The radio! My wife had an iPod nano that they replaced because of battery problems, and she gave me the new one; it has a radio, and I just realized there's a local Grateful Dead show I'm always meaning to check, but never having a radio for. How can radio still be out there, and still free?
- After enjoying the perfect timing, intonation and phrasing by Whitney Huston in her version of "I Will Always Love You" for about 5 times. . .
- I'm on to another masterpiece in timing and intonation:
- "El Tren Fantasma, (The Ghost Train), is Chris Watson's 4th solo album for Touch, and his first since Weather Report in 2003, which was named as one of the albums you should hear before you die in The Guardian. A Radio programme was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 30 Oct, 2010, produced by Sarah Blunt, and described as "a thrilling acoustic journey across the heart of Mexico from Pacific to Atlantic coast using archive recordings to recreate a rail passenger service which no longer exists. Its now more than a decade since FNM operated its last continuous passenger service across country. Chris Watson spent a month on board the train with some of the last passengers to travel this route. As sound recordist he was part of the film crew working on a programme in the BBC TV series Great Railways Journeys. Now, in this album, the journey of the ghost train is recreated, evoking memories of a recent past, capturing the atmosphere, rhythms and sounds of human life, wildlife and the journey itself along the tracks of one of Mexicos greatest engineering projects."
- Touch Shop.
- More about Chris Watson @ the New & Notable.
- People who likes Brian Eno & David Byrne's "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts" might enjoy this . . .
Listening to some of the concertos, and very nice. Besides the ridiculously low price what I have of this series has been a welcome addition, well except the cover art maybe.
Amclark. . . Wankery ? ? - You must be kidding. Allman Brothers from 1970 can only be brilliant; I don't know that one though but the Fillmore East live album is wonderful.
- But the big question is: Is it before or after Duane Allman ?
amclark2, 'tis a puzzlement, but despite a myriad of notes and long jams I would never consider for a moment putting The Allmans in the wankery category. You could consider the Dead likewise - way too many notes, way too long jams (yes, the Dead are not on my favorites list) but they're a jam band, a title I would not like to apply to the Allman Brothers either. They remain to me what they've always been - a hard rocking blues/rock band, a beautiful bar band gone gold. They just don't seem to have that flavor of flash/excess that crosses over into wankery. Maybe it's a temporal thing - wankery being to me more of a 70's/80's and beyond thing.
Also agree that anybody who likes the Allmans should get that Atlanta album.
I guess my sense of musical wankery is about as ill defined as my sense of the "guilty pleasure" - a term I have a hard time applying to anything I listen to. If I like it why do I feel guilty? If I don't like it, why listen to it? Although I guess I get the "almost" guilty pleasure as you used it - something that applies well to Metallica for me. It's good music, but it does have some bad associations.
Hour-long 1950s TV show of Duke Ellington and his orchestra performing. Free stream/download at the archive. Sound could be clearer, but nice to see them playing.
NP: One of the albums that was released too late to make it to my best of 2011 list:
Christina Dahl, mezzo-soprano
Niels Ole Bo Johansen, trombone
Wayne Siegel, electronics
Anne-Mette Skovbjerg, guitar
Wayne Siegel (b. 1953) - "Is a Californian composer who settled in Denmark and is a pioneer of the interaction between computers and acoustic instruments. The title work of this CD is constructed solely from the voice of a singer which has been transformed into percussive elements, pitches and melodies. Other intriguing effects on this album include electronic canons, layering and delayed echoes all putting the acoustic solo instruments into new and exciting perspectives."
- Dacapo Records - http://www.waynesiegel.dk/
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NP: GBV - Do the Collapse
Then: Harlem River Drive
Loving this. Lazy, lazy bass, gospel-tinged organ, velvety tenor sax, compositions that have all the time in the world. Thanks, BT.
The Armstrong Collection, thanks to the mispriced box set thread. Well worth $5.84.
Gareth Dickson - Quite a Way Away. New on 12k.
- I'm on to another masterpiece in timing and intonation:
- "El Tren Fantasma, (The Ghost Train), is Chris Watson's 4th solo album for Touch, and his first since Weather Report in 2003, which was named as one of the albums you should hear before you die in The Guardian. A Radio programme was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 30 Oct, 2010, produced by Sarah Blunt, and described as "a thrilling acoustic journey across the heart of Mexico from Pacific to Atlantic coast using archive recordings to recreate a rail passenger service which no longer exists. Its now more than a decade since FNM operated its last continuous passenger service across country. Chris Watson spent a month on board the train with some of the last passengers to travel this route. As sound recordist he was part of the film crew working on a programme in the BBC TV series Great Railways Journeys. Now, in this album, the journey of the ghost train is recreated, evoking memories of a recent past, capturing the atmosphere, rhythms and sounds of human life, wildlife and the journey itself along the tracks of one of Mexicos greatest engineering projects."
- Touch Shop.
- More about Chris Watson @ the New & Notable.
- People who likes Brian Eno & David Byrne's "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts" might enjoy this . . .
- VA - Tompkins Square
Pop things I like but would not have but for Amie Street:
Does this count as wankery? Anyway, I'm loving it, and feel no guilt.
- But the big question is: Is it before or after Duane Allman ?
ETA: WOW ! ! !
Also agree that anybody who likes the Allmans should get that Atlanta album.
Back to this...
I guess my sense of musical wankery is about as ill defined as my sense of the "guilty pleasure" - a term I have a hard time applying to anything I listen to. If I like it why do I feel guilty? If I don't like it, why listen to it? Although I guess I get the "almost" guilty pleasure as you used it - something that applies well to Metallica for me. It's good music, but it does have some bad associations.
Good album, haven't listened in a while.
Thanks kez/MiG!
Free collection of Louis Armstrong tracks at the Archive. Track 2, Back O' Town Blues, is great fun. The rest's a very mixed bag.
Hour-long 1950s TV show of Duke Ellington and his orchestra performing. Free stream/download at the archive. Sound could be clearer, but nice to see them playing.
Further:
and:
- DJ. Food/plunderphonic'ish . . .
- Thanks Karg . . .
Nice, thanks BN.
NP: One of the albums that was released too late to make it to my best of 2011 list:
Christina Dahl, mezzo-soprano
Niels Ole Bo Johansen, trombone
Wayne Siegel, electronics
Anne-Mette Skovbjerg, guitar
Wayne Siegel (b. 1953)
- "Is a Californian composer who settled in Denmark and is a pioneer of the interaction between computers and acoustic instruments. The title work of this CD is constructed solely from the voice of a singer which has been transformed into percussive elements, pitches and melodies. Other intriguing effects on this album include electronic canons, layering and delayed echoes all putting the acoustic solo instruments into new and exciting perspectives."
- Dacapo Records - http://www.waynesiegel.dk/