From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V12 #419 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, July 2 2008 Volume 12 : Number 419 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Extract from Leo Abrahams' latest blog [Chandla911@aol.com] [AVALON] 2 new CDs by Roger Eno [Chandla911@aol.com] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 05:41:38 EDT From: Chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Extract from Leo Abrahams' latest blog A few more things with Brian Eno this month. The David Byrne collaboration is being mixed in New York so there have been lots of subtly different versions of things flying around and being decided upon. Brian, Jon Hopkins, Pete Chilvers and I spent a week improvising and developing ideas for the film score we're working on. Once again I was impressed by the lightness of Brian's touch b the way he often sits back and creates an atmosphere where it all feels like a bit of a game, and in that fertile soil grow ideas which always end up sounding definitively 'Eno-esque". I spent most of the sessions with Brian's cat sitting on my shoulder. After the first day I decided to wear 2 layers to minimise injury. I've noticed a disturbing trend in sessions recently, exacerbated by the proliferation of laptops: everyone (myself included) is fiddling around on the internet whenever not required to work. I walked into a David Holmes session a few months ago and everyone (except me) had just got iPhones. There was depressingly little conversation that week. In Brian's studio a group email was sent out by Pete to test who was most neurotic about checking their email. I'm ashamed to say that I lost, although I maintain that it was just unfortunate timing. The Eno/Hancock collaboration is proceeding well; I've begun to mix some of the tracks and am arranging for various vocalists to contribute. I came across a great Tuvan throat singer in a band called Yat-Kha, and got in touch with their producer Lu Edmonds. What an inspirational character he is. He came over and played me recordings he had made in the mountains of Tajikistan (which are virtually inaccessible most of the year), in minus-30 degree temperatures. The music was unlike anything I had ever heard b ancient Sufi texts incanted over rhythms and harmonies I could never have imagined, and could barely decipher. It was a true 'exploding horizons' moment b that rare occasion when music speaks directly to a part of you that you never knew was there. I'm going to mix some of it for Lu, and since hearing it I've felt more inspired than I have in ages. _http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=40763227&blo g ID=409705500_ (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=40763227&blo gID=409705500) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 05:48:39 EDT From: Chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] 2 new CDs by Roger Eno Both due for July 7th release, Burning Shed have TWO new releases scheduled from Roger. ANATOMY: An exquisite companion piece to Fragile (Music), Roger Eno's Anatomy expands upon the spare, piano only, experiments of his previous album, with a series of instinctive and reflective keyboard instrumentals deploying delicate textures and his typically distinctive use of space. FLOOD was constructed by Roger Eno for the 2008 Salthouse Art Festival in North Norfolk and will be performed live there on August 1. You can pre-order these at: _http://www.burningshed.com/store/label/_ (http://www.burningshed.com/store/label/) All good things... Richard Mills ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V12 #419 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest