Medic/tative
This flu started on last friday, I went to work anyway. I went to dance on sunday, what a great dances they were (really!). On monday I went to doctor, he gave me sick leave. I stayed home. Today I went to see him again, he gave me more sick leave. I’m home.
I’m not often using medication, but then again what is medication? Doctor asked me do I want any description for medicine, I said that I’ll try to avoid, eating a lot of garlic, ginger, lemon, honey, orange instead. He said: Right you are, medication wouldn’t cure you anyway, there is no cure for flu.
So now I came by the shop, got all the lemon they had left, some more honey, ginger and oranges.
Ok, I lied a bit, I haven’t just stayed home, I went to the shop and I also visited post office on tuesday (among other things). From post office I got a packet of Raster-Noton (+2 Philip Jeck) sent to me by microsuoni, my favourite r-n dealer. At least when being sick you have the time to listen to stuff.
So what can I say. I somehow find myself surprised that I like this kind of electronic, glitch, cut things but I do. Frequncies, when being somehow just frequencies are nice.
Byetone‘s stuff I kinda new it will be good and it is. But plastic star 12″ almost blew me away, it’s so… danceable and straight and on your face somehow.
Other one that was really pleasant one is NHK, also their first one is on your face, almost danceable, rhythmic and massive in some way. It’s not really big big massive, it’s like that they have this rather narrow scale of sound, but that narrow area is so full that it’s solid. Like block of iron or something.
Alva Noto‘s Xerrox was quite a dissapointment for me so I didn’t expect much from Unitxt, but it’s good, makes your ears bleed. Of course that french can be a bit disorientating, but never mind. Those sounds just hit hard, rhythms are clear in their unclearness of stop&go, but the beat stays there if you listen. There is actually something very powerful, almost violent in there. After all machines are still kind of violent, they continue to keep their rhythm, they do not react. Also these sounds of machines, inteference, gives this slight hint of paranoia, which seem to live in every future scenario. Same time this music isn’t futuristic in anyway. We are after all building more and more sensible robots, machines, whatnot. This is how the future sounded quite sometime ago. More and more this is present, what is now, lightcables, wlans, information going everywhere all the time, 0 and 1.
And talking about those Ryoji Ikeda doesn’t let me down this time either. Hell if I understand what he does and why I always find it somehow interesting, but that’s what happens. Test Pattern continues this happening.
Alva Noto‘s Transform is good but since that is the beginning of whole trans- series I knew it will be ok.
Ah you see, this is why I don’t write critics to anywhere, I can’t. Either the bloody thing is good or it isn’t, sometimes I can find the words to describe why it’s good or not but often I don’t find the words enough. And specially when hearing things just a couple of times, very very hard I say.
But at the same time music is the most important thing, (one them ok) and I want to share it somehow. Because I’m so often defined a lot by what I listen even though I’m not, but I am.
Maybe I still mention Coh plays Cosey which sounded good (first listen) and the “story” behind it seems to be interesting too, so maybe I’ll write more later when I get to know it better.
Then there is “new” Kangding Ray, Automne Fold, which will probably dissapoint me, since the previous one, Stabil, was and is so good that my expectations are too high. I’ll try to lower them before I listen to it.
Other stuff I’ve got long time ago… well one of most pleasant ones have been Light Of Shipwreck‘s From the Idle Cylinders. It’s Crucial Bliss release so the layout it superb then the music is great. Guitar drones, layers plus really rhythmic drum stuff that is almost tribal stuff. Well hell it is, but at the same time those guitars takes is away somewhere else so I don’t have this annoying hippie connotation with it like some other “tribal” things. Ah maybe I’m wrong after all, Also Troum has some tribel things and Troum is almost always Great. Troum‘s collabs with Martyn Bates and All Sides are actuall both really Great. I can’t say much anything else about them. great great.
I also got Red Hooker‘s Future according to yesterday and it is such a beautiful ep. For some reason Red Hooker as a name doesn’t really bring to mind classical stuff with violins and oboe’s and whatnot, but that’s what it is, anyone into Max Richter or Johann Johannsson should definetly check this one out.
More life mysteries, Long time ago I ordered Aidan‘s Fragile Movements In Slow Motion from Universal Tongue and at the same time I got Gnaw Their Tongues‘ Dawn Breaks Open Like A Wound That Bleeds Afresh, and often I have listened it late at night with headphones and everytime I think, This is fucking great! And I don’t really know why. Listen to it, find an answer.
Anyway this got me to get more of their releases and I’m not sure if it is a wise move. Then again I’m also getting more Black Bones Angel because their Nadja collab and I’m not sure is that a wise move either. Well I rather like Eternal Hunger…
What else. Not much there’s not much happening when being sick. There’s still music that I haven’t mentioned, but just check last.fm even though I haven’t updated the vinyl stuff for ages.
Oh one nice thing is that I really quite like Nadja‘s Perichoresis, it was not sure after Desire in Uneasiness that I like all thing Nadja release. And sometime ago close by but now quite a far: I also like Jesu‘s side of Envy/Jesu split a lot. It’s very poppy, but it’s nice. Good good.
Later I’ll try to get into this writing about music thing, and write about my Favourite band (well one of them), Monopot something. They definetly deserve more praise.
Back to bed.