Food, Music, and Ramblings South of the Hill
Ensemseglaren by Anna Högberg Attack I’ve been following Anna Högberg Attack since their debut album. Usually, they are a sextet, but I guess after a 5 year break since their last album, they decided more is more. This is a beautiful album. Stunning in its diversity of sound and method. Noisy section, quiet sections, fairly … Continue reading "Ensamseglaren"
Broken Homes and Gardens, Michael Hurley, No Quarter Michael Hurley was an American singer songwriter who composed wry amusing observations about our culture and set to music. Sadly he passed away suddenly last year, making this, likely, his last record. Broken Homes and Gardens was number 49 on this year’s wire magazine’s top 50 albums … Continue reading "Broken Homes and Gardens"
A few years back, well, 2019 to be exact, I made it a project to listen to all 50 albums listed in the wire magazine top 50 albums of the year. As I’ve been a bit lazy about listening to music, (Who has time to listen when you’ve got a stressful job and also need … Continue reading "Bye Bye Bird"
Attraction Rejected by Zbigniew Karkowski & Julien Ottavi. “This is not a recording you can listen to as background music, it won’t let you speak or think, but if you let it, you may experience, perhaps not immediately a full on change in perspective of your everyday life. 8 years after these recordings were made, … Continue reading "Attraction Rejected: Zbigniew Karkowski & Julien Ottavi"
Flocking 19 by Shedding (Bandcamp Link) “I’ve recently been interested in building layers of intentional chaos and exploring perceptions of order and the natural human tendency to seek and find patterns within that sound. There is a deliberate contrast between the controlled chaos simulating the natural world and the synthetic sounds I’m working with.“ Two … Continue reading "Flocking 19:…
01A08 by Yves De Mey, Bandcamp Link. 9 shortish instrumental tracks. Track names involve various combinations of the letters, “H”, “J”, “P”, and S” and a modifier. “SHJP Slow”, for example or, “JPSH Color Dust”. Music is various electronic percussion, often nearly painfully syncopated, with various organ-ish keyboard washes or accents floating over that percussive … Continue reading "01A08 by Yves…
Francisco López: Untitled #366 I have to admit I do not get this SUPERPANG release. It sounds like a sample of a type writer or a closed high-hat cymbal which has been sped up or slowed down and then repeated a number of times at that speed. Then these series of samples are sequenced against … Continue reading "Francisco López: Untitled #366"
Bjarni Gunnarsson: Volume & Void. “Composed through experimental scheduling algorithms that explore the duality of immediate, direct events with gradual and evolving processes.” While not quite as academic an exercise as, “Data sonification of the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence,” that does sound a bit dry. Fortunately, the sounds generated by the exercise are not so dry … Continue reading "Bjarni…
μ by 3.14… (Bandcamp Link) Another recording I have gotten stuck on for a while, however, given the name of the artist, I set a deadline of March 14th to write it up. Sound Sources: There are things that sound like pressurized gas escaping from a pipes or orifices flowing across a close mic. There … Continue reading "μ: 3.14…"
Porya Hatami: Aggregatum There are 32 tracks on this album, most are around a minute long, with two approaching an epic 4 minutes. Most of the pieces are grouped by name: Canto [A-C], Rima [0-6], Aiôn [0-9], Drip [0-9]. Along with the Canto songs, three named songs bracket the collection, “Time-Image”, “Movement-Image”, and “Recollection-Image”. I … Continue reading "Porya Hatami: Aggregatum"