Posted by Waveway on January 14th 2010 - 21:41:22 to Music
This is getting harder every time. Of course 2007 was easy because of Ulver…
But I’ll try anyway. I am well aware that this summer/autumn I’ve listened less music than probably ever. Just because of travelling. So lot of the stuff that has come out I just haven’t heard.
OK, let’s get on with it, not in any order, except Jozef is where it should be:
Jozef Van Wissem - Ex Patria
Just the sheer beauty of this takes my breath away.
Jozef Van Wissem - It Is All That Is Made
Just the sheer beauty of this takes my breath away.
All and all it’s very hard to say (and utterly useless) which one of these would be in anyway better… Brilliance is brilliance.
Nadja - Corrasion (vinyl)
Well, I don’t know ho many times I’ve listened Numb on a loud volume, and the blueness of it just makes it better.
Nadja - I Make From Your Eyes The Sun
Ah….
Nadja/Black Boned Angel
Christ Send Light was super, this is something different, but still, super
Nadja - Belles Betes
Specially Green and Cold is superb.
Aidan Baker - Gathering Blue (vinyl)
Gathering blue from your eyes…, really really beautiful just because of this song the release is solid… Of course lot of other stuff on this has been released before.
Aidan Baker - Thoughtspan (vinyl)
“And it doesn’t matter that you’re not here”
Jesu - Infinity
Well, somehow returning into old(?) but I agree with some review that he might as well have divided this into the songs they are. Nevertheless this get’s my hopes up for future releases.
Kongh - Shadows of the Shapeless
Riding a bike through BSAS with this album coming through. Pretty damn good. Probably even better than their first one.
Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
Let’s ee, how this goes. I think that somewhere along thehigway is better, but then again for a long time I though that salvation is better than SAH, so what do I know.
Bass Communion - Litany
You just have to hear it.
William Basinski - 92982
What can I say, Mr. Basinski delivers. I mean, you know this is great. Now I’m just waiting for the new one for top 2010 list.
Aerial - Put it this way in headlines
Well, I just got this… But it’s aerial for sure. I think this album would be on the top list just because of the guitars of the end of “in our wake”
Is this all? it can’t be all? But nevertheless…. so it seems, oijoi.
Posted by Waveway on November 08th 2009 - 05:01:55 to Annoyances, Life, Music
PIc from Finland though.
We’ve been looking for bikes. To cycle from place to place. Cycles are cheap here, if you come from europe.
But if you think you’re going to use it for a month…
Yesterday we found a good bike with 300 pesos. Too good to be true.
WHen we went to pick it up this morning… yeah, the poor woman had made a mistake with the price, it was 700. Arse, mistake, hah. I donät know what she tried but mistake it was not. Maybe that I would settle for a worse bike with 400.
This place is full of talk that doesn’t mean a thing. Blaa blaa blaa.
People are trying to bullshit in everywhere. But here blaa blaa blaa is a rule, not exception.
So now I have to find a bike. again. maybe.
paypal refuses to work with me when paying to US. I do not know why.
I hope they’ll tell me. I think they’re trying to bullshit me as well.
But something totally different from all of this.
After telling my friend Weazie about Jozef Van Wissem and It is all that is made He returned a link to ubuweb’s Van Wissem site. And my god, rom there you can find forthcoming Ex Patris (from important records, on vinyl apparently). Ex Patris continues the same awesomeness and beauty as It Is All That Is Made. Superbly Superbly beautiful. From ubuweb you can also hear A Priori which is also super good, but these two works of 2009 are overwhelmingly good.
I’m happy so happy that one funny day I was visiting a local new recordstore in helsinki and just ecause of the covers I picked up Jozef’s Stations of the cross, I like it, enough that I got more, like A Rose By Anyother Name and A Priori and then It Is All That Is Made I’m so happy.
Right now my ears are filled with Black Boned Angel’s and Nadja’s collaboration. The “new” full lenght one. And sure it’s not Christ Send Light, but something slightly else. However this far I do like it.
I’m so sad about the bike. I’m so happy about the music.
Every weekend, fri to sun here is a market very close by. I’ve been getting a lot of bomillas. Gues what you’re going to get for souveniers?
Today there was a stall by a woman who makes knives. I’m such a sucker for knives. There was this one super beautiful one, and I had to keep telling myself that it’s unpractical for me, it’s made for skinning small animals, it’s not for me, I wouldn’t use it.. But it was so beautiful. I didn’t got it though. ANd I won’t get it tomorrow either (?)
SOS is full and now people are not even signing up for the waiting list so much anymore which is ok.
I think about coming back to finland. Going to russia and ukraine. My life and how it doesn’t seem to go anywhere even I’m going from place to place.
Most of the stuff comes down to couple of questions: “What is important?” “What do I want?”
I love to dance. Hire me.
Posted by Waveway on November 02nd 2009 - 23:36:50 to Life, Music
A lot of time.
Vanishing away?
A lot to write about?
Well not a lot.
Visiting a laundry, and then Freddo’s because there’s no place to wait in the laundry.
I wonder how quickly they come to finland, will they ever come.
Will I ever come.
Yes I will, I know I’ll return because SOS is soon and Sos is full.
Less than 24 hours and we had 120 people coming. It’s nice.
Dancing here has been… well.. good, but jams are packed. Spaces are too small for the amount of people.
And at the same time as it is beautiful to see so many people interested and dancing, it’s also super frustrating try to dance with no space. Feeling limited all the time by the space. And finding out people with whom you could really explore and try out and find something but space limiting our exploration, our dance.
But that’s how it is.
I did a class, just one, which is always too short. But it went good. I always know how things could go better, but but… maybe better is a wrong word, different. You can’t be sure which choice would be (or will be) better.
Autarco asked me to visit him, and maybe there we will have some more space, or less people.
Lior would be also there.
This summer has been… Meeting and meeting people.
L and P and AH and AD and M in Moscow, then A&L + Autarco in Ibiza, then L, P, AH & M in here.
Going around russia, europe and argentina and meeting same people. Hah.
