21 posts tagged with improv and viola.
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Meda Dau Doka (God Bless Fiji)

Skipping the next track on the album, as it was the first to be posted here, we move to the nonsense version of the Fijian national anthem--the one in English. Mr. Prescott must have thought Fiji to be a much bigger, stronger, less who-gives-a-shit-worthy nation than it really is. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Dec 17, 2011 - 0 comments

Mongol ulsyn töriin duulal (National Anthem of Mongolia)

I didn't know Ricardo Montalbán was a Mongol... [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Dec 13, 2011 - 1 comment

Kassaman (We Pledge - Algeria)

Changing gears a bit, we go to one of the more fascinating anthems to grace the album. Kassaman's lyrics were written by Algerian poet Mufdi Zakariah while imprisoned by French colonial forces. He wrote the verses on his cell walls using his own blood. They are, by nature, extremely violent, and (far as I know) may comprise the only national anthem which mentions machine guns directly. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Dec 7, 2011 - 0 comments

Blessings of the Swazi (Nkulunkulu Mnikati wetibusiso temaSwati - Swaziland)

Next from Anthemic comes a much more abstract interpretation of a much more obscure anthem, from a country many more people are prone to forget exists. It's also, probably, my personal favourite track of the whole album. I'd like to think it very deftly stomps through the full spectrum of brilliance and stupidity, at any and all times. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Dec 3, 2011 - 1 comment

Specks> Uniquify

So closes another chapter of the Gyrophonic discography. We end Step Outside with two tracks, which elide into each other. The second track begins around the 4'20" mark. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Nov 27, 2011 - 1 comment

Indeliberate

Track #3 from last night's new, pleasantly topped release, Step Outside, we move from the realm of ambient synth and effects to acoustic improv with some warm, tasty sax in the foreground. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Nov 21, 2011 - 0 comments

Patriarch

Track Nr. 1 from our new new new album, Step Outside, released tonight, 20 November 2011. We start with something a little familiar, and a little different. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Nov 20, 2011 - 0 comments

Un Poco Masada

A little bit Bang on a Can, or simply hacking away on instruments we don't play? You be the judge! [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Sep 6, 2011 - 0 comments

Plínk, Plønk, Pləŋk

A lovely string quintet (of sorts), and the second track from the 2011.06.09 session, with our friend and guest performer, Luke Furman. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Jun 29, 2011 - 1 comment

Rodrigo de Lanzòl-Borgia

What is possibly left to be said of Pope Alexander VI that hasn't already been said? Answer: Honestly, compared to the standards of secular nobility of the time, he really wasn't any worse. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Mar 4, 2011 - 0 comments

Enea Silvio Piccolomini

Pope Pius II, surprisingly, seems to have been a pretty legitimately good and interesting person; even serving as poet laureate of Austria before eventually ending up in, and finally head of, the largest organized crime syndicate in history. However, his greatest crime could be seen as being indirectly responsible for the Twilight series. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Mar 2, 2011 - 0 comments

2010.09.02-10: Vocal Loop

Build a loop, add some licks, and before you know it, you're groovin'. [more inside]
posted by man vs sun on Sep 7, 2010 - 1 comment

2010.08.26-03: Viola & Effects

I can't get enough electric viola. [more inside]
posted by man vs sun on Aug 31, 2010 - 0 comments

Gladly Transform Cold Smoky Codas

My second attempt at "composition," this bit of improvised serialism is based on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Apr 14, 2010 - 0 comments

Conversazione Intima per Due Viole

It's been ages since last they met. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Apr 12, 2010 - 2 comments

Ven-ywit Kòd

A textural experiment in cords (not chords), where bows (not Bōs) are forbidden. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Apr 9, 2010 - 0 comments

Homemade Napalm Part II

Polystyrene + Benzene + Gasoline = ? [more inside]
posted by man vs sun on Mar 19, 2010 - 5 comments

HEIST!

The opening track from our RPM 2010 double album, Demons of Gyrophonia & the Rotatable Tremulant All-Stars. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Feb 27, 2010 - 1 comment

Étude Chronographique

Viola/Tenor sax duet, to be included in our submission to the RPM 2010 challenge. [more inside]
posted by man vs sun on Feb 21, 2010 - 5 comments

No Known Survivors

Something horrible has happened in this place. It will never be the same. Be thankful you weren't present. [more inside]
posted by man vs sun on Oct 25, 2009 - 2 comments

Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)

I'm catching up with myself, finally. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Aug 30, 2009 - 3 comments

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