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[Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain] [Current 93] [2009] [CD] captivating, melodic, graceful, surprising, fascinating and overwhelming, another best album of this exceptional band! Please don't try to explain, just listen and let it work! . . . . . Poppyskins . In the kindness of the playground Aleph unveiled his claws As Pazuzu scrolled into town Murderer Murderer Murderer Small of Destroyer and fierce in his poverty My back is broken by his teeth . On the mountain I as He rested The streams bite into the rocks Fissures gleaming with transparent blood Water mimicking the temple Teeth shuddering in the ghostlike face Of the faminedeliverer The locustbringer Adam . The poppyskins were the clothes on the skin Raw as wind Pink like jets Red like the Bibles drifting in the streets Folded leather Sebek Root Sebek . All the cuneiform all the clay face The wedges stuck in my heart And spelled: "The Murderer is here Cain is here, and brings strange graves And pens with poison The lands he hands to sheep or goats Clustered on the rock bleating for gold And mammon . Cain is here His breasts torpid Beasts dissolving in the deserts Smog and promise and the icon Leaching wax or rubber Smiling wordlessly "Oh Aleph where are you And your whirling arms and the patience That took you a trillion years and spears and so Beak fear and harbour and trains"
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How I found IDM / why I'm here ramblings
I'd just consider myself someone who loves to explore music. I've always had a general taste for instrumental music, starting more with piano and american folk guitar but I've always picked up random stuff. I found Dj spooky's celestial mechanix and that is what really propelled me on the electronic/dub/producer kick. Kinda gradually changed my ideas about music and opened up such awesome new worlds to me.
Dj shadow, dj cam, four tet, gold panda, prefuse 73, Daedalus, kodomo, Isan, Deru...
As I fell in love with Guitar music (John fahey, kottke, Tim sparks, James blackshaw) It seemed natural for me to be inspired to create similar things myself. But as I've moved towards a more IDM dominated exploration the creation of it is so foreign to me, it's not as easy as picking up a guitar and plucking around.
So here I am, looking for new fresh ways to find great music, and to hopefully pick up on how I could work my way into a more creative place.
New Directions 1/29/14
Here are the releases I played tracks from tonight on my weekly campus radio show New Directions:
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Guitar Players Unite
So I found this guy through random discussions with a friend online about music. I feel like I’ve been unable to drop the song. Being a bassist I’ve dreamed of becoming the next Jaco Pastorious or Victor Wooten. However I lack a teacher that could skillfully show me how to step up my playing ability. Not only that I don’t have the drive to sit down by myself and just learn.
Anyway, James Blackshaw is the artist responsible for this song. To anyone seeing this I hope you enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCsNrhn41iQ
Loving this album.
James Blackshaw - Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death
Technical ability alone is vertically obsolete in most forms of art unless you're really, really, really, good at something. James Blackshaw is one of those people who is really, really, really, good at something. He just has to play a few notes onhis guitar and he could stop a freight train, it's that easy to be in awe of what he does. Until now his many albums of twelve stringed orchestral madness have been a pleasure largely reserved for guitar nerds only. He's a freak of nature, The Cloud Of Unknowing, his 2007 technical masterpiece, was released when he was just 25. People that young shouldn't be that good at anything.
People often forget the real reason James Blackshaw is successful. He's able to translate his incredible technical ability to overwhelmingly beautiful, personal pieces of music. Read anything the guy says in any interview and it's clear his music is heart-on-sleeve personal. On his latest, Love is the Plan, The Plan is Death, he's dulled down the technical side of things and amped up the personal side of things, possibly to make that clear. That's not to say there's not some jaw dropping guitar moments on this record, there's plenty, but he's using a six string now and there's less Colin Stetson esq "how the fuck is one dude making all that noise at one time" moments. It's a recipe that clearly shows that the success of his records don't rest on showing off his insane technical ability, because clearly a very talented composer as well.
There's some familiarities, literary references run rampant as per usual and I guess the music could still be described as "experimental folk." Highly considered album structure is always a factor with Blackshaw as well, The Cloud of Unknowing's five tracks operated on an arch, a 10 minute wave of sound to start, a technical emotion tugging masterpiece ("Running to the Ghost"), a electronic interlude to break things up and give you a breather, then companions to the first two tracks in reverse. This record uses a different strategy to break up the guitar. There's a vocal contribution (a first that I'm aware of) and there's some piano as well, a medium he has been increasingly keen on working with on his last few records. It's all welcome and none of it bad, but the Blackshaw you really want to hear is the one with the guitar in his hands. He has such control of what he's conveying, and so convincing with that instrument it feels like he could use it to pursued you to do anything.
You can hear his fingers sliding up and down the strings and you can even hear him breathing on some of the tracks, It's heavy, but the rawness of this stuff makes its success feel more deliberate. The Cloud Of Unknowing will remain Blackshaw's technical masterpiece but this album is about things bigger than just Blackshaw himself. It feels like he has proved his "technical point" and no longer needs to show you how great he is at playing guitar, that energy is not lost and instead channeled to the songwriting itself. This mixing of keeping everything that makes this guy appealing whilst taking his music to places you never thought it would go, makes this album another triumph for a guy who's already achieved an awful lot.