Rich subbing for A Different Nature and bringing you some new and/or new-to-me music.
New music from Portland artist Daniel Menche, Aaron Dilloway's recreation of John Cage music, new releases by Arvo Pärt, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Matmos and Jan Jelinek.
Permafrost
Daniel Menche: Cello, Noise, Sine waves
Recorded December, 2024
Bandcamp link
Perma De-Frost
Daniel Menche: Noise and Drones
"A companion to Permafrost with completely new drones and noise. Entire mix was made straight to an old cassette player and played back out to digital. Finalized without any mastering. Just a straight tape dub as raw as possible."
released January 1, 2025
Bandcamp link
Aaron Dilloway
John Cage - Rozart Mix
"So excited and honored to finally release the vinyl document of my realization of JOHN CAGE’s ROZART MIX. Back in the extremely strange year of 2020, I was approached by Wave Farm and John Cage Trust to stage a performance of this seldomly performed piece that Cage wrote for Alvin Lucier. The piece is comprised of 88 tape loops (one for each key of a piano), spliced together with multiple non-musical sounds played back on 12 reel to reel machines."
Bandcamp link
"Blue" Gene Tyranny
Real Life and the Movies, vol. 1
"Spanning a 25-year period of his varied compositional experiments, the themes enclosed all blend cinematographic excerpts and American cultural miscellanea into a single, unified aesthetic. There is nothing but the magic of Gene Tyranny's unequivocal aura connecting, for example, "A Musical Setting for Dick Higgins...", a tape collage of sounds from kitchen objects he put together as a 13-year old, to "Remembering...", an ASMR-inducing close-mic spoken word session testing the Doppler effect, or "Theme for Sally Kellman's...", a Motown-like ballad based on a circus horn about a failed assassination attempt on Fidel Castro by the CIA."
– Aquarium Drunkard
Bancamp link
Arvo Pärt
Silentium - (Mississippi Records)
"Four pieces by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, a pioneer of “holy minimalism.” The album centers around a never-before-released rendition of “Silentium,” the second movement of Pärt’s most famous concerto, Tabula Rasa, performed by Boston-based chamber orchestra A Far Cry. The group plays “Silentium” at nearly half the speed of the best-known version, released on ECM in 1984. The piece, known for its healing properties for the dying and often used in palliative care facilities (one patient famously called it “angel music”), is breathtaking at half speed, seemingly stilling time itself."
Bandcamp link (available April 11th)
Matmos
Return To Archive - (Smithsonian/Folkways)
"...electronic music duo Matmos have diced, looped, stretched, and recontextualized these recordings on their new album Return to Archive, which was assembled entirely from the so-called non-musical sounds released on Folkways. On just the album’s first track, dolphins, beetles, telephones, humans stretching the limits of their vocal cords, a shortwave radio, and metal balers co-mingle in a fantasia of sound both everyday and extraordinary."
Bandcamp link
Jan Jelinek
Komischer PItch - (Fatische Records)
“For Kosmischer Pitch, Jelinek draws from the obsessed-over rock produced by his German countrymen in the 1970s. (…) Trance-inducing repetition is constantly modulated by variations that hover on the threshold of audibility. (…) one of the more remarkable bodies of work in electronic music.”
Pitchfork
Bandcamp link
David Lynch
The Air Is On Fire - (Sacred Bones Records)
Released in 2014
- KBOO