Man Watching The Stars * Tetsuroh Konishi
Brendan Paxton spends 2.5 hours watching the stars with his violin (and effect pedals) *** Two ambient jazz albums by trumpet player Tetsuroh Konishi.
Tag: violin
Christoph Berg * Tobias Preisig
Christoph Berg introduces his new label with an album based on tape manipulations (and a stunning violin concertina) *** Tobias Preisig “does for the violin what Colin Stetson does for the saxophone or Nils Frahm for the Piano.”
Zachary Paul * Jane Antonia Cornish * Rune Clausen
Zachary Paul showcases the textural range of the violin *** Jane Antonia Cornish is a must-listen for all lovers of modern-classical music *** Rune Clausen explores the mysteries of the Norwegian forests
Hugh Marsh * Saffronkeira
Hugh Marsh‘s Violinvocations shows his admiration for Jon Hassell *** Saffronkeira‘s Automatism is a ‘journey through the vastness of the unconscious’
Man Watching the Stars – Dusk
It’s a hell of a comparision, I know, but Man Watching the Stars reminds me of the best work from the now-legendary Stars of the Lid.
Check out this album – you won’t regret it.
London Docks – Tangaroa
London Docks is the alias Nikita Sorokin uses for his solo work.
He’s not from London, but from Los Angeles.
Also a member of Insects vs. Robots – but don’t let that count as an introduction, because the music he presents as London Docks is quite different from that of this particular “psychotropicturesque quasi-nomadic music tribe”.
“Tangaróa“ is a collection of tracks merging Nikita Sorokin‘s solo violin improvisations with “fields recordings and electronica into sonic dreamscapes that are inspired as much by science fiction and mythology as they are by musical ideas”.
Max Richter – Infra
Next to Johann Johannsson and Ólafur Arnalds, Max Richter is one of the pioneers of the ‘post-classical’ genre, a mixture of classical music, electronic sounds and rock music influences.
Mostly the compositions in this genre are suble and not too complex, often slightly (ore not so slightly) melancholic – the kind of music that feels and sounds like it’s written to be a (movie) soundtrack.
So it should not be a surprise that Richter’s Infra was originally written as a score for Wayne McGregor’s ballet as performed by the Royal Ballet.
Various Artists – Herfsttonen
As the musical part of the “Landtonen” festival in november 2009, “Herfsttonen” (Autumn Sounds) celebrated the local district of “Okkenbroek“, near Deventer (in Holland).
This may sound as if it is interesting to local citizens only.
Not true! – That would mean the large part of the world would miss this great project!
The three compositions presented here are very different from each other, but they are linked by the theme, and by the environmental sounds of Okkenbroek. This album deserves to be heard out of the local context, too, because it is dedicated to preserving the kind of rural life that may disappear all too quickly.