El Ten Eleven - El Ten Eleven (15th Anniversary Edition) - VINYL LP

The music of El Ten Eleven has been described as meditation in motion, which seems apt. For the first time in their 16-year career, the band worked with an outside producer to distill this descriptor, teaming up with Sonny DiPerri and moving into the incredible confines of Panoramic House on the beautiful Northern California coast. The result is InchBanker's HillInch an album that explores the paradox of beauty in anxiety, the importance and effect of family and the fleeting possibility of satisfaction. Made up of Kristian Dunn (bass, guitar) and Tim Fogarty (Drums), they utilize multiple looping pedals to create songs that sound as though they are being played by at least six people. Most first-timers to an El Ten Eleven show are stunned that the band is a duo. It's a refreshing site in this age of letting the computers do all the work. 01. Three And A Half High And Rising02. Phenomenal Problems03. You Are Enough04. We Don't Have A Sail But We Have A Rudder05. Gyroscopic Precession06. Banker's Hill07. Listening to Cloud08. Reverie09. This Morning With Her, Having Coffee

Experiencing an unexpected tragedy or loss often provokes a period of self-reflection, a time to contemplate one's own place and purpose in the world. That was true for El Ten Eleven's Kristian Dunn. When a beloved family member passed, Dunn found his own reflections on life emerging in the music he composed. Those expressions led to the creation of Tautology - a sonic meditation on the arc of human life, composed in three parts. Over the course of three discs, Tautology is, in Dunn's words, Incha representation of life from the teenage years, through middle-age, until the end of life.Inch The sounds on the album echo Dunn's own experiences, veering from aggressive metallic riffs to blissful ambient soundscapes. And while there are shared melodies and harmonies through all three records, each one has it's own distinct qualities Tautology I, which represents adolescence, is angsty, aggressive and occasionally depressive; Tautology II is head-noddy and mid-tempo, and represents middle age; while Tautology III, quiet and ambient, represents one's golden years. The music on the first disc, Tautology I, has a heavier sound that might surprise longtime El Ten Eleven fans. InchI wanted to represent what my teenage years were like, when I was full of testosterone and depression, Inch says Dunn. InchWhen you're a teenager everything feels so grandiose and dramatic.Inch The album's second movement, Tautology II, reflects Dunn's current state. InchI'm middle-aged now, and this is the happiest I've ever been. I think that comes across in the music. This record is the one that sounds the most like the El Ten Eleven people are used to.Inch For the final chapter, Tautology III, Dunn composed a transcendent set of ethereal music inspired partly by the loss of a dear family member. InchI don't know what it's like to be elderly. But my grandmother-in-law Frances McMaster was a very in

Eugène Ysaÿe (Liège, 16 July 1858 - Brussels, 12 May 1931) is known to have conceived the idea of writing a cycle of six sonatas for solo violin during a concert in July 1923, while listening to his great contemporary musician Joseph Szigeti play Johann Sebastian Bach. He locked himself in his room, instructed not to be disturbed except to receive his meals, and over the next twenty-four hours sketched out the six pieces that would become his op. 27. Although the anecdote is historically well-founded, it is doubtful that a cycle destined to become a monument to violin art only in the twentieth century - what Bach's sonatas and partitas were for the eighteenth century and Paganini's Caprices for the nineteenth - can be reduced to an extemporaneous creative act, rather than the result of a meditated compositional project. A glance at the sonatas as a whole is enough to grasp the signs of a precise plan, which stemmed from the desire of a virtuoso, who was about to hang his bow, to write his artistic and technical testament by highlighting the profound connections between the legacy of tradition and the most innovative achievements in the music of his time