What are you listening to right now?

[ltr317]

Paul, the insert image command is working OK for me on Chrome. Make sure your image link is good.

I get most of my album art from Amazon, just right click on it to copy the link.

Rich,

Oh, you need  an image link!  I was trying to insert from my photos folder.     Thanks.

Paul

[richidoo]

Common mistake! It works in AC to right click on gallery image and insert it into a post, but not here. On AN you have to scroll down the gallery page to find the "direct link" field which can be copied and pasted into the Insert image HTML tag.

Linking to something elsewhere on the web you just get the remote link and insert image, just like on AC without the fancy popup helper app....

[ltr317]

It worked!  Thanks Rich.

[AcidJazz]

Kind of a chill out psychedelic rock.

http://www.myspace.com/darktoothencounter

Dark Tooth Encounter, soft monsters

[AcidJazz]

..this album is absent of any pop hooks, notable structure, or any beats to hold on to. ...“le vestibule-vestibule transitoire” is only two songs in 52 minutes, long ambient soundscapes...drone, ambient, avant-garde, experimental and space-rock music.

http://www.myspace.com/electricbirdnoise

Electric Bird Noise, Le Vestibule - Vestibule Transitoire

[AcidJazz]

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

Some may recognize Xanadu from Orson Welles' Citizen Kane  as the name of the immense estate that Charles Foster Kane built for his second wife Susan Alexander (who came to regard it as nothing more than a fortress of solitude from which she had to escape). Needless to say, we at textura were captivated by the poem when we first read it all those years ago—so much so that when we decided to establish a textura label we immediately thought of Coleridge's poem and its rich potential as an inspirational midwife for musical work. And so it came to pass that four stylistically-diverse artists—Alexander Turnquist, The Retail Sectors, orchestramaxfieldparrish, and Ryan Francesconi & Lili De La Mora—contributed their abundant artistry to textura's premiere release in the form of unique interpretive responses to the poem.

And so it was. 

"Most people think of music journalism as merely passing judgement. Canadian print magazine textura, however, has taken a completely different route. Far more interested in providing information than doling out meaningless ratings and focusing on essential lines of artistic development instead of short-lived phenomena, the Ontario-based publication has established itself as a source of inspiration for anyone with an inclination for sound art and experimental electronica

http://www.textura.org/pages/archives.htm

Kubla Khan, textura

[Ecramer]

Bramble Rose
Tift Merritt

[Ecramer]

This souns like it will be right up my alley going tohave to check it out

Ed

..this album is absent of any pop hooks, notable structure, or any beats to hold on to. ...“le vestibule-vestibule transitoire” is only two songs in 52 minutes, long ambient soundscapes...drone, ambient, avant-garde, experimental and space-rock music.

http://www.myspace.com/electricbirdnoise

Electric Bird Noise, Le Vestibule - Vestibule Transitoire

[Carlman]

Common mistake! It works in AC to right click on gallery image and insert it into a post, but not here. On AN you have to scroll down the gallery page to find the "direct link" field which can be copied and pasted into the Insert image HTML tag.

Linking to something elsewhere on the web you just get the remote link and insert image, just like on AC without the fancy popup helper app....

Quick update, I just updated the gallery software and you can just copy and paste the field called 'BBC embed code' and it'll show your gallery image.

[AcidJazz]

“We have landed in a musical world as diverse as the red planet itself. A syn/thesis of musical ideas & ideals presented in an almost U-topia-n way filtered thru strings & reeds, all the while being quietly supported by a backbone of stalwart percussion. Quiet fire. Harmonious disorder.

http://www.syntopia.net/SynQuartet_e.html

The tracks are named after various surfaces of the planet Mars and the players are pretty much trying to make an analogy between the planet's variety of landscapes and the variety of the album's music. It's lovely that the strings and the reeds are pushed up front, because it's a combo that's heard increasingly rarely in jazz (I guess that's why they go as far as talking about this as classical music at certain points). There are lots of harmonics in here, so this is third stream, fourth stream, fifth stream and beyond.

There are creepy microslides and various nifty points of subtlety when you just don't know where the music is supposed to go. They call it a nebula of sound, hah, but, please, forget about these things - these associations are loose and trying to visualize Mars while listening to this will only detract from it. It has nothing to do with "space music".

Improvisation and composition pro-create. Besides that, Mars is on the good side of "reserved", with some of the classiest (literally and figuratively) violin you'll hear in this approach.

Recommended.

Syntopia Quartet, Mars

[Ecramer]

Coup d'Etat LP
Plasmatics

Wendy Orlean Williams Man its stuff like this that will ensure that no one ever calls me an audiophile 

[AcidJazz]

Recorded largely during 2007 and 2008, “Enquiries” is the debut album of Lloyd James of Naevus recording under the name of Retarder. Essentially a collection of experimental pieces, some instrumental and some with vocals, “Enquiries” is at time challenging but always intriguing and interesting....

http://plaguehaus.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=49

http://www.myspace.com/retarder

Retarder's Enquiries

[allenzachary]

Bob Schneider in concert last Friday in Philadelphia

http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=120588192&m=120614882

[richidoo]

Quartet for Strings #2 "Intimate Letters" by Leos Janácek

Awesome record!

[AcidJazz]

Sounds...manipulated and reprocessed, then in some instances mangled and synthesized. Do Robots dream of Electric Sheep in Technicolor? Blue Tone?

Robert Van Heumen - who normally utilizes a laptop provided with LiSa and SuperCollider software (live sampling and real-time audio synthesis respectively) - concocted a string of soundscapes that leave no room for optimism, showing the nude crudity of past and present events without hinting for a minute to concepts like "respite" or "hope"...The title track (a composition reportedly influenced by Albert Camus, Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner and L.E.J. Brouwer) is presented in separate translations: the first and longest is a dynamically hyper-charged exploration of altered sounds deriving from a single source that gets abused, reprocessed and bastardized in every possible manner, the outcome akin to a brain-pulverizing chain of destructive calamities, misshapen ambiguity, extraterrestrial jargons and incisive irritations which leaves us disoriented, unable to accept its hard-to-fathom underlying logic. The "ambient" adaptation, which closes the program, is just slightly better edible yet, at the same time, describable as a quite dissimilar piece where the harsh tonalities of the original are, to some extent, rendered barely visible, even if the music is not the least disconcerting: desolation replacing devastation, the overall gloom lingering on, the impenetrability of the critical significance still a fact.
Amidst the two versions of "Stranger", Van Heumen presents the soundtrack to "No Man's Land", a film inspired by the tragic 1931-1939 era known as Dust Bowl, when American and Canadian prairies were plagued by storms transporting the sand into which wrongly cultivated lands had been reduced, many people's life in tatters as a consequence of the ensuing economic and ecologic damage.

http://hardhatarea.com/stranger/#reviews

Robert Van Heumen, Stranger