(sounds like dirt xxiii) you seem close to the edge

 
if i could just make it stop
i could tell the whole world
to get out of the way
if i could just make it stop
if i could just make it stop
breaking my heart
get out of the way
if i could just make it stop

(drone)

you seem close to the edge
i'm at the end of my rope
the rope is starting to thread
i'm trying to keep my hold

you say i'm something i'm not
but i'm not what i seem
get my back off the wall
if i could just make it stop
if i could just make it stop
i could tell the hole world
to get out of the way
if i could just make it stop
if i could just make it stop
breaking my heart
get out of the way
if i could just make it stop
if i could just make it stop

(drone)

now i'm looking up from a ten foot hole
see nothing but blue sky, shining on my soul
as i enter the court and untwist the knot
we could get where we're going,
if i could just make it stop
if i could just make it stop
i could tell the whole world
to get out of the way
if i could just make it stop
if i could just make it stop
from breaking my heart
get out of the way
if i could just make it stop
if i could just make it stop

(drone)

(melancholia by low and m swiezynski)

(sounds like dirt x) as desperation takes hold

when routine bites hard
and ambitions are low
and resentment rides high
but emotions won't grow
and we're changing our ways
taking different roads
then love, love will tear us apart again
love, love will tear us apart again

why is the bedroom so cold
turned away on your side
is my timing that flawed
our respect (feelings) run so dry
yet there's still this appeal
that we've kept through our lives
but love, love will tear us apart again
love, love will tear us apart again

do you cry out in your sleep
all my failings exposed
and there's a taste in my mouth
as desperation takes hold
is it something so good
just can't function no more
but love, love will tear us apart again...

(joy division)
marin - on shoreline highway, 4.2010, dark was the night

its just like a love story
each individual is nothing on their own
and when they click together, when they are together
it is enormous
annick honoré

(sounds like dirt ix)

do what you gotta do
come on back see me when you can
man i can understand how it might be
kinda hard to love a girl like me
i don't blame you much for wanting to be free
i just wanted you to know
from the very start it's my own fault
what happens to my heart
you see i've always known you'd go

so you just do what you gotta do
my wild sweet love
though it may mean that i'll never kiss
those sweet lips again
pay that no mind
find that dappled dream of yours

(nina simone - roberta flack - meg baird, thanks to t. for alerting me)
((rust and dirt found here))

(out of town a bit, back soon)

(sounds łike dirt viii) "watch out young fellow" he said to the errant deer

recently discovered photograph (with details) of bolesław okoniewski
(late in life he lived with the deer, they took little notice of him)

when i wake up early in the morning,
łift my head, i'm still yawning
when i'm in the middle of a dream
stay in bed, float up stream

płease don't wake me, no
don't shake me
leave me where i am
i'm only słeeping

everybody seems to think i'm łazy
i don't mind, i think they're crazy
running everywhere at such a speed
till they find, there's no need

płease don't spoil my day
i'm miles away
and after all
i'm only sleeping

keeping an eye on the world going by my window
taking my time

łying there and staring at the ceiling
waiting for a słeepy feeling

please don't spoil my day
i'm miles away
and after all
i'm only słeeping

keeping an eye on the world going by my window
taking my time

when i wake up early in the morning,
lift my head, i'm still yawning
when i'm in the middłe of a dream
stay in bed, float up stream

please don't wake me, no
don't shake me
leave me where i am
i'm only sleeping

******

turn off your mind, relax
and float down stream
it is not dying
it is not dying

lay down all thought
surrender to the void
it is shining
it is shining

that you may see
the meaning of within
it is being
it is being

that love is all
and love is everyone
it is knowing
it is knowing

that ignorance and hate
may mourn the dead
it is believing
it is believing

but listen to the
color of your dreams
it is not living
it is not living

or play the game
existence to the end
of the beginning

images and tunes inspired by "slowly"

