Noe Valley Street, 2005 John Coltrane - Too Young To Go Steady - From the 1962 Ballads release featuring Jimmy Garrison on bass, Elvin Jones on drums and McCoy Tyner on piano. I need to catch Tyner at his annual residency at Yoshi's, one of these days. As often is the case with jazz musicians, their work is collected into some drippy collection of smooth love ballads for you to purchase, as you wait in line to buy your over-priced organically generated food. This album is not one of those compilations, but [...]
Type alumnus Keith Kenniff returns again to his home label though this time back under the name Goldumnd. Around the Type hallways Kenniff was better known as Helios (though he's used the Goldmund alias to different ends there before) and after a short stint last year on Western Vinyl he's back with The Malady of Elegance . Admittedly Helios is one of Type's roster that never caught my ear much; the music being pleasant enough but amongst Type's incredibly strong roster it tended to get lost under pretty heavy competition. However Two Point Discrimination certainly caught my [...]
I was led to the label Western Vinyl through the multi-monikered Keith Kinniff, who produces gorgeous electronic ambient music as Helios on Type Records and equally gorgeous piano music as Goldmund on Western Vinyl. Western Vinyl are purveyors of the kind of subtle and beautifully crafted home listening records that provide perfect accompaniment for a slow Sunday or an afternoon of reading. That's not to say this type of music doesn't stand alone, these aren't purely ambient records. Here's a taster of their output. Bexar Bexar Bexar Bexar produces the same kind of organic [...]
Alpinechic proudly presents the release of "Kill Alpinechic", the 5th free mp3-compilation by Alpinechic. "Kill Alpinechic" features newcomers and established artists of the swiss and international underground music panorama. The compilation features songs by Bricks, Pureape, Must Have Been Tokyo, Goldmund, Morphologue, Freiraum, The Living Dead Boys, ECM, Peter Kernel, Ruby Cassaya, Popshop, Snoopy Over The Hills, Mikromops, G&S, Superterz and remixes by Kid Chocolat and Bart Thissen. Bricks - Mainstream Pop read on »
Dentro del amplio espectro de la electrónica y sus límites hemos decidido seleccionar unos cuantos discos cuyo contenido se acerca plenamente a la filosofía del blog. Acercamientos desde diversos campos y con diversos resultados. Discos que comparten en su mayoría un componente atmósferico y ambiental y dónde la emoción forme parte indispensable de la fórmula. Melancólicos, optimistas, evocadores, experimentales... esperamos que alguna de las recomendaciones consiga formar parte de vuestras vidas y os acompañe en este invierno que cada vez está más cerca. [...]
In case you missed Chromatics ' surpisingly true-to-the-original cover of Springsteen 's " I'm on Fire " that was floating around a while back, the band has posted a free download of the song on their myspace page . " I'm on Fire " is the b-side on the new " In the City " 12". mp3: Chromatics I'm on Fire (Springsteen cover) In related news, Chromatics label-mates Glass Candy play in Denton tonight at Hailey's , which [...]
Un playlist dedicado al piano. La mayoria de las canciones le coquetean al drone , al minimalismo, a la melancolia y al constante ulular. La ejecucion de las piezas es lenta. Esto siempre me ha parecido favorable al escuchar piano, inclusive tengo la mania de bajarle el pitch en mi estereo a los discos de Janacek, Debussy y Satie de mi padre para que las canciones se escuchen aletargadas. La razon a esta mania es que en general yo soy de reacciones lentas y asi creo se puede exagerar y apreciar mejor el peso de las teclas, la respuesta [...]
Autumn knocks, and I happily disregard each and every new release to indulge in Goldmund's 2005 album " Corduroy Road " again. Disdaining all superficial virtuosity, Keith Kenniff recorded a collection of minimalist pieces for piano, well reminiscent of my favourite anti-impressionist composer Eric Satie , who by the way should be given much more credit for giving a shit about what all the other French hipsters were doing and putting the first "post" in front of "music". But while Satie's music is triple-sec and austere (bad folks say "formalistic"), " Corduroy Road " constitutes [...]
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