This just popped into my head, but I couldn’t for the life of me remember who did it. Took me five minutes of desperate googling. The Strange Death Of Liberal England! Putting it here so I don’t lose it again. I do love a grand and grandiose guitar pop anthem, and this is a big one.
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Once upon a time, I used to post night music. CEREUS by Isnaj Dui would be an excellent fit for that.
Big fan of his previous works. Tripped over this yesterday – seemed to be relatively new and I missed it. Scott Tuma, for me, is always excellent night music.
Sadly no CD release for this: plays, in the opening, a little like a more chilled version of France (with a slowed-down stoned version of Chris Rea’s banjo figure from “Let’s Dance”), before easing into a Tuluum Shimmering-like pastoral psychedelia. Something for summer afternoons: that opening piece is something you’d playlist after “Deep Blue Day.”
At times sounding like a churning minimalist nightmare ritual, but on the other end, a beautiful but heavy duty trance inducing drupad veena performance on half speed.
The much-missed Philip Jeck’s last work, a collaboration with Chris Watson. Wonderful to hear Jeck’s mind at work one more time. Thanks to Watson’s sound recordings, one can almost imagine Jeck leaving his haunted rooms for a long walk outside towards the ocean that lasts forever.
I started Void Ov Voices in 2006 to create ritualistic music for the moment, to play only live performances while capturing and interfering with the energy of the space and the time of the location.
The first time I travelled to Lebanon was in 2008 for one particular reason: to visit the Trilitons and the giant Monoliths of Baalbek. I was deeply impressed by the level of ancient civilisations engineering technology and the intense magical atmosphere of the whole area.
Infuriatingly, this wonderful recording is not on CD. And so I cannot own a physical copy of its cosmic might. I may have to bend my current rule and get the digital copy.
It’s not often I’ll find a bit of space-rock/post-rock that does it for me these days, but I could listen to this immense riff forever.
“Utsnobi Matriarkaluri Tomis Simgherebi” is an improvisational cycle recorded by musicians Darja Kazimira and Zura Makharadze during the filming of the experimental, analogue film “Rue de la Lune” by the Irish director Juana Robles, dedicated to the comprehension of one matriarchal generation, embraced by the tendency to painful transformation and self-absorption, striving throughout the performance to get out of these boundaries, heal and to reborn. In this act, the musicians were also characters and all the music written for the film was created precisely at the moment of the live performance documented by the director in Tbilisi, in the studio house where the authors of this cycle live and work. In particular, we performed a bodily performance that unfolded on the ruins of the Karmir monastery, which can be seen directly in the film.