(sounds like dirt vii)

do i hear
21 21 21

i'll give you
21 21 21

this night you
are mistaken

i'm a farmer
in the city

dark farm
houses
against the
sky

every night
i must wonder why

harness on the
left nail keeps
wrinkling wrinkling

then higher above
me - e e so o
e e e so o o

can't go by
a man from
rio

go by
a man from
vigo

can't go by
a man from
ostia

hey ninetto

remember that
dream

we talked about
it
so many times

do i hear
21 21 21

i'll give you
21 21 21

and if i'm not
mistaken
we can search
from farm to
farm

dark farm houses
against our eyes

every night i
must realize

harness on the
left nail

keeps withering
and withering

then higher above
me - e e so o
e e e so o o

can't go by
a man in
this shirt

go by
a man in
that shirt

can't go by
a man with brain
grass

go by his long
long eye
gas

and i used
to be a
citizen

and i never felt
the pressure

i knew nothing
of the horses

nothing of the
thresher

take me with
you

it was the
journey of
a life

(sounds like dirt vi) heroin, it's my life

i hurt myself today
to see if i still feel
i focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but i remember everything

what have i become?
my sweetest friend

everyone i know
goes away in the end

and you could have it all
my empire of dirt
i will let you down
i will make you hurt

i wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
i cannot repair
beneath the stain of time
the feelings disappears
you are someone else
i am still right here

what have i become?
my sweetest friend
everyone i know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt
i will let you down
i will make you hurt

if i could start again
a million miles away
i would keep myself
i would find a way

(t reznor / johnny cash - the cash version specifically)

*****

i don't know
just where i'm going
but i'm gonna try for the kingdom, if i can
'cause it makes me feel like i'm a man
when i put a spike into my vein
and i'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same
when i'm rushing on my run
and i feel just like jesus' son
and i guess that i just don't know
and i guess that i just don't know

i have made big decision
i'm gonna try to nullify my life
'cause when the blood begins to flow
when it shoots up the dropper's neck
when i'm closing in on death
and you can't help me now, you guys
all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
you can all go take a walk
and i guess that i just don't know
and i guess that i just don't know

i wish that i was born a thousand years ago
i wish that i'd sail the darkened seas
on a great big clipper ship
going from this land here to that
on a sailor's suit and cap
away from the big city
where a man can not be free
of all of the evils of this town
and of himself, and those around
oh, and i guess that i just don't know
oh, and i guess that i just don't know

heroin, be the death of me
heroin, it's my wife and it's my life
because a mainer to my vein
leads to a center in my head
and then i'm better off and dead
because when the smack begins to flow
i really don't care anymore
about all the jim-jim's in this town
and all the politicians makin' crazy sounds
and everybody puttin' everybody else down
and all the dead bodies piled up in mounds

'cause when the smack begins to flow
then i really don't care anymore
ah, when the heroin is in my blood
and that blood is in my head
then thank God that i'm as good as dead
then thank your God that i'm not aware
and thank God that i just don't care
and i guess i just don't know
oh, and i guess i just don't know

(vu)

terrence malick - the thin red line - 1999
cinematography by john toll

(sounds like dirt v)

they asked me how i knew
my true love was true
oh, i of course replied
something here inside cannot be denied

they said someday you'll find
all who love are blind
oh, when your heart's on fire
you must realize
smoke gets in your eyes

so i chaffed them and i gaily laughed
to think they could doubt my love
yet today my love has flown away
i am without my love

now laughing friends deride
tears i can not hide
oh, so i smile and say
when a lovely flame dies
smoke gets in your eyes
smoke gets in your eyes

(jerome kern and otto harbach)

(sounds like dirt iv)

there was a boy
a very strange enchanted boy
they say he wandered very far, very far
over land and sea
a little shy
and sad of eye
but very wise
was he

and then one day
a magic day he passed my way
and while we spoke of many things, fools and kings
this he said to me
"the greatest thing
you'll ever learn
is just to love
and be loved
in return"

