Wikid ambient stuff
Boomkat review:
Marsen Jules, Arvo Part, Zbigniew Preisner’s soundtrack work for Krzysztof Kieslowski, Deaf Center, Max Richter, Erik Satie, Alberto Iglesias - if you are familiar and in awe of any or all of these names then this latest album on the exceptional Miasmah label will no doubt end up on your essential listening pile for the foreseeable future. Jacaszek has managed with “Treny” to assemble an album so heart-stoppingly beautiful and personal that we’ve been stunned into silence for its entire 55 minute duration. With string arrangements provided courtesy of Stefan Wesolowski, the foundations of the album are set with Cello and Violin painting fragile outlines coloured by subtle electronic manipulations, harp, piano and reduced, haunting operatic voices. Unlike so many of his contemporaries, Michael Jacaszek doesn’t make use of any samples, with everything on the album assembled by the musicians on hand (notably Maja Sieminska, Anja Smiszek-Wesolowska and Wesolowski and Jcaszek themselves) - and the subtle grandeur of the album is almost impossible to take in over one sitting, even if the impact is absolutely immediate. This is the kind of album that you just cannot believe a bijou imprint like Miasmah is able to lay its hands on - such is the scale of its success that it feels like a hugely important piece of work, far outweighing almost anything else we’ve heard in the modern classical field these last eighteen months. Cinematic without ever feeling contrived, “Treny” is surely one of the most impressive, mystical and astonishing albums of the year.
http://www.lesdjinns.com/dasdc/fake/Treny.zip
dayum that review makes it sound wicked. let us listen…
Finally got around to listening to this. Did it in one sitting.
GELENDARY
Randomly I got sick of having not enough space on my player for all the music I like, so I went and got a hard drive player - sadly the only choices are iPoo and ZUNE.
I got a zune 80 gb and I actually love it a lot. I’m gonna have to spend a couple weeks cleaning up tags on my music - since it will only browse by tags, not by filename… which sucks.
Also, I have to re-rip or convert most of my stuff to MP3, which is also a bummer. WHY doesn’t it support Vorbis? WTF
Besides that, this thing seriously rocks. I’ve owned an iPod - and this is BETTER.
/random thoughts
nice, I wuz wondering how the zune were, I’m especially interested in the 80gb verzion.
It doesn’t support rockbox doez it?
Sadly no. And it doesnt look like there
s anyone working on it either.
very nice,
reminds me of Rachel’s
but much better production