Hi all,
Just wanted to let you know about a new release I'm quite happy with, based on a rehearsal recording of my opening set for the Adrian Belew Power Trio in November 2014.
After 100+ live...
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Hi all,
Just wanted to let you know about a new release I'm quite happy with, based on a rehearsal recording of my opening set for the Adrian Belew Power Trio in November 2014.
After 100+ live...
I love the direction Opeth has been going the last three albums - I listened to Pale Communion more than any other album the last two years, it was more focused than Heritage and the tunes all had a...
Thanks John! I also work in the city and live in East Lothian (Musselburgh area) and am familiar with East Linton - had my first UK car mishap there (took out someone's wing mirror on a very narrow...
A program has been posted -
https://sites.eca.ed.ac.uk/theprogectconference/files/2016/01/Programme-The-progect-2016.pdf
As a new resident of Edinburgh this event caught my eye:
https://sites.eca.ed.ac.uk/theprogectconference/
Not much info there, anyone know more about it?
Rob
+1
4/6 (320 for the other two) on a nice pair of Focal studio monitors, but I admit there was some guessing, they were so close. I've always thought the merits of hi-def music were more marketing hype...
Her first two albums are my favorites - The Kick Inside and Lionheart. More "traditional" songwriter albums based on a rich and particular sense of eclectic harmony and melody, a compelling aspect of...
So sorry Steve! Very saddened to hear the news, you will be in my thoughts.
I'll be opening the show Sunday night (Nov 2) at St. Croix Casino in Turtle Lake WI! Thrilled to get the opportunity and slightly terrified! :)
Really looking forward to opening the Turtle Lake, WI show on 11/2!
Based on newgroups buzz surrounding Dream Theater in the early 90s, I remember looking for this album in Massachusetts the day it came out. The big name retailers didn't have it but I stopped by a...
These have both been on heavy rotation, very re-listenable:
Major Parkinson - Twilight Cinema
Opeth - Pale Communion
Even if it's a more traditional retro 70s style "prog" album, I think it still has an unmistakable Opeth identity in terms of mood, song structure and dynamic ebb and flow, and some of the chord...
Noticed there was no thread about this band, I was perusing progstreaming.com and came across this gem:
http://majorparkinson.bandcamp.com/album/twilight-cinema
Easily one of my favorite new...
Congratulations on reaching your goal! Very impressive to do so with 30 days still left.
I adore this album after about 6 or 7 listens, not just my favorite Opeth album but quickly becoming one of the best by any band. While I liked Heritage I agree this is much more focused and flows a...
Great, hope the tour goes well. If I am around (might be away on a trip that week) I will try to make the trek to the Baltimore show.
It's been going on since around 2007 I believe, when it was reported that Universal would be using watermarking after major labels decided to drop DRM copy protection on services like iTunes. Which...
For me, 256K MP3 and 192K AAC are indistinguishable from a CD (or even SACD) on music studio monitors- a pretty good (but not high-end) setup. There's a lot of psychological and subjective aspects to...
Fortunately, I don't think that is the case based on several user experiences I've read about. There is a Mozart opera cycle conducted by John Eliot Gardiner on Spotify I was listening to (until the...
It's easy to get confused about terminology like this, but data compression as it relates to media encoding (i.e. converting a CD to AAC or MP3) is completely different than dynamics compression used...
Yes, AAC is lossy but I personally can't distinguish between iTunes' AAC format and the original CD, even on good studio monitors. For that matter, I have a 256K MP3 and SACD version of the same...
I had been noticing something in a few albums I was listening to in iTunes and Spotify lately (particularly classical music recordings), an irritating "tremolo" effect as if someone had a fan running...
Hello there,
Since upgrading my "studio" with a better HD camera and lighting equipment, I've been working on new Chapman Stick videos. Perhaps you will find one or two to your liking!
Gentle...
Actually that show is tonight! Hopefully the weather doesn't affect the turnout too much. They are really worth seeing!
I'm excited to by opening for Greg Howard's improv band AZUL at Jammin' Java (Vienna, VA) on Sunday evening at 7pm!
Also, Greg will be hosting a free Chapman Stick expo at Jammin' Java (2:30pm)...
This is quite an impressive album, my favorite of the year so far- I had the fortune of opening for this band at Orion last month, not sure I would have discovered them otherwise!
...
