Cankin Posted September 23, 2011 Report Share Posted September 23, 2011 Tori Amos - Night of Hunters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted September 24, 2011 Report Share Posted September 24, 2011 julianna barwick | the magic place http://www.npr.org/2...the-magic-place "In the iconic cathedrals of New York, London and Rome reverberate the angelic voices of church choirs. These immaculate buildings were designed and constructed for worship, an architectural offering to God, and oftentimes it's the music which truly understands that offering. It makes sense, then, that Julianna Barwick grew up in church. She opens The Magic Place with "Envelop," in which her looped voice builds from a deeply resonant and reverent place, creating a cosmic hymn refracted out of a glass prism. These are the building blocks — to continue the metaphor — of Barwick's gorgeous past two releases (Sanguine and Florine), and of The Magic Place, as well. But as "Envelop" ends, the spaced-out piano hidden in the mix emerges like dawn, tentative at first, beautiful and bright within minutes. I suppose there's only so much you can do with droning a cappella (though I could listen to it all day), but adding a few instruments and muffled beats to Barwick's carefully constructed vocal loops isn't an escape. Instead, it's where Barwick finds inspiration. The two tracks that depart the most from Barwick's past modes come one right after the other. "Bob in Your Gait" sounds like a lost Mark Hollis or Rachel's demo, draped in echo with a piano sounding as if it had been recorded from the other side of the room. "Prizewinning," on the other hand, features a submerged reggae riddim under Barwick's textured vocal loops, bedding the unexpected beat until four minutes pass and a heavily hit snare beckons like a drummer boy on the battlefield. After its release, I firmly believed that Panda Bear's Person Pitch signaled a new age of sampling-as-song-structure and the move toward the disembodied voice — not a rejection of lyric, but the embrace of pure voice. Unfortunately, many musicians took that as an invitation to create Person Pitch clones, none of them particularly enlightening. The Magic Place is one of the first albums to take a lesson from Person Pitch and apply it with individual grace, more so than on past Barwick efforts. There's euphoric joy in these slow-building choral pieces that celebrates the human voice with humility. The title track, in particular, ever-so-slightly shifts her vocal loops like translucent puzzle pieces. You only realize its repetitive simplicity when Barwick takes everything away and lets silence sing more than we ever thought it could." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted September 24, 2011 Report Share Posted September 24, 2011 not the remaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted September 24, 2011 Report Share Posted September 24, 2011 (edited) Girl Talk - All Day St. Vincent - Strange Mercy Ultimate Hall & Oates Edited September 24, 2011 by HiWire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elnero Posted September 25, 2011 Report Share Posted September 25, 2011 Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver Took a few listens to really get into this album, I'm not sure why, "For Emma, Forever Ago" has been a favorite since it came out but even though this album has a lot more in common with "For Emma.." than "Blood Bank" it didn't catch on in the first couple of listens so went to the back burner for awhile, I recently gave it another whirl and I fell in love with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted September 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2011 That album has had a very slow burn with me too, and I like it a lot now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robm321 Posted September 25, 2011 Report Share Posted September 25, 2011 Brahms - Piano and Violin Sonatas Opp 78, 100 & 108 / Bronfman, Stern Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
en480c4 Posted September 26, 2011 Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 Tori Amos - Night of Hunters Probably her strongest effort in a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
en480c4 Posted September 26, 2011 Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints Still loving this album. So many strong tracks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted September 26, 2011 Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spychedelic Whale Posted September 26, 2011 Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 julianna barwick | the magic place http://www.npr.org/2...the-magic-place Awesome, didn't know her but the panda bear reference caught my attention, cool stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted September 26, 2011 Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 I'm interested in hearing the Jack White/Insane Clown Posse arrangement of Mozart's "Leck Mich Im Arsche". Everything went better worse roughly as badly than as expected. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r91jEncT96U Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepak Posted September 27, 2011 Report Share Posted September 27, 2011 Scott Walker - The Drift anyone else play this recently, used to be in heavy rotation in the old school H-C days. Still so effing good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted September 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2011 Harvest CD that I think I bought from Deepak^. The SR-009 were made for this. Perfect and beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted September 28, 2011 Report Share Posted September 28, 2011 Ryan Adams -- Ashes and Fire Streaming at NPR http://www.npr.org/2011/09/25/140640429/first-listen-ryan-adams-ashes-and-fire Like it quite a bit on first listen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Currawong Posted September 28, 2011 Report Share Posted September 28, 2011 Beck - Sea Change from HDTracks. Another good one for the 009s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadphoneAddict Posted September 28, 2011 Report Share Posted September 28, 2011 Ryan Adams -- Ashes and Fire Streaming at NPR http://www.npr.org/2011/09/25/140640429/first-listen-ryan-adams-ashes-and-fire Like it quite a bit on first listen. Cool, I pre-ordered it a few weeks ago and the last 2 weeks are gonna be no fun waiting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postjack Posted September 29, 2011 Report Share Posted September 29, 2011 (edited) iko iko all day Edited September 29, 2011 by postjack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvlgato Posted September 29, 2011 Report Share Posted September 29, 2011 Fauré Requiem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark527 Posted September 29, 2011 Report Share Posted September 29, 2011 It's pretty good. Will need more spins to make a final verdict. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted September 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2011 Matthew Sweet -- Modern Art Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postjack Posted September 30, 2011 Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 deadmau5 - for lack of a better name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymad Posted September 30, 2011 Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 Bobby Hutcherson - 1966 - Happenings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymad Posted September 30, 2011 Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 One More Blue Note Duke Jordan - 1960 - Flight To Jordan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted September 30, 2011 Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 The great Wowee Zowee 2xLP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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