Last week I was feeling a bit bummed. I'd bought a whole bunch of music over the course of the previous weeks and it all arrived at once. A lot of music. It was going to take days to listen to it all properly. I started thinking that maybe it's just irresponsible spending so much on what's probably a luxury. You know that feeling when a guilty pleasure just becomes guilt? and it feels like all the joy is gone?
Didn't feel any better after listening to the first album either. Dorian Concept is this young, shit hot aquacrunk machine. Think Flying Lotus, Lukid, Joker, Rustie, et al. 'When Planets Explode', his debut album is a dud though.
Next up album was Odd Nosdam's new album T.I.M.E. Soundtrack, which was originally written as an actual soundtrack to a skate film, which in the end i think never got made. Each of the tunes are supposed to be inspired by a particular rider and their style. Again, slightly disappointed until about halfway through the album when the album just started blowing my mind. It turned out to be one of those perfectly conceived albums, one that strikes that hard to achieve balance between great song writing ideas and an actually great song. It's something Odd Nosdam's always excelled that. That ability to deconstruct a beat and rebuild it in all it's abstract glory. A perfect distillation of the cLOUDDEAD aesthetic. T.I.M.E. Soundtrack captures that thrill you get from hearing something new, or something old and familiar in an entirely different way.
I managed a break from Odd Nosdam long enough to listen spend some time with Kenneth Kirschner's Filaments and Voids. WOW! what a revelation!! an album about time and space that somehow managed to capture the scale and vastness. With the shortest track clocking in at 17min and the longest at over an hour, it really is something that needs time to fully appreciate. It's the first genuinely original ambient (for serious want for a better word) record I've heard in god knows... something that feels like an entirely new perspective.
But the real gem by far has to be the Brethren of the Free Spirit album The Wolf Also Shall Dwell with the Lamb. The duo is James Blackshaw, a guitarist very much inspired by minimal and modern composers the like of Steve Reich, La Monte Young, Terry Riley etc. and Jozef van Wissem, who plays and composes for the most unlikely instruments in the world of contemporary improvised music: the Renaissance and Baroque lute. I just wouldn't know where to start describing this album, so i'd say have a listening maybe you'll like it. ..
So, not feeling guilty anymore, and i still have a few more albums to go. Which reminds me, i really need to get off my ass and publish my podcast!
Didn't feel any better after listening to the first album either. Dorian Concept is this young, shit hot aquacrunk machine. Think Flying Lotus, Lukid, Joker, Rustie, et al. 'When Planets Explode', his debut album is a dud though.
Next up album was Odd Nosdam's new album T.I.M.E. Soundtrack, which was originally written as an actual soundtrack to a skate film, which in the end i think never got made. Each of the tunes are supposed to be inspired by a particular rider and their style. Again, slightly disappointed until about halfway through the album when the album just started blowing my mind. It turned out to be one of those perfectly conceived albums, one that strikes that hard to achieve balance between great song writing ideas and an actually great song. It's something Odd Nosdam's always excelled that. That ability to deconstruct a beat and rebuild it in all it's abstract glory. A perfect distillation of the cLOUDDEAD aesthetic. T.I.M.E. Soundtrack captures that thrill you get from hearing something new, or something old and familiar in an entirely different way.
I managed a break from Odd Nosdam long enough to listen spend some time with Kenneth Kirschner's Filaments and Voids. WOW! what a revelation!! an album about time and space that somehow managed to capture the scale and vastness. With the shortest track clocking in at 17min and the longest at over an hour, it really is something that needs time to fully appreciate. It's the first genuinely original ambient (for serious want for a better word) record I've heard in god knows... something that feels like an entirely new perspective.
But the real gem by far has to be the Brethren of the Free Spirit album The Wolf Also Shall Dwell with the Lamb. The duo is James Blackshaw, a guitarist very much inspired by minimal and modern composers the like of Steve Reich, La Monte Young, Terry Riley etc. and Jozef van Wissem, who plays and composes for the most unlikely instruments in the world of contemporary improvised music: the Renaissance and Baroque lute. I just wouldn't know where to start describing this album, so i'd say have a listening maybe you'll like it. ..
So, not feeling guilty anymore, and i still have a few more albums to go. Which reminds me, i really need to get off my ass and publish my podcast!
As for Otomo Yoshihide, all I have is his New Jazz Quintet's "Tails Out". Is there anything you'd recommend?