What other music are you listening to? #2

[Gary Sisco]

4g -- Cloud
Giuffre/Bley/Peacock -- Fly Away Little Bird

[Doc Martin]

I scream at you for sharing
'n I curse you just for caring
I hate the clothes you're wearing, they're so pretty
'n I tell to not to see me
'n I tell you not to feel me
'n I make your life a drag, it's such a pity
'n I watch your warm glow palin'
'n I watch your sparkle fadin'
As you realise you're failin', cos you're so good
Now I don't mean to upset you
But there's so much crime to get through
If only I could make it easier, then I would

Oh I wish I was your mother
I wish I'd been your father
'n then I would have seen you
Would have been you as a child



I danced on your face, it seemed the best place for acting the fool.

[Scott Dolan]

I really didn't like this album very much ever since I got it.

But for some reason I broke it out last weekend and have been hooked on it ever since.

[Surfer]

(check out the intensity of the war time Beethoven symphonies on music and arts)

I think people here are sick of me pimping Fred Maroth's (M&A) remasters of the wartime Beethovens.

Those are only the greatest recordings I own.

I actually met Fred about 5 years ago when I lived in the East Bay and would drive through Kensington everyday. Such a nice man, he paid for those extensive state-of-the-art remasters (by engineer Maggi Payne) out of his own pocket.

[Root Doctor]

[groover]

My Gawd, that's moose-turd pie!

That one's a classic. I saw Utah a few years ago at the Philly Folk Festival. He introduced himself by saying, "You folks don't know how really glad I am to be here tonight. At my age, I'm just glad to be anywhere!"

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

U Utah Phillips, the last of the great IWW folksingers: "A legend in his own mind, a rumor in his own room".

[TJ Wilkinson]

I think people here are sick of me pimping Fred Maroth's (M&A) remasters of the wartime Beethovens.

Those are only the greatest recordings I own.

I actually met Fred about 5 years ago when I lived in the East Bay and would drive through Kensington everyday. Such a nice man, he paid for those extensive state-of-the-art remasters (by engineer Maggi Payne) out of his own pocket.

Furtwangler's Bruckner recordings on M&A are also outstanding, especially the wartime 9th, 10/7/44 and 8th, 10/17/44

[Surfer]

Furtwangler's Bruckner recordings on M&A are also outstanding, especially the wartime 9th, 10/7/44 and 8th, 10/17/44

"Berlin. October 7, 1944. In the Beethovensaal a concert is about to begin, but the theater is empty, relieved of its usual audience studded with Nazi elite seeking a brief cultured respite from the stresses of war. The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is on stage, awaiting its cue. Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler stands awkwardly on the podium. The vague meandering of his baton summons the first shadowy note of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony. A Radio Berlin engineer starts his Magnetophon. The most extraordinary orchestral recording of the century has just begun. . . . . . . . . ."

http://www.classicalnotes.net/features/furtwangler.html

[abstract7]

ahhh....I dont know any of those people... but Im listening to a group from the 80's called HENRY COW...they are amazing...I suggest "Legends" and "Western Culture"...huge chunks of Ives, Stravinsky, Bartok and Pendereski mixed with strange rock.

[MRS]

[Alastair]

ahhh....I dont know any of those people... but Im listening to a group from the 80's called HENRY COW...they are amazing...I suggest "Legends" and "Western Culture"...huge chunks of Ives, Stravinsky, Bartok and Pendereski mixed with strange rock.

70s, abstract7, 70s...

But good for you. One of my all-time favourite bands.

[john williams]

Burns of the Sigur Ros show I went to in Sydney last week.

http://www.auroboros.net/sigurros.htm
Sigur Rós - 12.04.06
Enmore Theatre - Sydney, Australia

disc 1 - 8 tracks - 72:11
Takk
Glósóli
Ný Batterí
Sæglópur
E-bow
Hoppípolla
Með Blóðnasir
Olsen Olsen
Njósnavélin
Svo hjótt
Heysátan


disc 2 - 3 tracks - 32:32
Hafsól
Smáskífa
————(encore)
Popplagið

[Scott Dolan]

John, what would be a good starting place for them?

I'm interested..............

[Salvador Dali Lama]

beethoven - symphonies 5,7,8,9 - karajan (ironic huh? well, its a great refrence cycle)
glenn gould - beethoven sonatas tempest and hammerklavier, as well as prokofiev's 7th sonata, the berg sonata, and his wagner arrangements.
slayer - south of heaven
slayer - reign in blood
metallica - for whom the bell tolls
early man - fuck you if you're talking to me

with the exception of the gould, its been a day of serious fucking metal, the beethoven especially.

surfer, you've got me very interested in furtwanglers bruckner 9th. i'll scoop that this weekend.

[Scott Dolan]

slayer - south of heaven
slayer - reign in blood
metallica - for whom the bell tolls

Oh my!

You're treading into my old stomping grounds!

Haunting The Chapels, baby!!!