Again and again I’m lost in life and people and things. And again and again I find out that dancing is the thing where I’m least lost. But at the same time I’m enough lost in that one too, so that I can’t figure my way to make a living out of it, at least yet. Maybe I will. Here I’ve got some invitations to some places, but problem lies in no one having much of the money. And I’m slighly annoyed that I sense some people thinking I have a lot of money because I’m coming from europe. I don’t, but at the same time I do have a much better back up system than most of the people here, so I shouldn’t complain.
Back to dance. Dancing makes me happy, I notice that I have a hard time to smile, but in Jams I notice myself smiling much more.
Another thing that makes me.. Not just happy but… No it doesn’t make me anything, but it brings me enormous Joy is of course music (surprise surprise!). And the best thing for a while is Jozef Van Wissem’s It Is All That Is Made. I knew that I will like it, all of Jozef’s albums have been great this far, but this one, my…… How can anyone make music that is so sad and joyful and beautiful at the same time. It’s so beautiful that this far every time I’ve listened to it I’ve noticed tears coming to my eyes at some point. He has this theme that he returns to in every other(?) piece. I don’t know. I could try to write million things about this album, and nothing would hit the point so well. That’s why it’s music, not words.
Only thing I can say is that listen to it. Get it, and listen to it. Helped me a lot during these weeks. I notice.
City is big and full of cars. It reminds me of moscow for these same reasons, although I think that moscow is bigger. And of course the athmosphere is not exactly the same. In both countries I don’t speak the language. Here I can at least read the road signs. I wish I would get a bike, although the traffic is pretty scary in a way. Like they have lane marks, but nobody actually drive on the lanes. They drive how ever. But traffic is flowing so it’s ok. I was told here is a lot of parks, and yes there is, Only thing is that the park might be about thirty meters wide and there might be 4 lane road on both sides, so it’s not exactly peaceful or fresh, but it’s ok still.
Lot of notices warning about not leaving water around because water is a breeding place for mosquiteos and mosquitos can give you dengue, which is apparently somekind of relative of malaria.
Am I again picking up just negative things?
Food is very good, people seem to be nice although for me always takes a while to get accustomed to way of behaving.
I was lying in the dance space of san telmo, where the festival classes were. Watching the fan on the roof. Then I was lying in the terrase next to it watching birds, alone, in flocks. And I remembered reading that hawk or an eagle can see 240 pictures in a second. So for us 24 pictures is enough to make picture moving, But for eagle there would be a lot of stillness. Every moment is eternity, and not related to each others. It’s like pictures. Every moment is a still forever but we just happen to flow from still to still in the speed of 24 pictures. Time and space is totally created and related to our perception. Think, over 100 times more information in a second. Second is a long time. Eternities next to each others.
If I shoot a five minute dance piece with camera taking 240 pictures a second, slow it down to 24 pics a second, 500 minutes of dance. Continuous slow motion.
How slow we must look for an eagle.
Oh thing more. I love my bag, It’s great. I want to marry it. I took the brand of and replaced it with eyes of Ganesha since I’m becoming a hippie and since Ganesha is abundant. Bag is abundant. It’s nice to have something designed well for use and looking good. Now the test is just how long and well it will last.
Posted by Waveway on July 26th 2009 - 21:47:11 to Dance, Life, Music
Ok, one festival down.
I’m totally tired and I don’t understand why.
I didn’t do ay intensive. I did too classes.
I did dance in the jams a lot.
But still being tired all the time is getting tiring.
Tomorrow to siberia, Novo-sibirsk and then night trip on a bus to altai mountains.
More free time… well easier schedule I think.
I took loads of free time now too.
Two weeks still.
Met Ice queen, such a lot of fun.
Met some other people too. Great dances, great people.
Most of them I’ll meet again soon.
But Masha I’ll miss a lot…
Let’s see how my life turns out.
Probably no net for a while.
Oh, one superb thingy, Nathan from conspiracy told that because GLS (well actually Itella) lost my packet) GLS will cover the whole sum. And for cases like this they have a couple of copies saved. so they send me new packet with almost everything in there (Wolves in the throne room missing, but I got that from elsewhere) Now I just hope that my father picks it up…
But superb work from Nathan and Conspiracy Records. So many thanks.
Posted by Waveway on July 14th 2009 - 15:05:09 to Dance, Life, Music
ECITE is over, we ended on friday and went of to Liverpool to do some performance.
Friday night performances were at the Blue Coat theater… Kind of usual stuff as shortly improvised performance vise, but the place was really really nice, as a building or atmosphere somehow.
I remember mainly just hoppalappa postfolki tantzi teatteri… but they have worked long time together. Liisa’s solo partial thanks to the child who was crying on the next space, duve kind of thingy, and of course Ville’s verbalopening on the last bit.
What do I have to say about ECITE? Somehow after reading… well it’s not about that. it’s just me. I feel that I didn’t share or exhange so much about teaching, at least verbally. But I exhanged through dancing and dancing was mainly really good. I’m specially happy about dancing with Mathilde in Karl’s DJ jam so that we wanted to continue the exploration as a performance in liverpool on saturday…
I’m jumping around I know.
ECITE was good, let’s see how we figure it out in finland next year.
So on friday performances where in blue coat theater space. On saturday they were in A Foundation gallery space or spaces. A lot of space.
I notice that I get highly frustrated on discussions how things should be done… specially when performance should start around 15 o’clock and we start to talk about overall arch about 14.55.
But I think that beginnings and Ends group score in the big white space were good. Also there was some beautiful small things happening like Steve’s and that livepoolian guys singing in golden space. As well as Liisa’s and Peter’s duet next to the golden space. I just hope more people would have found those spaces earlier and actually seen them well enough. I also think that Mathilde’s and mine small thing was good. I really enjoyed and I was very happy to get Peter’s positive feedback (verbally and graphically) about it.
But maybe the nicest thing in the weekend was that V came to liverpool and we had some time together.
I understand well why buddhist monks were not married.. well some of them are now. But it’s sometimes hard to not to be attached. And when being attached it brings up so many emotions… Good and bad.
After the weekend… We came back to london. On monday, yesterday I had a flight to moscow with Caroline and Lily. We had agreed to see at 14.00 before check-in. I get into the tube at 13:00, minor delays in piccadilly line. aha.. I change tube two times, we sit and wait around… again, so much for me to learn. I sent loads of messages to Caroline that I’m late. Finally I get into airport and check-in (she went ahead but booked space for Lily and me next to her) go through security. get myself a coffee. Gate is open and we wait for Lily who’s also stuck in tube.
