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with lester as my greatest influence. sonny's blues? don't know that one. but do you mean when sonny gets blue?
ohhhh, and someone made a song of it?thanks for the link to the story ... i'll check it out. i've pretty much loved everything i've read by the man. the film was quite good too, although his sexuality was "conveniently" not discussed, which was pretty lame.
Phillip wrote: "ohhhh, and someone made a song of it?thanks for the link to the story ... i'll check it out. i've pretty much loved everything i've read by the man. the film was quite good too, although his sexu..."
I think maybe you're gonna write it?
Your post just made me think of it, is all..and it does have a strangely musical structure.
picked up (what i thought was) the new flying lotus CD - UNTIL THE QUIET COMES - but turns out he has a new disc that just dropped. dang. i've got the first three discs now and they're all quite different. the first is uber anxiety-ridden ADD style drum and bass - the second has a lot more jazz influence with players like herbie hancock on board - but the new one is more ambient and relaxed, fusing the nerdy/geeky with sublime/chic in ways that i can't describe. the first listen brought that feeling that you get sometimes when something seems really new - you're just not sure if you like it or not because you can't quite take it all in - but on successive listenings i find i really like it. there is a density in the writing that exists even on the more relaxed cuts.
here's a link to his website - there's a video with a track from the new album, which again sounds like he's heading in new directions.
check the video for CORONUS, THE TERMINATOR ...
http://www.flying-lotus.com/
cat power - THE GREATESTlistening to it.
love it.
Phillip wrote: "cat power - THE GREATESTlistening to it.
love it."
Love her!
yeah, i’ve only known of her for a year or more, i wanna get more titles. i also have that long form piece that’s like a 25 minute ballad (if that rings a bell). it’s fantastic as well
Phillip wrote: "yeah, i’ve only known of her for a year or more, i wanna get more titles. i also have that long form piece that’s like a 25 minute ballad (if that rings a bell). it’s fantastic as well"I have: The Greatest, Moon Pix, what would the Community Think?, and You Are Free. My hub's the big fan, but she's pretty interesting. For some reason she puts me in mind of that New Orleans duo that featured on Treme. I like her better than Tori Amos, who kind of is more famous for occupying the same niche.
The Greatest may possibly be exceptional.
i wouldn't compare her to tori amos - but i don't know her (amos) music that well - other than the radio hits. i find chan's voice much more appealing, and her musical direction seems lazier - in a good way - not heading into the realm of over-produced, like ms amos. i liked that she hired a band to back her on THE GREATEST, i like bands that sound like bands, not collections of hot players. the only other cat power stuff i've heard is just her and an acoustic (nylon string) guitar.
Phillip wrote: "i wouldn't compare her to tori amos - but i don't know her (amos) music that well - other than the radio hits. i find chan's voice much more appealing, and her musical direction seems lazier - in..."
Yeah. I think I meant she and Tori Amos kinda both do the dark side of singer/songwiter females.
Nothing I've heard Tori do pulls me towards her music in anyway, although it is different/interesting/intelligent, I suppose. I guess I just need more than that. A good number of my old female students were fans.
I do like Cat's lazy production, as you call it. I think I like Moon Pix more than What Would the Community Think? Maybe I'm just always tired of her by the time I get to that one, but I don't think so--it sorta feels a bit overwrought to me. And maybe accounts for my reservations for her in total. Plus it was the first one I heard, which probably colored my perceptions.
at long last, some music i ordered from the karlheinz stockhausen foundation site - foolishly clicked "ground" because it was so cheap - and it took about 6 weeks for the following gems to arrive. i kept wringing my hands and growing impatient and then, as it happens, sort of forgot about it until today when it arrived special deliver by the uspo.HARLEQUIN - for solo clarinet
ENTFUHRUNG KNABE DUETT
AMOUR
IN FREUNDSHAFT
PICCOLO ... all various works for saxophone (some solo, some w other instruments)
MICROPHONIE I - for 2 microphones, gong, and 2 percussionists
MICROPHONIE II - for microphone, choir and organ
TELEMUZIK ... electronic music
and
HYMNEN - a 2-hour work of electronic music that could stand as a kind of encyclopedia of the genre .. i can't think of a work that i like more.
just been doing some research into the great german composer, ordering some scores that go with the saxophone works and i'll probably order the score for HARLEQUIN next year.
So a piece of music that I never ever thought I'd ever get the chance to hear again (I was present at the world premiere of the complete work at Carnegie Hall in the 1980s and got the composer's autograph on the program and I'm sure I still have it somewhere) magically appeared on iTunes: David Del Tredici's CHILD ALICE, a mega-work for orchestra and soprano based on poems from Lewis Carroll about his love for that little Liddell girl.I downloaded it on the spot. Deelish. The first half, IN MEMORY OF A SUMMER DAY, was a permanent fixture in my earliest Walkman days. I don't know how many tapes of it I wore out. It's this big lush ecstatic setting of a prelude poem to THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, and seems to sum up Carroll's feelings for that dear child, ecstatic but with more than a touch of the awareness of mortality -- "we are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near." This is a new recording, and it's pretty good, but I miss the foregrounded percussion sounds of the original recording.
I like the first half so much, it's so terribly familiar to me that I'm having a harder time with the second half, which I'm hearing for the first time in thirty years. It's a setting of the poem "All In The Golden Afternoon." I'm sure I'll get more into it with repeat listenings, hopefully with a copy of the poem handy so I can make out the words.
Edit for clarity -- the first half, IN MEMORY OF A SUMMER DAY, was recorded soon after it was first performed and I listened to it a lot. The second half was never recorded until just recently, when I found it while idly surfing iTunes looking for cool stuff.
