Choices Of The Grasshopper Setember 2020

from 'An Excellent Spiritual Serviceman' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den358
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/noiseensemble

After a creative break of more than 10 years the Contemporary Noise Ensemble returns with the brand new album called „An Excellent Spiritual Serviceman”. With the band’s line-up reduced and the sound of the brass section replaced with programmable synthesizers comes an entirely new sound of the band’s music. Leaning towards composition instead of improvisation the music is now less jazzy sounding - with electric bass being used instead of double bass and drums actually being the only strictly acoustical instrument. But then again you can hear a lot of other prerecorded instruments like marimba, vibraphone, Rhodes and upright pianos surrounded by arpeggiated synths and other programmable electronic instruments. The album takes you to a journey through jazz, space rock, funk and electronic music with a destination in a form of a rock song which is as well the title song of the album. The Contemporary Noise Ensemble still impresses with maturity and class.

An Excellent Spiritual Serviceman

Dance Of The Headless Jazz Expert

Contemporary Noise Ensemble - Dance Of The Headless Jazz Expert

From the album Origins Remixes available February 16, 2024 on Western Vinyl
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Elskavon - See Out Loud (Alaskan Tapes Remix)

disappears 'halcyon days'

First track from the new record coming out March 2nd, 2015. It's a vinyl-only release (limited to 500 copies) consisting of three long drone-pieces created from analog synths, piano, organs and fuzzzzzz. Get the LP here: http://www.elparaisorecords.com/releases/jonas-munk-absorb-fabric-cascade-lp

Or the bundle with the Pan reissue here: http://www.elparaisorecords.com/product/jonas-munk-lp-bundle-preorder

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Second solo LP from Causa Sui guitar player/producer Jonas Munk. These three long pieces aren't defined by Munks signature guitar-approach, but is rather a musical vision of vintage synthesizers, organs, piano and analog electronics elegantly weaved together to create extensive formations of pure sound. The harmonic simplicity and unrestricted dedication to sonic balance and texture is something of a first in Munk's body of work. This is pattern music, characterized by slow builds and subtle, but refined, transformations, where gradual tectonic shifts and tiny harmonic gestures generate vivid emotional responses. Instead of imposing any direct intention or meaning, it's an album that can create a mental environment for the listener to expand and open up into.

Music like this is perceived as incredibly simple and free flowing, but, as is the case with the biological world, reveals textural minutiae and interweaved intricacy once studied close-up. Every tiny detail serves the bigger picture. It's music that's practically vibrating with possibility.

File next to: Terry Riley, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Brian Eno, Popol Vuh.


Jonas Munk: "Absorb"

Loscil - Stave Peak

"Herbst" by Jan Roth.
Taken from the album "Kleinod" (out May 18th, 2018)

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LP/CD: http://bit.ly/2Ij5iSM

Kleinod

Herbst

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Float Into This Feeling

In These Times

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Here I Am, Two Warships

Taken from "Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK" (20th Anniversary Edition) out on Morr Music 2019-08-30
Tourdates:
Sep 17 – Rote Fabrik – Zurich (CH)
Sep 18 – Maroquinerie – Paris (FR)
Sep 19 – Church of Laken – Brussels (BE)
Sep 20 – Neuadd Ogwen – Bethesda (GB)
Sep 21 – Union Chapel – London (GB)
Sep 22 – Church of Sint-Denijs – Kortrijk (BE)
Sep 26 – Planetarium – Berlin (DE)
Sep 27 – Planetarium – Berlin (DE)
Sep 28 – Aglomerat – Moscow (RU)
Sep 29 – Opera – St Petersburg (RU)

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Lp/Cd/Digital

Múm: Random Summer (Hauschka Rework)

Outta Here

Edited Version of You'll Be Fiiinnne, taken from The Withdrawing Room LP (Pathway006)

