SESSION 54: At Home With Rose

Experimental easy listening

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This lot will not be hard on your ears. If you haven't listened to much in the way of experimental music then this is a good starter. I'll be listening to this for a spot of relaxation and reflection.

First three tracks are by Chris Watson under the name of zero.enmity. I met Chris on FB and he hooked me up with some tracks and they fit perfectly in this mix. You can find more of Chris's music on Last.FM. Chris is from New Zealand but has spent the last 20 years living in Melbourne, Australia and Tokyo, Japan.

zero.enmity, i. Themes - Harmonic study on raag marva: I, Harmonic Study of the Rãg Marva, unreleased 2010. [5:56]
zero.enmity, ii. 'Mr Honda's Waterfall' - Harmonic study on raag marva: II, Harmonic Study of the Rãg Marva, unreleased 2010. [6:19]
zero.enmity, iii. Freeform - Harmonic study on raag marva: III, Harmonic Study of the Rãg Marva, unreleased 2010. [8:25]
Es, Säteet sun sielusta, Kesämaan lapset, Fonal 2009. [11:27]
Mount Eerie, Through the Trees, Wind's Poem, P.W. Elverum & Sun 2009. [11:33]
Max Richter, On The Nature of Daylight, The Blue Notebooks, FatCat 2004. [6:12]
Animal Hospital, Memory, Memory, Barge 2009. [16:50]
Cordouan, When all this is over we'll meet again, Love, MechanizedMind 2003. [8:41]
myrmyr, The Sea Returns, The Amber Sea, Digitalis 2009. [14:53]
Jessica Bailiff, Your Sounds Make Patterns In My Eyes, Old Things, Morc Records 2007. [4:46]
Gydja, A Siren Stood Hymning upon Each Circle, Umblicus Maris, Mystery Sea 2007. [11:23]
Alan Sparhawk, Sagrado corazon de jesu (second attempt), Solo Guitar, Silber 2006. [13:27]

SESSION 41: At Home With Rose

seht

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Tonight is a 2-hour special of music by Seht. Seht is Stephen Clover. I know Stephen as a friend, but that's not why I'm doing a special of his music. For me, Seht is the music I can listen to no matter what my mood. There are so many levels to Seht. One moment, warm, gentle and organic, the next mechanical, malevolent and dark. But never suddenly. Seht's tracks move seamlessly in a droney haze. Not to say there are not juxtapostions. It's just that dark can sit comfortably next to light. They can seem to be one and the same thing. Tonight I finally found the thread to Seht's music. I found the drone of the machine always sitting somewhere in the outer reaches of the most organic, acoustic track. A pervasive, yet background, hum.

I've sometimes thought of Seht's music as quite filmic and recently saw some films by Kim Pieters with Seht as the soundtrack. Worked beautifully and I found it quite emotionally moving to watch these dark slow images against the dark slow drones. What a match.

I've chosen a good range of tracks although I found it hard stripping some out of my original playlist. The ones I had to trim were the long ones. I could only fit one long track in. I couldn't really do him justice without one long track in my playlist.

Stephen Clover also runs a small label, Palindrone. He is an artist as well a musician. He loves cats. He makes a fine martini.

NOTE: image above is from HRRY cover and is by Stephen himself.

POSTSCRIPT: Check out Boomkat to buy selected Seht albums. Latest album HRRY available as CD and vinyl.

Here's the show:

'Preamble', The Voice of the Taniwha, Last Visible Dog. (1:14)
'Make the Baby Jesus Cry Some More', The Voice of the Taniwha, Last Visible Dog. (6:45)
''We Can Speak Quite Freely ('Evocation Of The Apparition Of Babel' Remix), The Voice of the Tahiwha, Last Visible Dog. (7:36)
'[Epilogue - 13 Seconds Over Aro St.]', The Voice of the Taniwha, Last Visible Dog. (0:13)
'chimnon', dronemusic, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. (2:41)
'A3. SPFT', HRRY. Digitalis. (8:01)
'B5. JZZA', HRRY, Digitalis. (2:56)
'Sputnik Ii', Sputnik Ii, diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings
(18:11)
'phone order', Application Antarctica Download Form, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. (7:56)
'Communion I: Drinks After Work', Communion Longplayer, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. (6:01)
'syddo paragone', syddo paragone, Audiobot. (39:42)
'olympus mons', The Green Morning, Digitalis. (15:22)
'Green Faerey', Frannce Compilation CD2: Blanc, Ruralfaune. (6:52)

SESSION 34: At Home With Rose

Quarters: drone

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Some nice long minimalist drone tracks tonight.

It's been a hard week, so that's all the blither you're gonna get from me.

Birchville Cat Motel, "Buckling Metal Snowflakes", Chi Vampires [2004], Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. (28:52)
Seht, "One Moment", Dead bees ((the((quiet)earth))suite) [2008], PseudoArcana. (36:33)
Windy & Carl, "The Eternal Struggle", The Dream House [2005], Kranky. (31:51)
Scorces, "Breath Threads", Scorces [2001], Wholly Other. (26:14)