She comes through we make it to the gate when they’re boarding, no worries.
In the plane captain announces that we’ll be delayed about 30 min. And we have 30 min change in Wien. No worries.
We get to Wien, run to austrian airlines info desc to find out the gate. We run through security to the gate. Moscows plane is late as well and the woman behind the counter tells us that it’s still possible that we got our luggage on to the same plane. Normally the time between should be 25min, now it’s 19. OK.
Another nie sit in the airplane, and I start to think why the hell I’m coming to moscow now anyway… Well at the time, coming to the teachers meet sounded like a good idea. but being so tired a couple of days rest in helsinki doesn’t sound bad either… but nothing to be done anymore.
We get to moscow, we find our luggage, Jeij.
I get to Andrey’s Jeij, tomorrow teachers meet starts.
Still no sign about conspiracy packet. Finish mail Itella and GLS has lost it somewhere. Itella is doing it’s job so badly.
I hope GLS will find it but they have now looked for it about 3 weeks and no sign. I wrote to them yesterday but haven’t got any answer yet.
I’m not happy about this. almost all of the vinyl in the packet is sold out at the moment.
This comes to owning things again. I want to know that I have them. In real world I wont be able to listen to them at least in two months. if things go like I planned I won’t be able to listen to them until january (well, it’s not a plan, but a hope/wish/belief). And because no one knows the count of our days I can’t be sure will I ever hear/see them. But I still like to feel that they are there, that I own them.. and that’s why I’m not happy about packet’s being lost.
Posted by Waveway on June 30th 2009 - 23:02:09 to Life, Music
Is absolutely terrible.
Too much stuff, too small bag, one new bag that is also too small.
LIke what it would be needed in two months… Or hopefully more.
Too many books.
Quite a few dance pants… and dance clothes, not enough “normal” clothes..
And the the sleeping bag and mattress… too much….
And the new backbag is good for computer but then nothing else fits into it.
And my old eastpak is perfect, you can fit a shop in there but it’s a messenger and with computer it’s so heavy that it isn’ really nice to carry at all…
+ then there are people saying coming not coming and all te rest.
Pretty soo however I should be in a place with some friends and some new people and hopefully lots of dancing…
I’ll try to figure out how I’ll get enough stuff with me or will I?
Why worry when there’s nothing to worry about.
It’s not so serious, only stuff.
Then again not getting the packet from conspiracy because of Itella truly sucks.
Nathan at Conspiracy has been great, so there is nothing to complain. but apparently Itella has lost the packet somewhere and now GLS the original transporter can’t really find it. Or haven’t at least told me if they have.
It sucks. There is the new Isis.
Then again got stuff from Drone Records.
He always send some promos too which is so nice. WHen I get rich I’ll order the all of their drones. Two new Subtantia Innominata are coming out in any minute. And to me it seems that the series is just getting better. At least Voice of Eye was great. In the same packet Aidan’s Gathering Blue. It seems that this year lot of releases but also lot of them recycling old material. Nevertheless the name song is superb. So I’m happy.
Tone Float releasing new Bass Communion, kind of a must… bummer.
Buddhists come to help, How can I get rid of this want… Haha..
After last mail… Sun, dancing a bit, teaching, water, walking, talking, singing and stuff. Nice time and nice people, even when I don’t understand much of what they’re talking about.
Posted by Waveway on May 27th 2009 - 21:39:34 to Dance, Life, Music
Not quite that warm yet though… well some days ahve been, today, not.
Been busy mainly just digitizing my cd’s. Pretty dull in a way but then today I listened Kent for a such a long time and my god.. I don’t know.. what is nostalgia? Because I don’t relate those song so much in my life. I can remember when I heard some of them for the first time and so.. But mainly I think they move me just because they’re so undenyingly good. Listen Kräm (så närä får ingen gå) or 10 minuter (för mig själv) from Verkligen or Blåjeans, Ingenting någonsin or När det blåser på månen and tell me those song aren’t great and I tell you’re tone deaf. So moving so great so beautiful songs. It’s awesome.
THen I listened some old days like Fell of the floor, man and Via and same thing… Uh. deeply moving. or then it’s just the time of the year.Or then it’s just that I really listen…
I can listen or then I can really listen, let myself go into the music or let the music come into me. And the sensation within these two just listening and really hearing/being is very different. Like.. err.. I hear the same things.. same sound waves but in latter I really let them sink in deeper emotional level and that’s why I’m moved. Often specially in company I can’t or I don’t dare to let myself really listen because… well maybe there’s this tough that it makes me vunerable because it makes me cry but actually.. it doesn’t it’s deeply empowering.. Maybe it has more to do with “normal” social behaviour and how people tend to react on crying. ANd it’s great to be with someone or someones that you trust that they don’t get uncomfortable and you can really listen and really let yourself feel and be in the music as full as you are. But there’s not so many people I’m comfortable enough to do this, but maybe I should start to give people more credit.
So my father got himself a new toy, which mean I got a new toy. It’s nice, it’s noce from him also.
Now I can do internet stuff in my travelling too if I want (like bide.be.
The promise I gave was fullfilled today. Mirva cut my hair and I’m so very thankfull for her. It would have been so different thing to go some barber who I don’t know and who doesn’t know than to have it made by a dear friend with whom I have shared (and am sharing) such an important part of my life, dancing CI.
Talking about Mirva and CI I was in her last class in Kiev (didn’t make there untill the second day after her class) and it was the first class maybe in 3 or 4 years at least when somebody is teaching some technically really advanced material. And don’t think this in a wrong way, advanced isn’t really a thing as such. Most of advanced stuff is always just basic but with different depth. Butthis stuff she gave on counterbalances was really difficult. And if you do it “wrong” it’s quite easy, but to do it right like she showed you have to be so aware of your center, mass, support and directions that it’s just not an easy thing to do. She’s really great teacher.
I don’t really know what else. I’m wondering how I will live with my new hair. One dear friend of mine told that hair carry a lot of our past in them, and if you want to change something in you or your life cutting hair might help. I do want a change, but like always I want a fairytale change, let’s see will it happen.
