The Listening Club - 28th April 2019

Greetings folks, hope you're all fine.

Bit grey and grim here in Amsterdam, which is par for the course, but sadly led to a rather damp and cold Kings Day yesterday. So it goes, but pleased that we kicked off the weekend in fine style watching Piroshka (at @JimMcCauley's recommendation), and mighty fine they were too...

Last week, @wojsvenwoj was in the chair, or rather a facsimile of him was, presenting his pick of Beth Gibbons & The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra's performance of Henryk Gorecki's "Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs", which dazzled and confused the assembled in equal measures, I think. Thanks to him for the pick and for sailing the frisb across to @saucer, who is right here with tonight's intro...

There are some beautiful tensions on which this deceptively simple album is built:
    Emergent/Fractal
    Polyrhythmic/Sparse
    Silly/Clinical
    Melodic/Monotone
    Playful/Profound

The album rings of the present... and revels in nostalgia for an age yet to come.

The artist's name is a pun.

I like them. Curious what you'll think.

Snack club: whole grain crackers with gjetost.

Further reading
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcuse/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology-mg/

Okaydoke. Direct download is here, and the HearThis stream is below:


See you tonight at 8pm BST (GMT+1).