Music You Need To Hear

Month: April 2021

  • [Youtube] Sofia Gubaidulina – Sieben Worte for cello, bayan and strings

    [Youtube] Sofia Gubaidulina – Sieben Worte for cello, bayan and strings

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    No reviews today, as I will be celebrating Easter weekend (for those who are confused, it is because most Eastern Orthodox celebrate Easter using the Julian Calendar) with my friends.  To honor Good Friday, I offer to you Tatar-Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina’s magnum opus, Sieben Worte for cello, bayan and strings.  It is a composition dedicated…

  • Jeff Gburek with Ilaria Boffa – Reifications // Minimal Animal // Reanimations

    Jeff Gburek with Ilaria Boffa – Reifications // Minimal Animal // Reanimations

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    Another Akashic Records masterpiece.  This imprint never fails for me. Jeff Gburek works with Italian composer, researcher and poet Ilaria Boffa to make a hazy, deeply psychedelic piece of musique concrète.  The three works on this album are sonic storytelling, layering voice on voice, and  is perhaps the best way I can describe this release. …

  • Khara (ХАРА) – Mandragora (Мандрагора)

    Khara (ХАРА) – Mandragora (Мандрагора)

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    Khara is an Old Slavonic word meaning “the smile of God.”  Truly, God must have been smiling to allow such a weirdly joyful music to come together.  Mandragora brings together a bardic style of rock & roll infused with traditional music from their native Khakassia, whose native inhabitants share a lot of cultural affinities with…

  • Frau Blücher and the Drunken Horses – Smile

    Frau Blücher and the Drunken Horses – Smile

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    Sounding like a band crossing the energy of American garage surf gods The Lords Of Altamont, French punks Les Thugs with the legendary Motörhead, Frau Blücher combine a poppy, but aggressive garage-punk with hints of metal.  The band name comes from a running gag from the movie Young Frankenstein, and you can read about the…

  • The Lamplight Club – Gallows Tree

    The Lamplight Club – Gallows Tree

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    We have quite a treat tonight.  The Lamplight Club was a six-piece band out of Essex, England who produce a sound that fits comfortably between 60’s garage-psych, gothic folk and touched with a noir country tinge to it. You can stream their songs via Spotify here.  If there are more honorable streaming services to recommend,…

  • Destruktionsanstalt / Cyanosis – Split

    Destruktionsanstalt / Cyanosis – Split

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    For those of you, my friends, who were avid readers of my previous blog, A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music, among the musicians I was proud to champion was Destruktionsanstalt, whose works were featured at this link.  I’m pleased to say that Per Najbjerg Odderskov has a fresh release under that monicker, splitting it with a…

  • Kawabata Makoto and Baisong Wu – Rivers And Mountains

    Kawabata Makoto and Baisong Wu – Rivers And Mountains

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    Though there are heavy tensions at the moment between the governments of Japan and the People’s Republic of China (sic), this compilation proves that there is peace through psych.  Psychedelic music is the medium both the legendary guitarist of Acid Mothers Temple, Kawabata Makoto and Chinese acid-folk musician Baisong Wu, and their collaboration bore the…

  • [Video] Julia Hülsmann Quartet – This Is Not America | ECM Records

    [Video] Julia Hülsmann Quartet – This Is Not America | ECM Records

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    Rudy Carrera
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    Julia Hülsmann is a pianist from Bonn, Germany who has recorded quite a few stellar albums for the legendary record label ECM.  This particular song is a fine rendition of This Is Not America, originally performed by David Bowie and Pat Metheny as part of the soundtrack to the film The Falcon and The Snowman.

  • Ombra – Posidonian Poetry

    Ombra – Posidonian Poetry

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    This has to be one of the more elegant releases I’ve had the pleasure of spending my evenings with in a few weeks.  Ombra are a quintent, as I understand it, based in Barcelona, Spain.  This sumptuous release blends everything from jazz, a touch of waltz, Arabic and Balkan music with vocals sung in a…

  • Brendan Perry – Songs of Disenchantment – Music from the Greek Underground

    Brendan Perry – Songs of Disenchantment – Music from the Greek Underground

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    Dead Can Dance singer and multi-instrumentalist Brendan Perry is absolutely enamored with Greek culture, and it’s obvious because a lot of DCD’s work has an affinity towards it.  Perry is especially appreciative of rebetiko, the local variant of the blues in Greek culture.  This album is his paean to his adoration of rebetiko, and is…