Thursday, 25th of November, 2004

OK, the AudioMulch discussion list currently has a thread on “current fav music CDs”, to which I contributed. I thought it was only fair to post it here, as I haven’t been talking about music lately. Here you go:

Tunng - Mother’s Daughter and Other Songs (brilliant forthcoming CD on Static Caravan, drops 15th of Jan. Think the Books with slightly more folk-song arrangements, utter brilliance)

The Boats - Songs By The Sea (the two guys from the Remote Viewer (ex-Hood) plus female vocals, lovely hybrid of acoustic sounds and minimal electronics. Strongly recommended, on the Remote Viewer’s own label Moteer and certainly available through Norman Records)

Hood - The Lost You EP and promo of Outside Closer album (utter genius as always)

Pedro - Fear & Resilience remixes (best track on the excellent Pedro album from last year; the Prefuse 73 remix is his best thing in ages as Prefuse - but check the wondrous Savath & Savalas EP Manana. The Four Tet mix is a bit self-indulgently long but has some great bits…)

Her Space Holiday - The Young Machines Remixed (oh, that Matmos remix! Oh! But the Album Leaf is a beauty too, Dntel turns in one of his lovely orchestral-sampling pastiches, and all the mixes are good. On Mush)

Kattoo - Places (half of Beefcake, sounds exactly like a Beefcake album, which I’m not complaining about. On Beefcake’s original home, Hymen)

Tin Hat Trio - Book of Silk (indescribably wonderful band, gypsy/folk/jazz/improv/C20th classical/tango/bluegrass etc, on Ropeadope - subsite for the album here)

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (perfect folk, the Christian lyrics are fitting if not my thing)

And just to make it a bit on-topic (for the Mulch list where this was originally posted):
Adam Butler - Schmoozing With the Après-Garde (I keep coming back to this - lovely semi-improv piano live-processed presumably in AudioMulch. Adam is on this list, so I’ll probably hear from him shortly! On fairly obscure German label Whatness, making it an expensive prospect to get this one)

In my email I forgot to mention also Gabriel Prokofiev, grandson of the more famous Sergei, whose String Quartet No. 1 is a rather good work which has been released in a performance by the Elysian Quartet by new label Nonclassical along with a bunch of remixes of the work. Hm, remixed string quartet, what a great idea! *heh* They’re great too, and by far the best remix is Gabriel Prokofiev’s own. Worth tracking down (try those Norman boys again…)

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