Long way round

A 45-minute remix? Of a 7-minute original? Ithaca Trio take the long way round on their epic slo-mo "ambient post-rock generative" response to Glissando's With a Kiss and a Tear (from With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea, Gizeh) - while turning in a somehow glowing, wonderfully restrained take on worriedaboutsatan's delicately jazzy You're In My Thoughts (from Arrivals, also Gizeh).

You're In My Thoughts - worriedaboutsatan (Ithaca Trio Remix) by Ithaca Trio



'With a Kiss and a Tear' - Glissando (Ithaca Trio remix) by Ithaca Trio



Get Ithaca's fine Oxe EP here (free for an email address...).

Billowy gossamer gentleness from the new Tesla Verses The Night:

Ithaca Trio-Untitled #10 by Under The Spire

Recent interview extract: "What's going on with the new album? A massive departure from the EP? What influenced the new recordings?

We’ve got a mini-album (Tesla Verses The Night) coming out on Under the Spire Recordings early next year, which I’m really, really excited about. They’ve got some brilliant artists over there (Jasper TX, p jørgensen, Damian Valles…), so I’m genuinely honoured Chris likes and is releasing this next project.

After that, I’m not really sure to be perfectly honest. We’ve just started recording a new full-length album this week, it's all up in the air currently. I think it’s going to be pretty different from anything I’ve tried before, but how different I don’t know yet. The first release was all slow manipulations of guitar. The second was acoustic-guitar based, and the mini-album is a really organic recording. The album is stepping out of the softness of a lot of the earlier works and getting a bit atonal. I think I’m listening to too much Animal Collective and Love Supreme-era Coltrane at the moment really."

Bonus: worriedaboutsatan have a crack at remixing Glissando too (plus the title track of Arrivals)...

White Silence And The Fragile Reality (worriedaboutsatan remix) by worriedaboutsatan

arrivals by worriedaboutsatan

worried freebies here & here.

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Ankle chain

Return Of The Ankou (Xela Remix)

Boomkat: "Xela has also turned up for a friable remix, contributing 'Return Of The Ankou' and in doing so topping off an already affecting record with a batch of oven-fresh drones and couched harp."

New Rameses III interview with Headphone Commute here, by the way...



Since we're in Type (LMYE's label of the year for 2009) territory, a welcome bonus (via mnml ssgs):

Xela > Brooklyn (Transit EP, Blackmaps/Static Caravan)


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Pause under water

Updating recent post on Greg Haines: all five tracks of the immense Slumber Tides, made back when post-classical/drone's Wayne Rooney was just 18!



Arups Gate
Caesura
Submerge
Tired Diary (Revised)
Snow Airport

Self-disclosure: "Greg Haines is an English musician and composer currently living in Berlin, who specialises in exploring the middle-ground between the academic world of contemporary classical music and the freedom found in the desire to manipulate and experiment with sound itself.

He was born in a small Southern-English town in the 1980s, where through boredom with his surroundings he began to take an interest in music and started to develop a particular interest in the idea of technology not simply being used to record instruments, but instead being used as the instrument itself. Around this time, an enthusiastic music teacher began to introduce Haines to the works of 'Minimalist' composers such as Steve Reich, Gavin Bryars, Philip Glass and more – composers that he still considers major influences over his work. At this turning point, Greg began to develop his piano (and eventually cello) playing, feeling the desire to pursue his interest in textural and deceptively-complex contemporary classical music. Having neither the ability or the resources to write music for large ensembles, he began layering and processing his own sounds in the studio to create the desired result. Shortly after, Haines discovered the work of Arvo Pärt, and in it found his biggest inspiration to date. Pärt’s intricate use of both space and density informed Greg’s first solo release, 'Slumber Tides', released on the Norwegian Miasmah label in 2006. The album was critically acclaimed worldwide, leading one writer to state: “This is music to fall into and let it embrace your heart and soul. Be warmed and sadden by its slow unfolding beauty and grace. Clearly one of the most luxurious and emotional rich debut albums you’re likely to come across this year, or any other year for that matter.“ (Musique Machine). Later, the opening track from the album, 'Snow Airport', would be used on the Universal/Point Music compilation 'Reflections on Classical Music', alongside compositions from some of the very composers who inspired it, such as Gavin Bryars, Philip Glass and Akira Rabelais.

In the wake of his debut, Greg toured Europe extensively and began to develop as a live performer, and in particular as an improviser. With his most frequent collaborator, Danny Saul, the duo 'Liondialer' was formed around the concept of purely improvised music, with no discussion in advance of performances and no pre-ordained strategies. Other notable collaborations include work with Machinefabriek, Wouter Van Veldhoven and Dustin O'Halloran, and live performances with Ben Frost, Peter Broderick, Sam Amidon and many more. Since 2008, Greg has also been working regularly in the contemporary dance world, creating music for choreographers such as Meg Stuart (Berlin), Ina Christel Johannessen (Oslo) and the MD Collective (Cologne).

In recent times, Haines has spent less time touring and more time as an invitee to residencies at festivals and schools such as ImPulzTanz (Vienna), Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris) and as a composer in residence at Theale School of Performing Arts (UK) for 2009/2010. In March 2010, he will released his second album on Berlin's Sonic Pieces. Entitled 'Until the Point of Hushed Support', it is a forty-eight minute composition written for string quintet, church organ, piano, percussion, electronics and a whole array of other sounds and textures that have been carefully collected and constructed over the past two years."



Haines bonuses: an eclectic recent mix (Burial, Arvo Part, Popol Vuh...), a beguiling set of loops &, below, a mad vid...

NB: top photo by Antje Jandrig



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"My flawless author friends"

Ghostradio

Lukid: "i was recording my microkorg the other night, played it back and could hear voices. the korg had been picking up a radio station. this is the result."

!@£$%^&*()_+

Somehow yearning, nicely lurching future garage...

Photo by Work:Ethic

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Jeckyll hiding

The unusually glassy, tinkling sound of the great Philip Jeck rehearsing for a new piece, An Ark for the Listener, inspired by Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem The Wreck Of The Deutschland.

"An aspiration in answer to an inspiration,
out of music shaped by all the sea has claimed,
as is the inevitable shipwreck of our existence.
Salvaged out of vinyl, by way of ear, hand and electricity."

"And I have asked to be... out of the swing of the sea."


Philip Jeck - Ark Overture

This rehearsal version also features in a free 13-track download, The Bubbly Blue & Green - compiled by Arctic Circle ahead of their 4-day festival of "eclectic 'water music' influenced by shipwrecks, rivers, waves & lighthouses" later this month: also features LMYE favourites Hildur Gudnadottir, Hauschka, ISAN and recently-blogged Simon Scott, plus a wonderfully blurred, wispy Janek Schaefer piece & ISAN on typically wry, subtle form...

Janek Schaefer > Alone at last (from Alone at last, Sirr - last.fm stream)

ISAN > Lop Helston Conceit (unreleased)


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