hoes hate me cuz i got child-like innocence

66th installment of the Joyful Union Select series.

Tracks by Davy Fresh, Új Bála, Bottled Violent, Margo Price, 世界は80年代に終了しました, Friends Don't Die, and more.

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A sampler of my works for prepared piano. Hope you enjoy!

Prepared Piano

A delightfully weird playlist of experimental music. *For best results, serve shuffled.

"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."
— Salvador Dali

"A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

DRiNK ME: Improv & Avant-Garde

u got a raise , proud of ya ! ^_^

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Tutorial - Tips Music

credits
released August 27, 2022

All by Hiroki Yamasaki

Tips 1

McKenzie & Gardiner - From Time (Groove Version Edit)
CQQL-006
cqqlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mckenz…oove-version

McKenzie & Gardiner are a certified UK Boogie Funk group from back in the day, known by funk/boogie aficionados and crate-diggers worldwide, thanks to songs like “From Time” and “Hold On Tight”.

The A Side: their classic cut “From Time” edited specifically for 7" length, a massive UK boogie-funk cut designed for dancefloor devastation.

The B Side: the "Groove Version" of “From Time”–a more sparse and subtle demo version–is an underground classic in the funk scene, released on 7" for the first time.

McKenzie And Gardiner - FROM TIME (Edited Version)

chroma

утро одного дня

Tape on Bandcamp

psor - Идя Ранним Летним Утром Через Шарташ Я

New single “Blessed” featuring  Jay Mills from Davy Fresh’s 2023 album, “Richmond Highway”. Stream this single exclusively on SoundCloud until Richmond Highway hits all stores on January 6, 2023. 

Pre save the album here:
 https://hypeddit.com/pu5fdp?fbclid=IwAR3lZ7F3t_6DX8LVBaJOQ647LAEKh8t9D4YTnsJiYarPq7YY6gUSIp2wtzc

Watch “Blessed” music video on YouTube here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BqKFrnJ_dTk

Blessed (feat. Jay Mills) [radio edit]

INS 2

Flying Away (feat. Redders)

The title “a leaf falls” is taken from the e.e. cummings poem with the first line “l(a leaf falls)oneliness.” Though I’ve never really lived in a place with an autumn, I nevertheless feel a sense of nostalgia for the coming of autumn, the leaves turning bright oranges and reds, and is it a sense of emptiness when the leaves fall? Eugene Carchesio captured something like this sense beautifully in his “Dead leaves of Tokyo” series. I enjoy raking the leaves in my backyard, it’s a kind of meditation. And who doesn’t love jumping into a pile of leaves? (Erik Griswold 31 August 2011)

Performers: 
John Addison - Cello
Soundstream Collective - Percussion Quartet

Performed 30 September 2011 in Elder Hall, University of Adelaide.

For more information about this work, or to view/purchase scores and recordings, visit:  www.erikgriswold.org


a leaf falls, part 1 (2011)

A road trip through the deserts of California and Arizona was the inspiration for Drifting Cowboys in a Mist.  The passing scenery from Route 66 and Interstate 40 through the western badlands and cactus strewn landscapes rekindled my secret love of country and western.  Loading up Hank Williams’ (and the Drifting Cowboys) Greatest Hits on my laptop, I began to absorb the Hawaiian tinged steel guitar of Don Helms and the poignant fiddle solos of Jerry Rivers.  As I studied and analyzed their music I somehow began to draw a connections with impressionism (Debussy), early jazz (Bix Beiderbecke - “In a mist”), and Bartok (String Quartet No.3).  All these influences merged together in a wide ranging homage.  I was delighted to have the opportunity to compose this, my first string quartet, for Kurilpa String Quartet, who bring immense talent, dedication, and inspiration to Queensland Conservatorium.

Performers:
Graeme Jennings - Violin
Brendan Joyce - violin
Yoko Okayasu - viola 
Katherine Philp - cello

 Composed for and premiered by Kurilpa String Quartet at Crossbows Festival, Brisbane, 13 May 2012.

For more information about this work, or to view/purchase scores and recordings, visit:  www.erikgriswold.org

Drifting Cowboys in a Mist (2012)

Toy instruments have been part of my musical language since 2000 when Vanessa Tomlinson and I (Clocked Out Duo) created “Felaminikuti,” a light-hearted homage to Afrobeat master Fela Kuti.  Since then I’ve created several pieces and done many improvised performances using toy piano, melodica, miniature music boxes, ukuleles, lots of toy percussion, and any number of noisemakers.  “Three Secret Gardens” was my first piece that used toy piano with chamber ensemble.  In each ‘garden’  I’ve tried to create a very intimate and immediate mood.  Perhaps dreamy, wistful, or whimsical, I envision three magical, private places.  I created “Three Secret Gardens” for an inspiring collaboration with Continuum Sax, who really brought it to life!