(eden ahbez)

there was a boy
he had a toy
to play with

he made it from the mud
dried it in the sun
someone in his household
didn't like it
destroyed the only thing
he'd ever done

come on you can take it
if you need to
all this happiness
is not just mine

i think i know the dark
as well as you do
i think i know it very well

the sun is like a pain
it's like my father
sometimes it gives me strength
sometimes it makes me cry

i was born to follow
like no other
i was bound to loose
i was bound to die

(kath bloom)

(sounds like dirt iii)

same but different

i'm in a boat
on the sea
and i see
you on the shore
so sure
of yourself

you're in a boat
on the sea
and you see
me on the shore
so sure
of myself

we're in a boat
all at sea
and we see
we are the same
the same
but different

vashti bunyan from not alone - 2006 (works better aurally with image - her delicate voice)
kazuumi takahashi - high tide wane moon #25 - 2002

(sounds like dirt ii)

who's in a bunker
women and children first
and the children first

i've seen too much
you haven't seen enough
you haven't seen it

here i'm alive
everything all of the time
here i'm alive
everything all of the time

ice age coming
let me hear both sides
throw them in the fire

this is really happening
take the money and run

here i'm alive
everything all of the time

and first and the children . .

(virilio/tête-radio)

(sounds like dirt)

this bitter earth
well, what fruit it bears

and if my life
is like the dust
that hides the glow of a rose

what good am i
heaven only knows

yes can be so cold
today you are young
too soon you are old
but while a voice within me cries
i'm sure someone may answer my call

and this bitter earth
may not be so bitter after all

what good is love
that no-one shares
and if my life is like the dust
that hides the glow of a rose
what good am i
heaven only knows

****

the glow of a rose
under so many lids
can be so cold

joy of being
what kind of beings are they then
o shooting star
of a rose
while a voice
or an unfinished song

i live my life in widening rings
earth and sky
for they were riverbeds once
and in their sweetness
wander anywhere
i cannot name it

chamber of my heart
weeping too, perhaps
always both
how he loved and yet
depths bend toward you
heavens of lavished stars

the face that is dissolved
empty space, alone
god leapt out
from a motionless cloud

empty at last
landscape of her sorrow
and when she weeps
oh heavy with weeping

(various roses from rainer maria collected while listening to the bitter earth)

indian melancholia & a knock on the window pane

ali akbar khan

(melancholia since 01/2008)


(music):

-sundaram balachander: magic music of india, 1963 (indian veena player)
-sundaram balachander: sounds of the veena, 1967
-sundaram balachander: man from madras, 1968
-pandit vishwa mohan bhatt: saltanah (with simon shaheen), 1997 (hindustani guitar player [guitar is modified with the addition of several drone strings and eight sympathetic strings and called a mohan veena], disciple of ravi shankar)
-pandit vishwa mohan bhatt: saradamani, 1996
-pandit vishwa mohan bhatt & ry cooder: a meeting by the river, 1993
-hariprasad chaurasia: rag bhimpalasi, 1991
-ali akbar khan: the eighty minute raga, 1969 (rag kanara prakaar is a late evening raga, usually performed between 9 pm and midnight)
-ali akbar khan & dr. l. subramaniam: ethereal duet, 1976 (violin & sarod)
-ali akbar khan: peerless, 2002 (ali akbar khan [sarod] & swapan chaudhry [tabla], recorded in switzerland in the 1990's)
-budhaditya mukherjee: budhaditya mukherjee, 1980
-ravi shankar: in london, 1964
-kunnakkudi vaidhyanathan: violin, 1977 (carnatic)
-tanjore viswanathan: south indian flute, 1968 (carnatic)
-the anthology of indian music volume one, 3lp box set, 1967 (includes ravi shankar / alla rakha, ali akbar khan / shankar ghosh, balachander / sivaram, ramani / ramabhadran, janardan abhyankar / arjun shejwal, alla rakha / a. das gupta, kanai dutta and ravi shankar)

