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Tom Waits and Keith Richards: “Shenandoah” (YouTube)
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Nightlands: “So Far So Long”
Dave Hartley, AKA Nightlands, releases his second album, Oak Island, today via Secretly Canadian.
Check out album track “So Far So Long” below.
Shout Out Louds: “Walking in Your Footsteps”
Shout Out Louds releases Optica February 26th on Merge. Catchy and resonant of a certain period without any kitschy residue, lead off track “Walking in Your Footsteps” has a confectionery’s worth of a hook and an equally memorable arrangement that will put a swagger in many an indie pop fan’s step this Spring.
Brokeback: “The Wire, The Rag, and The Payoff”
Another Thrill Jockey release hits the streets on Tuesday: Brokeback’s Brokeback and the Black
Rock. Check out a teaser track below.
Arboretum: “The Promise”
In the embed below, check out a stream of “The Promise” by Arboretum. It is a teaser from their album Coming Out of the Fog, which is out Tuesday on Thrill Jockey.
Low: “Just Make it Stop” (MP3)
Celebrating twenty years together, Low releases The Invisible Way, their tenth album on March 19th via Sub Pop. Check out (and download) album track “Just Make it Stop” via the embed below. Mid tempo, but given the band’s slowcore pedigree, the cut sounds positively buoyant!
Devendra Banhart: Für Hildegard von Bingen (YouTube)
Devendra Banhart’s new CD Mala is out March 12, 2013 on Nonesuch.
Today he shared a teaser track that pays homage to one of our favorite musical abbesses. Check out “Für Hildegard von Bingen” below.
Friday: Nono CD Release Party
Miranda Cuckson and Christopher Burns originally planned to celebrate the release of their latest CD, a recording of Luigi Nono’s “la lontananza nostalgica utopica futura” back in November. After Storm Sandy, the formal release was pushed back to January. In the interim, the NY Times named it one of 2012′s best CDs and we added an excerpt of the recording to our “Favorite Things 2012″ Mix.
Tonight, at long last, Miranda and Chris get to properly celebrate the Nono disc, performing it tonight (Friday) and Saturday at Spectrum. In addition, listeners will get to hear a demonstration of the 5.1 surround version of the recording and another work by Burns. Details below.
Event Details
Date and time: Friday, January 4, 2012, *7 PM
Place: Spectrum
121 Ludlow Street, Second Floor, New York, NY
Tickets: $15 general/$10 students and seniors
–Live performance by Miranda and Chris of Leggii 3 and 4 from “la lontananza nostalgica utopica futura”
–Demo of the recording featuring Richard Warp’s realizations of the electronics in 5.1 channel surround sound
–Miranda performs Chris’ composition “come ricordi come sogni come echi: six
studies on Nono’s ‘la lontananza nostalgica utopica futura’ for solo violin”
–Open forum with the artists
Date and time: Saturday, January 5, 2012, *7 PM
Place: Spectrum
121 Ludlow Street, Second Floor, New York, NY
Tickets: $15 general/$10 students and seniors
–Miranda Cuckson and Chris Burns perform Dai Fujikura’s “prism spectra” for viola and live surround electronics, which they are recording for an upcoming CD
–Chris Burns presents his own compositions: “Opalescence”, a glockenspiel solo performed by Trevor Saint, and “Xenoglossia” for live electronics
–Richard Warp demonstrates his new brain-computer spatialization interface
Tracey Thorn: “Joy” (Video)
Tinsel and Lights, Tracey Thorn’s ecumenical holiday album, is out now via Merge. Check out Tracey’s video for album track “Joy” below.
First Solo Release on Bandcamp
All proceeds from the sale of “Gilgamesh Suite EP” will benefit Locrian Chamber Players’ next concert season.
“‘Gilgamesh Suite ‘is a newly composed work based on selections from incidental music I contributed to the play ‘Gilgamesh Variations,’ produced at Brooklyn’s Bushwick Starr Theatre in 2011. Written to commemorate the 2012 John Cage centenary, its touchstone work is ‘Sonatas and Interludes.’ Instead of creating a trope on Cageian compositional practices, I focused on incorporating the rich sound palette of the work’s prepared piano into the play’s eclectic and highly gestural aesthetic.
The suite, composed for Locrian Chamber Players, is scored for flute, prepared piano, harp, and string quartet. The sixth movement embeds ‘Locrian Flourish,’ a work commissioned by the ensemble for flutist Diva Goodfriend-Koven, as an extended cadenza.” – Christian Carey
credits
released 09 December 2012
Locrian Chamber Players: Conrad Harris and Miranda Cuckson, violin; Daniel Panner, viola; Greg Hesselink, cello; Roger Wagner, bass; Diva Goodfriend-Koven, flute; David Broome, prepared piano; Lynette Wardle, harp. Artistic Director: David MacDonaldMusic by Christian Carey, published by File Under Music (ASCAP).
Copyright 2012. All rights reserved.
Locrian Chamber Players: Conrad Harris and Miranda Cuckson, violin; Daniel Panner, viola; Greg Hesselink, cello; Roger Wagner, bass; Diva Goodfriend-Koven, flute; David Broome, prepared piano; Lynette Wardle, harp. Artistic Director: David MacDonaldMusic by Christian Carey, published by File Under Music (ASCAP).
Copyright 2012. All rights reserved.
Recorded August 24, 2012 at Riverside Church, New York.
Locrian Chamber Players (locrian.org)
Mastering: Robert Thomas (retmusic.com)
Artwork: Tyler Carey
For scores, parts, and more information about Christian Carey, please visit www.christiancarey.wordpress.com
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