I Dare You!

frogkopf

To listen to the first track of this album all the way through, and not get a lump in your throat the size of a watermelon.

One to listen to without outside distractions.

Story behind it

Katrina

I tried, but Guvera won't stream on this PC....I'll try tomorrow on the Mac. Cool back story.

frogkopf

One thing I noticed about the embedded player on Guvera is that it doesn't always work the way it should. I've found that instead of using the play all button, a lot of time you need to play the individual track instead.


Give the track a few minutes - it builds over time, and then POW! it sucker punches you in the gut.....

thomnottom

Yeah, Guvera can be real flakey that way. I still haven't been able to listen to this one, and I'm real curious.

Katrina

The Play All is the only thing that works on this PC. But all it plays is the first song inthe playlist.

erm, I forgot to try it on the Mac earlier.

Brighternow

Guvera links come out emty in Europe and I'm curious about the version you're refering to . . .

The original 1975 version:


- Or the version featuring Tom Waits from 2003:

Plong42

I thought I had that album, but it turns out I bought "Have Heard It Said That a Spirit Enters" from eMu some time ago. I know I have heard it, and it is worth listening to. It is an "experience."

Katrina

After I put it in its own playlist I could play it on the Mac.
Kinda cool. I couldn't listen the whole way through, though. Maybe in a different mood, I could. It was just too repetitive/

frogkopf

It's the second one with Tom Waits on one of the tracks.

It's definitely one that you don't listen to casually - you certainly have to be in the right environment and not be distracted by other things. It repeats and repeats, but it just creeps up on you....

Brighternow

- Thanks Froggie . . .

There's a live version from 2005 posted on the big O:


Live at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium, Sept 17, 2005. Conductor Gavin Bryars.
- A truely wonderful version.

I do by far prefer it without Tom Waits

@Katrina: It's in the repetition the magic lies, but it does take some degree of peace of mind.

Brighternow

This one showed up at eMu a couple of days ago:


Gavin Bryars - New York - (GB Records 24. september 2010)

- Absolutely amazing, especially the title track. A must have for people who like Bang on a Can, David lang Steve Reich and maybe even Terry Riley.

Note by Gavin Bryars
For me the family of keyboard percussion is as important as, say, the string family and a great percussion ensemble, like the group from Lyon recorded here, are as musically subtle and expressive as a well-seasoned string quartet. From the mid 1970's onwards I have maintained a strong commitment to this instrumental formation and my first opera Medea (1984) included a quintet of tuned percussion in the orchestra, replacing the more conventional violins. The five percussionists in Medea became Percussions Claviers de Lyon and I've maintained a close relation with the group. This recording includes One Lat Bar Then Joe Can Sing, written for the great Canadian group Nexus - a work that has entered the percussion repertoire worldwide. The other pieces were commissioned for Percussions Claviers de Lyon and exploit the wide range of colours and textures that this unique combination of instruments affords - 2 vibraphones, 2 marimbas, bass marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel and assorted cymbals, tom-toms and other drums. At Portage and Main is the most recent work, premiered in on in 2009 and the other, New York (2004), is a concerto for tuned percussion quintet in which the group is joined by the French chamber orchestra L'Ensemble de Basse-Normandie.

Plong42

@brighternow

"There's a live version from 2005 posted on the big O:"

That's the one I have....I knew I had heard it someplace.