Seek solace. Be still and drift. Withdraw and be there. There. Inside. A chair awaits. A beginning built from an ending, from leaving, from afar. In times such as these, The Withdrawing Room is a safe haven to leave behind all that weighs heavily and surrounds us. We remark how comfortable the chair is, how exquisite the view is outside the window, the aroma, the breaths to be taken as you become aware of the minutia all around you and the sounds emanating from Mary Lattimore’s harp, warming your feet, your hands, your heart. Breathe. Previous collaborations have seen Mary matching wits with such esteemed luminaries as Thurston Moore, Meg Baird, Kurt Vile, Ed Askew, Fursaxa, and Jarvis Cocker. But for this debut work, Mary sequestered herself in a room, much like this one, to kindle three distinct works for keeping the listener company as he or she enjoys the view. The nuanced notes of the harp strings sing and reverberate amid subtle electronics courtesy of Jeff Zeigler on the 24-minute long piece “You’ll Be Fiiinnne;” “Pluto the Planet” meanders at a slow and steady pace as the sun makes its way across the sky and the gentle plucks of the silk and steel resonate within, beyond; the closing chaos of “Poor Daniel” charts a recklessness that embraces the listener as he or she quietly makes their way out of the room to tackle the world anew.

CREDITS + INFO

Recorded and mixed by Jeff Zeigler at Uniform Recording
Mastered by James Plotkin
Artwork by Becky Suss – 76 Meadow Woods Road, oil on linen, 72 x 120 in
Design by Chris Koelle
Mary plays a Lyon & Healy Style 30 harp and Line 6 looper
Jeff plays the Korg Mono/Poly on Track 1

Mary Lattimore - You'll Be Fiiinnne(Edit)

Impossible Weight (Featuring Sharon Van Etten)

Sundowner

Campfire

'Limbs' is the new single from Sydney-based duo, PLGRMS.

Produced by Ross James
Mixed by Dan Grech
Mastered by Leon Zervos

Additional Musicians:
Luke Davison | drums, percussion

© Words and Music by Jonathan Bowden, Jacob Pearson and Ross James.

Limbs

ISOLA
"Said It Again" from EP1
out 2 October on GODMODE

buy/stream: http://isolalv.bandcamp.com

Isola is Ivana Carrescia, an artist and synthesist based in the Las Vegas desert. For Isola, there is music hidden in every sound around us – the howl of wind, the whirr of traffic, the blank hum of a refrigerator. Isola’s debut EP on Los Angeles's Godmode label pairs her glassy vocals and musique concrète style with minimal house and dub techno reminiscent of early Chain Reaction releases. Across all seven tracks she worked closely with Godmode co-founder Nick Sylvester, the producer behind other Godmode breakouts such as Channel Tres and Yaeji. 

Artist: Isola
Release: EP1
Label: Godmode
Date: 2 October 2020

Tracklisting:
01 Ischia
02 Any Day
03 Canis Major
04 Said It Again
05 Two Birds
06 La Notte
07 Ricorda (Tell Me)

Said It Again

Isola - Said It Again [GODMODE]

HOT CHIP  - Late Night Tales
Album released 2nd October 
2LP / CD / DIGITAL
Stream/buy: https://orcd.co/latenighttales_hotchip

Spearheaded by founders Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard, Hot Chip are one of the UK’s most interesting and much-loved acts. Since releasing their debut album ‘Coming On Strong’ in 2004, they have received a Grammy Award nomination (‘Ready for the Floor’) and Mercury Prize nomination (‘The Warning’) and their seventh studio album, last year’s ‘A Bath Full of Ecstasy,’ received rave reviews across the globe from both critics and fans.

