I’ve listened to the album and the actual physical version arrived now. It’s rather lovely though. A nice package. It matches the album.
Laurie Anderson’s “Heart of a Dog”
Category: Music
Music is a huge part of my life so it’s almost certain that this category will have a lot of stuff in it.
A quick reminder for the SoundLab Play Space coming up soon this month
I’ve posted on this before, but here’s a little reminder. This event will be completely amazing, or at least I hope so anyway. It’s starting to shape up now and really come together. So I plan to be posting a few more details about the event quite soon and show some of the things I’m going to do be doing and showing there, and some of the amazing people who’ll be there.
If you’re interested in attending or being a part of it in some way, then take a look at this page on the SoundLab web site.
Listening to Laurie Anderson’s “Heart of a Dog”
So just a few first impressions really, after only listening through once.
Firstly, I loved it. It was very story focused. It was funny, and sad, and poignant, and beautiful. I really enjoyed listening to it a lot.
So I’m expecting to really enjoy it on all the subsequent listens too.
Listening to David Sylvian’s music … Manafon
Another problematic album to listen to, but it’s actually very good when you give it a chance and listen to it with focus and care it is well worth it. There’s a huge amount of depth and beauty in these songs. There’s always something new to find in each one, but it does require patience and that’s not always easy. Neither are these pieces, but just because they’re not easy does not mean that they’re not good. They are.
Listening to David Sylvian, The Good Son vs. The Only Daughter
This is an excellent album. Really interesting remixes of the Blemish album. Well worth listening to, and in fact something that I’ve listened to often and still do.
Reminder: SoundLab Play Space is coming up
I’ve posted on this before, but here’s a little reminder. The event will be completely amazing, or at least I hope so anyway. It’s starting to shape up now and really come together.
If you’re interested in attending or being a part of it in some way, then take a look at this page on the SoundLab web site.
More Olegtron 4060 fun
I should use this a lot more than I currently do. It is so much fun. I’m not sure exactly what I’m doing, except of course where I get something I like and continue to make sounds with it.
Listening to Blemish again
This is a difficult album. Not an easy listen at all. I remember when it first came out, it left a lot of people cold, and I think that back then I wasn’t sure what to make of it either.
Now I find that I actually quite like it. Even the contributions from Derek Bailey, which were very difficult listening. I like the album now. But it does require a more concentrated form of listening. Something more focused. It isn’t the kind of listening that I can do casually.
But I think it’s an album that’s worth listening to every now and then.
So I went to the Abbey Road Red launch, and it was pretty nice actually
So, last night I was at the launch of Abbey Road Red, a new music tech incubator at the iconic studios. It was a lovely event with some really nice tech companies showing off what they had to offer. Matthew Herbert performed and it was all pretty awesome overall.
To be honest I’m glad to be invited to these kinds of things. It’s nice to be a part of it.
Listening to David Sylvian’s albums again
After getting Hypergraphia yesterday and starting to read it I thought I’d start to listen to some of Mr Sylvian’s albums again. I haven’t listened to some of them for a long time and a few of them only a handful of times.
So today I started to listen to:
- Blemish
- The Good Son vs. The Only Daughter
- Manafon
These are, at times, difficult albums. Having said that, “The Good Son vs The Only Daughter” is one of my favourites.
So I’ll post some thoughts in a few days when I’ve had a chance to listen to these properly. I’m looking forward to this revisit.
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