Day by Day
Dry Cleaning, Eric Malmberg, New Undomondo Discover Weekly, Gabi Luncă, Ariel Kalma and more music related stuff around the web.
DRY CLEANING
Over the last week I went through an acute Dry Cleaning phase. The UK indie/post-punk band led by Florence Shaw’s dry and monotone vocal delivery is a blessing among peers. Read about how this came to be, watch them live here and here, do yourself a favour and stream their album, which you will probably listen to from an end of 2021 List sooner or later anyway.
AROUND THE NET
Ted Gioia asks “Are Pandemics Followed by Eras of Festivities and Cultural Broadening?” on his inaugural newsletter post.
Maestro Morricone on the role of the composer and his uncompromising work.
Finland’s rising star We Jazz reissues Swedish Organist Eric Malmberg, an alltime personal fave by me & 1/2 of Swedish cult heroes Sagor & Swing.
“I would love to continue my work and provide you with music like i have done for the last 46 years ✨” A personal, and emotional, plea to donate to Ariel Kalma’s cancer treatment fund. Please donate if you can.
Two different approaches to music and life in general: Please be like the Syria Underground House Community and not like the priviliged Bottega Veneta and Soho House mf’ers.
This incredible 80’s italo dancing footage could have been an hour and still time would fly-by.
NEW FRONTIERS
I love where the new AI, Neural Network, GAN etc. based approach opens new frontiers in visual design. I mean, I can’t even understand what’s going on on the new video for Suzanne Kraft’s new single, but it’s glorious! Just what are these things?
This one by the always inventive Thomash and Xique Xique from Voodohop clique feeds microbes to AI and create new microbes out of thin air.
UNDOMONDO DISCOVER WEEKLY
This edition is for fans of ambient/drone music and electronics.
Exploring meditative headspaces on this edition of Undomondo Discover Weekly with Japanese drone-a-holic Chihei Hatakeyama, Brazilian Carlos Ferreira, Rose on Constellation Tatsu, Michael A. Muller, the enigmatic Florian T M Zeisig, Brooklyn’s Aria Rostami and subtle movements by Lawrence, Emile Mosseri’s soundtrack to Minari which won an Oscar nomination, Lithuanian psych-ambient-folk by Merope, new material from electronic music pioneer Thomas Fehlmann (The Orb among others), unreleased material from Javier Segura’s 80’s period, Canadians Nick Schofield and Khotin, Michel Banabila, Devendra Banhart’s on the wonderful 50 years of Allan Ginsberg’s the Fall of America compilation.. Closed by the Canadian singer-songwriter Fog Lake... §
BORN & DEAD
I am not sure if Romanian Gabi Luncă is well-known in Western music circles, but she’s no longer with us The Attic reports.
Aurel Ioniță: When we started out in 2004, and until about 2010, we were presented as “Gypsy music from the East”. After 2010, they called it “Balkan music”. And look what happened: the Gadjos that were playing rock music started adding a trumpet line here or there and poof! Balkan music. It’s the globalization of Balkan music. They didn’t call it Gypsy music anymore. Why? Because it wasn’t in their interest to put Gypsy culture at the forefront. […] Today, thanks to this same globalization, I’d say there is no more World Music, there’s only World Pop.
Celebrating two musical icons on the anniversary of their birth. Duke Ellington, born on this day in 1899 in Washington, DC and Willie Nelson, born on this day in 1933 in Abbott, Texas.
1. Willie performing “Good Hearted Woman” in 1972.
2. Duke on dreaming.
MIXES
There’s something, actually make that many things, that still keep me going back to this, Epic Vinyls from Brazil mix on My Analog Journal.
Istanbul’s Wolfgang Voigt Research Chair, Cenk Akyol prepares a tribute mix to the forefather of minimal techno & Kompakt.
Not necessarily a fan of this business techno/trance mix but this is from one of the test raves in NL and might hold the key to post Covid-19 nightlife. And it feels exciting. So is this in the UK.
It makes me sad and nostalgic thinking 1995 is further to us now in 2021, then 1970 is to 1995. This sincerity will not make a cameo soon.
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