“I think we all had slightly different understandings of what a Late Night Tales compilation might consist of; varying interpretations of the brief. For some the mix might be what you’d want to listen to as your late night continues, after a night out. For others maybe it suggested a selection of music for listening to as you drift off to sleep; then again it could just be music evocative of night time, or concerned with its traditionally ‘darker’ moods,” says Taylor.
Hot Chip’s ‘LateNightTales’ opens with the simplistic beauty of Christina Vantzou’s ‘At Dawn,’ before morphing in to the first of four exclusive tracks from the band - the floating, transcendent ‘Nothing’s Changed’, before Rhythm & Sound ft. Cornell Campbell serve up the heavy dub classic, ‘King In My Empire’.

The journey continues with Pale Blue’s ‘Have You Passed Through This Night’, a silky, cold wave disco track, while Suzanne Kraft’s ‘Femme Cosmic’ and Fever Ray’s ‘To The Moon and Back’ provide squelchy synth-pop. Furthermore, the punchy ‘Much To Touch’ from Bolton-born, Berlin based producer Planningtorock and an ethereal cover of Velvet Underground’s ‘Candy Says’ by our hosts add an element of displacement and detachment.

Elsewhere, other highlights include an appearance from synth-pop auteur Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith with ‘Who I Am & Why I Am Where’ and new material from Alexis’ ‘other’ band, the improv-mavens About Group, along with the adventurous ‘Workaround Two’ from electronic experimentalist Beatrice Dillon and German composer, Nils Frahm’s beautifully evocative ‘Ode’. But it is left to Alexis’ father to have the final word, with an elegant excerpt from the daring ‘Finnegans Wake’ by James Joyce.

“We’ve put together a mix of music which ties all of these ideas together and represents some of our favourite music new and old, some of it directly influential on Hot Chip and some of it music we have discovered and loved, been surprised by and connected to. There are three new songs of ours which we’re really proud of, and which I think connect naturally with the nocturnal world the compilation speaks of, and a cover of ‘Candy Says’ which is one of the first songs the very early version of Hot Chip played when we were still at school,” says Taylor. 

01. Christina Vantzou – ‘At Dawn’
02. Hot Chip – ‘Nothing's Changed’ (Exclusive track) 
03. Rhythm & Sound ft. Cornell Campbell – ‘King In My Empire’
04. Pale Blue – ‘Have You Passed Through This Night’
05. Suzanne Kraft – ‘Femme Cosmic’
06. Fever Ray – ‘To The Moon And Back’
07. PlanningToRock – ‘Much To Touch’
08. Charlotte Adigery – ‘1,618’
09. Mike Salta – ‘Hey Moloko’
10. Matthew Bourne – ‘Somewhere I Have Never Travelled’
11. Hot Chip – ‘Candy Says’ (Velvet Underground cover version – Exclusive track)
12. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – ‘Who I Am & Why I Am Where’
13. About Group – ‘The Long Miles’
14. Beatrice Dillon – ‘Workaround Two’
15. Hot Chip – ‘Worlds Within Worlds’ (Exclusive track)
16. Daniel Blumberg – ‘The Bomb’
17. Nils Frahm – ‘Ode’
18. Hot Chip – ‘None Of These Things’ (Exclusive track)
19. Neil Taylor – ‘Finnegans Wake’ excerpt (Exclusive track)

Follow Late Night Tales:

Web: http://latenighttales.co.uk
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Hot Chip - Candy Says [Exclusive Velvet Underground Cover Version] (Late Night Tales: Hot Chip)

Late Night Tales: artist-curated compilations. Night Time Stories: original artist releases.

Late Night Tales invites the world’s best artists to delve deep into their music collections to create the ultimate “late night” selection. The series includes expertly curated mixes by Bonobo, Jon Hopkins, Nightmares on Wax, Nils Frahm, David Holmes, Groove Armada, Belle & Sebastian, Friendly Fires, The Flaming Lips, Metronomy, The Cinematic Orchestra, Four Tet, and Jamiroquai.

The Night Time Stories imprint releases original artist recordings including Khruangbin, Chaouche, and Rae & Christian.

Hot Chip - Candy Says [Exclusive Velvet Underground Cover Version] (Late Night Tales: Hot Chip)

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