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Classic overnight radio with that feel of an unanticipated fill-in! Hour-long installation pieces, murmurs in the dark, endless hurtling to the bottomless abyss! Hi Mom!
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William Basinski & Janek Schaefer | . . . on reflection (one) | . . . on reflection | Temporary Residence Ltd | Time and duration are core themes in the work of both William Basinski and Janek Schaefer, and this long-distance collaboration took a suitably long gestation of eight years from start to finish. In that time, our collective perception of time has at times become disorienting. “ . . . on reflection ” remodels that instability as an exquisite work of art – one that is unmoored by time or space. Limitation breeds creativity, revealed as an expression of minimalism and close focus. Deploying a delicate piano passage from their collective archive, Basinski and Schaefer weave and reweave in numerous ways, forging an iridescent flurry of flickering melodies. The sounds of various birds heard from late night windows on tour can occasionally be heard throughout, ricocheting off mirrored facades, reflecting on themselves as they continually reshape their own environments with song. “ . . . on reflection ” looks backwards, a bustling revelry of positive emotions heard through the aging mirrors of memory. It is a celebratory meditation where sound shimmers through time like the light of the sea’s waves glistening as it folds and unfolds upon itself. Created 2014-2022 between L.A. & London. Mixed at Narnia, Walton-on-Thames. | * | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
William Basinski & Janek Schaefer | . . . on reflection (two) | . . . on reflection | Temporary Residence Ltd | * | 0:07:34 (Pop-up) | ||
William Basinski & Janek Schaefer | . . . on reflection (three) | . . . on reflection | Temporary Residence Ltd | * | 0:20:42 (Pop-up) | ||
William Basinski & Janek Schaefer | . . . on reflection (four) | . . . on reflection | Temporary Residence Ltd | * | 0:26:28 (Pop-up) | ||
William Basinski & Janek Schaefer | . . . on reflection (five) | . . . on reflection | Temporary Residence Ltd | * | 0:36:38 (Pop-up) | ||
Tatsuhisa Yamamoto | Reducing | Recycling | Dasa Tapes | 0:42:02 (Pop-up) | |||
Phabies | Fire Seed | Fire Seed | Self Released | * | 1:01:47 (Pop-up) | ||
India Gallery | Fjóla Evans - Augun | To You Through | Redshft | * | 1:05:54 (Pop-up) | ||
Camp Cope | Blue | Running With the Hurricanes | Run For Cover Records | * | 1:11:23 (Pop-up) | ||
Tapes And Topographies | The FIrst of Many Moons | Modalities | Simulacra | * | 1:15:18 (Pop-up) | ||
Particle Kid | Along the Timely Road | Time Capsule | Oar | * | 1:19:06 (Pop-up) | ||
Martin Taxt | Swelling Forms of Domes | Second Room | Sofa Music | * | 1:22:50 (Pop-up) | ||
Martin Taxt | Paving Seen From Above | Second Room | Sofa Music | * | 1:33:11 (Pop-up) | ||
Zach Rowden | Between Chirping and Breaking | Like A Mirror Does | 1:44:13 (Pop-up) | ||||
Clara Rockmore | Rachmaninoff: Vocalise | Theremin | Mississippi Records | With Nadia Reisenberg Piano Official reissue of the 1977 album of Clara Rockmore’s stunning theremin performances of various classical compositions, accompanied by her sister Nadia Reisenberg on piano. Includes gorgeous interpretations of pieces by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Ravel and more. An all time classic classical album, finally back in print. Rockmore was a violin child prodigy with training at the Imperial Conservatory in St. Petersberg. A refugee of the Russian Revolution, she arrived in New York with her family in 1921, and soon after met Professor Lev Sergeyevich Termen, inventor of the remarkable theremin, one of the first electronic instruments in existence. Rockmore stunned crowds by playing music both highly technical and emotionally intense, all without ever touching her instrument. Her work represented the cutting edge of electronic music, inspiring a generation of innovators (including Bob Moog, who co-produced this record). On her custom built theremin, Rockmore channeled deep human emotion through an electronic device for the first time. | * | 1:59:04 (Pop-up) | |
Clara Rockmore | Rachmaninoff: Son of Grusia | Theremin | Mississippi Records | With Nadia Reisenberg piano | * | 2:02:49 (Pop-up) | |
Clara Rockmore | Saint-Saëns: The Swan | Theremin | Mississippi Records | With Nadia Reisenberg Piano | * | 2:07:07 (Pop-up) | |
Clara Rockmore | De Falla: Pantomime | Theremin | Mississippi Records | With Nadia Reisenberg piano | * | 2:10:08 (Pop-up) | |
Roscoe Holcomb | Single Girl | The Old Church | Mississippi Records | A LOST RECORDING OF UNTAMED APPALACHIAN MUSIC In 1972, the renowned and singular folk musician Roscoe Holcomb left his home in rural Daisy, Kentucky and embarked on a west coast tour with Mike Seeger, which included a performance at The Old Church in Portland, Oregon - a beautiful Carpenter Gothic church built in 1882. Decades later, two particular reels were discovered deep within a pile of 1/4” tape in a shadowy corner of the KBOO Community Radio archives in Portland. Incredibly, those tapes contained the sole surviving evidence of a strikingly intimate and raw performance by Roscoe Holcomb, whose cascading and haunting banjo, guitar and voice echoed and saturated the room and hushed audience. In contrast to Roscoe’s rarely documented (and at times restrained) live performances at folk festivals and television programs, Roscoe seems to have felt more familiar and spiritually moved in the old church that night. Heard here are standout versions of Appalachian folk-blues classics such as Single Girl, John Henry, East Virginia Blues, Swanno Mountain and more. Once cited as Bob Dylan’s favorite singer, Roscoe Holcomb appears at the peak of his powers here, showcasing his immense vocal talents and deep feeling for the music of his home on an extended a cappella version of “The Village Churchyard”. The recording itself is warm and mysterious, sounding like the room itself is alive with the spirit, while the rumbles of trucks and hints of city sounds peek through the walls from the outside streets. | * | 2:12:12 (Pop-up) | |
Roscoe Holcomb | Black Eyed Suzie | The Old Church | Mississippi Records | * | 2:15:34 (Pop-up) | ||
Roscoe Holcomb | East Virginia Blues | The Old Church | Mississippi Records | * | 2:17:27 (Pop-up) | ||
Dean Spunt and John Wiese | Fruit From Color Vapor 1 | The Echoing Shell | Drag City Records | * | 2:22:37 (Pop-up) | ||
COFFIN VOMIT | Showers of Light Rain | "Manchester: October 1977" | ABHORRENT A.D. | 2:37:32 (Pop-up) | |||
Les Ailes | Back In A Motel | But I Love You | 2:47:26 (Pop-up) | ||||
Fake Buildings | Darius Rucker is Dead | Wet Salt | 2:51:04 (Pop-up) | ||||
Corpsegrinder | Acid Vat | Corpsegrinder | 2:54:16 (Pop-up) |
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