Experimental Work of the Month - Vote Here

jiltloop

jiltloop wrote: »

Don't have this one but Colleen's music is brilliant, really interesting, original and engaging so i'll give it my vote with the intention of getting the album soon.

Silly me! That actually is the album I have. So yes mine was definately a vote.

Scubadevils

Throw this one into the pot for next month...

Murcof - Cosmos

Just picked it up there a few weeks ago and struggled to get into it initially, loving it now though... just took a couple of listens.

http://www.discogs.com/release/1076655

Setun

+1

I need an excuse to get this.

cornbb

Daddio wrote: »

+1

I need an excuse to get this.

+1 also from me then. Lets call this the winner as its been about a month. If one of you guys wants to start the thread feel free to do so and I'll sticky it, otherwise I'll get around to it in the next few days. In the meantime I'll buy the album (I see its available on emusic).

jiltloop

I'd like to nominate the third eye foundation album Little Lost Soul. Always found his music fascinating and a litttle scary. He has a very distinctive and original sound. I found it very difficult to find any third eye foundation albums in the usual shops and always kept an eye out and eventually was rewarded with a 3 album collection which was thoroughly enjoyable and little lost soul was the best of the 3.

Flairpinnedme

i'd like to recommend toyboy by Frakkur. Frakkur is an alias by Jonsi of Sigur Ros

John

Oh? I haven't heard of this at all. Links?

Flairpinnedme

i'm not sure if theyre available to buy, pm me for more details.

heres the lastfm page http://www.last.fm/music/Frakkur

Scubadevils

Highly recommend this...

Johann Johannsson - Fordlandia

"A work of astonishing beauty." Q (4/5)

"Jóhannsson's most ambitious and fully realised achievement to date." Rock Sound (8/10)

"An ambitiously themed, leftfield, modern classical album that not only impresses, but totally enthrals." Drowned in Sound (8/10)

Fordlândia is a fascinating, immersive and deeply rewarding web of ideas and melodies, sure to please fans and win him even more new listeners. It's the second installment in a proposed trilogy based on technology and iconic American brand names and where IBM 1401, A User's Manual (the first in the trilogy released in 2006) was a personal response to the first computer to arrive in Iceland and its inevitable obsolescence (inspired by his father's own work with mainframe computers in the 1960s), Fordlândia springs out of a far more diffuse set of influences. It brings together the soaring grandeur of its predecessor – some sections were recorded with the same orchestra in Prague – and the intimacy of Englabörn, moving between heady, melting cadences and crystalline motifs with gorgeous, dreamlike logic.

Jóhann has also recently composed scores for the award-winning animator Marc Craste (Varmints, 2008) and the American independent film Personal Effects

The full tracklisting for Fordlandia follows:

1. Fordlandia
2. Melodia (I)
3. Rocket Builder The (Io Pan)
4. Melodia (II)
5. FordlandiaAerial View
6. Melodia (III)
7. Chimaerica
8. Melodia (IV)
9. Great God Pan Is Dead
10. Melodia (Guidelines For A Propulsion Device Based On Heim's Quantum Theory)
11. How We Left Fordlandia

http://www.johannjohannsson.com/

Delivering a second long-form release for 4AD, Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson continues with a second part of his proposed trilogy of albums themed around iconic American brands. After IBM 1401 - A User's Manual, Johannsson turns his attentions to Fordlandia, named after the expanse of land purchased by Henry Ford in the Brazillian rainforest - a failed settlement designed as a means for acquiring rubber in the 1920s. As it turns out, this is only one amongst a number of overlapping themes drawn from various obscure corners of modern history, all knitted together like something from Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle. The album is divided into a number of different threads, with themes recurring throughout - much as has been the case in Johannsson's previous works. Here, between the grandeur and cinematic majesty of the Fordlandia-themed compositions you'll find the 'Melodia' series, taking on a more intimate, piano-driven and melancholy temperament. It's all beautifully produced, extracting the very strict, classical style of Johannsson's music from what might otherwise reach ECM-like levels of discipline. A good example of this is 'Chimaerica' which on the surface sounds like a pastiche of a Bach organ piece, dominated by dour ecclesiastical melodies until some digital intervention draws the sound design into the 21st century. In a similar fashion, 'The Great God Pan Is Dead' is shaped by beautiful choral arrangements and some extreme dynamic shifts - all very much within the realms of the conventional classical canon (Arvo Part being a clear influence) - when immediately after, 'Melodia (Guidelines For A Space Propulsion Device)' crunches into life with a very contemporary, backbeat-driven electronic sound. Fordlandia is tremendously beautiful and, of course, comes highly recommended.
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=142162

wolfgang123

I'd recommend ' The Musical Dimensions Of Sleastak ' by O.L.D.
A bit of a hard album to describe....psychedelic grindcore is the best I can do.
http://www.last.fm/music/O.L.D.?autostart

Setun

I vote See Through/Mosquito by The Necks. Honestly, they're one of the most interesting groups producing music today. This double album features two 62-minute improvisations that completely altered my experience with music. If you haven't got any Necks albums yet, go for it. If you like the sound of nano-improv you'll most certainly find this very interesting.

