plaid Plaid Vs South Bank Gamelan Players: Album

Just throught i'd tell you guys, had a chat with the guys last year after the Koko gig and they were giving serious consideration to the release of their work with the South Bank Gamelan players.

This part of the Plaid's musical adventures gets a bad press in these forums, i was fortunate to go to 3 of these (went to the Village Underground gig but the acoustics and organisation was so bad i walked out so don't count that), and for those Plaid aficianados's that want to hear Plaid push their sounds and more importantly their melodies to the nth degree this was the perfect partnership.

This piece of work was absorbing, and the music was emotionally satisfying with both Plaid and SBGP leading the way through the piece.

I also see it fit that Plaid should capture what I see as a landmark marriage of both the traditional and new for all to enjoy. Damn well looking forward to this if and when it gets picked up and released.

Much Respect,

sach29

P.S Don't knock it till you heard it son!

:omg:

Amazing!

Edit: OH MY FUCKING GOD

BTW the entire piece weighed in at around 45-50mins. The piece shown in the link was the penultimate number, but you need to take the number within the context of the entire piece in order to get the best out of it.

At Oxford (and i believe) Leeds, they dropped a new atypical d'n'b backboned number with SBGP playing over the top as an encore, as you can imagine it was......delicious (says whist licking fingers!).

Keep it real,

sach29

  On 9/16/2011 at 2:03 PM, sach29 said:

BTW the entire piece weighed in at around 45-50mins. The piece shown in the link was the penultimate number, but you need to take the number within the context of the entire piece in order to get the best out of it.

 

At Oxford (and i believe) Leeds, they dropped a new atypical d'n'b backboned number with SBGP playing over the top as an encore, as you can imagine it was......delicious (says whist licking fingers!).

 

Keep it real,

 

sach29

Sounds like quite possibly the most amazing thing I've never heard!

  On 9/16/2011 at 1:43 PM, sach29 said:

Just throught i'd tell you guys, had a chat with the guys last year after the Koko gig and they were giving serious consideration to the release of their work with the South Bank Gamelan players.

 

This part of the Plaid's musical adventures gets a bad press in these forums, i was fortunate to go to 3 of these (went to the Village Underground gig but the acoustics and organisation was so bad i walked out so don't count that), and for those Plaid aficianados's that want to hear Plaid push their sounds and more importantly their melodies to the nth degree this was the perfect partnership.

 

This piece of work was absorbing, and the music was emotionally satisfying with both Plaid and SBGP leading the way through the piece.

I also see it fit that Plaid should capture what I see as a landmark marriage of both the traditional and new for all to enjoy. Damn well looking forward to this if and when it gets picked up and released.

 

Much Respect,

 

sach29

 

P.S Don't knock it till you heard it son!

where exactly does/did it get a bad press here? - i don't think it did! (i like it a lot, myself.)

but thanks for the heads up and the info.

how come you waited so long to share the news, tho? that failed album launch Koko gig was well over a year ago now...

comin up 2 years..

anyway, there was a recent interview with Andy, posted the other day, where he talks about this. check the interviews thread at the top. :)

yeah, have a good look around sach29.. you'll find no bad press here concerning South Bank Gamelan players.

Fantastic news! I saw them perform in Bristol last year and it was packed! There was a little walkway through the crowd that led me and my then girlfriend right through to the side of the stage so we could watch everything that was happening :)

I even saw what Plaid used (software wise) to perform and manipulate. Cheeky monkeys that they are.

That aside, I am extremely pleased to read that this might become an album. Being a side project, maybe it'll take less hassle to release :)

would be good if they released it over this coming Winter... it's the kind of album/music you could really enjoy indoors, chasing the dragon, lol... reeeeeal comfy and cosy-like,... with loads of cushions, and snow outside the window...

  On 9/16/2011 at 2:40 PM, sirch said:

 

where exactly does/did it get a bad press here? - i don't think it did! (i like it a lot, myself.)

 

but thanks for the heads up and the info.

 

  On 9/16/2011 at 2:44 PM, magdog said:

yeah, have a good look around sach29.. you'll find no bad press here concerning South Bank Gamelan players.

well I, for once or twice mentioned that i dont like Plaid's collaborations with SBGP and Felix Machines,,,,(and had stated that i d enjoy it more if they did another remixes album).

so maybe he meant that! :) and yes i dont remember anyone else, giving negative ideas about what they do with, sbgp or whatever either......pff i find them so boring....

anyways..

just read the interview.......excellent, so we definitely will see a SBGP album at some point (may be while till that turns up as Scintilli has just been released) ......ontop of this, a cd that may be released after the end of the Scintilli tour with rejigged versions................sounds excellentee!

hopefully they'll include trail in the album along with all the other tracks they've been playing live but didn't make the album.

Actually there was this acid track (featured in the Abstract Science Performance) which was amazing in 2006/07 but as they played it more over time it got flatter and flatter, so they tweaked the crap out of it, the initial version was mind blowing however.

Not to mention the super slow version of Even Spring which they only ever played as live - which proves that no matter what speed you play Even Spring it kills!

ah, i love the Peel session version of Even Spring... that's damn fine

not heard it super slow before tho.

Hope that URL works, for me the most perfect plaid track never to be released along with trail.....

  On 9/16/2011 at 2:57 PM, Ultravisitor said:

I even saw what Plaid used (software wise) to perform and manipulate. Cheeky monkeys that they are.

So.... ? What'd they use?

(Track kicks in on the 9 second mark)

When played live you can feel the bass resonate through your body whist the soft pure tones caress you're ears and then the wonderful crunchy stuttering beats kick in.

Like lulling you into a warm bath on a bitterly harsh winters day with a lovely hot mug of ovaltine.

This is the third verision of the track after the peel session version.

They used to start practically every gig with this during the Greedy Baby years.

Nuff Respect.

They use logic.

i missed the Greedy Baby years...

  On 9/16/2011 at 4:09 PM, sach29 said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6_-M3V_YlQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=11s

 

Hope that URL works, for me the most perfect plaid track never to be released along with trail.....

i think i've seen this before, cos i remember it. - a nice version of ES... it's not tooooo super slow, but slow-er. and very groovy :)

thanks for posting it.

  On 9/16/2011 at 4:29 PM, sirch said:

  On 9/16/2011 at 4:09 PM, sach29 said:

Hope that URL works, for me the most perfect plaid track never to be released along with trail.....

 

i think i've seen this before, cos i remember it. - a nice version of ES... it's not tooooo super slow, but slow-er. and very groovy :)

thanks for posting it.

It's released, or at least a very similar version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pfik6C3UjM

From the latest Peel Sessions.

^ yeah that's the Peel session version i was talking about above. but the live version sach posted is a little bit slower...

edit: in fact that 1 ^ seems faster than the original on Spokes!

Intoxicatingly Slower!

I'd love to see an album with the gamelan players!

that track is fucking amazing.