{"id":137,"date":"2009-02-22T12:08:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T20:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2009-02-22T12:18:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T20:18:50","slug":"music-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/22\/music-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Music recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few quick nods to some things I&#8217;ve heard around the &#8216;net lately:<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nC.P. McDill &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webbedhandrecords.com\/wh104-cp-mcdill-introspection\/\">Introspection<\/a><br \/>\nThis venerable underground artist has put out a lot of good work, this one is striking for its character.  This Eno-esque ambient piece presents a continuously rolling tone cloud which constantly shifts between tension and release and often drifting into really serious dissonance.  The choices of tones occasionally seems completely random, and at others it&#8217;s more composed.  The piece seems to sit very uneasily with itself, and that makes listening to it a very curious and captivating experience&#8230; not something one can always say about an explicitly ambient work.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nZieltogend &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/okk036ziel\">Myst II<\/a><br \/>\nMore deep, dark drones from the man behind Desohll and Norss.  This particular piece remixes some works by Mystified.  I really love this kind of thing, when one underground artist pays tribute to another by remixing, especially in this case where the artist clearly has a love for the work he is appropriating.  This guy&#8217;s drones are quality stuff.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/shoebahmad.blogspot.com\/\">Shoeb Ahmad<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Shoeb+Ahmad\/Piano+Music\">Piano Music<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally released as a 3&#8243; CD that appears to now be sold out, you can still listen to this very enjoyable bunch of experimental piano music through Last.FM, so I&#8217;ve linked to the release&#8217;s page at that site.  Ahmad runs his piano through Max\/MSP, yielding a mixed sound palette, sometimes stark and pretty sound fields to accompany his minimalist playing, and at other times, the piano is seemingly lost in milky resonant distortion.  I&#8217;d like to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monohm.com\/index2.htm\">Markus Br&ouml;sel<\/a> move in this kind of direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few quick nods to some things I&#8217;ve heard around the &#8216;net lately: &#8211; C.P. McDill &#8211; Introspection This venerable underground artist has put out a lot of good work, this one is striking for its character. 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