Lots of fatigue and exhaustion means a lot less energy for writing things down this month. And also, forgetting to put the post up at all. So here it is a month late and much abridged.
What I listened to
- We Blame Chicago, from 90 Day Men, on the Numero Group label. Have long loved this band and especially loved revisiting their work and listening to it all in chronological order.
- Complete Works 07, Bernard Parmegiani.
- Severe Chronotopic Leakage, from Diego Behncke, out on 時の崖_tokinogake. Madness.
- The Word, by Snaex. I have a real fondness for this duo of songwriters from Maine.
- The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir, Sarah Davachi.
- Complete Works 07, Luc Ferrari.
- La Démesure du Pas, by Matthieu Prual, Carol Robinson, Toma Gouband, Gabriel Lemaire, Joris Rühl. From September but I missed it. More excellence from PAGANS. Found sound, voices, blips and blops, extended techniques, lovely stuff.
New releases this past month
- 2024.10.05 ZONA HOST by my friend Ron Harrity. Ron always makes good and careful music with a lot of care and attention given to the arrangement of the sounds.
- THE FIRST CRACK IN THE SHEER FACE OF GOD from the textural ambient project Ember Wreath on the always excellent label Folded Note.
- Le Rêve de Polyphème more brilliant music from the PAGANS label, this time from the project Polyphème blending gamelan and electronic production in lovely fun ways.
- The Hard Quartet, the self-titled first album from an indie supergroup. It’s really well made guitar rock.
- AGENESIS, from Robert Curgenven. Curgenven is one of my favourite artists working with field recordings and found sounds. This piece is quite different from earlier works of his I’ve heard–much more dissonant and bleak in sound.
- only the gurgles of a dying god from someone else I know, Slow Hymn, who makes such beautiful and compelling long duration works out of field recordings.
What I did
- I saw Silverbacks perform at The Workman’s Club here in Dublin. Very good show.
- I performed as part of the National Concert Hall Gamelan for a private event celebrating the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Ireland.
- Worked on writing and recording guitar overdubs for the forthcoming Whozyerman? record.
What I made
- A chanter for a set of uilleann pipes.