Hello,
News of this release may not have been noticed in the "What's On, What's New" forum, but I wanted to mention what a great release this album is. I had the honor of opening for this band at...
Thanks Steve - it was a thrill to be a part of this! Just got home... loved the set by The Knells and I appreciated the kind response to my tunes. Was a great 24 hours in Baltimore!
Just picked this up on the 10trecords.com website, I quite like this album (the tracks you guys play from this at shows always sound fantastic) and the sonic enhancement makes it well worth the...
Looking forward to this! I just listened to the album and it's quite unique and fascinating... really nice! Honored to be a part of this.
I had to laugh at Joe Buck's responses to two of McCarver's "insights" at the beginning of the game- Tim said the key to the game for each team was "to go to Boston with a 3-2 lead, since that team...
Apart from the errors (and statistically the Cardinals were not a top defensive team this year) another factor was that the Sox have good plate discipline (something they focus on every year) - the...
I'm a Boston native and sports fan, but am pretty convinced Detroit would have won the ALCS if Scherzer was able to go one more inning in each of his games. That was one of the most dominating...
It's also not like the Green Monster results statistically in a high number of "cheap" home runs, it's 310 at the left field foul pole and towards center field gets to be 379, and the wall itself is...
I put together this video on Saturday, my Chapman Stick arrangement of The Call from Five Mystical Songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGlGzYLCBN4
Big thumbs up from me, it significantly raises my appreciation for this album. It's like watching a movie in HD as opposed to grainy antenna reception on an old TV. There's more space around the...
I agree with all the positive opinions in this thread - wonderful keyboard player with a keen sense of mood, texture and timbre, a huge influence on my own music. Got to have a beer with him before...
Got my front row ticket! Jammin Java is a great venue. Have enjoyed seeing Phideaux, 3RDegree, Brave, Ephemeral Sun, Michael Manring etc. there in the past.
I was stunned to hear the news, for some reason I missed Cyndee's updates here and on Facebook and did not realize what she and Jeff had been going through the last couple months (I knew about the...
I will say it's a surprising return to form, I hear elements of Rage for Order and The Warning here and a refreshing amount of creativity, and it's vastly superior to the "other" QR album that Tate...
Yes, the production suffers. Too bad, it's a good album but very harsh sonically, sounds like clipping throughout, hard to listen to more than a couple songs in a row. I just don't get how bands or...
Stick enthusiasts might be interested to know about Emmett's new instrument design, a 10-string model with a precisely machined fretboard made of one piece of aluminum (frets are "carved" right onto...
It took several years and a few different variations, but when it finally clicked the Stick totally changed the course of my musical path, and I've been playing it exclusively for the past 9 years. ...
Nice job guys- you really have a unique and advanced sense of harmony and song structure that sets you apart. Looking forward to this!
I think Viljans Öga is notably better than Hybris and Epilog (as amazing as those two are). To my ears the compositions and arrangements are more mature and fully developed on this latest album. And...
As an excuse to resurrect this thread I thought I'd share a Stick arrangement I just recorded of a RVW tune, a short and relatively simple piece- The Call (from Five Mystical Songs) which is a nice...
Parallels is the one I go back to the most, love the catchy riffs and melodies.
This article led me to track down Bernstein's 1958 recording of the Rite with the New York Philharmonic:
http://www.classicalnotes.net/classics/rite.html
It's from the beginning of the stereo...
just one quick bump for this weekend's show, thanks...
Great interview(s) Anil! Very much enjoyed that.
Greg Howard and I will be putting on a show Saturday February 16th in downtown Fredericksburg, VA (halfway between Richmond and Washington DC).
The show is 8pm at 909 Saloon on 909 Caroline...
Indeed quite funny, thanks for posting!
I do have a few recordings of the Tallis Fantasia, and for that one piece this is probably my favorite recording both in terms of performance and sound quality, conducted by John Barbirolli in the...
That's a tough one, he's done so much important music, but any CD would have to include the Tallis Fantasia, so this is a collection of 4 of his more well known pieces by the Academy of St. Martin in...
Count me in as someone who also loves RVW's music and his harmonic language.
The Tallis Fantasia was my introduction to RVW in college and immediately I was blown away by those mystical modal...
I became a fan of theirs at the ROSFest they played a couple years ago. I think their strength is in texture and exquisite harmonic progressions, and actually think their melodic sense is quite...