(thanks to this great site for posting many of these recordings)

(plus)

-autistic daughters: uneasy flowers, 2008 (trio of dean roberts [guitar, vocals], martin brandlmayr [percussion, computer] and werner dafeldecker [guitar, bass])
-tony bennett: the movie song album, 1966 (includes the lovely the trolley song from meet me in st. louis)
-keith berry vs. fessenden: bleu: résultat, 2006 (includes floating weeds [for yasujiro ozu])
-fourm remixes keith berry, 2007 (quite beautiful little 3" cd)
-anouar brahem: vague, 2003 (ecm french release)
-anouar brahem: conte de l'incroyable amour, 1992
-andrew chalk: time of hayfield, 2007 (recorded in 2005)
-loren chasse: green laughter, 2003 (jewelled antler library vol. 1, documents the reverie of frogs, birds, cicadas and locusts)
-of (loren chasse): the buried stream, 2005 (jewelled antler)
-yannick dauby: la rivière penchée, 2003 (compositions made up of recordings taken at the river's banks, the manipulation of found objects, and some electronic elements)
-yannick dauby: alisen, 2004 (mini cloud of statics disc)
-ostad elahi: cascade - l'art du luth tambur (3 discs from the iranian tanbour player)
-ostad elahi: celestial harmonies
-ostad elahi: mystical orison
-morton feldman: triadic memories, 2004 (played by marilyn nonken)
-morton feldman: last pieces, 2001 (played by stephane ginsburgh)
-alastair galbraith & matt de gennaro: wires music, 1998 (live wire music recorded at the chip shop)
-henryk mikołaj górecki: symphony no. 3, 1994 (philips version with warsaw philharmonic)
-jonny greenwood: there will be blood, 2007 (threnody to the victims of hiroshima tren ofiarom hiroszimy, krzysztof penderecki 1960 in the wild west)
-john hudak: brooklyn bridge, 1998 (stretched, magnified timbres and textures of the bridge)
-jason kahn: plurabelle, 2001 (bell tone related)
-komitas: divine liturgy, 2006 (komitas’ divine liturgy features a quartet of duduks [winds of passion])
-gregg kowalsky: tendrils in vigne, 2007 (music for an ensemble of 25 people)
-bj nilsen & z'ev: 22' 22", 2007 (prefer nilsen's others)
-adam pacione: heat, 2004 (stunning)
-adam pacione: from stills to motion, 2007 (on virb.com thanks to d. granahan, lovely melodies)
-radiohead: jigsaw falling into place (acoustic songs including videotape & last flowers)
-giacinto scelsi: suono rotondo, 2005 (with stefano scodanibbio, michael kiedaisch, michael svoboda)
-seaworthy: map in hand, 2006 (music to explore melodic and experimental approaches to the construction of minimalist sound scapes from looped guitar, warm drones, piano, electronics and field recordings)
-steven r. smith: gehenna belvedere, 1996
-steven r. smith: from ashes come, 1999
-steven r. smith: slate branches, 2000
-steven r. smith: kohl, 2002/2005
-steven r. smith: antimony, 2004
-hala strana: karst, 2003 (jewelled antler library, includes musical contributions from glenn donaldson and loren chasse)
-thuja: fable, 2003 (jewelled antler library, with loren chasse, rob reger, steven r. smith, and glenn donaldson)
-stars of the lid: music for nitrous oxide, 1995
-stars of the lid: gravitational pull vs. the desire for an aquatic life, 1996
-stars of the lid: the ballasted orchestra, 1997
-stars of the lid: per aspera ad astra, 1998
-stars of the lid: avec laudenum, 1999


(films, mostly old favourites):

