that said, centres and music for public ensemble are competing for no. 1 this year. right now i actually think the latter has an edge which i didn't think possible.
so I listened to this and enjoyed it quite a bit - obviously reminded me of James Ferraro who put one of my top albums of the year, btw: you need this if you haven't listened to it yet!! this new one puts the ideas developed in Far Side Virtual into a classical music context. if you haven't listened to Far Side Virtual, you need that too (and FSV is an obvious influence to this Sam Kidel album)
let us know which one is yr fav once you're done mine is probably a three way tie between Dragging and the two AIA albums
@Horrorca Grouper is amazing, the A | A collection is so good. You got any recommendations on stuff like her. I heard Jenny Hval is good?
this should do the trick Christina Carter from the legendary Charalambides has this record you would probably enjoy quite a lot too J Barwick I really really like, but not sure if I would compare her with Grouper - G is more bleak/depressive mood-wise while Barwick is full of dreams an hope (maybe the last one changed the mood a little bit tho)... Barwick puts a lot more emphasis in vocals (his music is her vocals) too - Nepenthe is my fav from her
make sure to check out the other Liz Harris-affiliated projects Grouper and Tiny Vipers together The Bug and Liz Harris, more electronic Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Liz Harris- some horns buried in the mix, really beautiful crawling stuff