The Incredible String Band were at their best when the Scottish acid folkies would just let go and jam for long stretches at a time.
Month: August 2016
[Music] Rishad Shafi & Gunesh – Baikonur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYxcayywWX8
Rishad Shafi was a drummer and percussionist from Turkmenistan who headed the best prog band out of Central Asia in the 1980s, Gunesh.
[Music] Toots Thielemans – Estate
Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans, known to millions of fans as ‘Toots‘, passed away yesterday at the age of 94. If you were ever a fan of Sesame Street as a child, you already know his work, as the whistling you hear is his, uncredited.
Rest in peace, Toots.
[Music] Damir Imamović’s Sevdah Takht – Sarajevo
I haven’t heard of anything good coming out of Bosnia-Herzegovina recently due to a lack of good contacts in the area. However, judging by the work of Damir Imamović, the scene looks to be doing just fine.
[Music] Orkiestra Ósmego Dnia – Dlaczego wschodni wiatr niesie mróz
I’m not sure if Orkiestra Ósmego Dnia (Orchestra of the Eighth Day) would qualify as a world music band, an experimental project, or an improv group, but leader Jan A. P. Kaczmarek has gone on to making some rather good movie soundtracks.
[Music] WORM Pirate Bay is launched
I’m having a bit of trouble seeing the connection between WORM, the Rotterdam-based collective lending out materials and The Pirate Bay, who are, in every sense of the word, pirates when it comes to copyrighted material (whether that is good or bad depends on how you see this issue, as a case can be made either way). Still, congratulations to WORM for bringing back the idea of sharing tangible product. As much as I adore digital media, it’s just not the same. Music I can make an exception for, but books? No.
Thanks to The Wire Magazine, who originally shared this post.
[Music] Is Bandcamp the Holy Grail of Online Record Stores?
I’m a big fan of Bandcamp. So much so that I not only have a personal account with them, where I’ve bought over 630 albums, but I’ve also released 9 albums on my own online label. They have a great model to work with, and are the equivalent of an incredible indie record shop, but they need only to develop a social media platform in order to allow people to really connect. Otherwise, Bandcamp is really something else.
The New York Times writes about them here.
[Music] Edda Dell’Orso – The Wordless Song (Extended Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCEAOlX5twE
Wonderfully tacky scatting by Edda Dell’orso from the movie They Came To Rob Vegas! The soundtrack was composed by Georges Garvarentz.
[Music] fauxmúsica – Ad Astra
Ad Astra is a project of Zane O’Brien, one of the most creative minds working in electronic music today. This release is one of the better experimental electronic releases I’ve heard in quite some time.
[Music] John Cage And Sun Ra’s Legendary Experimental Encounter – Electronic Beats
Electronic Beats, run by T-Mobile, posted this amazing video, and an accompanying article, on the meeting between composer John Cage and psychedelic jazz genius Sun Ra.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 