the gathered thoughts of Richard Pinnell

Hidden Treasure

Takefumi Naoshima, Hirozumi Takeda, Utah Kawasaki, Mitsuteru Takeuchi, Toshihiro Koike, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Yasuo Totsuka - Septet This CD is not a Wandelweiser release, and its character is actually quite unlike most Wandelweiser compositions, but on the slightly dodgy premise that the music on this disc is extremely quiet I thought I'd write about it amongst my Wandelweiser explorations. This is a new release on the Meena label, which is an offshoot of the Improvised Music from Japan imprint. I'm not really sure of the purpose of said offshoot, but that's neither here nor there. The typically beautiful sleeve includes notes from one of the musicians, ...

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Local delicacies

Well it was nice to get out in the sun yesterday afternoon and wander slowly over to ...

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Some blatant plugs

A short post inbetween Wandelweiser musings to plug a few things by friends more than anything...! I spent the afternoon at Sound323 today, and as new releases of interest seem few and ...

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A monochrome set

silence is not an acoustic phenomenon there is silence, where depth disappears and expanse emerges: on the surface still waters are said to run deep, but in reality it is the imperturbability of their surface that impresses us. and a quiet person's silence hides nothing deep- it hides nothing at all. Antoine Beuger - Silent harmonies in discrete continuity So to the most recent release from another of the Wandelweiser Collective's main names, Antoine Beuger. Composed and realised on a computer in 2002, Silent Harmonies in discrete continuity was released earlier this year. The music consists of twenty-four three minute "tracks" although it ...

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On reflection...

Well over the last week I didn't get to listen to much music, a combination of employment assessment centres and spending some quality time with my better half kept me busy. This morning ...

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