Sorry.)ģ2:05 Most of the Taciturn, Silent Accuserģ2:01 Autopsia, Death Is the Mother of Beauty Let's just say it rates, um, a little lower on the Richter scale. I think so far I like those better than Memoryhouse, but I need more time with it to be sure. His other discs are worth checking out as well: Songs from Before and The Blue Notebooks. Recorded with the BBC Philharmonic, Memoryhouse has a nice array of active peaks and more tranquil valleys-more overtly soundtrackish than most other ambient recordings. I'm ashamed to tell you how much I paid for this CD, but suffice it to say it's a rare-ish recording and I paid accordingly.
Max Richter: Kind of on the ambient side of the spectrum, and I've been collecting a bit more ambient music lately. And unlike a dog, they don't jump on you and lick you. But while it was nice to be on vacation, I must admit I missed listening to music, so it's not so bad to be back home. In that last respect, I guess it's no different from any given Monday. More like sunburned, exhausted from a grueling five-hour drive home, and mentally unprepared to return to the working world. Unless that's just a ruse designed to fool their wives, when in reality they'd planned some sort of pervy sex holiday in Thailand.ģ1:43 Schwadron, Ave Satana: The Devil Is a Socialistģ1:36 Changes & Allerseelen, Men Among the Ruinsģ1:33 This Morn' Omina, The Drake Equationģ0:53 Black Lung, Profound and Sentimental Journeyģ0:48 Vinterriket, Weisse Nächte des Schwartzen Schneesģ0:40 Dead Man's Hill, Lakes of Sacrifice (CD 2 of 2)ģ0:33 Deutsch Nepal & The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud, A Night in Fearģ0:18 Westwind, Everyone Can Be a DictatorĢ9:52 Semper Eadem, Divagations EsthétiquesĢ9:41 The Joy of Nature, The Shepherd's Teaīack from a short vacation, and I'm tanned, rested, and ready. According to the news section of their Web site, they were scheduled to play live as recently as August 3, in Germany. So what's up? Have they traded their stage jobs for desk jobs? Are they stay-at-home dads now?ĭoesn't sound like it. And their most recent original full-length, 1000 Feuer, was released back in 2002. Haven't heard much from Prager Handgriff lately, not since the two-disc Handarbeiten retrospective, from 2005. Arden is a bit more primitive than the work he'd go on to create, but even in these halting pieces, you can almost hear the gears turning (sometimes literally).Ģ8:25 The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud, Were You of Silver, Were You of GoldĢ8:12 Death in June, Operation HummingbirdĢ7:06 Current 93, The Seahorse Rears to Oblivion Arden was one of his many pre-FDS projects, although the music isn't dissimilar-somber keyboards in a neoclassical, post-industrial vein, for the most part. Maybe you know Stéphane Flauder from his main (and I think now-defunct) project, Fin de Siècle. New arrival! 63:34 Stars of the Lid, The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (CD 2 of 2) Then again, I'm pretty sure this is the only song they've ever recorded in both English and German versions.Ģ6:17 Boyd Rice, Death's Gladsome Wedding Never thought I'd say that about a Neubauten song.
Normally I can't stand the endless cycle of rereleases (reissue, repackage, repackage, ad nauseam), but since I slavishly buy EPs and singles anyway, why not consolidate? This disc notably contains the English version of "Die Interimsliebenden" ("The Interim Lovers"), which I think I prefer over the German version. Otherwise known as the merging of two CD EPs, Interim and Malediction. New arrival! 46:28 Paulin Bündgen, Étrange SeptembreĢ3:36 Sylvain Chauveau, Un Autre DécembreĢ3:27 Assemblage 23, Let the Wind Erase Me Not just a fragrance from Calvin Klein.Ģ5:33 Hammock, Stranded Under an Endless Sky Because, of course, now I must have every SOTL disc and hunt down other bands that are in their musical neighborhood.
That means I need to do some research (and spend some money) all so I can swell the already swollen ranks of my CD collection. And, for that matter, I may as well throw in a bunch of other bands on the Kranky label, which seems to specialize in ambient post-rock, if that's what this can be called. In any case, I'm late to the Stars of the Lid party. Maybe it's the increased emphasis on "organic" instrumentation-delicately and quietly plucked guitars and drone-like strings-rather than an overtly keyboard-based sound. Or even Harold Budd, although that comparison is a little warmer. But there's something very different about Stars of the Lid (and perhaps other ambient bands of its ilk, like Loscil) from, say, Vidna Obmana or Steve Roach. The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (CD 1 of 2)Īs though I really needed to add more ambient music to my collection.
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