 ‘Brain’ is a CD musi-drama (opera pervers) with El Maestro JR lui-meme, Shelley Hirsch, Phil Minton, a Nietschean dentist and thousands of Rosenbergs. Plus The Weatherman. Full texts and notes. Cover by Peter Blegvad DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM: MP3 – £6.99 FLAC – £9.99 Buy album as CD (£12.50 POST FREE)
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Category: IMPROVISED/EXTENDED TECHNIQUES
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JON ROSE: Brainweather
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BLAST 4tet: Sift
This is the second release, after a long wait, from this unique ensemble. Equally at home with the discipline of composition and the tightrope of improvisation Blast (now Blast 4tet) have evolved a fluid, pointillistic, unfathomable but transparent musical language that seamlessly integrates – over very short durations – highly complex writing and very free ranging improvisation, allowing the two languages to merge and combine into a new kind of logical exposition that makes sense but can’t be reverse-engineered into its component parts. This is a music that lives through detail and exposition; neither resolving into composition, nor able properly to be understood as improvisation. In this respect Blast have solved a problem that has defeated many in the last 40 years.DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM:
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MP3: £1.70p|FLAC: £2.001. Sift listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Sift/01 Blast - Sift.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:300:end]2. Cklack listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Sift/02 Blast - Cklack.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:301:end]3. Fluke listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Sift/03 Blast - Fluke.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:302:end]4. Swerves listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Sift/04 Blast - Swerves.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:303:end]5. Pole listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Sift/05 Blast - Pole.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:304:end] -
BLAST: Altrastrata
In my opinion this is far and away the best thing this group has ever done (many will doubtless disagree) since they have moved from the complex rigidity of their earlier material into an altogether looser, more organic fluidity that retains some of the best of their organizing and compositional ability in an environment that, musically, has space to breath. The inclusion of drummer and amplified, processed percussionist Fabrizio Spera seems central to this new approach, at once improvisational, extended in tonal and rhythmic subtlety, and still locking into clear, coordinated stretches of translucent writing. An important releaseDOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM:
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MP3: £0.90p|FLAC: £1.251. Walking Matters listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Altrastrata/01 Blast - Walking Matters.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:291:end]2. H.O.I. listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Altrastrata/02 Blast - H.O.I..mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:292:end]3. Tectonic Re-Birth listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Altrastrata/03 Blast - Tectonic Re-Birth.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:293:end]4. Multi Salsa listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Altrastrata/04 Blast - Multi Salsa.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:294:end]5. Taliba Orgena listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Altrastrata/05 Blast - Taliba Orgena.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:295:end]6. Scape listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Altrastrata/06 Blast - Scape.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:296:end]7. On Ice listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Altrastrata/07 Blast - On Ice.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:297:end]8. Agatesa listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Altrastrata/08 Blast - Agatesa.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:298:end] -
STEVE MACLEAN: Expressions on Piano
Steve’s fourth CD for us is a remarkable set of pieces for mediated acoustic piano that operates in the shadowy territory between what is playable and what is programmable; between narrative simplicity and performative complexity; between hopeful intentionality and flawless execution. Unusually, Steve has put our ear right inside the piano, sans artificial reverberations and blurring tools and, over the course of the CD, various musical dialects are explored and extended – from the plausible through the exquisite to the impossible. MacLean also mines a subtle complexity that offers more on each audition and, occasionally, an extreme (of Nancarrowistic speed or sound amplified through gongs).
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Listen: MP3: £0.70p|FLAC: £1.001. Opening [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Expressions on Piano/01 Steve MacLean - Opening.mp3"]2. Impressions on Piano [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Expressions on Piano/02 Steve MacLean - Impressions on Piano.mp3"]3. 15 Variations on 2 Bars of Nothing [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Expressions on Piano/03 Steve MacLean - 15 Variations on 2 Bars of Nothing.mp3"]4. On The Road Again [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Expressions on Piano/04 Steve MacLean - On The Road Again.mp3"]5. One Gliss [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Expressions on Piano/05 Steve MacLean - One Gliss.mp3"]6. Progression of Life…Growing Older [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Expressions on Piano/06 Steve MacLean - Progression of Life...Growing Older.mp3"]7. Suite for Mechanized Piano [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Expressions on Piano/07 Steve MacLean - Suite For Mechanized Piano.mp3"]8. Wind In Our Hair [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Expressions on Piano/08 Steve MacLean - Wind in Our Hair.mp3"]9. If I’ve Told You Once I’ve Told You A Thousand Times [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Expressions on Piano/09 Steve MacLean - If I've Told You once I've Told You A Thousand Times.mp3"]10. Deep Waters [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Expressions on Piano/10 Steve MacLean - Deep Waters.mp3"]11. Expressions on Piano [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Expressions on Piano/11 Steve MacLean - Expressions on Piano.mp3"]12. Day Dreams [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Expressions on Piano/12 Steve MacLean - Day Dreams.mp3"] -
STEVE MACLEAN: Bridges
These recordings collect together works spanning two decades of composition and experimentation that balance traditional musical resources (the band, compositional skills, instrumental techniques, acoustic and amplified instruments) and the new technologies (computers, software, processing). The first CD showcases polyrhythmic, careful compositions (like those on his last ReR CD, Opposite of War), which still no-one has tried to emulate. The second is more meditative, abstract and electronic, moving from Kora through electric and acoustic guitars – with and without radical effects processing – to piano and virtual orchestra, putting various softwares through their paces.DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM:
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MP3:£0.70p|FLAC: £1.00Disc 1 Listen: 1. No Jazz [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/01 Steve MacLean - No Jazz.mp3"]2. One Little Life [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/02 Steve MacLean - One Little Life.mp3"]3. Untitled [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/03 Steve MacLean - Untitled.mp3"]4. Guitar Loom 3 [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/04 Steve MacLean - Guitar Loom 3.mp3"]5. In and Around Susan [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/05 Steve MacLean - In and Around Susan.mp3"]6. The Cliff [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/06 Steve MacLean - The Cliff.mp3"]7. Trance 4 [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/07 Steve MacLean - Trance 4.mp3"]8. Splice [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/08 Steve MacLean - Splice.mp3"]9. Retro [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/09 Steve MacLean - Retro.mp3"]10. Maneuvers [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/10 Steve MacLean - Maneuvers.mp3"]Disc 2 1. In A Room I Saw You [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/01 Steve MacLean - In a Room I Saw You.mp3"]2. Kora [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/02 Steve MacLean - Kora.mp3"]3. Guitar Loom 1 [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/03 Steve MacLean - Guitar Loom 1.mp3"]4. 2 Short [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/04 Steve MacLean - 2 Short.mp3"]5. Surrounded #4 [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/05 Steve MacLean - Surrounded 4.mp3"]6. Truro #5 [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/06 Steve MacLean - Truro 5.mp3"]7. Bambiville Revisited [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/07 Steve MacLean - Bambiville Revisited.mp3"]8. Guitar Loom 2 [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/08 Steve MacLean - Guitar Loom 2.mp3"]9. Bridges [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/09 Steve MacLean - Bridges.mp3"]10. Render [wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Bridges/10 Steve MacLean - Render.mp3"]
