February 2011
15 posts
2 tags
Remarkable releases - February 2011
Just a quick list of some remarkable new #ccmusic I stumbled upon during this month and I really did enjoy (and still do). This list doesn’t come with the attitude of being complete or universal, quite the contrary: Like last month this is a rather personal choice in order not to forget these releases too quickly.
Bing Satellites - Twilight Sessions volume 4 (BFW recordings)
BGUDNA -...
4 tags
Roger Désormière: Sergei Prokofiev - Suites from...
For the umpteenth time during the last 25 years, I am currently rediscovering the music of one of my favourite 20th century composers, Sergei Prokofiev. Like another favourite composer of mine, Dmitri Shostakovich, he live in the USSR and struggled with the Stalinist repression of arts and music and - just like Shostakovich - he developed a very personal, ambivalent style in which he could hide...
3 tags
Lockerbie – Laut / Snjóljón
Why do so many good...
3 tags
Listening Mirror - Wet Roads
It may be only a 2-track-release, less than twenty minutes all in all, but this release by English Duo Listening Mirror is far too good, to be overlooked. Unfortunately this is also their swan song, as the singer Kate Tustain decided to leave the project. Check out here enchanting voice in “Wet Roads”. Jeff Stonehouse however will continue to produce more music and release his solo...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-20) →
L”Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (21)
Josh Woodward (16)
Byron (13)
Münchner Klaviertrio (10)
Lucio Dalla (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
5 tags
Robotanists Does Radiohead: The King Of Limbs [in...
Robotanists Does Radiohead: The King Of Limbs [in 24 Hours]
This is not a CC-licensed release, yet a free download and an astonishing in-depth full album cover of Radiohead’s newest release “The King of Limbs”, done in 24 hours by the LA-based US-Band Robotanists. While I am waiting for the CD release (and not buying neither the downloads, nor the vinyl edition), this is...
4 tags
MWE - Live at the 2011 Golden Festival →
MWE - Live at the 2011 Golden Festival
Someone called this Turkish folk-metal? Huh, what the f..? Where’s the metal? But whatever you call this, it sounds pretty awesome. Well, well, well, there’s a lot more in Turkish music then one might thinks when all that you know is the cheesy Turkish pop music which is very popular among the immigrants in Europe. (The same works for the music...
2 tags
Devin Underwood + Marcus Fischer - Correspond →
Sometimes music leaves you without any words, neither to express what you hear to others (shame on me, the ambitious Blogwriter), nor to explain to your own inner dialogue what think. There is music, that just happens. In the moment.
Devin Underwood’s and Marcus Fischer’s “Correspond” is such music that cannot be put in words or - to be more precisely - putting it in...
2 tags
Nice Split-EP: boletes - Hunnibug || Kites...
Usually I’m not the biggest fan of split-releases. Mixing up two artists usually doesn’t work for me. Yeah, I know: A good friend of mine always points out that you can compare apples and oranges very well, but the fact remains: Apples don’t become oranges (spare me the botanical details, you nerds out there!) just by placing them beneath an orange.
But sometimes I accept...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-6) →
BGUDNA (22)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (19)
James Ehnes (18)
Veerle Peeters (18)
Brian Eno (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
5 tags
BGUDNA - Attended Only By Birds
This is the first time I’m listening to music from Icelandic composer Björgvin Guðnason a.k.a. BGUDNA (I wonder what “UDNA” stands for) (a simple abbreviation of his name Björgvin Guðnason) and I’m already sure that this won’t be the last time.
“Attended Only By Birds” is music, slowly dripping out of my speakers like enchanted raindrops on my window pane...
4 tags
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
Collegium Marianum, Jana Semeradova (46)
Thomas Oliemans (33)
Jeroen Van Veen (25)
SineRider (18)
London Symphony Orchestra, Igor Markevitch (13)
Imported from Last.fm…
3 tags
Entertainment for the Braindead - Colors (Leon...
2 tags
January 2011
16 posts
2 tags
Computer Magic - Spectronic EP
Oh, I love the previous two EPs “Hiding From Our Time EP” and “Hiding From More of Our Time” and this new one sounds as promising as them. This is the coolest retro-futurist-pop I know, who needs the latest Goldfrapp, when there’s Computer Magic? Be sure to check them out!
comagic:
Ey-o. Here’s a new EP entitled ‘Spectronic’. Figured it was about time for another...