Some changes are for worse…. but I don’t know how to write about this so I won’t. Just that one more reminder that there is always real people behind the tabloid news.
My life is good, DO I appreciate it enough?
But people are different I have couple of friends who are like me, that they’re mostly complaining about things. More often, if not seeing just the negative side, at least stating it out. Eventhough in my eyes their life is in many ways so easy. But in them I se myself. I’m like that to, my life is so easy, that’s why I have all this time to complain in the first place…
Soon, maybe I’ll try to do some songs… next week I think. just something raw… easy uncomplicated. Same chords, same notes, over and over again.
Posted by Waveway on May 22nd 2009 - 00:50:15 to Life, Music
I have this thing with… D tune. se E down tuned to D and then just letting it ring with A and maybe pressing the actual D on fourth so adding F#.. and sliding it into G… so D-A-F#->D-A-G… then taking the two strings up… so having F#-C#-F#->F#-C#-G….I’m really bad at remembering the notes.. But most of my songs seem to base this same thing… And you can have countless of variations that might sound quite the same to some one else’s ears but to me they all seem to be rather unique.. No, I tell a lie, but I just enjoy those notes so much… that transition that ever since after “million miles” they just keep appearing again and again…
I can’t even count in how many songs…
Got some more Mono. Lot of you might know better but it seems that new york soundtracks is remixes from one more step and you die, well you also might know that since both of them were sol out on vinyl long time ago temporary residence took new pressing and packed them into one sleeve. And oh how nice they look.. clear with black haze… but anyway I seem to like more of the new york than the originals…
Then again the “new” Hymn to the immortal wind doesn’t get me so excited… it’s somehow too big at the moment.. too symphony.. too movie like… but maybe I’ll grow into it.
Drift’s noumena sounds like Drift so it’s good, which is good…
Eluviums vinyl pack Life through bombardment is a beaut’ music if great too but that I know already…
Kodiak sounds good. Doesn’t reallly hit me in the head but passes the time at the moment… and it might hit me later on, It has potential to it.
Mihai Edrisch is kinda good… I’m not so into the vocals, but otherwise the music kicks ass.
Both Kodiak and Mihai on colored vinyl of course… Kodiak on nice cold blue, Mihai on orange with black haze. Beautiful things.
I probably have wrote about this aleady but nevermind. Stars of The Lid’s And their refinement decline is sooo great… it builds up slowly on you, and before you know you realise that what you’re hearing is one of the most beautiful things you can hear upon this earth and thus in an everpresence of god.
Well, we are in an everprecence of god all the time of course but we realize it hardly often enough.
And for some reason I want to mention that there is a lot of music like that. But it doesn’t make this or any of it less valuable.
So thanks to this I just got Tired sounds and Ballasted orchestra maybe they also start to open up on vinyl…
Otherwise life is going as it goes. I’m cutting of my hair, but I’m not because it’s Mirva who’s going to do it and she will return on tuesday so I have still some days with these long things.
I wasnt to dance a bit more yes please.
And today I was almost given a promise of raw birthday cake, which I hope I will have. We’ll see how it goes.
I try not to hope to not to dissapoint.
Saw a movie today “slumdog millionaire”. Very entertaining… I want to life like that but without all the troubles though, and with the fairytale ending… thanks.
And Jutta left her computer to me to play for a day… I want one too.. when on earth is apple going to release new macbooks?
Tomorrow I have to test how well does it work with podX3… will it work, because my iMac doesn’t but this is so old this thing I am writing with.
Life seems to be a mess. I shouldn’t worry too much…
Like. I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of living and that’s sad. Live goddamnit.
So how should I be living then?
Free the dream.
Posted by Waveway on February 16th 2009 - 21:52:15 to Life, Music
Everything ends eventually and so it should be.
Festival was great. We did a good job, although some minor things we could have done better, but so it is always.
Point of views.
I was happy to see so many dear people and some specially dear people and to see them happy. I felt happy too and feel still happy, and slightly sad, but in a good way.
Back to working life today, and it was good too. It’s nice to go to work where you want to go.
Jerome had send me Nadja’s Corrasion (+ other stuff) and it looks and sounds great. Of course.
Blue vinyl, ah.
There was again some thoughs that I should have written down, but I didn’t and I’m not sure can I recollect them now. Something about dancing, and love, and war, and communication.
To think world would change if everybody would dance CI is.. well true, but would it change for better and how much? I’m not so sure. I’m quite sure we would still have wars and fights and whatnot.
However dancing is great so it could help if everyone tried it.
But to think… I can be open when I’m dancing, but I’m not an open person. I keep myself to myself, often. Like in here. I tell a lie, but ask anybody. To make assumptions about anyone for what ever reason and not to recognize those to be Just assumptions, is stupid. Nevertheless I do it all the time.
So please tell me who you are and what do you want. And yet again we fall into the question of identity.
When I dance who am I? dance is dance, I’m not dancing the dance, dance is dancing me. When it’s good. Ilona was saying the same (I think) but at the time I though of something else. I think the problem I mostly fall with language is that the concept of I is totally wrong. It is me who is dancing all the time. And it is (I am) aware, It (I) does what it’s have to, no more no less, but it’s (I’m) beyond the questions of good/evil right/wrong life/death. And maybe for a human being that is not such a common state. Although it can be achieved, for me often with the help(?) of art.
Ok, let’s leave philosophy aside.
I might have done mistake today. I changed my phone operator deal and ordered a new phone. I really need one, since my old is broken and hardly working (sometimes people on the other end hear me, sometimes not), but I’m not sure was this a good deal or not. Let’s see. It’s always problematic when you’re “stuck” with something for 2 years. Well, let’s see how does it go. After all, it’s only money, I just “lost” 230€ because not being able to use the flight tickets I had on wednesday to barcelona. But I have rehearsals, and I want to be here, not in barcelona. Just couldn’t change the dates with reasonable price. So it goes.
Posted by Waveway on January 14th 2009 - 18:14:15 to Life, Music
Long time of no writing. No feeling to do it.
But there has been a lot going on somewhere I’m sure. Nothing here except on some level.
