. . . I don't have much time for: Opera (I see the attraction but it doesn't interest me enough, to become familiar enough, to get hooked . . .
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- Opera can be many different "things"
This is free from Ubuweb and featuring Dali himself:
Être Dieu: opéra-poème, audiovisuel et cathare en six parties (French
for "Being God: a Cathar Audiovisual Opera-Poem in Six Parts") is a
self-proclaimed "opera-poem" written by Spanish surrealist painter
Salvador Dalí, based on a libretto by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán with
music by French avant-garde musician Igor Wakhévitch. It was originally
published in 1985.
The six-part work features Dali as God, Brigitte Bardot as an artichoke
and Catherine the Great and Marilyn Monroe do a striptease. It has been
published in an extremely rare 3 LP box-set by a Spanish label. It was
re-released in a regular 3CD box published by German-label Eurostar who
subsequently went out of business, and there are few-to-no known
performances of the work. Dalí painted "Self-Portrait" (1972) to mark
the composition of the opera, which was later auctioned by the United
States Customs Service after being seized after Colombian drug lords
tried to use the painting to launder money.
I can take Opera only in small doses also, but as BN says, it can mean a lot of different things; I really liked this "opera" from last year, which sounds nothing like what "opera" sounds like in my head and I would think would be accessible to anyone who likes pop and folk.
‘Folie à Deux’ is a sonic voyage into a shared psychosis where a delusion is transmitted from one person to another and is a lyrical and intense investigation into love and loneliness within a relationship. The piece is a collaboration with Icelandic writer and long-time Björk collaborator Sjón and was co-conceived as both concept album and an opera. Hall’s minimal and intricately crafted songs in this modern folk tale are woven together for two singers, Sofia Jernberg (Swedish vocalist) and Allan Clayton (British tenor), and a specially created electro-magnetic harp. This newly created instrument uses vibrating magnets to evoke an underlying electronic presence representing the pylon – the third character that presides over this story. The result is a hauntingly beautiful soundscape which takes its influences from many musical idioms ranging classical to jazz, pop and folk.
Nice recommendation @Brighternow! Thanks very much. I do enjoy Dali's paintings; his films, less so. If I were to write an opera I think I would want to include a striptease by Marilyn Monroe also! Although I suspect that the rehearsals might take a while....
That Ubuweb site looks very interesting. There is a lot of Avant Garde I like but also so much that is way, way over my head. Thanks again.
Re Opera. It is a genre I'd be most unlikely to buy, but we did go to see an opera in the Coliseum in Verona a few years back that I enjoyed, but that was mainly due to the theatrical aspects rather than the actual music
Nice recommendation @Brighternow! Thanks very much. I do enjoy Dali's paintings; his films, less so. If I were to write an opera I think I would want to include a striptease by Marilyn Monroe also! Although I suspect that the rehearsals might take a while....
That Ubuweb site looks very interesting. There is a lot of Avant Garde I like but also so much that is way, way over my head. Thanks again.
You are very welcome. Ubuweb is a fantastic resource. Even after having it under my radar for several years, I still find stuff that I didn't know was there. - And it has it's very own thread: Ubuweb Goodies
Speaking about opera . . . Posted by yours truely about 3 years ago:
Totally brilliant and free for an email on Bandcamp:
"The Pomegranate Cycle is the debut album from Textile Audio a solo project by composer, mezzo soprano and sound engineer Eve Klein. It is a space for wild, romantic experiments in ambient electronica and post-classical forms. The Pomegranate Cycle is woven from song, sound textures and fragmented orchestration a fragile, ebbing work, part sonic and part myth. The Pomegranate Cycle uses poetry and abstract language to convey a felt sense of narrative. It traces opera and the ghosts of women whose lives have been touched by violence. Elements of the Persephone story are strewn through symphonic timbres and ruptured with grain and glitch. A girl collecting flowers is stolen, transfigured, a mother seeks her lost child, and wreaks vengeance. This is a new kind of opera. It deals with the genres inability to reconcile its institutions and outmoded vision of romance with contemporary audiences. It rejects the gendered violence of opera, perpetuated in the tropes of dying sopranos. The Pomegranate Cycle embodies a new kind operatic heroine, who lives, reflects and heals. She is the spark for a womens centered opera, a highly configurable and living tradition where the singer is the composer and producer simultaneously. . . ."
