Feel like Black Friday has inundated you with enough “buy buy buy” messages? Well electronica artist DFalt has teamed with Ableton to offer a new EP for free download via SoundCloud (embed below).
Pitchfork reported on Wednesday that former Sleater-Kinney member Corin Tucker will release her band’s next recording, Kill My Blues, via Kill Rock Stars on 9/18. Check out a teaser MP3, “Groundhog Day,” below.
MP3 – Corin Tucker Band: Goundhog Day
Musicians: Günter Gläser, Kawol Samarkand, Roger Sundström, Peter Thörn, Glenn Smith, J.C. Combs, Lee Noyes, Kavin Allenson, Steve Moyes, Richard Sanderson, Paul Muller, Lydia Busler-Blais, Benjamin Smith, Jérôme Poirier, Fabio Keiner, Norbert Oldani, Chris Vaisvil, Steve Layton, Paulo Chagas, Steve Moshier, Bruce Hamilton, Shane Cadman, Jim Goodin.
Casavant Organ at Grace Church Newark
Here’s a Soundcloud demo of my latest choral piece, a motet setting of “Alleluiai, Ascendit Deus” (Psalm 47:5). Instead of those beastly MIDI ooh’s and ah’s, I’ve used a sample of an organ flute stop as the sound palette. Please feel free to download, share, embed, etc.
The piece will be premiered as part of the 175th Anniversary celebration of Grace Church Newark, a service commemorating the Feast of the Ascension (May 19,2012 at noon).
Eight and a Half’s S/T LP is out via Arts and Craftson April 10, 2012. Check out their terrific lead off single, “Scissors,” available for free download via the embed below.
Composer and Conductor John Williams turns eighty today. To help him celebrate, the Boston Pops, an orchestra with whom he’s long been associated, has created a “choose your favorite theme” webpage.
It includes Soundcloud embeddable widgets for some of Williams’s most famous film music themes, such as:
My theme is the March from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” by Boston Pops
My theme is the Main Theme from “Star Wars” by Boston Pops
and let’s not forget:
My theme is the Theme from “Jaws” by Boston Pops
Soundcloud widgets can be shared via blogs, web pages, and most social media platforms, and the Boston Pops is glad to have fans of film music join in the celebration by streaming these excerpts.
Dark UrrrU/Waterfinder - cassette split (via the sadly now defunct Peasant Magik): A generous helping of drones, post-psych reverberations, spoken word and caterwauling from Portland, Maine supergroup.
Caldera Lakes - “arranged” (via Ecstatic Peace): see Sunday’s review.
Long Distance Poison – The Shores of Titan: free download via their Soundcloud page (thanks to Steve Smith for the tip!)
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp (Out this week via Jagjaguwar). Her last album was indeed Epic; and this one has breakout hit all over it. Check out L Magazine’s article on Sharon: she’s interviewed by Wye Oak’s vocalist Jenn Wasner.
Sharon Van Etten
Tim Berne - Snakeoil (ECM Records): Also out this week, alto saxophonist Tim Berne’s most “chamber music” flavored foray to date. Ches Smith, Oscar Norieaga, and Matt Mitchell join Berne on his first studio recording in years, creating supple, dynamic, and adventurous renditions of a set of new original compositions.
Johann Johannsson - The Miners’ Hymns (FatCat): From February 8-14 at Film Forum on West Houston Street in NYC, there will be screenings of Bill Morrison’s film The Miners’ Hymns: a portrait of the inexorable winds of change that beset a British mining town, forever changing its residents’ way of life. The score was released last year, but its evocative mixture of organ, brass ensemble, and string textures is well worth revisiting, even sans Morrison’s touching cinematography.
