Podcast Panel #11

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Richard Emsley - '...from swerve of shore to bend of bay'

Today's MP3 came without blurb or explanation from its shy submitter: it can be downloaded in full on that direct link or streamed at http://freakytrigger.co.uk

[Poll #1140876]

POLLS STILL OPEN: Keke Palmer! Natalia y la Forquentina! Avenged Sevenfold! and ending tomorrow Fleet Foxes!

POLL CLOSED: Trina ended up with a score of 6.44 with (I think) the highest NUMBER of votes so far (a still quite low 18).

HALL OF FAME: Lancelot Link's score of 7.2 is the highest (though it dipped after polls closed when dubdobdee voted.)

BUMF: To submit a track to the Podcast Panel send an MP3 to leagueofpop@gmail.com

Comments

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Its not that I was shy :-) I've been pressed for time/had computer problems, bah. I was thinking of posting a couple more sometime, hopefully with a short blurb. Hope that's ok.

I don't understand the musical principles of any of this -- I've had phases where its bothered me, other where it hasn't.

That feeling of disorientation is very much a kind of seasick feeling, its v much like its title, in that sense. I really like how (and I should re-listen before saying, but I've no time now) he micro-modulates the dynamics -- it gets v quiet but there are some loud-ish moments that come in and out in this flash. Like what ppl say about quite/loud in post-rock, but it keeps catching you off-guard no matter how many times you go back to it. Like you I was partly dulled at first, but that quality got me to going back, so now I'm trapped in its circularity. That is what the v best compositions do to me.

The thing is Richard's early music was all controlled violence ('Juniper Tree' for puppet theatre and ensemble is fantastic. Tho' long for the podcast!), but then he stopped composing for like 10 years or so to kinda reconsider, and pieces like this are the result.