Sorry for the cross post.
Was in a shop the other day and saw a second Biosphere/HIA
collaboration Birmingham Sequences. A follow-up to Polar Sequences I
presume. Does anyone have this and care to give me their view. I have
Polar Sequences and enjoy it a great deal.
I ended up getting Rapoon's "The Kirghiz Light" and Tetsu Inoue's
"Ambient Otaku", which I presume is a re-issue as it's on the ambient
world label. I would heartily recommend both on my limited listens.
The Kirghiz Light is "primitive/ethno" electronica and ambient and
very much up my street. Very similar to Equator by O Yuki Conjugate.
Ambient Otaku is slowly building elecronic ambience in a very similar
vein to Organic Cloud. I've only listened to them a couple of times
so these are just initial impressions.
Been quite lucky this week with gigs. Last Thursday was Mu-Ziq at
Planet K, Manchester. Friday was Mira Calix with a Gescom DJ set at
the Music Box.
Mu-Ziq was supported by Luke Vibert and B J Cole. I've not come
across B J Cole before so didn't know what to expect. He played a
dulcimer (horizontal rectangular thing with strings which he played
with a slide "finger"). The dulcimer is something I associate with
country so was a little suprised to see it here. The mixture of Luke
Vibert's eclectic hip-hop beats,from boxes rather than vinyl, and the
dulcimer did actually work really well. This would probably be
considered a bit of an odd cross-over in the US - country/hip-hop.
Mike Paradinas was excellent. There were a few things I recognised
but nothing I could name. For the most part his set consisted of
pretty hectic beats which everyone present did their very best to
dance to. I certainly thoroughly enjoyed it. Even the wife enjoyed
it, which is saying something for someone who keeps putting Macy Gray
on repeat at home.
Friday was a bit of a disappointment, especially after Thursday. The
Gescom set was one of the high points but didn't really get past the
head nodding, foot tapping stage. I'm a bit confused by what
followed. Next on the bill was Req (on the Skint labe). Some guy came
on and played with a little box of tricks and did some scratching
over it. Not very inspiring stuff I'm afraid. This went on until 2.30
AM. The thing was scheduled to finish at 3 AM. I waited a bit and
left at 2.45 hoping for some glimpse of Mira Calix. I'm pretty sure
this would mean seeing a female doing things but none were to be
seen. Unless she did a ten minute set after I left, she didn't show.
Perhaps there is still a Warp representative on the list who could
explain.
Well, thanks if you're still reading. Sorry to go on if you don't
like long posts.
Lots of love
Tim
Seek simplicity and distrust it.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1919)
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