Jonny Greenwood's sublime PHANTOM THREAD score has taken up residence on my gym playlist. And my home playlist. And just about anywhere I want to listen to absolute gorgeousness.My wrath will be Olympian when Greenwood loses the Oscar for Best Score to that simpering archly twee nonsense DeSplat did for that fish movie. Greenwood leaves better music in his Kleenex.
you can't imagine the academy will get anything right, can you?and, that's a damn fine soundtrack
well it happens so seldom, and generally by accident...
I love the PT soundtrack as well- feels like 100 years from now it will be studied as a21st Century classic
you found the music on that soundtrack to be distinctly 20th century? i felt like he had studied a lot of schubert before sitting down to work on it. schubert (especially the string quartets and quintets with piano) would be a good choice, given the narrative.
You’re giving me too much credit. I only meant because it was made in the 21stCentury
There's one track that had me scanning the end credits to see if it was some Handel track -- sounded like something discarded from the BARRY LYNDON soundtrack.The score sounds pretty distinctly 20th Century to my admittedly musically uneducated ears, like the score to a Sirk movie that had dropped some acid somehow. Lushly gorgeous and yet somehow just a bit too much in some weird way.
And those end credits included a reference to "Puck Beaverton's Necktie" which indicates a little bit of recycling from the INHERENT VICE soundtrack.
Tom wrote: "There's one track that had me scanning the end credits to see if it was some Handel track -- sounded like something discarded from the BARRY LYNDON soundtrack.The score sounds pretty distinctly 2..."
ha-I listened to that today too!
And those end credits included a reference to "Puck Beaverton's Necktie" which indicates a little bit of recycling from the INHERENT VICE soundtrack. that's funny. it is likely a melody he wrote and re-orchestrated. nice.
i'm going to try to get back to the theater and see it again before it leaves town.
cecil taylor passed away last week and i've been listening back to some of his records since i've been home. there's no one like him, for good or bad - well, there are imitators, but he opened up a whole new language for the piano and for post-jazz and the world has never really been the same since.the early records are really something - JAZZ ADVANCE is one of those turning point records. i know a lot of folks like these early ones because he's clearly still in the jazz idiom, but he's twisting it in new ways (ways that were new in the mid and late 50's). his solo LPS from the late 60's and early 70's have been getting a lot of airplay these past few days, in fact, i'm about to listen to INDENT again. the larger groups that recorded in new york and europe in the 80's are cool, but NEFERTITI, THE BEAUTIFUL ONE HAS COME (1967, i think) has to be my all time favorite from the "later" period - just a trio of saxophone (with jimmy lyons, who i was lucky to get a lesson with in the 80's) cecil, and the great sunny murray (who also passed away not too long ago). their interplay is really something on this.
listening to fela's BLACK PRESIDENT this morning and god damn, it sounds as good as ever
yeAHHH!i love gruppen - have a few nice recordings of it - will dig into this. and i really like simon rattle conducting - saw him conduct WOZZECK with los angeles once - went two nights - mind blown.
Tom wrote: "For Stockhausen Fans -- there are a few round these parts:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06c..."
this is a fantastic recording - simon rattle really brings out the gems. and the binaural sound is striking when listening on headphones.
speaking of stockhausen, a friend just sent this link to a site that this guitarist from nyc has been compiling for years .... a sort of encyclopedia of the composer's work ... if anyone out there is interested in learning more about the works, what they are scored for - images from the scores and sound files, seek no further than here:
http://stockhausenspace.blogspot.com/
the great jazz pianist randy weston has passed away.i've been listening to his records all afternoon.
RIP
I am a huge fan of jazz music (my favorite kind of music), but I wasn’t familiar with Randy Weston. I started listening to African Rhythms today and the music is intoxicating. Thank you for introducing me to a great talent!
Whatever else can and will be said about Luca Guadagnino's upcoming version of SUSPIRIA, it can't be denied that it has a really cool score by Thom Yorke.
Tom wrote: "Whatever else can and will be said about Luca Guadagnino's upcoming version of SUSPIRIA, it can't be denied that it has a really cool score by Thom Yorke."Listened to a small bit of that online--another great one, it seems.
Phillip wrote: "has he composed other soundtracks?"Oh, I dunno, how much if any, he worked on for Jonny Greenwood's? I'm thinking guilt by association. Of course, Radiohead's music has been in soundtracks. I had the link: will post. \/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZ2r...
Almost perfect October music.
sounds like thom yorke has been listening to fantomas, among other things
the residents' COMMERCIAL ALBUM and ESKIMO (and others) recently released on cherry red ... fantastic reissues. picked these two up this week, can't stop listening to them.a belated RIP to larnie fox, long time leader of this group who insisted on anonymity. now i can utter his name.
I listened to the one you posted on FB— craziness.
I had The Residents' computer game, BAD DAY ON THE MIDWAY at one point. Weird little game, great fun.
Phillip wrote: "the residents' COMMERCIAL ALBUM and ESKIMO (and others) recently released on cherry red ... fantastic reissues. picked these two up this week, can't stop listening to them.a belated RIP to larnie..."
Phillip -- You mean Hardy Fox. Larnie is still with us!
whoops! more fool me. and larnie is a youngster. "i make many mistakes"
.... can anyone site the film that quote comes from?
Phillip wrote: "whoops! more fool me. and larnie is a youngster. "i make many mistakes"
.... can anyone site the film that quote comes from?"
"cite" - and, yes :D
Don't get Norris mixed up with Sirone, now!
Our band does a more straightforward vocal driven, yet faster, version of this song--largely copying Ella Fitzgerald's, with drum breaks in the second- time-around- verses..kinda boring in comparison to these!
Love the sweet and low Lester.