood. One of Neil's best, and under-rated because of its gentle tone, warmth, and its not trying to make a Statement. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevoz Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 (edited) Focus "Hamburger Concerto" Dutch 1st pressing......hitting the spot. I will hasten to add that this pressing has amazing bass.....it goes low. I have the CD of this album and it is no match in it's ability to 'move air'. Edited September 12, 2019 by stevoz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevoz Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Focus "Moving Waves" Oz 1st pressing side two 'Eruption'.....to take me up to bedtime. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal beat Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Cocteau Twins – Blue Bell Knoll. original 1988 4AD UK release. sublime album 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzzFuzzz Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Evening lads. Not long home from work. Set up a nice slab of sandstone under the TT this morning, supported by some foam until I decide and acquire some footings. Has taken the sound from rather bright/sharp (previously on glass), to fat & warm. Will be testing out a few materials to hear the difference. Listening to... Talking Heads 'Little Creatures' 1985 Talking Heads Tours Inc. EMI, Aust. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dilettanteque Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Good morning all... This morning's commuting accompaniment. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away Interesting how, in performance, Jubilee Street seems to have developed...early versions the cadence seemed to gradually increase intensity, whereas in the Copenhagen concert it feels a little more like it is hunting the point at which it changes to the big gear. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janjuggler Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 (edited) Morning All, Began the day with The Vacation by Endless Melancholy Review from here by Kevin Press Oleksiy Sakevych has produced another winner. The Vacation is his fifth full-length disc under the Endless Melancholy brand. It is this month’s must-listen. After the success of 2015’s Her Name In A Language Of Stars, expectations have ridden pretty high ahead of this new release. Despite the Kiev-based artist’s self-deprecating insistence that he’s been “disappointing everyone since 2011,” it’s hard to imagine many listeners having that reaction to The Vacation. The album is achingly beautiful. He matches gentle, mournful ambient synth with some of the most effective distortion effects recorded this year. Sakevych may have an album of the year here. He and I traded emails over the weekend. Tell us about your process. As a musician, I am now in the process of shifting from digital music production to analog. I guess, at some point every musician comes to this. Thus far, I’ve only occasionally used real instruments in my productions (like recording real strings or guitar). The whole process mainly revolved around virtual instruments inside my laptop. At one point, I got really passionate about analog synthesizers, their sound and the numerous ways they can be incorporated into the music production. Hopefully my next releases will be based on hardware synth recordings. The Vacation is still a digitally produced album. I tried to make it sound as warm as possible. Clean, ideal recordings sound sterile. They don’t have surface noise; they’re not alive. I loved the idea of melodies hidden beneath an ocean of hiss and distortion. That’s why I paid a lot of attention to carefully degrading the tracks, making sure they are still pleasant to the ear. The white noise is a result of work with the bit-crusher plugin Camel Phat by Camel Audio. I like the stochastic nature of the noise. It doesn’t sound like software at all. When I had the music parts composed and all the songs recorded, I dedicated time to making them sound warm. I asked a friend of mine, who owns a vintage Nagra stereo reel-to-reel recorder, to process my album through it. We recorded the album to tape at 3.75 IPS speed. This way I managed to achieve more of an analog sound. At the final stage of production, I sent the album for mastering to Stephan Mathieu. He’s one of the best specialists in experimental and exploratory sound out there. He offers mastering services at his very own Schwebung Studio, where there is a lot of great analog gear. I think he’s a wizard, because what he has done to the album is amazing. I am totally happy with the result! You can actually hear the difference in this small comparative video I made. It contains samples of the opening track right after processing through tape, and the actual mastered audio by Stephan. Are the keyboard pieces composed or improvised? The keyboard parts are echoes of what my project initially started from. Endless Melancholy emerged in 2011 from my passion for the so-called modern classical scene and composers like Olafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, etc. Having no classical background, I tried to self-study the piano. I started the project with some minimal (primitive), looped and simple piano compositions, which received good feedback. That motivated me. It took me about four years to understand that my self-study efforts aren’t efficient. I also realized that I don’t want people to associate me with classical music, since I have no classical background. I got interested in more experimental sounds, which led me to shift to ambient. I still incorporate piano melodies into my recordings because it’s still a great instrument and possibly the best way to express some melodies. I’d describe the keyboard parts you can hear on The Vacation as semi-improvised. I can’t say that I came up with them randomly. The melody for “Wouldn’t we be lonely?” was stuck in my head for a few weeks before I finally decided to record it. But at the same time, I can’t say I spend too much time thoughtfully composing. They’re all looped, simple and repetitive. Just another tool that contributes to the ambient landscape. What do the three figures are on the cover represent? This is an interesting question. The whole album is inspired by a short story by Ray Bradbury written in 1963, called The Vacation. It’s a story about a family of three (a man, a woman and their son), who woke one morning to find the world empty. All the other people were simply gone. The story is very short, but it perfectly captures the emotions of this family, ranging from the excitement (of being able to enjoy the whole world on their own) to desperation (of realizing their loneliness). Basically, the whole album is my effort to capture these moods. The story really impressed and inspired me. All track titles are actually lines from the story. I saw this random photo by Klava Repina on the internet, and I thought that it fit perfectly. So I asked my friend, an artist Lita Akhmetova, to draw the cover for me, taking this photo as the main inspiration. The cover she came up with left me speechless, I accepted it immediately. JJ Edited September 12, 2019 by Janjuc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dilettanteque Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Aaron Martin & Machinefabriek - Seeker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neurone Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Alan Parsons Project - Tales Of Mystery and Imagination 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love_music Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 The Go-Betweens, Oceans Apart 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbuzzardstubble Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Guo Yue & Joji Hirota - Red Ribbon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janjuggler Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Hi All, The delivery bloke dropped off a package, inside was Prince, Emancipation reissue JJ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capone Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Superjesus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janjuggler Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Hi All, Om, God Is Good JJ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needlerunner Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 10 hours ago, Dilettanteque said: Good morning all... This morning's commuting accompaniment. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away Interesting how, in performance, Jubilee Street seems to have developed...early versions the cadence seemed to gradually increase intensity, whereas in the Copenhagen concert it feels a little more like it is hunting the point at which it changes to the big gear. Saw him play this album, with string section; at the Sydney opera house several years ago. Hopped on a plane from Perth after being talked into by a mate. Wasn't a huge fan. Was after that concert though. Special moment. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needlerunner Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 2 hours ago, Janjuc said: Hi All, The delivery bloke dropped off a package, inside was Prince, Emancipation reissue JJ Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dilettanteque Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Flying Lotus - Flamagra 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal beat Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, Janjuc said: Hi All, The delivery bloke dropped off a package, inside was Prince, Emancipation reissue JJ sweet!! amazon or? I never thought I would see this album released on vinyl. Sounds great so far - might be the best sounding reissue so far. Edited September 13, 2019 by metal beat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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