It is a good, in fact very good collection, but just not quite the interest and punch of vol 1. Would have preferred a volume digging deeper into the US stuff. I'm interested in hearing Albert Mangelsdorff, but not as much as I would be in hearing more from the Ohio Penitentiary Jazz Band!
Moved to buy this when I saw the lineup included Chris Potter and Antonio Sanchez. Metheny is always Metheny, and Metheny is good, therefore Metheny is always good. I don't think I've ever heard Potter so restrained.
AMZ has the same price for disc and mp3. I actually bought this on iTunes (gift card), and several tracks are messed up (cut off early). Will be interesting to see how they do on CS response.
This is what I applied the credit from Amazon Local towards - I have been pining over this JSP box set for years. It is out of print now, and back when they had it at eMu years ago it was before album pricing, then it went away - should have hit it then, would have been cheaper than today's prices.
It is some fine stuff.
David Lang on The Passing Measures: - "I think one of the reasons our commercial culture likes all music to be fast and snappy is because in fast music it is much harder to recognize the passing of time. You listen to the tunes, to the catchy phrases, but you are not allowed to feel just how time slips away. Fast music is stirring, optimistic - that is why we are bombarded all day by active, energetic music that tries to make us buy things or do things or think things. Slow music, on the other hand, is good for contemplation but is terrible for business, so you don't get much of it in your daily life. More and more I have become convinced that one of the noblest things you can do in a piece of "serious" music is to allow for an experience that can't happen in your everyday life. The Passing Measures is that kind of experience.
My piece is about the struggle to create beauty. A single very consonant chord falls slowly over the course of forty minutes. That is the piece. Every aspect of the piece is on display, however - magnified, examined, amplified, prolonged. The soloist's notes are impossibly long, requiring frequent drop-outs for breath and for rest. The players are all instructed to play as quietly as possible, and then are amplified at high volume, in order to make their restraint an issue of the piece. Four percussionists scrape pieces of junk metal from start to finish, as if to accompany the consonance of the chords with sounds of dirt and decay."
- Cantaloupe Music
ETA: This writing fits nicely into the discussion about drone music from some time ago . . . I think.
I'm working my way through all 10 Obscure Records releases in order. Thanks Doofy! I picked up even the ones I already had (I think I had seven of them), because it's nice to have them all from a unified source.
1.SAVAGE ROSE - Ride My Mountain (5.42)
2.YOUNG FLOWERS - And Who But I Should Be (5.40)
3.BURNIN RED IVANHOE - Ivanhoe I Brodbyerne (3.56)
4.ALRUNE ROD - Du Taler Og Sir (7.45)
5.POVL DISSING - Tingel-Tangelmanden (10.25)
6.YOUNG FLOWERS - The Moment Life Appeared (2.16)
7.SAVAGE ROSE - A Trial in our Native Town (7.10)
8.BURNIN' RED IVANHOE Marsfesten (5.35)
9.ACHE - The Invasion (6.01)
10.ALRUNE ROD - Hej Du (15.05)
11.STEPPEULVENE - Itsi-Bitsi (4.54)
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It is a good, in fact very good collection, but just not quite the interest and punch of vol 1. Would have preferred a volume digging deeper into the US stuff. I'm interested in hearing Albert Mangelsdorff, but not as much as I would be in hearing more from the Ohio Penitentiary Jazz Band!
A discussion on another thread has prompted me to play this again!
Moved to buy this when I saw the lineup included Chris Potter and Antonio Sanchez. Metheny is always Metheny, and Metheny is good, therefore Metheny is always good. I don't think I've ever heard Potter so restrained.
AMZ has the same price for disc and mp3. I actually bought this on iTunes (gift card), and several tracks are messed up (cut off early). Will be interesting to see how they do on CS response.
Kira Kira Feathermagnetik
Just released through Morr Records via Drip.fm
Excellent electronic with a fair amount of classical instruments: string, woodwinds, and so on.
Something I would have probably picked up elsewhere if I had known anything about Kira Kira.
Intense.
Disc 2
Earlier: Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads
Gorgeous.
Really good.
Greg Haines - Digressions
Best so far 2012 cannot stop playing it
This is what I applied the credit from Amazon Local towards - I have been pining over this JSP box set for years. It is out of print now, and back when they had it at eMu years ago it was before album pricing, then it went away - should have hit it then, would have been cheaper than today's prices.
It is some fine stuff.
His most recent album available on Spotify.
Cool sounds ... not so cool price.
David Lang on The Passing Measures:
- "I think one of the reasons our commercial culture likes all music to be fast and snappy is because in fast music it is much harder to recognize the passing of time. You listen to the tunes, to the catchy phrases, but you are not allowed to feel just how time slips away. Fast music is stirring, optimistic - that is why we are bombarded all day by active, energetic music that tries to make us buy things or do things or think things. Slow music, on the other hand, is good for contemplation but is terrible for business, so you don't get much of it in your daily life. More and more I have become convinced that one of the noblest things you can do in a piece of "serious" music is to allow for an experience that can't happen in your everyday life. The Passing Measures is that kind of experience.
My piece is about the struggle to create beauty. A single very consonant chord falls slowly over the course of forty minutes. That is the piece. Every aspect of the piece is on display, however - magnified, examined, amplified, prolonged. The soloist's notes are impossibly long, requiring frequent drop-outs for breath and for rest. The players are all instructed to play as quietly as possible, and then are amplified at high volume, in order to make their restraint an issue of the piece. Four percussionists scrape pieces of junk metal from start to finish, as if to accompany the consonance of the chords with sounds of dirt and decay."
- Cantaloupe Music
ETA: This writing fits nicely into the discussion about drone music from some time ago . . . I think.
- Excellently compiled by Julian Cope.
1.SAVAGE ROSE - Ride My Mountain (5.42)
2.YOUNG FLOWERS - And Who But I Should Be (5.40)
3.BURNIN RED IVANHOE - Ivanhoe I Brodbyerne (3.56)
4.ALRUNE ROD - Du Taler Og Sir (7.45)
5.POVL DISSING - Tingel-Tangelmanden (10.25)
6.YOUNG FLOWERS - The Moment Life Appeared (2.16)
7.SAVAGE ROSE - A Trial in our Native Town (7.10)
8.BURNIN' RED IVANHOE Marsfesten (5.35)
9.ACHE - The Invasion (6.01)
10.ALRUNE ROD - Hej Du (15.05)
11.STEPPEULVENE - Itsi-Bitsi (4.54)
- WOW !
Hits all the indie music talking points: Brass instruments, slightly quirky singer, at least one track involves whistling, and some great lyrics.
Agree with both parts of your comment, Lowlife