This meeting we ahd with the start of annoyance: Who’s annoying you.
I keep my filters/shell on not to annoy you even more? No I don’t know is that the answer.
I keep my filters/shell on because I’m afraid? No I don’t know is that the answer.
How do you know you’re afraid?
I’ve been so dissapointed to so many things. Mainly to myself and not being able to see way clear through. So much of what I just don’t know about myself or are not clear/certain of. Certaintity is a trap anyway.
And new music flooding in, Something that keeps me sane… or alive I think.
Well it’s not the only thing.
I should write more about September Malevolence’s After this darkness, There’s a next and maybe I will. There’s is a great reason why it’s in top 08. And again great reminder why the genre of music isn’t important. They’re using so much typical “post-rock” sounds and arrangements, but the songs are brilliant unlike so many other “post-rock” act. And I don’t know where sweden get’s all it’s singers. SM’s singer could be from logh almost.. but adding vocals is good. specially because also their lyrics are, if not all, some really good. This album also helped me to get some of the sadness out I have stored in me. So what I do. I get the cd version of it too.
Helms Alee was a positive surprise, but you can read more from Aversion Online if you want a review. But I like it a lot.
Mouth Of Architect/Kenoma split is well.. MOA’s side is brilliant, it’s catchier than their new album I think, now.
Then there’s a plenty of stuff from electro side of things that I found from staalplaat when visiting berlin. One of my favourites is although buddha machine II. After getting it I had to get the first version also. But also from that you can read plenty just searching if you want. But it’s brilliant. I even ordered for my ipod touch which I don’t have! I’m just so sure I’ll get one and what would be better first aplication to install than BuddhaMachine.
So what about buddhism or Zen. yeah I’m onto it. After coming to the same conclusion about the “self” by rational thinking while being on a trip all of this has been very amusing for me. The proble with rationality is that it has very few connection to actual life. We think it is connected, but mainly most of us are still moved by emotions, urges, needs, wants, instincts. It’s ok. I know I need dicipline.
I have this huge project going on of getting all of my cd’s onto a hard drive. With iMac that reads about 3x speed one cd it will take ages.
One reason why I’ve been listening mainly vinyl lately.
Once upon the time dEUS was great. But all things pass. Well no, they might still be great, but their studio efforts haven’t been so. And this is of course, like everything, just my humble subjective perception.
Reading Endymion and the last sequel by Dan Simmons. It’s soap but keeps me entertained.
Posted by Waveway on January 05th 2009 - 15:12:39 to Music
I’ll do this even though shorter this time. These are Not in order, of any kind.
Capsule - Blue
Just brilliant. HC, melodies, energy, intensity, atmosphere.
Black Boned Angel & Nadja - Christ Send Light
So good. Makes me somehow happy and willing to give everything away because realisizing I have nothing and I’ll never have. This feels good.
Nadja - Bungled and Botched
After hearing Desire in uneasiness I as slightly worried, It didn’t really work for me, but after this my worries were blown away. Name song is such a massive construction of quality.
Nadja - Touched (vinyl)
Nadja - Radiance of shadows (vinyl)
Nadja - Truth Becomes Death (vinyl)
It’s just that releasing these on vinyl is such a right thing to do.
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
I wrote about more of this earlier
Nice to have them back.
Virus - Black Flux
Nothing sounds like this? Does it? it’s so clear continuation for Carheart, it’s great. Where the hell else you can hear such a waves in the music? And who else can make a line “peacocks used to walk these lawns” so threatning filled with loss.
Motorpsycho - little lucid moments
Two first song are tremendously brilliant rock.
Spoon - Gagagagaga (2007)
07 release but I found it on 08. Made my summer so much better with “Finer Feelings” and “Don’t You Evah”
September Malevolence - after this darkness, there is next
Such a huge step from the debut. Melancholic and moody. Beautiful as hell.
Audrey - The fierce and the longing
Beginning of summer, Good. “Way your sking fits so well”
Ihsahn - angL
I’ve been having troubles with falling out from metal scene so totally, so hard to find anythign worth while and there’s so much that I don’t know where to start. This was a pleasant “find”.
Andrey Kiritchenko - Misterrious
Already Andrey’s previous one for Spekk was brilliant. THis continues in the same vein. I like it.
Bon Iver - For Emma, forever ago
Damn this grew on me. In all of the sadness or melancholy it’s just makes me feel happy that there is someone(s) who can and make music this good.
Posted by Waveway on November 27th 2008 - 22:27:53 to Music
While having these pseudo philosophical thoughs, hippie stuff, bloody buddhism and not writing at all I, of course, have been receiving a punch of music. Actually I’ve been having so much of it that I don’t know where to start and what to say about all of them, so maybe I just try to write about few I got a while back.
Let’s start from the fact that my record player, vinyl player is broken, or most probably it just needs new needle, and I’ll get that soon (saturday) and hope that will fix it, but mean while I not going to listen any vinyl I have. And as you can see from the pictures all the stuff I decided (more or less) to try to write about is on vinyl.
But not only.
Glös’s [I hate myspace] Harmonium is something I had on my computer for a long while, I just never properly listened it through, then it came up and I read that it had same people than in Denali[I hate myspace], sister and brother. I really like Denali’s first one, and the Glös vinyl was quite cheap and colored so of course I was interested. I listened the album through couple of times and noticed it’s good and ordered it, of course. What I mean when saying good? It’s good, it’s not blowing me away. It’s very solid in a way that I don’t pick up immidiate hit songs but at the same time I could play any song and it would be rather good example what you get. It certainly has connection also musically with Denali’s post grunge (what ever that is) but more machines added. I miss a bit more vocals from Maura, but it’s ok. Good album.
Almost all of these are actually (co) releases of adagio 830. and I ended up ordering these… well I ordered something from them, but then cancelled it, and check out is there anything I could take with samo price, and all the colored ones we’re their own releases, so… it just kinda happened, also all of these were quite cheap (12€).
