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Jul 10, 2012 09:42AM
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Currently listening to That Overt Desire of Object by Joelle Leandre and some strange man by the name of Phillip Greenlief.
This probably explains the Ms.Piggy fetish.
Phillip wrote: "i saw the ANIMALS tour back in the 70's and they also had enormous pig floating in space. i'm sure i didn't hallucinate it.i mean, i think i didn't hallucinate it."
I was too young to see them back then, but that pig does grace the cover of at least two Pink Floyd-related books I have lying around somewhere...
Baxter wrote: "Currently listening to That Overt Desire of Object by Joelle Leandre and some strange man by the name of Phillip Greenlief."http://www.discogs.com/Jo%C3%ABlle-L%...
ooh... I was sold at clarinet. Will have to go looking for this. I will have to pull out all the fifty-cent words in my playbook for the review. (Or write it all in bad imitation Elizabethan, I haven't done that in a while...)
The pig first appears on the cover of Pink Floyd's ANIMALS, floating above the Battersea Power Station which I believe is now the Tate Modern Art Gallery -- it was memorably referenced in Cuaron's CHILDREN OF MEN. The pig turned up in most Pink Floyd related concerts after that, even after Waters had left the group. You can hear Roger Waters refer to it in a bootleg of THE WALL, where he merrily asks the audience "Do you like our pig?" I've read that the pig for that tour at least was anatomically correct, and was pretty conspicuously male.
I've liked Arcade Fire for a while now, but am currently getting into their self titles EP. I can't get enough of 'Headlights look like diamonds' and 'The Woodlands National Anthem'.
Been listening to way too much Agalloch in preparation for getting to see them live again on the 22nd. After ten years of not coming to Cleveland when they tour, they're now doing it twice in two years. This is amazing, and I kinda tear up a little when I think about it. (No, I'm serious.)Have also been listening to a lot of "baby-go-to-sleep!" music... my current mix contains Resonant Drift, Rudy Adrian, Torelli, Vaughn Williams, Thomas Koner (the original baby-go-to-sleep guy, his first three albums are damn near perfect for it), Julianna Barwick, SETI, Sleep Research Facility, and a handful of other bands I've glommed together on an MP3 player and left in the baby's room.
(I'm trying to come up with a Gorecki piece that's calm enough for its entire length, any suggestions?)
Listened to both Smith Westerns albums today and yesterday: s/t debut and DYE IT BLONDE. Good jangly glam indie rock. Looking forward to hearing those kids develop their sound; they're only teenagers and already pretty damn good.
★ Jess wrote: "I've liked Arcade Fire for a while now, but am currently getting into their self titles EP. I can't get enough of 'Headlights look like diamonds' and 'The Woodlands National Anthem'."Got to see Arcade Fire last year when they returned to their hometown of Montreal to play a free outdoor 'thank you' show for their hometown fans.
What a treat! There was such a good vibe that September evening with thousands all enjoying the music together. I ditched work that night, but it was worth it!
nice to hear a great group outdoors in summer!
i've been picking up a few new things and totally love the following:miles davis - complete jack johnson sessions ... my god, my friends have been raving about this since it was released, but i had no idea - classic early electric miles!
belle & sebastien - tiger milk (1st release) - two songs are a little wanky, but love the rest
karlheinz stockhausen - electronic music works (gesange der jungelieder, microphonie 1 & 2, etc.) - this is my favorite release of electronic music by the cologne wunderkind ... can't beat it
paul desmond - easy living ... classic, laid-back west coast jazz sides with his marvelous quartet, featuring guitar genius jim hall, eugene wright, art blakey (who plays really understated throughout, kind of a revelation for blakey fans), etc.
frescobaldi - 6 fantasias for viol ... if you're not hip to the viol, it was an ancestor of the cello, and has a really beautiful, haunting sound. these fantastias by frescobaldi are just so gorgeous ... one of my favorite recordings for the instrument.
Baxter wrote: "Currently listening to That Overt Desire of Object by Joelle Leandre and some strange man by the name of Phillip Greenlief."you got that one? wow, thanks for checking it out! i love playing with joelle and am so happy we were able to make that record.
i'm going to post about a documentary called OHM here, simply because it is a nice documentary on electronic music. it runs at about 2.5 hours, and covers most of the ground-breaking composers working in the medium in the 60's and 70's. bob moog, pauline oliveros, john cage and countless others are featured. it's the kind of thing you really should check out if you're interested in the genre and would like to know more ... i fast-forwarded through a few sections, but was glad to have clips from several composers whom i admire.
Phillip wrote: "i'm going to post about a documentary called OHM here, simply because it is a nice documentary on electronic music. it runs at about 2.5 hours, and covers most of the ground-breaking composers work..."[by the way, I'd no idea you'd worked with Pauline Oliveros until looking for you on discogs the other day. JEALOUS.]
