At the moment I've cranked up the 2011 album Hysterical (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah). There are a few tracks on there seem right for the week before the US elections, 'nuf said 'bout politics...
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What are you listening to? Part III
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The Canon by Johann Pachelbel.
A piece that brings to mind some rather special memories.
A piece that brings to mind some rather special memories.
Dare I say "I had no idea....!!" Anyway, thank God Pachelbel's Canon was not among the pieces of music that the football team was supposed to learn how to recognize in their Music Appreciation 101 the year that one of my part time jobs at the music library was to help those guys pass the course. I taught them nonsense rhymes for the front end of each track the professor had assigned. You know stuff like "The moon has no tune but we'll make it to June" and so forth. To this day I can't listen to that little collection of assignments, and furthermore have embarrassed myself by bursting out laughing in someone else's kitchen or car if a radio station happens to play one.
Well, given that the memories were being revisited, it seemed only right and proper to revisit the piece of music, as well.
I do enjoy that Pachelbel once in awhile. But today Vivaldi Flute Sonatas seem like the ticket to keep me moving through a bunch of tedious chores in studio. I can sure make a mess when I put my mind to it. 
At least the music is fun.
At least the music is fun.
A new CD, by Danger Mouse & Sparkle Horse, called "Dark Night Of The Soul".
Unusual and interesting, - I liked it - and, I suspect that it is the sort of album that grows on you and improves considerably upon further listening.
I daresay that it is the sort of album that, when I have played it for a second time, I will enjoy it an awful lot more.
On a second listen, there are some tracks which I really - really - like, - which is what I had thought yesterday, and will be 'ripped' in due course - to my iTunes Library (still on my computer, not the Cloud or elsewhere), and a few I may - nay, will - decline to 'rip'.
But, that is a matter of personal taste.
On a third listen, yes, there are some excellent tracks.
So, yes, recommended, but not everything resonates equally well, as is inevitable..........
(Heavens; I don't even like everything the Beatles produced!)
Good to know! Sounds like it is worth a shot.
Pardon the tl;dr. For this post it makes more sense to link videos (and NPR streams) instead of embedding them.
Been taking a much needed self-induced hiatus from the forum (thanks, PRSI). During my recently-ended free Google Music trial I listened to stuff I now need to buy. A few standouts: (links go to songs I particularly enjoyed): The Avalanches' Wildflowers, Nicholas Jaar's Sirens, Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book, Sturgill Simpson's A Sailor's Guide to Earth.
And I've managed to squeeze in a few focused listens of Leonard Cohen's new and economically elegiac album You Want It Darker. November 9th can't come soon enough. This album may be on heavy rotation thereafter.
Today NPR posted a very generous fifteen track sampler of the forthcoming Live 1966 36-CD set by Bob Dylan. That's eaten up a chunk of today; for sanity's sake I'll parcel out the whole box set over a few months. Personal highlights: Visions of Johanna, Desolation Row, and Mr. Tambourine Man are positively hypnotic. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues opens with engagingly loopy stage patter, and the last performance of that tour is a sneering Like a Rolling Stone with searing guitar work by Robbie Robertson that's absolutelysweet sour. NPR also sum up that schizophrenic tour better than I could (emphases in this short excerpt are mine).
Been taking a much needed self-induced hiatus from the forum (thanks, PRSI). During my recently-ended free Google Music trial I listened to stuff I now need to buy. A few standouts: (links go to songs I particularly enjoyed): The Avalanches' Wildflowers, Nicholas Jaar's Sirens, Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book, Sturgill Simpson's A Sailor's Guide to Earth.
And I've managed to squeeze in a few focused listens of Leonard Cohen's new and economically elegiac album You Want It Darker. November 9th can't come soon enough. This album may be on heavy rotation thereafter.
Today NPR posted a very generous fifteen track sampler of the forthcoming Live 1966 36-CD set by Bob Dylan. That's eaten up a chunk of today; for sanity's sake I'll parcel out the whole box set over a few months. Personal highlights: Visions of Johanna, Desolation Row, and Mr. Tambourine Man are positively hypnotic. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues opens with engagingly loopy stage patter, and the last performance of that tour is a sneering Like a Rolling Stone with searing guitar work by Robbie Robertson that's absolutely
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Are these a particularly good set of recordings? I have quite a bit of his work on CDs (and on my computer's music library).
Actually, I am very partial to the music of Erik Satie; he has been one of my favourite composers since I was an undergrad.
Quite good, in fact. I've read a few places that Aldo Ciccolini's are some of the best performances of Satie's works. I've only listened to a handful of other performances, but these are quite nice...
Still on Chance The Rapper's album and going to check out Empire of the Sun's latest.
Also realized that I don't listen to music as much as I used to.
Also realized that I don't listen to music as much as I used to.
A brilliant album, actually.
One that was genuinely seminal, to use that much abused - and, indeed, - over-used - expression.
[doublepost=1478299422][/doublepost]The Sanctus from the Mass by Karl Jenkins.
Music for the change of seasons instead of jazz tonight...
Some of the late Mozart string quartets, the three "Prussian" ones. I have them by the Emerson Quartet and also by Quartetto Italiano, tonight listening to the latter.
Some of the late Mozart string quartets, the three "Prussian" ones. I have them by the Emerson Quartet and also by Quartetto Italiano, tonight listening to the latter.
Sadly, drunken folks on crowded train. Pushes ear plugs in a little deeper.
Google Play Music's "Cool New Indie" playlists. GPM has been so solid for me with music suggestions.