Friday, December 25, 2009

4AD Christmas Gift: 12 Tracks Free to Download

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Fredo Viola Silent Night

Silent Night from Fredo Viola on Vimeo.

Happy Holidays

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Voltage


Voltage from Bam Studio on Vimeo.

Just like modular synthesizers, people connect with each other in order to achieve diverse objectives. In Voltage, robots, half-human and half-synthesizer, powered by a huge amount of energy, connect to each other in an electric and chaotic trance.

#Listening to Anthony Braxton / Joëlle Léandre DUO: (Heidelberg Loppem) 2007


"A singular meeting of two special musical voices", a performance at the Heidelberg Café in Loppem, Belgium. 

Braxton's sax sings and dances, shouts and wails, and Léandre is especially strong when playing arco in this context.She manages to give texture to music, and to get the best out of the musicians she plays with. To Braxton's credit, he is a great listener, moving along with the French bassist, moving from harsh moments to soft sensitivity to incredibly complex almost endless linear soaring sax phrases.
The second piece of this album brings a complete world of music, incredibly rich, varied, complex and intense : 36 minutes of pure improvisational joy. ( Free Jazz )

Joëlle Léandre, solo

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor [The Wire's best of 2009, #8]