Definitely like the looks of this. Thanks!
Been listening to a great deal of Kisha Kyodan and the Akeboshi Rockets recently to fuel my inner otaku. (They did the opening theme for Highschool of the Dead, a ridiculously stupid, but very creepy in the second half of the series for all the wrong reasons, anime.)Also a great deal of Urgehal and Woods of Ypres, as I just found out within the last couple of weeks that the vocalists for both bands died earlier this year. Depressing. WoY especially: Woods 5 is their darkest, doomiest album to date, and it's fantastic (and I say this as possibly the world's biggest fan of Woods 4).
Robert wrote: "[by the way, I'd no idea you'd worked with Pauline Oliveros until looking for you on discogs the other day. JEALOUS.]..."thanks - she's an inspiration to all who know her. she wrote a piece for me for solo saxophone that i recorded years ago, and i have played in a few of her large ensembles, and in a small group at one point. one of the great american post-war composers, me thinks.
Phillip wrote: "Robert wrote: "[by the way, I'd no idea you'd worked with Pauline Oliveros until looking for you on discogs the other day. JEALOUS.]..."thanks - she's an inspiration to all who know her. she wrot..."
She's worked with a LOT of folks who have been direct inspirations on me over the years, from Francisco Lopez to Rafael Toral to Reynols, and pretty much everywhere in between. Wonderful stuff.
Oh, man... if I weren't gigging on August 5, I would absolutely roadtrip for this...http://secure.traversecityfilmfest.or...
LOVE Alloy Orchestra!
damn, that does look good! i haven't seen BLACKMAIL since the early 80's, when i caught nearly all of hitchcock's films at a big retrospective they were doing at the vista in los angeles ... the sound for that was pretty bad ... the alloy orchestra performed at this year's sf silent film festival, but i missed the films they were playing with. :(
I like the Alloy Orchestra, but find that a little Alloy goes a long way. I liked their score for METROPOLIS a lot.After this year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival, I'm going to have to claim the Matti Bye Ensemble as the best ensemble accompanying silent films. What they did for PANDORA'S BOX was nothing short of brilliant -- I'd put it with Herrmann's score for PSYCHO and NORTH BY NORTHWEST.
it was lovely ... really put a spell on me (the matti bye ensemble's score for PB).
I have, for the last twenty-some years, spent a ridiculous amount of time listening to Marillion. Last CD heard: "Clutching at Straws".Also, recently listened to Porcupine Tree's "Recordings".
Just listened to Juliana Hatfield's HEY BABE for the thousandth time. Perfect 90s indie rock.
Achtung Phillip: this just came across my newsfeed.tomorrow: the first of a series of shows exploring the early work of pauline oliveros, whose 80th birthday this year was marked by the 12-CD release of her early (1961-1970) tape and electronic music -- much of which has never been available before! 11am-12:30pm on WCSB 89.3 fm cleveland and streaming worldwide at wcsb.org/listen
Robert wrote: "Achtung Phillip: this just came across my newsfeed.tomorrow: the first of a series of shows exploring the early work of pauline oliveros, whose 80th birthday this year was marked by the 12-CD rel..."
I legitimately heard one of the tracks from that box set on WFMU earlier today and marked it on my need-to-get list. So cool!
Ja! (By the way, Tom Orange--the DJ for The Brewing Luminous--usually plays VERY eclectic stuff and is always a good listen. He's also part of an improv trio called Sunny D, because our last names are Smiley Orange Beveridge...)
Robert wrote: "Achtung Phillip: this just came across my newsfeed.tomorrow: the first of a series of shows exploring the early work of pauline oliveros, whose 80th birthday this year was marked by the 12-CD rel..."
yeah, there are a lot of things going on this year for her 80th - i was only involved in one show in upstate new york. there was a big four day festival out here for her 70th birthday, that's when i got to play her orchestral music, which was so much fun. she's a peach, no doubt about it.
i would like to recommend a group called *the space between*, which might fall off your radars - but it features pauline, chris brown - (electronics) (chris is a founding member of the hub - the first group back in the 80's to network computers in creating electronic music - zorn just released a big retrospective of their work on a 3-CD box set on his tzadik label - really great stuff, philip gelb (shakuhachi) and shoko hikage (koto). all improvised music, some really amazing stuff. they made 4 or 5 recordings with different special guests (joelle leandre, dana reason, etc.) worth looking for. i think 482 music has released a few of those discs.
Robert wrote: "Ja! (By the way, Tom Orange--the DJ for The Brewing Luminous--usually plays VERY eclectic stuff and is always a good listen. He's also part of an improv trio called Sunny D, because our last names ...";)
Robert wrote: "(I'm trying to come up with a Gorecki piece that's calm enough for its entire length, any suggestions?) ..."that gorecki 3rd symphony that got so much airplay in the 90's seems fitting.
