Showing posts with label classical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classical. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

SPK "Zamie Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers"


SPK formed in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, was a 1980s and early 1990s industrial music and noise music group. SPK stands for many names. Probably, the most important of them all, that influenced two members of the band, Graeme Revell and Neil Hill, was Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv. This album that I'm reviewing is about the post-industrial SPK, more commercially oriented (however, I consider this album to be an exception, since it isn't as synthpop-ish as "Machine Age Voodoo", the previous album). This one is more about electronic orchestral work: it can also be labeled as contemporary classical ambient.
The track list is the following:
  1. "Invocation (to Secular Heresies)" - 5:16
  2. "Palms Crossed in Sorrow" - 5:05
  3. "Romanz in Moll (Romance in a Minor Key)" - 4:15
  4. "In the Dying Moments" - 6:41
  5. "In Flagrante Delicto" - 7:31
  6. "Alocasia Metallica" - 6:07
  7. "Necropolis" - 5:29
  8. "The Garden of Earthly Delights" - 3:18
  9. "The Doctrine of Eternal Ice" - 4:25
My favourite tracks are: "In the Dying Moments", "In Flagrante Delicto", "Necropolis" and "The Garden of Earthly Delights". The album's lenght is 48 minutes and 10 seconds.
The song "In Flagrante Delicto" is marvelous and features angelic vocals, backed up by haunting and obscure dark ambient sounds.
You can get the album here.

As a preview to this album, try hearing "In Flagrante Delicto" below:

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Frank Zappa "Lumpy Gravy"


Frank Zappa was [and still is] a genius. His first solo album is "Lumpy Gravy"- unfortunately I don't understand the meaning of its name. Its a bit inconsistent, as Zappa describes it. The album is divided into 2 parts.
The track "Duodenum" which is featured in part 1 is plainly brilliant: exciting, ironic and beautiful at the same time (an awkward piece, for sure).
Wikipedia says the following: "On first listening, the album may appear to have no musical structure. But after repeated listening the album's unique flow begins to make more sense.". It's a pitty that I still haven't found the "album's unique flow"- and no, I'm not being sarcastic (I think that Zappa thought about what he was making, not a complete random collage of samples or noise).

You can hear the track "Duodenum" when seing this clip on youtube that I found out some minutes ago:

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