John Barry

R.I.P.



I remember seeing You Only Live Twice when it first came out and the opening sequence blew me away.

Brilliant film scores.

Headphone Commute

Digitonal's blog entry led me to Headphone Commute's Mix : Best of Modern Classical 2010 – Part One



Link

Track Listing: Artist – Track Title (Mix) // Album [Label, Year]
Rafael Anton Irisarri – Für Alina // Reverie [Immune, 2010]
Richard Skelton – Of The Last Generation // Landings [Type, 2010, Reissue]
Nest – Far From Land // Retold [Serein, 2010]
Max Richter – Infra 5 // Infra [130701 / FatCat, 2010]
Peter Gregson – Flight Path // Terminal [Mute Song, 2010]
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Casting // Mount A [Touch, 2010, Reissue]
Clem Leek – The Burnt Home // Holly Lane [Hibernate, 2010]
Loscil – Showers of Ink // Endless Falls [Kranky, 2010]
Beta Cloud – Marsh of Sleep // Lunar Monograph [Laughing Bride, 2010]
Asura – Getsemani // 360 [Ultimae, 2010]
The Orb – Glen Coe // Pop Ambient 2010 [Kompakt, 2010]
Brian Eno – Written, Forgotten // Small Craft On A Milk Sea [Warp, 2010]
Olan Mill – The Prescribed Individual // Pine [Serein, 2010]

Part 2




Track Listing: Artist – Track Title (Mix) // Album [Label, Year]
Ólafur Arnalds – Loftið Verður Skyndilega Kalt // And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness [Erased Tapes, 2010]
Library Tapes – Om du är en fågel // Like Green Grass Against A Blue Sky [Auetic, 2010]
Hummingbird – Starfish Seastar // Our Fearful Symmetry [Fluid Audio, 2010]
The Black Dog – Delay 9 // Music For Real Airports [Soma Quality Recordings, 2010]
Keith Kenniff – Preservation Devine // The Last Survivor [Circle Into Square, 2010]
Fabrizio Paterlini – Rue des Trois Frères // Fragments Found [Self, 2010]
Valgeir Sigurdsson – Nowhere Land // Draumalandið [Bedroom Community, 2010]
Hauschka – Mount Hood // Foreign Landscapes [130701 / Fatcat, 2010]
Nils Frahm – Unter // Unter | Über [Erased Tapes, 2010]
Goldmund – Havelock // The Last Survivor [Circle Into Square, 2010]
Dustin O’Halloran – Opus 43 (Featuring Adam Wiltzie) // Explorer’s Club: 4. Rome-Berlin [Loaf, 2010]
Jóhann Jóhannsson – Sifreri // Explorer’s Club: 7. Belfast- Reykjavik [Loaf, 2010]
Erik K Skodvin – Matiné // Flare [Sonic Pieces, 2010]
Clint Mansell – Memories (Someone You’ll Never Know) // Moon (OST) [Black Records, 2010]
Clem Leek – 0° 36’56.483″ // Through The Annular [Schedios, 2010]
bvdub – Nothing From No One // The Art Of Dying Alone [Glacial Movements, 2010]
:papercutz – Broken Treasure (Jasper TX Remix) // Do Outro Lado Do Espelho [Audiobulb, 2010]
Max Richter – Journey 4 // Infra [130701 / FatCat, 2010]

I thought I saw an embed code when I looked at blogging this first. Can't find it now, will have to be content with a link.

There is some cracking music on this site.

Hello again blog

First post of 2011.

Brief pause partly because the computer threw a wobbly between Christmas and the new year. Fortunately my knight in shining armour aka my son rode to my rescue.

Used my WH Smith giftcard to buy Bill Bryson's At Home.



Got several ideas for my Amazon gift card, Hybrid's Disappear Here and Johann Johannsson are at the top of the list.

Max Richter

Watched an episode of Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution last night and recognised excerpts from Memoryhouse by Max Richter.

The Website is here

There are tracks from the album (and others) on the site.

This is my favourite track.

November by max richter

Ulrich Schnauss

Haven't rambled here for a while.

As I am rather partial to the music of Ulrich Schnauss, I visit these two sites on a semi-regular basis.

A Strangely Isolated Place

Schnaussifier

This site has some very good neo-classical music.

Lend Me Your Ears

Half Remembered Song

Watched a bit of Neil Diamond on the Electric Prom. He sang a song I haven't heard for a long time and sometimes hearing a song like that stirs memories and emotions. It was Love Song written by Lesley Duncan.



Elton John covered it on his album Tumbleweed Connection. While I was tracing this song I was saddened to learn that Lesley Duncan died last March, she was 66.

Lesley Duncan website

Yesterday

Gold dust again in the charity shops. The Clic Sargeant has more old-stock CDs.

Bought Dvorak 'From the New World'and Prokofiev, Highlights from 'Romeo and Juliet'.

Then, because I recognised Samy Bishai (from Celloman, Digitonal), this:



Lost the original image from the website, this one courtesy of Amazon

Seckou Keita

Very good so far.

In another shop, bought this, with a picture of my little friend on the cover:



Got to get a handle on that furry little brain somehow!

My musical journey

I grew up with the Beatles (being of a certain age) and very little else, not having much money to buy albums.

My interest in music waned with the arrival of Punk and my son.

Then things happened to kick-start it:

Firstly a getting computer and broadband.

Then there was a free CD given away with the Observer newspaper. A sampler of tracks by Moby. Hadn't heard of him. But it was brilliant and I recognised Porcelain from the radio.

Then the series of free CDs given away in the Saturday Guardian. They introduced me to Hybrid and on the Hybridised site there was a link to Digitonal.



Hybrid June 2010 by Hybridsoundsystem

This is a DJ mix but it gives an idea of the music.



Seraphim (Angel Mix) by digitonal

From there to the Big Chill website and forum and from there...

Links:

Moby

Hybrid

Digitonal

Big Chill

Music: Celloman

One of the bands I love is Celloman. The band consists of Ivan Hussey and various supporting musicians, including Samy Bishai who also plays for Digitonal. The music is Middle Eastern/African in flavour, not the sort of thing you would normally associate the cello with but it works beautifully.

Two photos I took of a Celloman gig I went to in 2008. It was held at the Acorn Theatre in Penzance. The Acorn was a chapel in a previous life and is a great space for an informal relaxed sort of gig. It is down a little side street in the centre of Penzance.

Then across the road there is the most beautiful regency style building. Looking like an immaculate dolls house.

Celloman website

He's touring again soon, hope he comes down to Cornwall.

Did it!

Nova (audio by Helios) from flight404 on Vimeo.

Yay! It worked!

This person's video work is amazing.