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Nice review.  I love that album and plan to review it one day.

Finnforest wrote: hey, thanks for the nod, guys.....  quite an album, i look forward to more reviews on that from you RIO experts.

avestin wrote:   All I can say right now is that with all the weird things I listen to (and love) this was the first cd I heard in a long time that made me think that maybe this is too much for me... (it comes close, I can tell you that).   I have a feeling it will make me rethink all that I heard until now and see it in a different perspective.   In any case, after that everything else seems so accessible and easy listening....   This is not music, it is an experience.

I love moments like this, it is one of the big reason I love listening to Avant-garde music, always pushing the boundaries of my perception of music. Unfortunately there are a lot of fizzer's out there as well. Is there any way I could hear some samples? This has me intrigued! edit: just looking at that link now.


Edited by Black Velvet - January 05 2008 at 21:12

Two more Dumitrescu links:

avestin wrote: Black Velvet wrote: avestin wrote:   All I can say right now is that with all the weird things I listen to (and love) this was the first cd I heard in a long time that made me think that maybe this is too much for me... (it comes close, I can tell you that).   I have a feeling it will make me rethink all that I heard until now and see it in a different perspective.   In any case, after that everything else seems so accessible and easy listening....   This is not music, it is an experience. I love moments like this, it is one of the big reason I love listening to Avant-garde music, always pushing the boundaries of my perception of music. Unfortunately there are a lot of fizzer's out there as well. Is there any way I could hear some samples? This has me intrigued! edit: just looking at that link now.   Also, aside from getting the album, go to the thread in the link I posted above and read what the poster m (Michael) is saying, he's the one who's been giving me guidance on this, along with Dave Kerman.     Now enjoying a fabulous followup to that Dumitrescu album - Supersilent 5. Wow!   Do you have any albums by them, Adam?

avestin wrote: I want to return to an album I briefly mentioned yesterday since I wanted to focus on Dumitrescu's music.   Tim Hodgkinson released several albums of his own and others in collaboration and he also played in projects by others (Hyperion Ensemble being one example from above posts). His discography is in this PDF file - http://www.timhodgkinson.co.uk/discography.pdf   An album I listened to yesterday and which on any other day would have sounded very avantgarde but after Dumiterscu's music it sounded like "regular" music - Each In Our Own Thughts.     Highly recommended piece of classical-avantgarde, sometimes reminiscent of U Totem but without any rock.   Links: http://www.timhodgkinson.co.uk/ http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1002040,00.html (listen to samples of the album).   Here's the lineup and details of the album     1 A Hollow Miracle (4:23)     2 String Quartet 1 (11:15)     3 From Descartes' Dream (6:37)     4 Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine (16:49)     5 Palimpsest (4:19)     6 Numinous (Pools for Mental Orchestra) (9:55)     Guy Segers Guitar (Bass) Dominic Weeks Xylophone Robert Woollard Cello Raul Diaz French Horn Dominique Brethes Engineer Rick Wilson Percussion Richard Bolton Cello John Impett Trumpet Clarissa Melville Flute Nancy Ruffer Flute Dagmar Krause Vocals Chris Cutler Drums, Text Lindsay Cooper Bassoon Chris Brierly Violin Bill Gilonis Guitar Tim Hodgkinson Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Viola, Main Performer, Sequencing, Sampling, Keyboards, Guitar (Bass), Piano, Clarinet (Bass) Helen Kamminga Viola         I will definitely track his other recordings (Sketch Of Now will be next).   Try it!

Assaf, I listen through the disc this afternoon, I found Pierres.scarees the most interesting piece. It reminded me somewhat of some of David Tudor's prepared piano pieces. German label Edition RZ re-issued a disc called David Tudor - Music for Piano (2007); you can find it at Forced Exposer: http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/tudor.david.html. It includes his working of John Cage's Variations II which is stunning. This is a very important document in the history of avant-garde music. The following link goes into more detail on Tudor's realisation of the piece: http://www.music.princeton.edu/~jwp/texts/Var2.html#part2.

Black Velvet wrote: Assaf, I listen through the disc this afternoon, I found Pierres.scarees the most interesting piece. It reminded me somewhat of some of David Tudor's prepared piano pieces. German label Edition RZ re-issued a disc called David Tudor - Music for Piano (2007); you can find it at Forced Exposer: http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/tudor.david.html. It includes his working of John Cage's Variations II which is stunning. This is a very important document in the history of avant-garde music. The following link goes into more detail on Tudor's realisation of the piece: http://www.music.princeton.edu/~jwp/texts/Var2.html#part2.

The man....Greg Walker.....has all!!  The Lord of Prog.  Between him, Larson, and Wayside, I almost never have to stoop to the Amazon level.  I get to buy from good, honest, small biz people that care about prog!

avestin wrote: Black Velvet wrote: Assaf, I listen through the disc this afternoon, I found Pierres.scarees the most interesting piece. It reminded me somewhat of some of David Tudor's prepared piano pieces. German label Edition RZ re-issued a disc called David Tudor - Music for Piano (2007); you can find it at Forced Exposer: http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/tudor.david.html. It includes his working of John Cage's Variations II which is stunning. This is a very important document in the history of avant-garde music. The following link goes into more detail on Tudor's realisation of the piece: http://www.music.princeton.edu/~jwp/texts/Var2.html#part2.   You got my attention! I'll look into this as well (could you help me with some link... ? ) Thanks for those links   Oh and Adam, do you have that Hodgkinson album I mentioned above? Each To His Own Thoughts?

You might have to wait a little while, it is still on my 'to get' list of 2007 releases - so I don't own a copy, yet. Since the year has finished my list seems to be getting longer and longer; I always feel like I'm a year behind!

No I haven't heard Each To His Own Thoughts