Ok but on witht the music. First one was actually …who calls so loud[I hate myspace]. Colored double 10″ with the cd was the catch, but because I’m very poor nowdays (and have always been) I tend to listen music first before buying (yes, seriously.. and no, not always). So I went to their myspace [I hate myspace] and listened the sample songs over there, and was interested, but not straight away. There is something very nice with the actual songs, guitars, drums, intensity, but the vocals are a bit challenging. So I went to explore the wonderful land of internet and found the album. I listened the whole album through couple of times, and started somehow like the vocals, wierd enough. Actually so much that I ordered their 12″ and I was about to order their shirt, but came to senses, and now I’m regretting it. (I think I’ll get the shirt eventually, it had tiger on it)
So the music, what? emo punk, well, maybe not so much of the punk. Emo? well maybe but I’m getting lost with all these genre settings and rules. It’s played with guitars and drums and bass, and somebody is, if not singing, delivering some form of human voice. It has rather catchy things going on somewhere, because even though not stright away sticking in to your head, they will stick to your head. I noticed that had these song playing in my head after those couple of listen throughs, and that was actually the final reason why I ordered it (have I ordered them in cd? good question)
Since thing is that they haven’t named the bloody lp’s, so both are (as long as I have figured out) …who calls so loud other 2×10″ and other 12″ the 12″ doesn’t even have the song names on it (at least I haven’t found them) but the song titles are on their myspace. last.fm loves this.
Then Gods and Queens[I hate myspace] were almost same kind of case, but this time I only listened through the myspace [I hate myspace] songs and ordered it. It also came with cd. Punkish art not so much art and eventually I would again say rock. Well always when there is these “choirs” of yelling I think of punk. Also G&Q don’t have any album title, let alone song titles. Nice. But I like the music nevertheless.
Then the one I didn’t know anything of Haram’s Drescher. It was cheap and yellow vinyl. And this is the of course the positive surprise of the group. Again I would somehow categorize it to emo punk, but it’s really just rock. The album is really good, there something that reminds me of Swervedriver, something how the guitars work together. So again really good guitar stuff, solid drumming, ok vocals and Good songs. For some funny way this makes me happiest from all of these, not the music, but the fact taht I got it. It’s probably just the effect of surprise, but nevertheless.
The last album over there in the pictures are a bit different kind. I didn’t heard it at all before ordering it, but their previous album was and is really good. Mouth of the architect’s [I hate myspace] The Ties that Blind has grown on me about every time I listen to it, so it was clear I will order their new one, Quietly. On the first listen I was already sure it is good, and it is. After more listening I’m not sure is it as good as the previous, but it is good. Right now I feel it don’t have as much hooks as the The Ties… but this might change during the time. I think Quietly is also a grower.
Other stuff I’ve been having:
Boris & Merzbow - Rock Dream (more listen throughs)
Omega Massif (more listen throughs)
Fear Falls Burning (slowly we lift.. sound really good)
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (2 first albums are still the best)
Eksi Ekso
Bunch of others…. Argh
This basically means that I’ll try to do another post of other stuff, when if I have anything worth while to say.
Well… About Eksi Ekso’s I am your bastard wings, It’s brilliant, specially the first actual song is blowing, it’s actually such a hit that it almost overshadows the rest of the album, but then, it doesn’t. Great arrangement and orchestrations, singer who has a voice, emotianally and musically powerfull (or is this the same thing?). It reminds me a lot of things, singer brings Bark Psychosis to my mind (if they have connection please tell me, but I think not), Somehow I come to thing that it’s somehow… well no, but maybe Thee Silver Mt.Zion could sound a bit like this too if the Efrim learned (or cared) to sing well, or if he just would step a side and let someone more capable to do the singing.
I actually do have picture also from Eksi Ekso (black/orange), but maybe I’ll post it later with that next bunch of albums.
I hope to get: A good Job with meaningful substance and good enough salary.
Sometime soon, hopefully, some thoughs about living&time
Posted by Waveway on October 12th 2008 - 17:04:13 to Music
Instead of writing my philosophical though (hah) I’ll post another song.
I got this “riff” yesterday I think. But I can’t play it and sing at the same time because I fuck up the rhythm totally so I had to use my fostex. I have no idea why the sound of guitars is so stuffed and muffled… and like usually I can’t be bothered. I wrote the lyrics today. Missing is something my lyrics have gone around for all these years.
I’m also having a slight flu, but somehow, I like to sound of my voice now. I specialy like the high notes…
Ok, so nothing new, but right now, I like the song.
I’m also going to post another version of Play My Name made with fostex, just because another voice. Soon. Meanwhile hear this.
The fact, it even occured to me, surprised deep within
Technique and all the cables involved, overwhelming
small square that shows the space so far, hard to believe in
but something important, the touch, is missing
As this age take us around the world
and see and meet and get to know it
as these days always fall too short
there’s no other chance than keep on missing
so now we meet through the screen delayed and slightly blurry
you say you’re having a busy week and a lot of things around it
I tell I’m missing of the touch of your skin
and sound of breathing, reply: I miss it
Posted by Waveway on October 02nd 2008 - 14:30:35 to Life, Music
Ok.
I got something done, very little but still. This will be my second time releasing something my own here at wavetales. Yesterday I made this little song, today I wrote to lyrics and then just recorded it with my iMac internal mic. So it’s just a small demo but maybe you can get something out of it. And my songs don’t tend to change that much anyway over the times.
I’ll share you also the lyrics although those probably will change a bit
I go beneath the green and keep my eyes shut
Warmness surrounding
Slowly lifting towards the sky
I guess that I should turn around and face the sun
Just few seconds more
floating and then I’m done
As you say my name
I keep looking for sign of resurrection
As you play your game
Reassurance is all that I long for
Over of the blue vast weaving sea
I know I shouldn’t wait
but I keep on waiting all the same
Wave rises up and meet my drifting thoughs/head
I open up my back
to receive the warmth of your hand
As you say my name
I feel better I’ve felt in a long time
As you play your game
I feel like I am little lost child
As you say my name
I keep looking for signs of resurrection
as you play your game
Reassurance is all that I long for
Posted by Waveway on August 28th 2008 - 21:41:45 to Music
Ok, somehow I think that this band has had a quite amount of publicity already.
But some more.
I got this from the internet.. yes sue me… oh, no please don’t.
I fell in love with the first song: Centennial. It has the qualities I always fall in… not really sad, but longing, somehow. And of course the first lines of lyrics helped: “this is skin you can wrap all of your arm and legs in”.
