Run Wrake - Rabbit

Ok, so not really a record club kind of thing (although the sound is excellent in this), but I just rediscovered this amazing animation and am going to slap it right into the horror category. Enjoy.

Guitar Pioneer - Bill Frisell

Bill Frisell, was my pick for the "pioneers" theme. What is different in Frisell's music, is that he does not stand out front: His music is made of every part and every musician in the group. He rarely takes solos and when he does, they hardly sound like one - they mesh and flow into the musical environment that he and his groups create. 

Nothing is more important than the music, and I feel most musicians/composers (myself included) often neglect this in theirs.

My first pick (left) shows Frisell, the sideman. The pick on the right is a more recent, solo album of Frisell's. Yet, I feel the guitar is still a part of the music, not centre-space.

Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert

You may or may not know him (as Scott would say), he's the pioneer of live improvisation: Keith Jarrett, The Köln Concert is his most famous live album. If you listen closely, you can hear the audience laughing when he imitates the sound of the opera house bell in the beginning.

Tony Williams

Following last night's record club, the theme being 'pioneers', I chose Tony Williams, an American Jazz drummer who famously became a member of the Miles Davis quintet at the age of 17.

I chose the track 'Hat & Beard' from Eric Dolphy's 1964 album 'Out to Lunch' released on Blue Note Records, a great example of avant-garde jazz in the 60s. I find the drumming on this track to be extremely expressive, still remaining rhythmically solid, whilst reflecting Dolphy's angular clarinet lines.

The Caretaker - No one knows what shadowy memories haunt them to this day

Yes, this is a reference to The Shining. Deep Hauntology shit. Patience (After Sebald) is the soundtrack to a film about the German writer Sebald. It's largely based on Franz Schubert's Die Winterreise.

No one knows what shadowy memories haunt them to this day


Here's what he's done:


turned into



or this
 

turned into



And yes, choosing Gerhard Hüsch performing Schubert was on purpose. This adds the ultimate meta level of memory to this post (honoring Sebald). :)

PS: If someone got to buy one of the 300 limited coloured vinyls of this album and now feels like they'd rather want to listen to Schubert's Winterreise, please address me in the comment section. Haha.

N.Y./Numb/Nihility

3 fairly contrasting pieces of music, nothing to do with NX, but all of them begin with the letter N. 

Anna Meredith - Nautilus

This track is really cool and awesome video

Also check out this cool track:
ORLOK