-woody allen: broadway danny rose, 1984
-woody allen: crimes and misdemeanors, 1989
-p.t. anderson: there will be blood, 2007
-kenneth anger: rabbit's moon, 1979 (later version, a gift for one of brakhage's children)
-michelangelo antonioni: the passenger, 1975 (a.k.a. professione: reporter)
-ingmar bergman: sawdust and tinsel, 1953
-frank capra: arsenic and old lace, 1944
-william friedkin: the exorcist, 1973 (the power of christ compels you)
-tony gilroy: michael clayton, 2007
-john grzinich: mimema, 2008 (in progress)
-alexander hall: here comes mr. jordan, 1941
-david hand walt disney: bambi, 1942
-wojciech has: the saragossa manuscript, 1965 (more useless than beckett's 3-legged giraffe)
-howard hawks: rio bravo, 1958
-alfred hitchcock: the lady vanishes, 1938
-alfred hitchcock: shadow of a doubt, 1943
-alfred hitchcock: lifeboat, 1944
-alfred hitchcock: rebecca, 1940
-john huston: the treasure of the sierra madre, 1948
-john huston: under the volcano, 1984
-norman jewison: in the heat of the night, 1967 (new dvd)
-krzysztof kieslowski: trois couleurs: rouge, 1984
-henry koster: no highway in the sky, 1951 (jimmy stewart and marlene dietrich)
-postwar kurosawa, 1946-1955 (criterion/eclipse set, with no regrets for our youth, one wonderful sunday, scandal, the idiot, i live in fear)
-james mangold: 3:10 to yuma, 2007 (stick with the original)
-oscar michaeux: body and soul, 1925
-vincente minnelli: meet me in st. louis, 1944 (tony bennet influence)
-f.w. murnau: sunrise, 1927
-roy william neill: sherlock holmes, in pursuit to algiers, 1945
-leighton pierce: 37th & lex, 2002
-leighton pierce: a private happiness, 2003
-leighton pierce: viscera, 2004
-leighton pierce: hammock, 2005
-leighton pierce: mr person in the water, 2006
-herbert ross: play it again sam, 1972
-erik skjoldbjærg: insomnia, 1997
-františek vláčil: valley of the bees, 1967
-wim wenders: paris, texas, 1984


(books):

-joseph conrad: youth, 1902
-alain fournier: le grand meaulnes, 1913
-emma kunz - artist, researcher, natural healer, 1998 (emma kunz zentrum, thanks to mr. roden's recommendation)
-b. traven: the treasure of the sierra madre, 1927

a sketch by komitas: and this is me...

i reduction to sleep (a broken consort)

work by louise skelton & richard skelton
(sustain-release)

music by richard skelton:
( )= moniker name

-(a broken consort) box of birch, 2007
barbed wire blues, berkmanan and j f glidden.
bowed metallic figures suspended from ivied trees.
dense thickets of slack, rusted snares and splitting bark.
accordion mists gathering in the early morning light.

-(riftmusic) riftmusic, 2007
iridescent blues. a slow burning late summer fire - its motes carried on the breeze and dancing in the twilight. restless, tumbling chord arpeggios the colour of fading heather and bracken. shimmering filaments of acoustic guitar blown over fields of charred violin

-(a broken consort) the shape leaves, 2006
deep forest drones and lunar blues. fragments torn from live recordings ~ serrated, bowed dulcimer, scraped guitar and wounded violin, all bound with muted, tangled percussion

-(harlassen) a way now, 2006
hypnotic, tidal blues. memories of spiralling currents, driftwood and undertow. fragments of acoustic guitar and piano swept along in choking streams of violin. lost in shimmering waves of distortion and turbulent percussion

-(carousell) a dead bridges into dust, 2005
the rattle of barbed wire fences and the distant drone of machinery. a muffled, plaintive piano and the piercing whine of a violin. fragments of acoustic guitar, interleaved, and looping endlessly in the twilight

-(heidika) there is no cure & other songs, 2005


things not unrelated:

