Lend Me Your Ears: Piiptsjilling

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Sunday, 4 November 2018

My Weekness

Some of these ears' listening enthusiasms from the past week...

"like a soundtrack to a solemn, ancient ceremony - with not-necessarily human participants"

Kicking off November's Lend Me Your Radio with Aidan Baker's "steady, pulsing & eternal" Steep Uphill Climb - from Deer Park (Muzan Editions)

"music that enters your room as sunlight...that moves slowly through your room...a slow journey into silence": Martin Hoogeboom & Oberlin's Light/Well (Thirsty Leaves)

Especially keen to hear moody alien's 12-minute Light vs Well remix...

Much atmosphere & invention in this Precocious Mouse set from Thursday night - 'Type', live at Demerara Records' Vanishing Point Solo

Sending LMYE love - False Colors (Appropriate Savagery Remix) by J. De Sosa on Vaagner

"spellbinding, uniquely decayed renderings of solo piano pieces, it forms a poetic farewell to the 20th century & a reluctant embrace of new technological possibilities"

Believe the hype [for Akira Rabelais' Eisoptrophobia...]

"a take on sound as a representation of memory"

Ultra-ready for Ultrafog's How Those Fires Burned That Are No Longer (Motion Ward)...

These ears never need much persuading towards new Piiptsjilling (Machinefabriek / Jan & Romke Kleefstra / Mariska Baars) - but champing at the bit for the quartet's 'concentrated yet playful improvisations' with Sylvain Chauveau, Annelies Monsere & Joachim Badenhorst

FEAN

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Thursday, 13 October 2011

Sons of Kent

A companion piece to yesterday's look at Experimedia's outstanding label sampler - previews of the seven released albums included in LMYE's picks, which if we're being completist also included future releases from Celer, From The Mouth Of The Sun (Jasper TX & Aaron Martin) & Sean McCann...

Anyway, below hear Black Swan's wispily playful but more often saturnine 8 Movements (a movie score playing through a murky, gritty fog...); Jannick Schou's thundering, monolithic Act of Shimmering; Aaron Martin's richly textured Worried About The Fire, which summons unexpected intensities from its traditional palette; Keith Freund's sweetly bucolic Constant Comments (though its darker later pieces appeal more to these ears); & Charles-Eric Charrier's alarmingly twangy but also richly 'post-everything' Silver (Christoph Berg's mesmerising Field Rotation remix of 12 From must also be heard).

Oh, & Lawrence English's jaw-dropping masterpiece The Peregrine, of course (but then it's a re-up, as is Piiptsjilling's still moving Wurdskrieme)...

Black Swan - In 8 Movements (album preview)

Charles-Eric Charrier - Silver (album preview)

Aaron Martin - Worried About The Fire (album preview)

Keith Freund - Constant Comments (album preview)

Jannick Schou - Act of Shimmering (album preview)

Lawrence English - The Peregrine (album preview) [re-up]

Piiptsjilling - Wurdskrieme (album preview) [re-up]

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Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Men of Kent

Clearly you can't compare a compilation with a single release like the astounding Peregrine. But even if it necessarily lacks the same coherence & singular artistic vision the new Experimedia label sampler (which includes a chunk of Lawrence English's instant classic, incidentally) is still one of my albums of the year.

I don't even know if the sampler 'exists' as a formal release. Perhaps its only life is digital - as an online curation of streams from Experimedia's recent & coming albums, by label head (& very fine artist in his own right) Jeremy Bible.

But in truth who cares (though obviously if there's a physical version around I crave one...)? What counts is the selection's breadth, its richness & its embodiment of an aesthetic distinctive enough to be immediately recognisable - dense, languid, reflective - but not so rigid that it can't accommodate interesting exceptions too (Charles-Eric Charrier's spacey post-jazz, for example).

Bible "couldnt be more proud of this fine collection of music." Hear why below...

Lawrence English - The Hunting Life

Keith Freund - He Noticed I'm Alive... and Other Hopeful Signs

Celer - Bedded In Shallow Blades (Excerpt)

Black Swan - In 8 Movements (Part 1 & 2)

Sean McCann - The Flying Party

Jannick Schou - Then Filling Your Pockets With Stones

Piipstjilling - Unkrûd

Charles-Eric Charrier - 12 From

From The Mouth Of The Sun - Like Shadows In An Empty Cathedral

Aaron Martin - Water Tongue

EXPERIMEDIA.2011.LABEL.SAMPLER

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Friday, 30 September 2011

Every 15 seconds

Footnotes coming out of our ears, or something like that...anyway, a batch of compelling new material that usefully augments some of LMYE's posts this week.

Firstly, two more of Tim Hecker's diverting piano 'sketches' for the immense Ravedeath, 1972 - more muted & reflective than Sketch 5 (covered here), but still highly affecting.

Tim Hecker - Sketch 2

Tim Hecker - Sketch 3

Plus a few stand-outs from the latest Oval salvo - 10 more (did I see 15 claimed somewhere?) slivers of snappy Popp from the bonus to the forthcoming OvalDNA (earlier coverage, & before that).

Oval - III (preview)

Oval - Inwendig (preview)

Oval - Glass UFO (preview)

Oval - OvalDNA (Bonus Tracks Preview)

Also further knotty, insistent treats from the Machinefabriek/Jan & Romke Kleefstra orbit (earlier).

Machinefabriek - 15/15 (fragment)

Machinefabriek - Brokstukken (album preview)

Machinefabriek & Gareth Davies - Mackerel Sky

kleefstra/pruiksma/kleefstra - Twasidich wurde

Kleefstra / Pruiksma / Kleefstra - Stadich lit ik dy kalder wurde

Finally, more of the celestial Yann Novak (earlier).

Yann Novak - Presence (excerpts)

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Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Lend Me More Shorts

All the way from Yann Novak's lovely diaphanous tranquillity to Sean McCann's analogue storm freak-out, seven more or less exceptional recent pieces to pass along after they lodged in these ears. Also featuring Machinefabriek (sultry slo-mo solo [made still more pungent by an epic Earlabs remastering], X-raying sea shanties in his slow-burning Piiptsjilling collab with Jan & Romke Kleefstra & soccer Committee), Billy Gomberg (ultra-dense & somehow ultra-close intensities), Minamo (groaning beguilement conjured out of a jangling, belling bed) &, several months after the rest of the world but anyway, Borden, Ferraro, Godin, Halo, Lopatin (way more reflective & mostly rather less kosmische than expected)...