So when I found the album on vinyl I ordered it of course. And it had mp3 download coupon with it, with some bonus tracks. Way to go! That’s how I like it (BTW: Also Band of Horses Cease to begin vinyl came with download coupon). So I can legally listen the music with my iPod, as well as in home from vinyl.
Tak, somehow most of the song sound a lot like each others. Mainly I think because of the vocal melodies. IT’s ok though, when listening more they start to separate from each others. However I haven’t found as brilliant pearl as Centennial is. Enjoy, buy the album, shouldn’t be too expensive.
Posted by Waveway on August 21st 2008 - 00:10:27 to Music
When I first heard Band of Horses I didn’t really get into them. Then I heard that tey formed from remains of Carissa’s Wierd and though that I have to, since Song About Leaving is such a magnificent album. So I borrowed Band Of Horses‘ Everything all the time from my good friend and fell in love with the first song, the guitar melody is so catchy, it’s brilliant, it alone justifies the whole album, but then I got the album for myself as a vinyl, and learned to love the rest of the album too, eventhough the first song is clearly the HIT for me.
Then their second album Cease to Begin came out, and for some reason I didn’t catch it. Maybe I read some review or something, I don’t know why, but I didn’t get it, or hear it at all. Then in the beginning of summer I was visiting my friend again and asked what he thinks about the Cease to Begin, He said is ok, so I got it from him. And I fell Totally in love with No one’s gonna Love You, it’s so sad, and so beautiful and so great, this time it’s not the guitar, just, it’s the whole chord loop and the melody, in the verse, Chorus is ok, but the whole thing is in the verse, and then the words:
“Anything to make you smile
You are the ever-living ghost of what once was
I never want to hear you say
That you’d be better off
Or you liked it that way”
Such a greatness, and still after the summer and even though I got this album also on vinyl, I can’t get pass this song, I only listen to this one, maybe at some point I can actually listen the whole album, but not yet.
So I want to share this Gem with you, who ever you are, and hopefully that will get you to buy both albums, and also to look into Carissa’s Wierd, eventhough it’s totally different.
Posted by Waveway on August 18th 2008 - 18:20:12 to Life, Music
Right now Nadja’s Stays Demons is pouring over me from 4 speakers. It’s awesome.
Updated wordpress, lost all my categories, from posts and links. Got into the datebase finally and tinkered a bit, now they should work again I guess.
I’ve gotten so much music that I can’t even remember what to say about those.
Well I got all three Nadja colored vinyl: Touched, Truth becomes Death and Radiance of Shadows. They’re all great, but that I already new since I’ve been listening those for a while. But somehow vinyl is so much more satisfying, specially when it’s colored. Yeah strange me.
But this I’ve mentioned already in the previous post. It’s so hard to remember what I’ve told already.
But sometime ago I got new Nadja releases. The first one, on their own, is the Bungled and the Botched which has two songs, title one and Absorbed in You. The title piece is absolutely Great! I was so happy since i really didn’t get into Desire in Uneasiness at all. I can’t remember anything from it. But the Bungled and the Botched is again the kind of Nadja I really like, somehow based on one simple riff that just works so well, brilliant! Then the second piece Absorbed in You is a re-make. And it doesn’t open to me so easily, not yet at least.
Other Nadja release is collab with Black Boned AngelChrist Send Light and it’s awesome!!, brilliantly simple, full and lush. Emediatly when I heard it I ordered more stuff from BBA and only after that I read that Christ Send Light is quite untypical track even with their collab (their recorded at least three tracks from which the two are going to be released later on) and that’s why it has been released separatly. Nevertheless it’s great. Strongly recommended.
I got one cd from BBA already and I’m just now listening it for the first time. If you’re into droome (doom and drone) it’s not bad. But I think I have to spend some more time with it before saying anything conclusive.
I also have got some new and old stuff from Aidan Baker. Old being rerecorded. I can’t say anything from them yet, seems like he keeps his standarts pretty well.
Apparently I previously also mentioned Spoon’s Ga ga ga ga ga and the hit songs from there. Let me tell you taht unfortunately after a couple of listentroughs Gimme Fiction doesn’t show as much potential as Ga x 5
I also got (a long time ago) Audrey’s The Fierce and the Longing as a yellow vinyl. The album is very good, but I do prefer Visible Forms. At the same time I got September Malevolence’s new effort After this darkness, there’s a next (clear/brown). I heard a lot of praise for their debut album Tomorrow We’ll Wonder Where This Generation Gets It’s Priorities From, but for some reason I didn’t really got into that album at all. I much more preferred other Tenderversion artist, like Audrey, Once We Were and Scraps of Tape. So I was a bit sceptical towards the new one too, but it gave me a pleasant surprise. warm vocals that remind me a lot of Logh and good songs. It is of course rather melacholic (or that’s how I remember) so I’m always sucked into that kind of stuff easily.
With those I also got Gregor Samsa’s Rest, and some other stuff that I haven’t really listened through even early well enough to say anything about them.
Visited Robotic Empire’s store and found ISIS live IV as honey colored vinyl. Well you know what that means. at the same time I got Giants‘ They, the undeserving and I found the Life and TimesSuburban Hymns as a clear one.
Now, I haven’t really listened Isis or Giants anough yet but the Life and Times I have.
Long time ago (like 2005) I got this sampler from souhern records which contained Coat of arms from the Life and Times and maybe because of that I also stumbled on My last hostagevideo and I really liked it. I mean the song, video is ok too, but the song is great. Back then I wondered should I orde the album, but I never got around of it. Now when I saw the vinyl I though why not (clearness helped) and hey, the whole album is rather good. Of course I easily get stuck on the hit song, but because it’s being vinyl it’s quite easy to continue onwards. I am really pleased.
Another vinyl I’ve been listening lately is Ihsahn’s angL, I just got it without listening. Contrary to most reviews in the net I always really liked Emperor’s last one, Prometheus. To me is not chaotic it’s beautifully composed through out, with awesome riffs and melodies and whatnot, truly powerful work. And according to information floating Prometheus was mainly Ihsahn’s work. However for some reason I didn’t get into the Adversary when hearing the samples. This time however I didn’t think much (it being vinyl helped) and got it. And it’s a bloody good album. Great pieces through out. I really should look much more into metal since it just always touches me so easily, at least when it’s good. Sadly it’s so hard to stay in tuned with all of the stuff happening in so many genres. I should be in the business, but I don’t know how.
