Bram’s iPod Selection

it's a piece about farewell...
...hope you enjoy

Cover photo from the amazing SUNG SOO LEE: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tjoy7/

Gare du Nord

Dance of the Butterfly

raindrops

Yuki No Namida [雪の涙]

Piano cover of Opus 17 by Dustin O'Halloran.

Played by Henry DiGaetano.

Enjoy!

Opus 17 (Dustin O'Halloran)

The Best Of Bow Wow Wow

Aphrodisiac

The Strokes - What Ever Happened? (Cover)

06 Hong Kong Garden (Siouxsie and the Banshees cover)

Jessica Moss shares an excerpt of a work in progress, recently recorded live in her rehearsal space, that offers a lovely preview of new material to which concertgoers may find themselves treated in 2018 (alongside her debut opus Pools Of Light).

"Untitled 3" displays various techniques and influences that lie at the heart Moss's solo music: building stacked slow-burn string themes through live looping, sampling and pitch-shifting that beautifully balance drone and melody, gradually introduce further electronic, oscillation and synthesis textures, and channel folkways tropes from Eastern Europe and the Middle East – in this case, gesturing towards the Klezmer tradition perhaps most explicitly since her work in the mid-2000s with Black Ox Orkestar.

Jessica Moss
Pools Of Light
http://cstrecords.com/cst124

Jessica Moss • "Untitled #3 (excerpt)"

from 'MYTH II - A Need to Survive' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den306
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/theeyeoftime

The Eye of Time is the solo-project of French musician, Marc Euvrie. His new album ‘Myth II : A Need To Survive’, released 3rd August on Denovali Records, is the second part of a trilogy of releases about the path that humanity takes over the ages. A multi-layered tapestry of experimental sound, ‘Myth II : A Need To Survive’ merges darkness and hope via minimalist beats and stark bass.

Myth is a word with ambiguous meanings in the dictionary, but all these lead to the same conclusion. We could decide to see things on the bright side, or to a have a more dramatical (in the literal sense) look on it. Like if one species is looking at another, and in a different era. Myth is a feedback to the tragical events of our time, to what people have to endure nowadays in order to survive, as well as the refugees travels, and the resistance against capitalism that is growing all over the world. Myth is also a particular way to see things, to take sides with history. When we talk about ancient political activists and revolutionaries, resistances to the established order, we make the choice to transform it into a myth, a history full of heroes. But the past is the present. And our present will be the past again. It is on us to take action in order to avoid our inevitable end.

On ‘Myth II : A Need To Survive’, Marc adds, “The period between the release of the first two records of this trilogy is a most significant one in my life. ‘A Need To Survive’ is the perfect title to name it. I have fought darkness. I have faced myself. I've been into the deepest introspection ever, but I'm on my way to recover, and I will never be the same again. I guess I have faced the worst but most important period that everybody will face in his life. To know yourself better, to see the bad and the good things you're capable of.”

He goes on to say, “I feel that the album trilogy I started in 2016 will match my path to become a better person in balance. ‘Myth I : A Last Dance For The Things We Love’ corresponds to my falling into darkness, ‘A Need To Survive’ to finding the energy to rise again and the last record which will be named ‘To Heal’, corresponds to me right now, feeling positively mature.”

Euvrie's musical development is deeply connected with the French DIY punk and hardcore scene, although he has been classically trained. He started to play piano at 9 years old, composed his first pieces at 15 and studied cello at a Conservatoire after finishing school. Euvrie played in several bands before, being influenced by Claude Debussy, Philip Glass, Frederic Chopin, J.S. Bach, Michael Nyman just as Godspeed You Black Emperor, A Silver Mt. Zion and Portishead, he began to translate his personal reflection of our complex world into music, which initiated The Eye of Time.

His extensive self-titled debut album was released in spring 2012 and exposed a dark look on the present, past and future. His last albums were promising a glimpse of hope (‘Acoustic’) or pitch-black despair (‘Anti’). ‘Myth I : A Last Dance For The Things We Love’, released in 2016, dealt with introspection, impregnated with minimalistic moments, where piano and cello write the story of loneliness and calm, accompanied by both grim and hopeful melodies.

The cover artworks of the ‘Myth’ album trilogy display pictures by Emin Özmen, a winner of the world press photo award. His work is focused on the situation in Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey and the "refugees". His work has been published by Time magazine, The New York Times, BBC, Guardian, among others.

MYTH II : A Need To Survive

The Eye of Time - A Need To Survive

Cover of a song by Birds Are Indie (Coimbra, PT) 
Original version available here: http://birdsareindie.bandcamp.com/

Written by Joana & Jeronimo 
Arranged & played by me 
Rhythmic seagulls recorded in Ramsgate, Kent, UK

Words:

Needless to say she’s on the move (I’ll go this way)
Needless to say she’s on her way to him (La da da)
Needless to say she’s on her back (I’ll turn this way)
Needless to say she’s on the run &
Running out of love 

The northern sky was passing by (La da da)
I tried to figure out the colour of your eyes
The northern sky was passing by (La da da)
What do you mean by “What”?
What do you mean by “What do you mean”?

Needless to say she’s on the move (I’ll go this way)
Needless to say she’s on her way to him (La da da)
Needless to say she’s on her back (I’ll turn this way)
Needless to say she’s on the run &
Running out of love 

The northern sky was passing by (La da da)
I tried to figure out the colour of your eyes
The northern sky was passing by (La da da)
I’d like to figure out the touch of your skin
What do you mean by “What”?
What do you mean by “What do you mean”?

Running out of love

Needless to Say [Benoît Pioulard version]

Artist: Eluvium
Title: Recital
Album: Pianoworks
Release Date: May 31, 2019

Pre-Order: www.temporaryresidence.com/products/trr299

Pianoworks is Eluvium’s first solo piano album since his sophomore album, An Accidental Memory In The Case Of Death (2004). Inspired by the quiet thoughts and solitary observations of children – and the evolution/dissolution of that ephemeral, uncorrupted wonder of simple joy – Pianoworks begins with a song about children’s piano lessons, and culminates with an etude driven by the struggle to hold onto innocence and imagination as adulthood settles in. The record’s dramatic simplicity in both execution and expression is with purpose: Cooper wants the music to be simple enough to inspire children and novices to play, and the concept simple enough to resonate regardless of age or experience. As any minimalist painter, poet, or architect can attest, it is oftentimes the profoundly simple art that proves to be the most time-consuming and torturous to produce. Pianoworks exemplifies this dichotomy, having been recorded, re-recorded, and re-re-recorded in the span of nearly a decade. Cooper exhausted every attempt to achieve a very specific, peculiar sound that is out of time – a sound not entirely lost in an attic, but also one not easily found in a playlist. The process to achieve this elusive sound was painstaking, but it has yielded a rare kind of music that is as uncomplicated as it is uncompromised.

Pianoworks

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Eluvium - Recital

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I Love The 80s (Official Playlist)
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Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

Droneflower

Space Ghost I

Adam Ant Kings Of The Wild Frontier, Live 95

The first single taken from Angèle David-Guillou's forthcoming album
'A Question of Angles' (Out 20th Nov)
https://angeledavid-guillou.bandcamp.com/album/a-question-of-angles

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Angèle David-Guillou - Valley Of Detachment

you are the light of the world. a city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

Opus 17 (Dustin O'Halloran)

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