- "From a recording made on June 13, 1981 in San Francisco, as part of the New Music America Festival, Laurie Anderson performs selections from her epic work United States. Laurie Anderson was born in 1947 in Chicago and received her MFA in sculpture from Columbia University. As a performance and recording artist, she has worked with film-sound-talking pieces for many years, performing at the La Jolla Museum, the Berlin Festival, and various other places in the U. S. and Europe. In this concert she performs a number of pieces including versions of songs that were later included on her famous rock album Big Science. The atmosphere was electric, the appreciative audience was eclectic, and the resulting concert was nothing short of extremely effective entertainment."
Just been listening to several Monkees tracks in memory of Davy Jones. I've just downloaded this on elwood's recommendation
Update - now two thirds of the way through. Some tracks I really like, but others seem a bit too repetitive to me, too much disco beat in the background for my liking. But great for free!
Playing to commemorate St David's Day today (Wales' Patron Saint). My mother's grandfather moved from Wales in the 1880s and I went to University in Wales, so some allegiance
@BT, actually, I think the Honigpumpe is a reference to the installation work of Joseph Beuys. See e.g. here: "Beuys the enlightener directs his complex works directly towards an audience. Radical to the point of self-abandonment, with his "broadened art term" and his concept of a "social sculpture", he calls for co-creation of society and politics. One example is his Honigpumpe am Arbeitsplatz (Honey Pump in the Workplace), which is being shown exclusively in Venice."
A track from this is the DOTD at emusic. Listening to the album on spotify based solely on the appeal of the cover art. Emu says Alt/Punk (my vote for least useful genre designation); it's actually folk, I'd say; acoustic guitar with some guest vocalists. Quite nice.
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Update - now two thirds of the way through. Some tracks I really like, but others seem a bit too repetitive to me, too much disco beat in the background for my liking. But great for free!
Disc 2
Two tracks in to my first listen, and I'm already on both sides of the fence regarding Ms. "Del Rey". Track one was excellent. Track two is horrid.
Also, when I went to Amazon to get the above image I saw that Amazon is again matching prices with Google Music without advertising it.
Craig
Playing to commemorate St David's Day today (Wales' Patron Saint). My mother's grandfather moved from Wales in the 1880s and I went to University in Wales, so some allegiance
I actually sent the same message to my daughter, who was in a production of Henry V over the summer.
Then:
Now: Jordi Savall et al: The Forgotten Kingdom, disc 3
@GP: do I want to know what a honey pump is?
Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Ictus Ensemble - Sufi Word: KDGhZ2SA
Then, for obvious reasons,
Ok, not really, but I couldn't resist. I should dig this out of storage though.
What are the obvious reasons?
Now moved on to
Oh.
A track from this is the DOTD at emusic. Listening to the album on spotify based solely on the appeal of the cover art. Emu says Alt/Punk (my vote for least useful genre designation); it's actually folk, I'd say; acoustic guitar with some guest vocalists. Quite nice.
The Metheny bits. I don't listen to Metheny a lot, I guess because it's so familiar. But so pretty.
Greg's Neil Young post reminds me to mention this, from Aquarium Drunkard: The Isley Brothers :: Ohio, 1971