Separated Strings

Kristin Thora Haraldsdottir - Current- VDSQ Solo Acoustic Vol 14

From the album ‘Along a Vanishing Plane’ out September 16th on Western Vinyl

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Christopher Tignor
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“This music is first and foremost about what can be done together, live in a room, to both transcend and reclaim ourselves from the noise of public living. I’m waging a sort of secular, one-man liturgy here; a public act grounded in ritual. These songs offer wordless hymns and pulsing harmonic frameworks one might use to focus their own contemporary values. Instrumental music particularly offers the opportunity for personal interpretation and reflection. In this ever-fucked world, that seems perpetually in short supply. 

“To engage with ritual is to engage with time. I needed to create a way to play solo that would let me wield the temporal freedom of expressive instrumental music with the full palette of modern electronic forces. I banned backing tracks, click tracks, and even live looping - anything that would enforce a strict grid. I wanted time back in electronic music. 

“I also wanted the body back; our rituals begin with the physical. All sounds originate from me kicking a drum, playing the violin, or various natural percussion sources. I built software that lets me do all this, free here". This offers an unprecedented amount of control over this music’s elastic sense of time. Electronic music without the grid. There’s so much space in this music, it’s just essential - listening to a phrase decay in the room before proceeding. Likewise, there are no overdubs in these recordings; it’s just me, 6 mics, and 3 video cameras. 

“Yes, the whole record’s also on video: a Video Album. We avoided the recording studio, preferring a spacious hall in what was once a psych ward and then a schoolhouse. Again, I’m trying to pull you into the live ritual, into the room. A video isn’t a live event but it does evoke it. I bring my own artifacts: triangles, a pasture bell, and tuning forks in particular: I use these as first order musical instruments, beginning with a percussive strike and then, while resonating, processed through my bridge into shifting melodies. 
“So there’s a bunch of new stuff here. Real novelty isn’t an indication of quality but it does require a bit of bravery perhaps. We need to take chances. 

“But enough about not-me. I’ve been creating instrumental music a long time now, under my own name and via bands (Slow Six, Wires Under Tension). I’ve also built software a long time - yes, I do this for Google. I did my time in Princeton’s PhD program for music composition, NYU’s Masters of computer science program, and at Bard studying creative writing. I worked live sound for years at NYC clubs now gone (CBGB’s, Brownies) while immersing myself in minimalism, working sound for a music festival produced by Mr. Glass and assisting LaMonte Young. As a string arranger I get to work with lots of great artists including John Congleton, This Will Destroy You, and Meshell Ndegeocello to name a few. I’ve worked as a bike messenger, snowboard instructor, and Emergency Medical Technician...buy me a whiskey and I’ll tell you the rest…” 
– Christopher Tignor

Along a Vanishing Plane

Christopher Tignor - "We Keep This Flame"

"Where The Waters Flow" off the upcoming Ba Da Bing album Until You Find Your Green, by The Baird Sisters CD and LP preorder here: http://grapefruitrecordclub.com/t/the-baird-sisters

Until You Find Your Green

The Baird Sisters - Where The Waters Flow

The Black Dotz - Sinnerman/You Doo Right(Nina Simone/Can Medley)-Live at Echo Lab

'Crossover' is taken from Bardo Pond new album 'Under The Pines' due out 24th March on Fire Records

Pre-order here: https://bardopondmusic.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-pines

MMXVI!!!

Bardo Pond - Crossover

4AM Forever

"K.I.S.S." by Tiny Vipers, off the album Laughter out May 5th on Ba Da Bing Records 
Pre-Order here: http://grapefruitrecordclub.com/products/tiny-vipers-laughter-lp-pre-order

Tiny Vipers - K.I.S.S.

"Leagues Beneath" by Sleep

Listen to this track and more on adultswim.com/singles

Adult Swim Singles 2017

Sleep - Leagues Beneath

Daniel Bachman Quartet
2018-09-07 
Three Lobed / WXDU Annual Rite of Summoning
King's
Hopscotch Music Festival
Raleigh, NC USA

Recorded and produced by acidjack for nyctaper.com

Soundboard + Schoeps MK4V (onstage, DFC, PAS)>KC5>CMC6>>Zoom F8>Adobe Audition CC (align, mix down, fades, normalize)>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ, effects)>Audacity 2.2.2 (track, amplify)>FLAC ( level 8 )

01 Invocation

Players:
Daniel Bachman
Forrest Marquise
Jaime Fennelly
Jim Becker

2018-09-07 Three Lobed / WXDU Day Show, King's, Raleigh, NC

Daniel Bachman Quartet - Invocation [live at Three Lobed / WXDU Day Show]

Blow It Up

Wayward recordings. Acoustic guitar in Endless Caverns

Separated Strings

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