Three Secret Gardens (2011)

Prepared Piano Solo
from the album "Pain Avoidance Machine" 
Room40 | 2015

Pale Yellow Frontier - from Pain Avoidance Machine (2015)

Solo Prepared Piano
Composition by Thelonious Monk
Self release

Brilliant Corners (2008)

Clocked Out
Erik Griswold and Vanessa Tomlinson
Prepared Piano and Vibraphone
from the album "Time Crystals" 
Innova | 2015

Time Crystals (2015)

"Creektime" is a gamble: an audio adventure that introduces many of the sonic themes off my newest record 222, which will be released later this spring. “Creektime" interweaves traditional string instruments with found sounds and programmed samples to create a truly unique auditory story. Constructed around a country porch banjo lick, punctuated with actual gun shot field recordings, and elaborated with percussive surprises, the song’s atmosphere evokes the hauntingly ethereal mood of the entire project.

All music, instruments, vocals and lyrics by Odetta Hartman.
Produced, recorded and mixed by Jack Inslee.
Mastered by Joe Lambert.

CREEKTIME

Artist: Rachel Grimes
Title: The Air In Time
Album: The Clearing
Release Date: May 26, 2015

Rachel Grimes is a pianist, composer, and arranger based in Kentucky – most renowned for her work in Rachel's, the groundbreaking chamber-rock ensemble that introduced an entire generation of underground rock fans to the unexpected similarities and appeal of neoclassical music. Grimes has toured the world as a solo pianist, and as a collaborator with chamber ensembles such as Portland Cello Project, astrïd, Cicada, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta trio, and Orchestra Kandinskij.

Unhurried, at times fleeting, and stretching into the sky, The Clearing is a winding path of transient moments exploring personal memory, relationships, and mystery from a deeply internal place. The music is a wide spectrum of textures in strings, harp, piano, woodwinds, and percussion. Following Book of Leaves (2009), the Marion County 1938 DVD/EP (2011), the Compound Leaves EP (2013), and an album with King’s Daughters & Sons (2011), this new full-length album reveals a broad new chapter for Rachel Grimes.

Several composed pieces evolved from improvisation, such as “In the Vapor”, “The Clearing”, and “Further Foundation”. Others include captured improvisation: album highlight “The Herald”, recorded live with Jacob Duncan on saxophone and Helen Money on cello, and “The Air at Night”, a late-night meditation at a recording session in Antwerp.

The title track, “The Clearing”, was recorded with members of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta following a series of performances for CrossLinx Festival in spring of 2013. After the joy of working together, Grimes proposed a long-distance recording session. Evolving from a single repeated piano note, “The Clearing” begins tense and dissonant with the string trio and piano eventually arriving at a moment of relief and grace – a light in the forest – and then returning again to the material of the opening.

“Transverse Plane” was designed for SITI Company of New York for an actor training stage exercise. In two sections, the piece uses a pre-existing architecture of tempo and underlying compositional structure. The first part – “Vertical” – is a driving, orchestral texture of strings, harp, piano, oboe and saxophone with Kyle Crabtree (Shipping News) on mixed percussion. The second half – “Horizontal” – unfolds from a mist of strings with slow-moving chords and features Christian Frederickson (Rachel's) in an angular and expressive viola solo.

Inspired by the wind and sky, “The Airs” feature violinist Scott Moore. Written with a single theme and mode, the suite becomes a connective tissue for the album’s various textures. In perhaps the album's most vital collaboration, Scott Morgan (aka LOSCIL) provides the delicate processing and additional depth of field that invites outsiders to enter this fluid space for their own experience.

© 2015 Temporary Residence Ltd.

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Rachel Grimes – The Air In Time

from the debut album 'the original faces' available 9/4

helen 'motorcycle'

Ghostly aural illusions, "alchemical" transformations of sound.

"The tall, lean pianist-composer hovered over narrow stretches of his keyboard and picked and pounded out "Other Planes"...the alchemical transformation of furious, minimal clusters into eerie harmonics and distant half-heard melodies, sudden evocations of gamelan and marimba." - Keith Gallasch, Realtime Arts

Recorded by Kim Chalmers at EMU in Adelaide.