a new listening list for early spring
These are a few things cycling through my iPod recently:
-Alemu Aga's The Harp of King David. This CD can just play and play for days and I never grow tired of it. It's completely acoustic, but the clipped and distorted sounds coming from this Ethiopian musician's "harp" are incredible and unclassifiable. I can't understand the lyrics at all and I have no idea what the music is about, but the sounds themselves are the most interesting I've heard in a long time.
-Aiko Shimada's Blue Marble. Gorgeous and finely textured pop-esque sounds from a Tokyo-born Seattle-based musician.
-Luomo's The Present Lover. V. Delay's smooth electronica incarnation, wonderful for long train rides. This Scandinavian is so talented.
-Otomo Yoshihide's ONJQ+OE. Fresh, simple, and strangely "free-jazz". I never know what direction he is going to take next.
Comments
Alemu Aga sounds very nice, I was just checking the Other Music sound samples:
http://www.othermusic.com/2001november28update.html
Posted by: Momus | March 28, 2004 4:05 PM
thanks for the link to the othermusic site, was glad to learn a bit more about what he's doing. i only wish i could make sounds like that on my computer... well, maybe somebody out there is working on an "alemu aga" max/msp patch. =:->
Posted by: roddy | March 30, 2004 10:15 PM