-the music of colleen
-henryk gorecki: symphony 3 "sorrowful songs"
-the viol playing of jordi savall & early music
-the music of j.s. bach, esp. cello suites & the sonatas and partitas for solo violin
-choral/sacred music/gregorian chant
-alchemy
-the music of six organs of admittance
-rural united kingdom
-bowed metallic figures
-"tread softly because you tread on my dreams..." william butler yeats
-krzysztof kieslowski's la double vie de veronique
-the music of william basinski
-the music of steve roden
-the music of frédéric chopin & franz schubert
-accordion mists gathering in the early morning light (full of haunting melodies played on a little bowed mandela, wrapped in a fog of harmonium and accordion swells, with briers of tangled percussion creeping in at the edges…)
-the famed inventor of barbed wire joseph glidden
-the music of nick drake
-unintentional, unrepeatable sounds
-improvisation
-fallen leaves


my observations of the work (using à la recherche du temps perdu - du côté de chez swann):

for a long time i would go to bed early. sometimes, the candle barely out, my eyes closed so quickly that i did not have time to tell myself "i am falling asleep". and half an hour later the thought that it was time to look for sleep would awaken me.

pour à longue temps je suis aller pour chambre premièr. tantôt, la bougie à peine extinction, mon oeils passage si vite ce je jaire n'avoir pas temps pour dire moi-même "je diminution dormir." et demi-heure postiérieur la pensée ce être temps chercher sommeil suis réveille moi.

to a long weather i swiss i'm leaving to room first. sometimes, there; (here) candle a sorrow, grief lost my eyes driving through and buts quickly the i to make n'credit not weather to according to me - same (even) "i reduction to sleep." and half an hour later (behind) there: here thought the being weather to look for sleep swiss waking i.

(1999 translation)


i have found myself lately listening excessively to the music of richard skelton, and thinking about the beautiful work of louise skelton. this post has taken me near 2 months, because i have been so overwhelmed by the work and the cd packages (that feature the work of louise skelton), that i found it impossible to say anything about it, except that the work is wonderful, sublime and beautiful.
instead, i offer an interpretation using the words of proust, hoping that he would find a more suitable description.
looking through proust's books, it seems every 5th work offers a beautiful compliment to this work, so maybe that is a more interesting method than to read the words of this old catscratcher (meaning myself).


some links:
(*), (**), (***), (****),
(*****), (******), (*******), (********)

illshapen or black or deranged, fugitive of all order, strangers in everyland

m swiezynski (regency san francisco)

with new music, from the collection of arthur de eriomém

-david sylvian: when loud weather buffeted naoshima, samadhisound 2007
with clive bell, christian fennesz, arve henriksen, akira rabelais, and david sylvian
-ov: noctilucent valleys, soft abuse 2007
with christine boepple & loren chasse
-guiseppe ielasi: august, 12k 2007
-m83: digital shades vol. 1, m83 2007
-lost in hildurness: mount a, tonar 2006
-david lynch: soundtrack for inland empire and mulholland drive
-supersilent: supersilent 8, rune grammofon 2007
-john hudak: highway, editionellipsis 2000
-andrew deutsch: loops over land, divine frequency records 2005
-eric cordier: osorezan selected field recording 1993 - 2006, herbal records 2007
-andrew chalk & daisuke suzuki: the days after, faraway press 2007
-christian wallumrod: the zoo is far, ecm 2007
with arve henriksen, gjermund larsen, tanja orning, giovanna pessi, per oddvar johansen
-eric la casa: fonderie.paccard, collectif & cie 2001
-sir richard bishop: polytheistic fragments, drag city 2007
-machinefabriek: piano.wav, 2007
-stefano pilia: the suncrows fall and tree, sedimental 2007

