What are you listening to right now? (#10 - For everything, everything, everything)

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  • It varries - those last two were at least five-spots.
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    three days of rainy, gloomy weather more or less demands this album. (or any goldmund for that matter).
  • It's been a busy work day today - lots of teaching, so not much music played. On the journey there and back I played

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    Now playing

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    Guvera find, from back in the good old days
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    From the Internet Archive.
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    Checking out a Netlabel called:
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    "Inner Cinema is an Austrian based non-profit netlabel dedicated to
    ambient, drone, experimental sounds, contemporary classic, field – recordings
    and last but not least free jazz."
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    - "Ingmard Moeller’s dream was those of building a new world and those shed did that special night in Stammheim, lying between the corpses of her dead RAF comrades. But « The dream » is about the whole process of dream, ideal and death, even in the music sphere. Where romantic highness and ideal for living turn to some king of stairway to death.
    The music we wrote and designed is not only an hommage to the youth angel she was but an attempt to catch the 4 cycles from birth to death."


    - No more, no less, - Excellent stuff, though . . .

    - Followed by:
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    Anton Usher Shield & Ezeckiel Wehwalt - M
    - "Usher Anton Shield and Ezeckiel Wehwalt are back to Inner Cinema with another brilliant album labelled "M" which stands for Maiden and Mort. the ambiguity of M let us not only think about Franz Schuberts string quartet Maiden and the Death, which was the inspiration for this album, also the gloomy atmosphere of one of german’s first talking films comes in mind. The two sound artists were dreaming and losing theirselves in magic circles and esoteric thoughts and numbers. The first notes of the opener “femme en levitation” express with strings embedded in an ambient sound bed, orchestral excerpts, percussive elements and far away whisper poignantly the maiden’s tender fragility and rising panic. The combination of orchestral instruments and the abstraction of electronic medium builds up a fantastic labyrinth of sound and illusion, which describes “dissolution des manes” perfectly. Starting up with hauntingly string samples changing to gloomy ambient sounds threatening voices mourning and breathing broken by driving beats repetitive melody lines which end up in a finale grande."
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    Good one I got on eMu a while ago, don't think I've mentioned yet. Trio, 1969
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    I learned from an unusually helpful border officer yesterday at the US border that they are trying to arrest someone who shares my name AND my birthdate. That explains all the time I've spent sitting in little rooms while they double check my identity when I've re-entered the US the last couple of years. Hope they keep getting the answer right.
  • I can't believe there was more than one set of parents in the world who named their child "Germanprof" on the same day. Bizarre!
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  • @kargatron, lol, right, let alone some guy thinking he could commit crimes and hide with such an identifiable name.
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    Laurie Anderson:
    "The art of audio collage has been reinvented here... I'm reminded of Brian Eno's music for imaginary films, although Charles takes this idea much farther."
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    The CD presents the premiere recording of one of Amirkhanian’s most well-known and warmly received works, Walking Tune – A Room-Music for Percy Grainger. Amirkhanian writes:

    - "Walking Tune (1986-7) is an homage to one of my favorite figures in 20th century music history, the Australian-American composer and pianist Percy Grainger (1882-1961)... A great worshipper of the outdoors, Grainger conceived of his piano solo 'Walking Tune' during a tramp through the Scottish highlands in 1900. It is a simple and charming paean to those all-too-few joyous escapes from life's everyday cares. Grainger spent the final years of his life in a frustrated attempt to create a music synthesizer which would free him from the restrictions of conventional musical instruments, performers, and formal compositional structures. In this work, originally conceived for radio, I used the Synclavier digital synthesizer, a tool Grainger eagerly would have embraced, to combine sounds recorded out of doors in Hurricane, UT (tramping), and Pagosa Springs, CO (a swarm of hummingbirds), with sounds sampled from a variety of sources in Australia. The music is, for the most part, unabashedly pretty, as is much of Grainger's own output."

    Anderson offers these thoughts:
    - "Mixing the real and the imaginary is a skill that very few composers have. Charles jumps back and forth between these worlds with delightful ease, his curiosity and humor always evident. But in Walking Tune – and many of the other pieces he's done over his long career – this skill is mixed with a sensibility that is elegiac."
    - Starkland 1998.
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    Terry Riley's In C, n six pianos. Along with Murakami's Dance Dance Dance and a bottle of zin, it is a good evening.
  • @Doofy - I got that Howlin' Wolf album in a cutout bin at Alexander's department store - I didn't like it either, but do you know the story from that album? Pete Cosey was brought in to play guitar and the Wolf told him, "Why don't you take that wah-wah pedal and that other shit and go throw it in the lake on the way to the barber shop!" Talk about compact diss.
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    BigD, yep, it's a funny one - bit of a half-baked product of its time. But sounds pretty good on the occasional spin!

    Meanwhile,
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    A friend of mine spent some time in SA in the 80s - this came back with him. Ears started to open up....
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    I love Cash, but this seems like some fairly weak material, with lots of stage chatter. Glad I picked it up at the Library. It does though have a few tracks from a 1970 concert at the White House with a long rambling introduction from Richard Nixon.

    Now

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    Going to hear these guys on Friday.
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    Asva, Presences Of Absences. Thanks, Guvera. (also, it is only $3.96 on Amazon)
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    @GP - I thought about you and your surname yesterday when I heard an item on Radio 4. As you are aware it is the most common surname in the UK. The gist of the research is that surname and social mobility (in the UK) appear to be related. If you have a less common surname you are more likely to be socially mobile than if you have a more common surname. The explanation is that at interview your surname does make a difference - people with less common surnames are more likely to be noticed. Actually it does not surprise me statistically that you have a name/birthday double, whereas I'd be amazed if my brother in law had a double, as there are only around 200 people in the UK with his surname - probably an anglicisation of a German surname in the mid 1800s.

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  • @greg, yes, names are interesting. There is some research linking names to occupation - for instance if your name is Lawrence you are slightly statistically more likely to become a lawyer. Names also very clearly affect teachers' grading of work in school (in fact names are an obvious effect; I saw a report of another study that suggested that what grade a teacher gave to a piece of work is affected by whether or not the teacher is holding a warm drink), which will further feed into social mobility. We had an ironic experience with names: when my son was born we decided that with a very common surname he needed an unusual first name. The one we picked was, while not at all outlandish, very rare among his peers. Then we moved to MIchigan and he attended a high school with a high proportion of folk of Dutch cultural origins. There were loads of kids with his first name - but he was the only one with his surname in his year (amid dozens of De Vrieses).
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