Chille muziek (ambient, acid jazz, trip-hop etc.)

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Op zondag 18 januari 2009 17:09 schreef Lastpost het volgende:
Tuurlijk luister ik dit soort muziek ook weleens, ideaal als je je ergens op moet concentreren, maar ook weer niet in de stilte datgeen wilt doen.
Bij tekstuele muziek raak ik in ieder geval veel te snel afgeleid.

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The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid is the sixth studio LP by ambient drone music group Stars of the Lid. It was released in late 2001 on the Kranky label, on two CDs and three LPs. The album features long minimal, droning compositions created from heavily treated guitar, horn, flute, piano, and other classical instruments.

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James Kirby's work as The Caretaker has always dealt with the suggestion of haunted memory and the obscuring of temporal motion, and this latest album makes that more explicit than ever, with titles that reference amnesia, Alzheimer's, past life regression and other such memory misfires and short circuits. Musically, this album might be compared to Philip Jeck's manipulated vinyl tracts, featuring similarly oceanic swells of crackle and dust, with faded pianos or big band sounds wafting wraith-like across the mix. After conjuring the sinister atmospherics of The Shining with his debut album Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom, The Caretaker has been chasing this idea of sound leaving its indelible mark on a space and time, so consequently these creepy, semi-dissolved musical passages sound no more tangible than shadows, and the album for the most part comes across as some sort of séance held via wax cylinder. Arguably the most accomplished and rewarding Caretaker album to date, Persistent Repetition Of Phrases is an album you'll want to snap up fast - there's only 500 of these in circulation...Highly Recommended.

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Op zondag 18 januari 2009 18:18 schreef trebremmit het volgende:
The Caretaker! Wat een plaat is dat On, iemand schreef ergens alsof je door een door oorlog getroffen gebied loopt en uit de kapotte huizen een platenspeler met jaren 40 muziek hoort. Ik vond dat wel een goeie beschrijving.

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imagine if Thomas Koner and Fennesz were forced into collaborating with only a box of 1920s records and Philip Jeck's severed arm to help them and you might imagine what the material here sounds like. An immense journey into the darkest edge of the psyche and one of the most ambitious releases of the year, buy yourself a multichanger and let yourself drift into Hades. Recommended..........

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It's impossible: no one could create a script this contrived. Yet, apparently, it happened. William Basinski's four-disk epic, The Disintegration Loops, was created out of tape loops Basinski made back in the early 1980s. These loops held some personal significance to Basinski, a significance he only touches on in the liner notes and we can only guess at. Originally, he just wanted to transfer the loops from analog reel-to-reel tape to digital hard disk. However, once he started the transfer, he discovered something: the tapes were old and they were disintegrating as they played and as he recorded. As he notes in the liner notes, "The music was dying." But he kept recording, documenting the death of these loops.



These recordings were made in August and September of 2001. Now, this is where the story gets impossible. William Basinski lives in Brooklyn, less than a nautical mile from the World Trade Centers. On September 11, 2001, as he was completing The Disintegration Loops, he watched these towers disintegrate. He and his friends went on the roof of his building and played the Loops over and over, all day long, watching the slow death of one New York and the slow rise of another, all the while listening to the death of one music and the creation of another. As I said, it's impossible. The music, however, is beautiful, subtle, sad, frightening, confusing, and ultimately uplifting. What's he created here is a living document: a field recording of orchestrated decay. It sounds like nothing else I've heard, yet, at its core, it's the simplest and most familiar music I can imagine.