Posts Tagged: Discrepant
Félix Blume ~ Death in Haiti: Funeral Brass Bands and Sounds from Port au Prince
Death in Haiti is in turns painful and exultant, drenched in loss and life-affirming. The cries of a woman who has lost her mother are nearly unbearable; the brass bands are triumphant to the point of being transcendent. This is the
Félix Blume ~ Death in Haiti: Funeral Brass Bands and Sounds from Port au Prince
Death in Haiti is in turns painful and exultant, drenched in loss and life-affirming. The cries of a woman who has lost her mother are nearly unbearable; the brass bands are triumphant to the point of being transcendent. This is the
ACL 2017 ~ Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape
While each of our categories travels around the world, only this one sounds like a passport book. From the beaches to the mountains, Belgrade to Tibet, these artists unpack their listening devices and head into the wild. Sometimes this means
ACL 2017 ~ Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape
While each of our categories travels around the world, only this one sounds like a passport book. From the beaches to the mountains, Belgrade to Tibet, these artists unpack their listening devices and head into the wild. Sometimes this means
Carlos Casas ~ Pyramid of Skulls
Ruffled by a distant paradise, Pyramid of Skulls is a one-off field recording experiment full of indigenous sounds. The traditions of the past resurface like an apparition merging into the daylight of today, but the music is also an important document, cataloguing with some anxiety a growing disappearance,
Carlos Casas ~ Pyramid of Skulls
Ruffled by a distant paradise, Pyramid of Skulls is a one-off field recording experiment full of indigenous sounds. The traditions of the past resurface like an apparition merging into the daylight of today, but the music is also an important document, cataloguing with some anxiety a growing disappearance,
Field Trip Day Three ~ Life and Death
Our field trip continues as we travel to the island archipelago of Penghu with Yannick Dauby, the deep jungle of central Africa with Visions Congo (Gonçalo F Cardoso) and the monasteries of the Tibetan mountains with Soundwalk Collective and Francisco López. The recordings are impressionistic,
Field Trip Day Three ~ Life and Death
Our field trip continues as we travel to the island archipelago of Penghu with Yannick Dauby, the deep jungle of central Africa with Visions Congo (Gonçalo F Cardoso) and the monasteries of the Tibetan mountains with Soundwalk Collective and Francisco López. The recordings are impressionistic,
Charbel Haber ~ Of Palm Trees and Decomposition
A captivating painting of intensity, simplicity and ambiguity makes for a perfect cover to this LP, the work of a Lebanese musician whom ACL has indirectly covered before. Charbel Haber is part of Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra, an improv punk
Charbel Haber ~ Of Palm Trees and Decomposition
A captivating painting of intensity, simplicity and ambiguity makes for a perfect cover to this LP, the work of a Lebanese musician whom ACL has indirectly covered before. Charbel Haber is part of Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra, an improv punk
Mike Cooper ~ New Kiribati
In 1999, Kiribati became the first installment in a trilogy that later called itself the Ambient Exotica Soundscapes series. Hot off Discrepant, this is the first ever vinyl release for a record that still dazzles like a shiny, expensive jewel. New Kiribati’s translucent
Mike Cooper ~ New Kiribati
In 1999, Kiribati became the first installment in a trilogy that later called itself the Ambient Exotica Soundscapes series. Hot off Discrepant, this is the first ever vinyl release for a record that still dazzles like a shiny, expensive jewel. New Kiribati’s translucent
ACL 2015: Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape
This year’s top field recording and soundscape albums travel to global extremes, from the frozen Arctic to the heart of the jungle. They commute to congested cities and retreat to quiet streams. They fall in love with frogs and olives.
ACL 2015: Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape
This year’s top field recording and soundscape albums travel to global extremes, from the frozen Arctic to the heart of the jungle. They commute to congested cities and retreat to quiet streams. They fall in love with frogs and olives.
ACL 2015: Top Ten Drone
Extended tones form the basis of Drone, a category that can be as soft as a refrigerator hum or as loud as the military plane that adopted its name. But there’s so much more to the genre than simple extension.
ACL 2015: Top Ten Drone
Extended tones form the basis of Drone, a category that can be as soft as a refrigerator hum or as loud as the military plane that adopted its name. But there’s so much more to the genre than simple extension.
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