Latin-esque is a studio album from the Mexican bandleader, pianist, and composer Juan García Esquivel and his orchestra. The album, released in 1962 on the RCA Victor label..

In his book Exotica: Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World, David Toop wrote: "Unlike most recordings, there is no attempt to cement the right and left loudspeaker channels into a cohesive (if virtual) whole; for Esquivel, the space between loudspeakers was an empty vessel through which normally immovable instruments roamed, sometimes hovering in the air or darting back and forth like hummingbirds. Crude as the sound magic is, the illusionism has parallels both with the Kinetic painting and sculpture of Bridget Riley and Pol Bury or with the surreal imagistic dislocations of Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFZLgZr-9lo&list=PLdJMb0jVSvc82smFLOioKlE5qzp_OawPZ&index=1

#Esquivel #SpaceAgePop #Exotica #DavidToop #LatinMusic #Music

#DavidToop
#MMRコラム

「音楽はジャンルに閉じ込められるべきではない。耳をひらけば、すべてが音楽になる。」
― David Toop

続きはこちらから🔽
https://monumental-movement.jp/Column-David-Toop/

Mohawk is the second album by the New York Art Quartet. It was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on July 16, 1965, and was released later that year by Fontana Records. It features John Tchicai on alto saxophone, Roswell Rudd on trombone, Reggie Workman on bass, and Milford Graves on percussion.

In the album liner notes, Tchicai wrote: "The important thing about our music is that it must be heard and listened to without preconceived ideas as to how jazz should sound – listen to it as MUSIC and let that be the only label!"

David Toop described the group's sound on the album as "deliberately ragged, bleary themes tumbling out in spasms, notes tailing away as if lost to daydream, the music so open that total collapse seems perpetually imminent... quite unlike the music of their peers." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCwiKzsDwZ0&list=RDlCwiKzsDwZ0&start_radio=1

#NewYorkArtQuartet #JohnTchicai #RoswellRudd #ReggieWorkman #MilfordGraves #freejazz #DavidToop

Omg, thank you to whoever here that recommended David Toop's "Ocean of Sound" (subtitle: "Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication") to me. Just started, and it's exactly what I want to read!

Apparently 3 companion compilation CDs were also put out to listen along, they look great, might need to find copies...

https://www.discogs.com/release/322126-Various-Ocean-Of-Sound
https://www.discogs.com/release/325973-Various-Crooning-On-Venus-Ocean-Of-Sound-2
https://www.discogs.com/release/221944-Various-Ocean-Of-Sound-Volume-3-Booming-On-Pluto-Electro-For-Droids

#bookstodon #DavidToop #ambient #music

In May 2021 I posted Perfumes on Youtube. Heavily inspired by the book Ocean of Sound (David Toop) I recorded a suite of 6 modular ambient tracks inspired in gamelan music from Java & Bali.
In my head this was like releasing an ep.
I loved the sentence: "Music being able to adjust to several levels of auditive attention, being ignored and interesting at the same time"

Play!!

https://youtu.be/hjUt5v4Df3o?si=X5XUgJ5kP1n1WHFd
#modularsynth #eurorack #generative #ambient #brianeno #neroli #gamelan #davidtoop #oceanofsound

#NP: #NowPlaying:

David Sylvian & various artists - 'The World Is Everything - A Samadhisound Sampler' (tour book + cd) (2007)

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#playall #playallyourcdsagain #playallyouralbumsagain #albumcollection #DavidSylvian #SteveJansen #ThomasFeiner #HaroldBudd #Nine Horses #DavidToop

"The Shell That Speaks The Sea", by #DavidToop and Lawrence English, out on Room40:

https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/the-shell-that-speaks-the-sea