Review here:
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=16634

wolfgang123

By the way the link I posted to the O.L.D. album only has two tracks from it. The guitarist , James Plotkin , has produced even weirder stuff which I'm still getting my head around !

John

I have one OLD album (Formula) which I bought because it was:
a) cheap
and
b) I'm a big fan of other stuff connected to this (i.e. Plotkin solo and Khanate).

However, I didn't dig it at all. I must give it another spin.

wolfgang123

John wrote: »

I have one OLD album (Formula) which I bought because it was:
a) cheap
and
b) I'm a big fan of other stuff connected to this (i.e. Plotkin solo and Khanate).

However, I didn't dig it at all. I must give it another spin.

Yeah , Formula wasn't great

buck65

Erik Friedlander - block ice and propane

i_ate_cats

Blevin Blectum - Gullar Flutter

Have had it on heavy rotation since before Christmas

I like this video also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h4R_zw4kO0

Johnny Volume

Music For 18 Musicians by Steve Reich

John

Johnny Volume wrote: »

Music For 18 Musicians by Steve Reich

We did this a while ago, feel free to drag up the thread if you've got something to add. The more the merrier!

rottenhat

I nominate Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt - absolutely unique and hauntingly beautiful album.

DominoDub

buck65 wrote: »

Erik Friedlander - block ice and propane

Another shout for this one ...getting into Cello players big time !

http://www.last.fm/music/Arthur+Russell

http://www.last.fm/music/Zo%C3%AB+Keating


Also played Arve Henriksen's new one on ECM for the 4th time today..great Album.
http://www.last.fm/music/Arve+Henriksen/Cartography

Scubadevils

Think I may have mentioned it before, but I nominate 'Pale Ravine' by Deaf Center...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdRUMqds5r8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knAyrqqApQk

*LAST 15 COPIES - BACK IN STOCK* With the astounding quality of releases that have appeared on Type recently, it would be easy to become blasé over their output. Deaf Center shake you from any such complacency - delivering here a record that will be extremely hard to beat as album of the year for 2005. Apparently inspired by "old silent 8mm film reels and historical architecture", the Norwegian duo of Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland have produced a lambent debut that recalls the likes of William Basinski (particularly the 'Disintegration Loops' indebted 'Lobby'), Marsen Jules and Harold Budd. Over layers of warmly battered aural sediment, Deaf Center build the kind of vista-expanding, piano tinged music that has you thinking you're in your very own film. Manifesting itself in the stravaig and epic iciness of 'Thread', or the etiolated Nyman piano of 'White Lake', Deaf Center have a seemingly bottomless supply of aural dignity and pathos on which to draw. Other highlights include the tense strings and snatched choirs of 'Stone Beacon', the thrumming piano of 'Loft' and the soaring orchestral pomp of 'Thunder Night'. Just incredible music
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=18733

http://www.discogs.com/Deaf-Center-Pale-Ravine/release/1159628

DominoDub

A Vote for Public Image Ltd. "Metal Box"

Just been playing this on my new Headphones (Senn IE7's) wow the work by Jah Wobble on Bass and Keith Levene on Guitar comes into new and wonderfull light ,,,and John Lydon's best vocal work.

Love the fact that the metal CD box has rusted on me !

Anima

Thought I'd nominate Autechre's Tri Repetae. My favourite album, especially the American release with extra tracks from other EPs. In a word, quality!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9TBa1ykix0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3wsZN8SxeQ

Tuff Break

Hi all.. My names Jeff and i produce what i would like to think as experimental music..
I currently have a track doing pretty god in a competition and was wondering if anyone would fancy listening to it.. and if they like it maybe throw me a vote!!!!

Thanks a million folks,
Jeff!!!! :-)

cornbb

Guys, apologies for not updating work of the "month" in ages, i don't seem to have the time to pull it together. If anyone else wants to keep it moving along please feel free to tot up votes and start the new threads, I'm always keeping an eye on the forum and will sticky them etc as appropriate.

John

Equally, I've been lost in a PhD fog for the last couple of months and haven't been checking in here at all.

TolkaMusic

Mindbending stuff I recall, especially walking around a 24 hour tesco in the middle of the night with headphones on looking for lemons to make more hot whiskeys.

Everyone seems to walk around in fast forward! I highly recommend it.
Some extremely disturbing parts with samples of babys crying and echoey bible verse, over multiple trumpet madness and then it all stops and theres a funk guitar with wah peddle. Ah that takes me back

Dead Man

Check out this band Plinth, they're bringing out an EP in Cork this week. Very experimental indeed. Reminds me of Mr. Bungle...

http://www.myspace.com/plinthband