I love the texture and magic he can create with this one instrument, and body. I remember the first time I heard people talking about Colin Stetson, we were in Norwich, it was a sound engineer friend who was telling me that he used something like 20 mics to bring out every detail, and ever since I have been fairly obsessed. It was great to play on the bill with him a couple of years back at Londonās Convergence Festival.
E.E.K. Feat Islam Chipsy
This video is of the best live gig Iāve seen in years, the power of two drum kits and keyboard is incredible. Islam Chipsyās electro-Shaabi is totally infectious. Energy and power and party is what this makes think and feel. I love the rhythms, note bending and no bullshit of this music. Taking Egyptian street music and making it epic.
Tempvs Fvgit
The first time I heard Corsican Polyphonic singing was when I was on a the bill at Urban Rituals in Brussels with this group. I just love it. Very elaborately ornamented and totally acappella. Itās really fiesty and raw live.
Hoofus ā Original Soundtrack to The Edgelands
The Edgelands OST by Hoofus
http://hoofus.bandcamp.com/album/the-edgelands-ost This music is totally stand alone and atmospheric with or without the game, itās really woozy and very evocative of sparse flatlands, woods and uses a palette which conjures up broken machines and oscillations. Itās weird and beautiful.
Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse, David McGuinnes ā What News
āThe Fair Flower of Northumberlandā
Iāve recently been listening to this album on repeat, partly what I like it the simple piano style coming from David McGuinness, taking just the tune or a small fragment of the tune. Heās a harpsichordist and I think he marries up some of the early music harmony with this ancient song. The piano doesnāt make it contemporary music, but doesnāt make it āfolkā either. I like the minimal electronics and the ghostlike vocals which come in on some of the choruses. I love that the performance is minimal and a repetitive ballad yet the vocal inflections make it seem different each time.
Sequentia ā Edda
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Medieval Icelandic Music. Sequentia have had an epic output of medieval music, including Icelandic, French and masses of Hildegard von Bingen. Their interpretations are edgier and more brittle that a lot of early music. Itās guttural and visceral. I love the close dissonant harmonies, I could listen to it forever but it puts me into another world so sometimes I have to come back.
Laurie Speigel ā The Expanding Universe
I just love this album. 1970ās computer music from a composer and computer music pioneer. Itās totally magical. Her deepest influences are Bach and Traditional American Music. I love the early, traditional and contemporary influences throughout The Expanding Universe, even though thatās not what youāre hearing explicitly, I think that the connections are all there. It has roots but is not tied down.
Hildegard von Bingen / Sequentia ā The Canticles of Ecstasy
Some of the first properly medieval music I heard, my uncle lent me this CD when I was about 18, I didnāt think too much about it then, but listened to it a lot and now Hildegard von Bingenās music has a major influence on my music. Sequentia are some of the best performers of the music in a formal-ish setting, though they still get it away from twee and into a land of drone and passion.
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The āModern Ritualā tour which she is currently headlining ā along with Charles Hayward, Hoofus (Andre Bosman), Jennifer Lucy Allan and Luke Turner ā comes to London on 16 June at the LSO St Lukeās, and sees her collaborating to reconfigure notions of ritual. The tour appears to look at modernity through an age-old but ever-shifting ritualistic gaze, honing in on how we feel towards notions of ritual and being today.
I caught up with her to ask her about the tour and examine what the performances have to say about rituals in a modern age.
I've got a remix out on an EP from Transept. Fill your boots. Alex set Luke's remix to the beginning of Miami Vice, which I now really want to watch and am lamenting how bloody expensive it is on iTunes. Why Apple, why?