[john williams]

John, what would be a good starting place for them?

I'm interested..............

Hi Scott,
I guess thier latest album takk is a good starter. However, most fans seem to like their breakthrough record ágætis byrjun the most. I wouldn't start with () as it is a rather darkish/starkish difficult record though very good too. You can sample some from the songs of those albums here.
http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/media/index.php
However, there is nothing from Takk available for free download there. Though the video for Glosoli is availble from the link below. Glosoli was a highlight at the concert and I have a particular liking for that track. Good video too and I'm not a fan of music videos generally.
http://sigur-ros.co.uk/media/dldvideo.php
The concert I've linked to above is really quite good for an unmixed jobby if you want a sizable overview of their work and its all free too. It comes to over 500mb but I'm sure you aren't still on dial up as I am. I had to download it from work...oops did I say that out loud?

I think Radiohead gave SR a start by including them as a support for one of their tours. Radiohead fans often seem to like SR.

Happy listening!


takk



()


ágætis byrjun


von

I wouldn't start with von either but Hearsay said he liked a track from this album the best so who knows? This one is much more experimental, less coherent but has some great parts though it really sounds like the band are just feeling their way around.

[Gary Sisco]

Carl Tjader -- Cuban Fantasy
Jeanne Lee & Mal Waldron -- After Hours
Electric Wizard -- Dopethrone

[HenryMc]

Petra Haden - The Who Sell Out
Oumou Sangare - Oumou
Mecca Normal - The Observer

[TJ Wilkinson]

last night - Grateful Dead - Fillmore West 1969 - disc 4 (2/28/69)

this morning - Rowe/Dorner/Hautzinger - A View From The Window

next up:

Bruckner - Furtwangler - 9th Symphony - 10/7/44

[Root Doctor]

"Good Though!" captures Utah Phillips at his real deal best, corny jokes and all. The bass player on this date is Danny Coane, who now leads VT's outstanding Starline Rhythm Boys (http://www.starlinerhythmboys.com/).

[Doc Martin]

In the quiet silent seconds I turned off the light switch
And I came down to meet you in the half light the moon left
While a cluster of night jars sang some songs out of tune
A mantle of bright light shone down from a room

Come down in time I still hear her say
So clear in my ear like it was today
Come down in time was the message she gave
Come down in time and I'll meet you half way

Well I don't know if I should have heard her as yet
But a true love like hers is a hard love to get
And I've walked most all the way and I ain't heard her call
And I'm getting to thinking if she's coming at all

Come down in time I still hear her say
So clear in my ear like it was today
Come down in time was the message she gave
Come down in time and I'll meet you half way

There are women and women and some hold you tight
While some leave you counting the stars in the night




A sitting on a sofa playing games of chance
With your folded arms and history books you glance
Into the eyes of Madame George
And you think you found the bag
You're getting weaker and your knees begin to sag
In the corner playing dominoes in drag
The one and only Madame George
And then from outside the frosty window raps
She jumps up and says Lord have mercy I think it's the cops
And immediately drops everything she gots
Down into the street below
And you know you gotta go
On that train from Dublin up to Sandy Row
Throwing pennies at the bridges down below
And the rain, hail, sleet, and snow
Say goodbye to Madame George
Dry your eye for Madame George
Wonder why for Madame George

[Scott Dolan]

Great album!! He had one hell of a band around him back in those days.


And thanks, JBW!!

[Uli]

[Uli]

[hatta]

Keith Rowe/Toshimaru Nakamura between (erstwhile records)

[TJ Wilkinson]

Rowe/Nakamura - between

4g - cloud

Rowe/Sachiko M/Nakamura/Yoshide - ErstLive 005 disc 1

The last 3 days have been challenging and rewarding , think that all three are right up there with Duos For Doris as among the best eai records I've heard - my bias towards Rowe/Tilbury(and AMM), inter alia, keeps Doris at the top of the list, at least for now - time may reveal otherwise

[john williams]

Went and saw Adrian Belew in a small club in Canberra the other night. Great show with Adrian doing the power trio thing and very well too. He played quite a few King Crimson songs mostly from Discipline which is may favorite KC studio album post Red. Adrian came out and chatted with us afterwards - he's a very friendly guy.


Also been listening to this...

...and it is very good too.

[TJ Wilkinson]

JBW, what is Fripp up to these days?

[john williams]

JBW, what is Fripp up to these days?

Hi TJ,

King Crimson are still touring and releasing albums. However, they are inbetween activities at the moment. Fripp and Eno recently released another album, "The Equatorial Stars" which I haven't heard so can't really comment except I know it received mixed reviews, though AMG gave it a good review. Fripp also contributed to one track on Belew's new release "Side Three".


I guess Fripp's most significant solo work would be in the "Soundscapes" series and his last one from '05 is a live outing "Love Cannot Bear"-

I haven't heard this one but only have "The Gates of Paradise" which is excellent and quite dissonant in places.