( i have been asked by the often enigmatic and elusive arthur de eriomém (financial supporter of theartofmemory) to organize and assess his music collection [abstract and minimal] and post my findings on this webpage. so the post following this one will be classical composers that have contributed to the history of drone and abstract music [from the collection] titled: abstractions, monochromes and minimalism, part 3 (music & drone related). hopefully a list of contemporary artists will follow, and ones like this [which are recent acquisitions]. mr. eriomém's one requirement of his theartofmemory page is that it be more "list oriented" and "a bit shy on the verbiage and jargon". because mr eriomém has chosen his profesion to be an antiquarian bookseller, we must remember that these lists will be small, and his history monetarily challenged. but mr. eriomém always remembers ludwig mies van der rohe's fine words "less is more".)

((title from cormac mccarthy's suttree, 1979))

elephant, some things just stick in your mind

young man gunned down out of focus

gus van sant editing elephant

images from gus van sant's elephant, 2003

cinematography by harris savides (with work like this, who needs contemporary popular photography?)
editing by gus van sant
sound design by leslie shatz with beethoven’s "für elise" & additional sound by hildegard westerkamp
the most beautiful film so far of the 21st century?
beauty and chaos.......

(fans of this should also see alan clark's film elephant, from which the title comes)



other things that have kept me busy lately:
(films)

-the bourne ultimatum, 2007 (d. paul greengrass) great photography by oliver wood
-vanishing point, 1971 (d. richard c. sarafian) dp. john a. alonzo, and that means darn good
-melvin and howard, 1980 (d. jonathan demme) essential
-the wind blows where it will, 2006 (d. kunal mehra) bressonian dvd sent to the offices of arthur o. memory
-sam fuller criterion set (i shot jesse james 1949, the baron of arizona 1950, steel helmut 1951) steel helmut was my favourite of the lot
-the face of another, 1966 (d. hirsoshi teshigahara) can't seem to get into any of his films besides women in the dunes
-the lives of others, 2006 (d. florian henckel von donnersmarck) not without interest, good photography by hagen bogdanski
-forgotten silver, 1995 (d. peter jackson & costa botes) on the startling achievements of director colin mckenzie
-guilty by suspicion, 1991 (d. irwin winkler) dp michael ballhaus, and that means darn good. martin scorsese as joseph losey (referred to as joe, shows robert de niro a second from his film the boy with green hair 1948, with dean stockwell)


music:

-skoltz_kolgen: silent room faktory box
(enormous thanks to herr in be tween noise)
with 2 audio CDs created with the participation of artists : steve roden, akira rabelais, taylor deupree, sawako, fm3, kenneth kirschner, steinbrüchel and many others.
sound artists asked to produce pieces using only field recordings of the ambient sounds of their apartments as source material, inspired by erik satie's concept of musique d'ameublement
-vashti bunyan: some things just stick in your mind - early singles and demos 1964-1967 (earlier work before diamond day)
some very melancholic tunes as usual
-jefre cantu-ledesma: black is the color of my true loves hair & shining skull breath
2 really great albums (esp. shining skull breath), in addition to his borges related the garden of forking paths
-ben frost: theory of machines
tracks 2 and 4 are truly breathtaking
-richard garet: intrinsic motion
-jim haynes: telegraph by the sea
-valgeir sigurðsson: ekvílibríum
some good tracks, some with insipid beats. includes will oldham
-renaldo rinaldi: hoarse frenzy
-henryk górecki: symphony no. 3, string quartets 1,2
-morton feldman: violin orchestra (1979) with paul zukofsky
-the hafler trio: an answer from allure (fovea hex bonus disc)
stunning like most of his releases
-stephano pilia: the 1 season
-john hudak: pond
good music to listen to while walking around my local lake, minute uncoverings of lost or unnoticeable sounds
-herbert stanley littlejohn: 17th and 18th century works of funerary violin
a great cd just for the name!
-tellemake: elegie aux murmures
beautiful basinski-like loops
-sad hills: sleepwalkers (both thanks to niemand)