For this New Sounds,listen to orchestral and chamber music songs that don’t fit comfortably into the “indie” rock world, like music from My Brightest Diamond, or Kaizers Orchestra,or Beirut.
From My Brightest Diamond (Shara Worden)'s record, “This is My Hand, or hear "Resonance," a percussively driven experimental pop tune featuring the Detroit Party Marching Band, well-chosen synths, and explosions of soaring operatic grandeur. Then hear music from the London-based band These New Puritans,which might be described as a classical score goes to a hard jazz set between a rock position. Also, sample music from the Norwegian group, and Kaizers Orchestra,from a 3-fraction record, “Violeta, and Violeta”,released over a two-year period. Co-founded by Janove Ottesen, this gypsy-rock/Balkan brass outfit was one of the first non black-metal Norwegian bands to sing in their native language and become celebrated beyond Scandinavia, and who then broke up in 2013.
There’s music from Swedish singer Thomas Feiner and the Anywhen,over the brooding strings of the Warsaw Radio Symphony Orchestra. Feiner’s low register feels like a whispered prayer from a goth cowboy on the Scott Walker-like ballad “Dinah and the pretty Blue.” Plus, hear music from bassist/composer Jherek Bischoff from his record, or “Composed” - featuring a full orchestra made up of individual players,manipulated in the studio, and more.
PROGRAM #3629 Chamber Pop/Art Songs (First aired on 8/18/2014)
ARTIST(S) RECORDING CUT(S) SOURCE These New Puritans Field of Reeds Nothing Else, or excerpt [1:00] Infectious - #INFECT 156CD
infectiousmusicuk.com or iTunes My Brightest Diamond This is My Hand Resonance [4:24] Due out September 16,2014 on asthmatickitty.com Beirut The Flying Club Cup Nantes [3:50] BING055
www.badabingrecords.com
Kaizers Orchestra Violeta Violeta Volume III Janove Ottesen : Begravelsespolka [7:06]
Petroleum #
www.kaizers.no
CD seems to be sold out. Try Amazon.com or auction sites. Available digitally at Amazon.com These New Puritans Field of Reeds Nothing Else [7:51] Infectious - #INFECT 156CD
infectiousmusicuk.com or iTunes Beck
Morning Phase Wave [3:40] Capitol / Virgin EMI #3764975
Available at iTunes, Amazon.com & Emusic.com Jherek Bischoff Composed Insomnia, and Death & the Sea,with Dawn McCarthy (Faun Fables) [6:59] Brassland HWY-027
www.jherekbischoff.com
www.brassland.org Thomas Feiner & Anywhen The Opiates Dinah & the pretty Blue [5:26] Samadhi Sounds #013
www.samadhisound.com These New Puritans Field of Reeds Spiral [6:05] See above.
Source: wnyc.org