Phillip wrote: "that gorecki 3rd symphony that got so much airplay in the 90's seems fitting. "I adore that thing. (It also wound its way onto the soundtrack of Wertmuller's Ripley film with John Malkovich... I can never remember what book that was for tho...) But Kiri Te Kanawa's vocal parts, when the volume is lowered, tend to be piercing.
"Wertmuller's Ripley film with John Malkovich"That wasn't Wertmuller, was it? There was that really dreadfully bad film of RIPLEY'S GAME with an appallingly miscast Malkovich, but that was made by Liliana Cavalli, according to imdb.
Cavalli, not Wertmuller. Damn my faulty memory (currently exacerbated by hefty amounts of pain relievers).Maybe Wertmuller will make Ripley Under Ground? Someone has to.
Nah. They should just leave Ripley be. He's never come to the screen properly.
Wenders made a film about Ripley--THE AMERICAN FRIEND ('77), with Dennis Hopper as Ripley. It also starred Bruno Ganz. I saw it many years ago so cannot remember too much, except that I liked it.
Julie wrote: "Wenders made a film about Ripley--THE AMERICAN FRIEND ('77), with Dennis Hopper as Ripley. It also starred Bruno Ganz. I saw it many years ago so cannot remember too much, except that I liked it."Dennis. Hopper. As. Ripley.
That's so batshit insane it just might work. I need to track this down.
(FTR to get back on topic, I have been renewing my passion for old-school punk thanks to the recent rise of Killer of Sheep, the latest classic-hardcore band to prove Pittsburgh is still the punk capital of the world--catch these guys live if you ever get the chance, they are ferocious [and one of my best friends from high school, who has been instrumental in Pgh. punk since the early 80s, is their drummer]--and pulling out the old seven-inches by bands like Wards, Pink Steel, Cock Sparrer, and the like. Wonderful.)
i liked AMERICAN FRIEND, but wenders made his own thing out of it - it's just the skeleton of the talented mr ripley ... i liked hopper and ganz together.
Yeah, I'd think that the only person less like Highsmith's conception of Ripley than Dennis Hopper is John Malkovich.
again, wenders wasn't trying to be faithful to the book, so i think it works.
Baxter wrote: "So I'm finally listening to some Les Rallizes Dénudés after avoiding them for a solid three years. Why do I always avoid awesome things? Night of the Assassins is goddang unstoppable. And Heaver T..."
Finally got round to finding a copy of Heavier than a Death in the Family.
Holy shit. This was recorded in the seventies???
Now I know what Keiji Haino was listening to in middle school...
I got the soundtrack to the Ken Russell film of TOMMY, an old favorite, largely to get Eric Clapton's performance of "Eyesight To The Blind" which just isn't available on itunes, where I'd long ago picked up Tina Turner's imperishable "Acid Queen."
Robert wrote: "Now I know what Keiji Haino was listening to in middle school... ...";)
this morning i am swinging to the count basie proper box - featuring four CDs of material from his kansas city seven period in the 1930's (with lester young, hershel evans, etc. .. so good!) ... gotta love those proper boxes! 4 CDs for $12.98 (used, of course) at amoeba! i've scored a few of them at this point (fats navarro, dexter gordon, memphis minnnie, sister rosetta tharpe, etc.) they're all great.
Yeah I have a big Count Basie box set (not sure which at the moment...) and it's superb.Lately I've been listening to a best-of Cab Calloway CD in the car. What great, fun stuff.
Yeah, it rules. Eager to get the new Raveonettes record in the fall, as I've loved pretty much everything they've ever put out.
listening to a recording of the bach cello suites today and musing on my favorite version. today i was listening to rostropovich's recording, which is just so bold and courageous and unique ... a favorite. i also admire anner blysma's recording on a period instrument, which brings out a lot of subtleties in timbre and tone. both are fantastic, i can never decide which i like best.does anyone else know these works, or have a favorite recording?
I like the YoYo Ma version. I was thinking of trying another one.
check out the rostropovich if you have a chance. it's not as flashy as the yo-yo ma, but more grounded, faithful to bach and somehow very russian.the cassals is worth checking out, but maybe not purchasing. it sounds a bit stale after hearing more *modern* readings of it. the version i had wasn't a good copy, i've heard better sounding recordings - it was recorded long ago.
the blysma is really wonderful - if you like the yo-yo ma version, it is similar in its virtuosity, but somehow a bit more grounded - the period instrument sounds fantastic, probably the big selling point for me. i see that EMI has re-released it with a bargain price tag as well.