- "Eve Klein has been a renegade romantic since childhood. Eves solo project, Textile Audio, is the fruition of a lifetime of daydreams, opera and wanderings in the Australian wilderness. Textile Audio weaves together orchestral scores, field recordings, opera and pop vocals to take the listener on a rich melodic and emotional journey. Eve has been working as a professional operatic mezzo soprano, electronic musician and absent-minded academic since 2002. In 2012 Eve toured with Opera Australias Oz Opera performing nearly 300 shows as Hansel, Mother, Sand Fairy and Witch in Humperdinks opera Hansel and Gretel. Textile Audio compositions have been featured on radio around Australia, included on movie soundtracks, and released through Feral Media, Mess+Noise, Cyclic Defrost, New Weird Australia and Wood & Wire."
$9.95 via BS' website, includes Rebel Rebel in memory of David Bowie. It includes all of the River album plus 15 other songs, so good value for a BS addict like me (But I wasn't tempted by a special offer $205 for the whole tour!!)
Thought of this when thinking of the Eagles too; because I read somewhere (maybe on emu when they were peddling that kind of stuff) that the "New Kid" was a reference to Springsteen, and also because the Mannfred Mann version of "Blinded By The Light" is a similar time period great classic rock song to Hotel California...
Recommended by @jonahpwll but I am afraid I agree with BN that this is for me a bit yawn-inducing. It's pretty enough in places, but it's hard to find any tension or energy.
An eMu messboard user pointed out a small group of SteepleChase releases. Prob just a pipe dream, but that would be a game changer if this label would show up over there.
E+E is now Elysia Crampton (at this time she was Elijah Paul Crampton); really interesting stuff, really nice to listen too; I think it's all mashups from r&b recordings, but it's not a lot of stuff I recognize so I'm not really sure, but anyway it's not like a normal mashup or dj mix; everything's much more crowded and lush. Really different from anything else out there, but you can see some connections to things like vaporwave and newer electronic music like Arca or Amnesia Scanner. I don't think this particular one is available anywhere anymore, but there's some stuff streaming at this Bandamp Page: http://eande.bandcamp.com .
Elysia Crampton's American Drift is on emu and got some really good ratings last year.
An eMu messboard user pointed out a small group of SteepleChase releases. Prob just a pipe dream, but that would be a game changer if this label would show up over there.
Prolly Yerp only; that is one of just 4 recordings available I can see.
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- Opera can be many different "things"
This is free from Ubuweb and featuring Dali himself:
Thanks Google Play and bremble!
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RIP Glenn Frey. Love them or hate them, I don't really see how anybody can dislike songs like "Hotel California" or "Life in the Fast Lane"
But then I can't help but listen to Frank Ocean's nostalgia/ultra next.
ETA: I'm sensing a pattern here....
Re Opera. It is a genre I'd be most unlikely to buy, but we did go to see an opera in the Coliseum in Verona a few years back that I enjoyed, but that was mainly due to the theatrical aspects rather than the actual music
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Ubuweb is a fantastic resource. Even after having it under my radar for several years, I still find stuff that I didn't know was there.
- And it has it's very own thread:
Ubuweb Goodies
Speaking about opera . . .
Posted by yours truely about 3 years ago:
Totally brilliant and free for an email on Bandcamp:
Wood & Wire - FMA
http://www.textileaudio.com
$9.95 via BS' website, includes Rebel Rebel in memory of David Bowie. It includes all of the River album plus 15 other songs, so good value for a BS addict like me (But I wasn't tempted by a special offer $205 for the whole tour!!)
Thought of this when thinking of the Eagles too; because I read somewhere (maybe on emu when they were peddling that kind of stuff) that the "New Kid" was a reference to Springsteen, and also because the Mannfred Mann version of "Blinded By The Light" is a similar time period great classic rock song to Hotel California...
Recommended by @jonahpwll but I am afraid I agree with BN that this is for me a bit yawn-inducing. It's pretty enough in places, but it's hard to find any tension or energy.
An eMu messboard user pointed out a small group of SteepleChase releases. Prob just a pipe dream, but that would be a game changer if this label would show up over there.
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Thanks again Greg,brilliant
RIP Else Marie Pade.
Enjoyable, if a little gloomy for a grey winter morning slaving over editing work in the basement.
E+E is now Elysia Crampton (at this time she was Elijah Paul Crampton); really interesting stuff, really nice to listen too; I think it's all mashups from r&b recordings, but it's not a lot of stuff I recognize so I'm not really sure, but anyway it's not like a normal mashup or dj mix; everything's much more crowded and lush. Really different from anything else out there, but you can see some connections to things like vaporwave and newer electronic music like Arca or Amnesia Scanner. I don't think this particular one is available anywhere anymore, but there's some stuff streaming at this Bandamp Page: http://eande.bandcamp.com .
Elysia Crampton's American Drift is on emu and got some really good ratings last year.
E+E made me think of MV & EE. Gosh it took me way too long to understand what they meant by "green" blues.