This can be considered the THIRD Breaking Light album release, and it is available only on the internet. No more of those shiny plastic discs for me, uh uh. As always, it's free. If you like it, come to a gig. Seems I have yet to find an audience..
Latest tracks by Breaking Light
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Kayo Dot
This review of a Kayo Dot album on eMusic made me laugh. Then I realized he's describing most of the music I listen to these days.
"There are some recordings that people rave about that I hear and think “it must be a big joke”. Just because something is unconventional does not make it genius. Post-rock? Post-metal? How about post-post-post-rock. Or better yet, post-music. This CD does not have songs, it does not have compositions (which implies some structure or, at least, intention or forethought). It barely has anything resembling musicianship. The “songs” typically start imperceptibly quiet and impossibly slow and (sometimes) build to a climax of sludgy noise (or sometimes they don’t). Track 4 would have been almost appealling if it stopped at the four minute mark, but it winds down and then inexplicably restarts with a droning repetition of noise for the next....14 minutes. Which brings to mind another description for this CD: Pretentious. You know what it really sounds like? It sounds like a bunch of stoned guys screwing around on their instruments in someone’s basement with the lights turned out."
To be fair, here's a KD track from a different album ("Coyote"):
Kayo Dot_03_III. Abyss Hinge 1 Sleeping Birds Sighing In Roscolux.mp3
"There are some recordings that people rave about that I hear and think “it must be a big joke”. Just because something is unconventional does not make it genius. Post-rock? Post-metal? How about post-post-post-rock. Or better yet, post-music. This CD does not have songs, it does not have compositions (which implies some structure or, at least, intention or forethought). It barely has anything resembling musicianship. The “songs” typically start imperceptibly quiet and impossibly slow and (sometimes) build to a climax of sludgy noise (or sometimes they don’t). Track 4 would have been almost appealling if it stopped at the four minute mark, but it winds down and then inexplicably restarts with a droning repetition of noise for the next....14 minutes. Which brings to mind another description for this CD: Pretentious. You know what it really sounds like? It sounds like a bunch of stoned guys screwing around on their instruments in someone’s basement with the lights turned out."
To be fair, here's a KD track from a different album ("Coyote"):
Kayo Dot_03_III. Abyss Hinge 1 Sleeping Birds Sighing In Roscolux.mp3
Saturday, October 9, 2010
the rig for tomorrow's gig at Doc's
Rc20XL loop station
DL4 Line 6 delay modeler
Ibanez DE7 delay/echo
Boss Super Octave OC-3
iPod touch running Aura Flux app
paintbrush
slide (regular)
long slide (aluminum)
portable cassette recorder/various tapes
ebow
Epiphone Dot Deluxe guitar (not shown)
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Exercise for Buchla and Nagra
Ok seems I've become a bit too self-absorbed with this blog so here's this.
Exercise for Buchla and Nagra from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
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