Unheard of!! - new music recommendations

[Guest]

I'd like to start with Ole-Henrik Moe.

I've finally bought an album of his solo violin pieces, Ciaccona / 3 Persephone perceptions - http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists...nrik-moe-ciac/

Somebody's made pictures on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QPlACFgHaQ This is the first of the 3 Pp's.

Hearing the disc, I now realise that the music is not interrupted on the video. The intrusions of environmental noise are silences on the CD. On Spotify, they can be found by searching '3 Persephone'; the first finishes at 10' 06"; like Olga Neuwirth's music, this is so dry it makes my mouth water.

Anyone else like to recommend something the rest of us mae knot noe?

[Paul Sherratt]

Phil,

I've just been enjoying Darondo. Ace are reissuing his album shortly - I doubt it will surface on R3 but Good Gideon Coe took up
the tip pretty sharpish and played some to his 6 Music listeners this week.

[hackneyvi]

Phil,

I've just been enjoying Darondo. Ace are reissuing his album shortly - I doubt it will surface on R3 but Good Gideon Coe took up
the tip pretty sharpish and played some to his 6 Music listeners this week.

Thank the Lord for Spotify and messageboards, Paul!

I'm playing Get up off your butt as I type.

[Paul Sherratt]

Well I hope you enjoyed the album a little. I might even buy it !
Now talking of Gideon Coe, here's his dad with some mates

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oSjjotraR4

And I'd like more folk to hear of Ronnie

http://foundmusic.blogspot.com/2010/03/guitar-player-ronnie-moipolai.html

Wouldn't you ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Paul: I really enjoyed the Darondo: way out of my usual pleasure domes and something my snotty younger self wouldn't've dreamt of listening to (ah, the malign influence of Punk)! MANY thanks; I'm rather chuffed with the idea of becoming a Soul Brother in my fifties.

I'd like to start with Ole-Henrik Moe.

Anyone else like to recommend something the rest of us mae knot noe?

Thanks also for the Moe, too, Phil: I missed the Arditti concert of his trilogy for String Quintet given at last year's HCMF (where the composer was indisposed and Graeme Jennings - who just happened to be around for another event - stepped in and practically sight-read the part in the concert). Lovely, ghostly sonorities here: fragile and furious by turns: I shall definitely hunt out this album.

Do you know the work of Pierluigi BILLONE? Well worth seeking out: there's a KAIROS CD (0012602KAI) of his searing Bass Clarinet duo "1 + 1 = 1" and (slightly less successful IMHO) a Stradivarius CD of Me A An and the Viola solo Iti Ke Mi both of which have provided me with hours of fascinating and captivating listening.

Best Wishes.

[hackneyvi]

Do you know the work of Pierluigi BILLONE? Well worth seeking out: there's a KAIROS CD (0012602KAI) of his searing Bass Clarinet duo "1 + 1 = 1" and (slightly less successful IMHO) a Stradivarius CD of Me A An and the Viola solo Iti Ke Mi both of which have provided me with hours of fascinating and captivating listening.

Best Wishes.

Thanks, fg. I'm off work this week and I'll give Billone a listen; the last 2 works you list are available on Spotify (by gum, it's good!).

A word of warning to a degree; having listened to the whole of Moe's 3 Persephone perceptions, I do think that first is impressive. The 2nd is long (26") and repetitive where the 1st seems extraordinarily diverse and effective. I did find all sorts of music leapt out to me in the first few minutes of the second but I can't justify its length to any other listener. Nevertheless, if someone 'gets' it, I'd be glad to be redirected and will listen again.

To any interested listener, the three pieces run directly into one another although there are clear junctures; they run 10' 06" - 23' 08" - 6' 23".