Which springs to mind that I haven’t mentioned new Cult Of Luna, Eternal Kingdom. It’s hard to believe that CoL could dissapoint at this stage, and you know what? It Doesn’t Eternal Kingdom is yet another great album. However at the moment I do prefer Somewhere along the highway, but then again when SAtH came out I preferred Salvation and how wrong I was. So it might well be that Eternal Kingdom will continue rising. Strongly recommended to everyone.
And while I was ordering the rerelease of I fall into You by Aidan Baker“>Aidan Baker I happened to order loads of Wereju, drone and drone. I can’t say much about it. It’s drone, it might be good. It’s not bad at least.
Travelling is nice but the downside is that all the lovely people you meet life far from you. And often you stay one week in somewhere and maybe on those last two, three days you start to feel that ok, this person I would like to know better, and then you never do because two days just isn’t enough. This causes more travelling. Ain’t it fun?
But life is good.
I’m trying to read about Tao and Te, and to me it seems that when reading William Blake, Buddhism and Tao they have more incommon than separate, If you really look at the principles. Everything’s the same. But let’s not be too hasty. Big things. Everything was, is and will be.
Posted by Waveway on July 29th 2008 - 15:27:23 to Music
Oh oh oh.
I got meself a new pair of speakers.
They’re highly praised in their range of budget.
I was thinking of other ones, but for some reason the manufacturer stopped the model.
Okay some names. I got Magnat 503, I was thinking of Tannoy Fusion 2.
Now back home with magnat, yes bass is there, but some how I like the sound of my old speakers. it has more middle range and less bass, with magnat the middle range sounds so different. It is there for sure, but it just sounds different, more silent. I’m not sure do I like that really. I guess I’ll get used to it too…
Then again when playing both of them together sound is so full. it’s great. only problem is the space.
That’s sound for you.
Then trying to listen difference between 128 AAC and 191 MP3 is also so so so difficult. I can’t really hear much difference.
Anyway. I should write something about the music I’m listening shouldn’t I?
Well that 128 AAC is SpoonGa ga ga ga ga which I got from my friend and then I bought it on vinyl since don’t you evah and finer feelings are such a great songs and the rest of the album is pretty cool too. and then when buying an album you get a free download, so that’s how I got the 191 MP3, now I just wonder which ones I should leave on my library?
Actually Gagagagaga is so good that I also bought their previous (i guess) Gimme fiction.
Haven’t listened to it yet though.
I finally got the packet of Nadja vinyl: Touched (silver), Truth Becomes Death (gold) and Radiance Of Shadows (white)
I don’t know.
I’m not sensible at all.
I got three “songs” I should do.
Ice Queen
Lack of selfconfidence
Collar Bones
The two first ones are inspired by A from Kiev, such a cold woman. I had a great time in moscow dancing with her and making up songs and lyrics at the same time. (edit: great time doing working on three different things at the same time: melody, lyrics and dancing. Dancing wasn’t that great though, I was going a bit on autopilot)
But I had even greater time in moscow because all the other people, because of the whole festival. It was great me thinks. Of course I think that things could always be better (a Bit bigger jam space could have been nice) but all and all and with all the trouble they have had, the festival and the people were Great. Thanks a Bunch.
I gotta go, camp starting soon. I’m pretty sure that some one will hack into this post also, but let’s see.
But this new one. Well of course because the debut set up such a high standards and expectations that the new album has a lot of work to live up to them. So the first times it didn’t really catch me, but after hearing around 5 to 10 times I can say. It dies live up the expectations. I can’t really say it would be better than the debut, but I can’t really say it would be worse either.
They’re really quite unique set of people, there is a lot of resemblance to many other artist and at the same time I can’t figure out who would do music like they do. From the first cd they have their own sound and it continues fluently on this second one.
There’s only two things I could complain about: no lyrics, I want lyrics! and the lenght is a bit under 40 minutes, I want more of ths goodness. But at the same time, it’s nice that they don’t have any bad songs around. So I should be happy, rather keep it short and excellent than a bit longer and merely good.
Hit songs? well to me the fifth song, Bleak was an instant hit and got stuck in my head. That’s why I’m going to offer that one. Well I’m not offering really. You hear it here, go to the tenderversion pages and order the album (+big ships 3″ single), it’s about 18€ and that’s a bargain (thinking that many albums in finland are still around 20€). Denovali records have also pressed vinyl version (yes it’s coming to me) so if you prefer vinyl go there.
I’m so glad of this, as soon as I noticed new album coming I pre-ordered both cd and vinyl versions, without a doubt. And the album IS great (now I just have to get visible forms vinyl from sinnbus). Ah… music saves my life.
On my last day in Kiev, this song started to play on my mind, luckily I had it on iPod.
Ever since (that was only yesterday remember) It has been playing in my head and in my iPod and on my stereos.
I’ve been writing already about Stina Nordenstam’s album Dynamite. I still can’t find words to describe how good it is, such amazing productions, such amazing songs. Such a beautiful moods.
This last song wasn’t in my best list for a long time, since so many songs of the beginning are so catching. But somehow it’s sticks to your mind, doesn’t it.
And it reveals this such a beautiful sad hope that lingers around those ahahahaa’s around 1:27 and following distorted guitars. Everything is already said and done, and there’s nothing that can change the way things are…
If thinking the album as a whole, the new editions really suffer of the added “dynamite (soundtrack mix)“. Now that you’re leaving should be the last song on the album. I personally have removed the dynamite mix from my iPod and also kept iTunes from playing it.
I’m turning out the light
Now that you’re leaving
To see things black and white
Now that you’re leaving
To kill you in the dark
To give my last remark
I’ll stay up tonight
Now that you’re leaving
I’m running backwards on a train
All is coming back to me again
A crowd of people in my way
And everyone has got your face
Between what I was
And what I will be
I’m held back by your ghost
And what I couldn’t be
5 tales
