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[Globaltruth]

Music as a series of ephemeral thrills?
Article in the New Yorker about Sublime Frequencies, group of rogue ethnomusicologists, and some of the albums they’ve produced so far

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/29/sublime-frequencies-vision-of-what-world-music-means-today

[Globaltruth]

Music as a series of ephemeral thrills?
Article in the New Yorker about Sublime Frequencies, group of rogue ethnomusicologists, and some of the albums they’ve produced so far
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...ic-means-today

and here's a sample track from one of their albums:
To Catch A Ghost, Field recordings from Madagascar
Gilbert Peramena dit Bera (valiha marovany) - Hala Narako Rofozina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOBN-tUFrEU

[MrGongGong]

and here's a sample track from one of their albums:
To Catch A Ghost, Field recordings from Madagascar
Gilbert Peramena dit Bera (valiha marovany) - Hala Narako Rofozina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOBN-tUFrEU

This has been a favourite for a while now

[Serial_Apologist]

This has been a favourite for a while now

The thing to remark is that sound can be very sensuous: even the sound of scissors cutting through paper, or a comb being tapped on a wooden surface. A great present-centred, mindfulness way of focussing on the NOW. ASMR is being given serious consideration in some quarters of the mass media. There is even a video of triopical rain being advertised on TV. I've been on about this for some time. I once told a group of improvising musicians how relaxing I found my recordings of Tony Oxley's electronic percussion solos to be, played at low volume, before bedding down for the night. "I'm not sure Tony would be happy to hear you saying that", Elton Dean told us!

Sadly there don't seem to be any youtube links for Mr Oxley. Here's a short solo by the -and many British jazz fans agree - greatest jazz drummer this country has ever produced. Spoiler alert: this is not electronic percussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbaRQ9JXS3Y

[Globaltruth]

The mystery of the Bulgarian Voices and their new album

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/06/we-fall-like-cosmic-rain-how-the-mystery-of-the-bulgarian-voices-became-global-stars

In which the usually reliable and always readable Robin Denselow makes a rare mistake which is corrected in the comments. I mean, it’s not like Fake News or anything is it... but still we all need to stop those standards slipping

[MrGongGong]

The thing to remark is that sound can be very sensuous: even the sound of scissors cutting through paper, or a comb being tapped on a wooden surface. A great present-centred, mindfulness way of focussing on the NOW. ASMR is being given serious consideration in some quarters of the mass media. There is even a video of triopical rain being advertised on TV. I've been on about this for some time. I once told a group of improvising musicians how relaxing I found my recordings of Tony Oxley's electronic percussion solos to be, played at low volume, before bedding down for the night. "I'm not sure Tony would be happy to hear you saying that", Elton Dean told us!

Sadly there don't seem to be any youtube links for Mr Oxley. Here's a short solo by the -and many British jazz fans agree - greatest jazz drummer this country has ever produced. Spoiler alert: this is not electronic percussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbaRQ9JXS3Y

Fantastic stuff

Thanks

[Richard Barrett]

The thing to remark is that sound can be very sensuous: even the sound of scissors cutting through paper, or a comb being tapped on a wooden surface. A great present-centred, mindfulness way of focussing on the NOW. ASMR is being given serious consideration in some quarters of the mass media. There is even a video of triopical rain being advertised on TV. I've been on about this for some time. I once told a group of improvising musicians how relaxing I found my recordings of Tony Oxley's electronic percussion solos to be, played at low volume, before bedding down for the night. "I'm not sure Tony would be happy to hear you saying that", Elton Dean told us!

Sadly there don't seem to be any youtube links for Mr Oxley. Here's a short solo by the -and many British jazz fans agree - greatest jazz drummer this country has ever produced. Spoiler alert: this is not electronic percussion.

I think something like ASMR was discovered by Xenakis and some of the French musique concrète composers - Xenakis's Concret PH from 1958, composed to fill the spaces between presentations of the Varèse/Corbusier Poème electronique at the Philips Pavilion (designed of course by Xenakis himself) of the Brussels World Fair, is based on the sounds of crackling charcoal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY3cB3E-Ts0

As for Tony Oxley, Joseph K will be along in a moment to enthuse about his more "straight" playing on John McLaughlin's Extrapolation, his first album as leader. In the meantime I'll enthuse about his long-running duo with Cecil Taylor, which I caught a couple of times here and there. I think I've told the story of when I met Oxley, who must be the most curmudgeonly individual in free improvisation (unchallenged since Derek Bailey and Hans Reichel left the planet).

[Joseph K]

As for Tony Oxley, Joseph K will be along in a moment to enthuse about his more "straight" playing on John McLaughlin's Extrapolation, his first album as leader.

Actually, I just thought it when I first read SA's post a few hours ago.

[Serial_Apologist]

Actually, I just thought it when I first read SA's post a few hours ago.

Aaaah...

[johncorrigan]

The always excellent David Remnick writing in the New Yorker about Bob's 'Rolling Thunder' ahead of the forthcoming Scorcese doc.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-chaotic-magic-of-bob-dylans-rolling-thunder-revue