I'll agree with you on the Blue Stone stuff being interesting, but I shall have to take your world about it's presence on My[_I'mJustAsGoodAsFarceBookReally_]. (Their rebranding provides so many opportunities for ridicule).
I also found The Link quite good, so I'm obviously in a psycho-acoustic appreciation mode at the moment.
And yes, sadly, the Yunyu piece does appear to be only the single song. I too was mislead by the "s" on the end of Angel Arias.
As for the other albums, El Dorado by the 17 Hippies was quite intriguing, very from the quite raucous and energetic Uz to almost laid back serenity of Adieu. And that's just the first two songs. Although it's testing my knowledge of high school German to the utmost. Still, I find them interesting enough to grab their other albums, and would recommend them even if you didn't understand German (they also sing in English and French). [They were at the last Womadelaide and recommended to me by an attendee.]
I picked up Dragonfly by Ego Likeness because I quite liked their most recent album Breedless (which, to be honest, I picked up because I noticed the cover). Dragonfly is much more laid back, being almost ambient Dark Wave. Although using keyboards to replace the long slow notes of the cello fails to recognise that the timbre of the note actually changes as the bow transits the strings, providing a richness. Instead you just have a long slow drone that soon becomes rather irritating (such as in Aurora, which is particularly prone to this). Still there are songs I quite like, such as I live on what's left. However considering I have a fondness for chaos (deeper levels of complexity than might be immediately apparent) and energy (active rather than passive), I think I do prefer the later album, even if it is edging to a more commercial/club feel.
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Date: 2011-04-03 12:42 am (UTC)I'll agree with you on the Blue Stone stuff being interesting, but I shall have to take your world about it's presence on My[_I'mJustAsGoodAsFarceBookReally_]. (Their rebranding provides so many opportunities for ridicule).
I also found The Link quite good, so I'm obviously in a psycho-acoustic appreciation mode at the moment.
And yes, sadly, the Yunyu piece does appear to be only the single song. I too was mislead by the "s" on the end of Angel Arias.
As for the other albums, El Dorado by the 17 Hippies was quite intriguing, very from the quite raucous and energetic Uz to almost laid back serenity of Adieu. And that's just the first two songs. Although it's testing my knowledge of high school German to the utmost. Still, I find them interesting enough to grab their other albums, and would recommend them even if you didn't understand German (they also sing in English and French). [They were at the last Womadelaide and recommended to me by an attendee.]
I picked up Dragonfly by Ego Likeness because I quite liked their most recent album Breedless (which, to be honest, I picked up because I noticed the cover). Dragonfly is much more laid back, being almost ambient Dark Wave. Although using keyboards to replace the long slow notes of the cello fails to recognise that the timbre of the note actually changes as the bow transits the strings, providing a richness. Instead you just have a long slow drone that soon becomes rather irritating (such as in Aurora, which is particularly prone to this). Still there are songs I quite like, such as I live on what's left. However considering I have a fondness for chaos (deeper levels of complexity than might be immediately apparent) and energy (active rather than passive), I think I do prefer the later album, even if it is
edging toa more commercial/club feel.