VA - Bare‑Beautiful Universe (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)
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again a really interesting if strikingly personal thesis from Butterboy about truly ambient music that is musics that fill and room and change the air within it . . . .
Butterboy says:
MINIMAL & BEAUTIFUL
I hope you like Bare-Beautiful Universe, a four-disc journey into the spaces that music usually leaves untouched.
There are records that fill a room, and there are records that change the way a room feels. This collection belongs to the second kind. Its music is drawn towards restraint, intimacy and silence: voices that seem to arrive from the next room, guitars reduced to a few carefully chosen notes, pianos allowed to breathe between phrases, electronics that hover at the edge of hearing. Nothing here needs to shout for your attention.
Across four discs, the journey gradually turns inward.
CD1 - Falling Into Silence, begins with solitude. The world is still present, but increasingly distant, leaving the listener alone with a voice, a melody, a thought.
CD2 - Ghost-Tone Echoes, moves further away from the physical world. Drones, textures and slowly shifting sounds create a place where time seems to loosen and disappear.
CD3 - Bare-Soul Confessions, brings the human voice back to the centre. These are intimate songs, strange songs, vulnerable songs: music that feels less performed than revealed.
CD4 - Negative-Space Reveries, is where almost everything unnecessary has fallen away. What remains is fragile, skeletal and intensely human. A breath. A voice. A few notes. A memory suspended in silence.
That is the heart of Bare-Beautiful Universe.
This is not music designed to overwhelm you. It asks you to listen more closely. To notice the space between the notes, the hesitation in a voice, the sound that almost disappears before you have fully heard it.
Because silence is not the absence of music. Sometimes, it is where the music lives.
Bare-Beautiful Universe is a sanctuary built from those moments, four discs for quiet rooms, late nights, solitary journeys and the rare occasions when we are willing to stop filling the silence and simply listen.
The universe is vast. This one is deliberately small. And within it, there is more than enough to hear. (Butterboy)
I guess it doesn't click into focus as a thesis until we see the track listing including much that I hadn’t heard before but the fourth disc seems to be full of sounds I really appreciate so am looking forward to the rest
Track lists
CD1
01 James Blake - Wilhelms Scream 4:36 2011
02 Sampha - (No One Knows Me) Like the Piano 3:34 2017
03 Keaton Henson - You 4:42 2010
04 Sufjan Stevens - Blue Bucket of Gold 4:44 2015
05 Agnes Obel - Riverside 3:48 2010
06 Moses Sumney - Plastic 3:08 2017
07 Rhye - Open 3:37 2013
08 xx - Angels 2:49 2012
09 Arthur Russell - A Little Lost 3:18 1986
10 Julianna Barwick - Forever 5:30 2013
11 Nick Mulvey - Cucurucu 4:27 2014
12 James Vincent McMorrow - Red Dust 4:00 2013
13 SOHN - Artifice 3:18 2014
14 How to Dress Well - Suicide Dream 2 4:21 2010
15 Grouper - Living Room 2:22 2008
16 FKA Twigs - Cellophane 3:24 2019
17 Bing & Ruth - Starwood Choker 6:17 2014
18 Oliver Coates - Perfect Love 6:53 2016
19 serpentwithfeet - Bless Ur Heart 4:23 2018
20 Leif Vollebekk - Elegy 5:24 2017
CD2
01 Bing & Ruth - Broad Channel 5:56 2010
02 amiina - Seoul 7:01 2007
03 Colleen - I’ll Read You A Story 6:51 2007
04 Nils Frahm - Says 8:18 2013
05 A Winged Victory for The Sullen - Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears 4:25 2011
06 Tim Hecker - In the Air III 4:01 2006
07 Loscil - Endless Falls 7:55 2010
08 Hildur Guðnadóttir - Elevation 5:57 2009
09 Max Richter - Fragment 1:27 2015
10 Ólafur Arnalds - Near Light 3:24 2011
11 Harold Budd; Brian Eno - The Pearl 3:13 1984
12 Stars of the Lid - Requiem for Dying Mothers Part 2 7:37 2007
13 Eluvium - Radio Ballet 3:12 2007
14 Kyle Bobby Dunn - The Tributary (For Voices Lost) 10:37 2012
15 Ryuichi Sakamoto - solari 3:51 2004
16 Jóhann Jóhannsson - Odi Et Amo 6:25 2002
17 Helios - Halving The Compass 5:26 2004
18 Goldmund - Threnody 4:39 2005
19 Arovane - Seaside 3:36 2004
20 Hammock - I Could Hear the Water at the Edge of All Things 5:40 2010
CD3
01 Frank Ocean - Godspeed 2:58 2016
02 Arca - Piel 4:07 2017
03 Tirzah - Gladly 3:41 2018
04 Perfume Genius - Learning 2:43 2010
05 Julia Holter - Meyou 5:55 2024
06 Ichiko Aoba - Asleep Among Endives 5:06 2021
07 Arooj Aftab - Mohabbat 7:42 2021
08 Antony & The Johnsons - Hope There's Someone 4:22 2005
09 Elliott Smith - Between The Bars 2:22 1997
10 Florist - Shadow Bloom 3:40 2019
11 Broadcast - Tears in The Typing Pool 2:12 2005
12 the Microphones - I Want Wind to Blow 5:32 2001
13 Adrianne Lenker - Anything 3:22 2020
14 Marta Forsberg - Slowa (Not Saying a Word) 5:37 2025
15 Bernice - David 5:09 2017
16 Karen Dalton - Something on Your Mind 3:23 1971
17 Daudi Matsiko - Take Me Old 3:24 2015
18 Tujiko Noriko - I'm Not Dreaming, King 4:14 2009
19 Novo Amor - Anchor 4:17 2015
20 James Blake - Retrograde 3:43 2013
CD4
01 Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals 5:24 2017
02 Julie Byrne - Sleepwalker 4:21 2017
03 Aldous Harding - Horizon 4:09 2017
04 Laura Marling - What He Wrote 4:07 2010
05 Bill Fay - The Healing Day 5:14 2012
06 Low - Words 5:50 2001
07 Nick Drake - Place to Be 2:41 1972
08 Iron & Wine - Upward Over The Mountain 5:55 2002
09 Alela Diane - The Rifle 2:43 2007
10 Hania Rani - Eden 4:55 2019
11 Low Roar - I'll Keep Coming 5:52 2014
12 Peter Broderick - And It's Alright (Nils Frahm Remix) 4:34 2019
13 Henrik Lindstrand - Dungen 2:16 2017
14 Tara Nome Doyle - Heathens 3:29 2020
15 SYML - Where’s My Love 3:22 2018
16 Birds of Passage - Without The World 3:47 2018
17 Horse Feathers - Helen 4:17 2008
18 Claire Cronin - Bloodless 5:33 2021
19 Lisa Hannigan - Barton 4:26 2016
20 Sophia Djebel Rose - Liberté 3:41 2022
Geddit? I think you do!?
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