@kez I can see how structurally that song would be a leap from baroque. In terms of overall feel it's to my ear smooth almost to the point of anodyne - your vivid description of the horror of listening made me think at first of something more like Free Jazz by Ornette Coleman (it's on youtube if you're feeling brave). So it was fascinating to hear that something so relatively smooth would provoke so visceral a reaction.
What I find when I move back and forth from baroque/classical to jazz is that it's as if my body has to tune in to the other rhythmic universe so that it knows how to anticipate and enjoy the rhythms of the performance. There's also the strings-led to brass-led shift in tonality, but I get the rhythmic disconnect even when it's piano both sides - I'd compare it to the feeling you have when walking along a moving walkway at the airport and getting to the end and stepping on to ordinary ground and having to adjust your stride and balance a little to avoid stumbling from the momentum.
Probably because I've been derelict in my duties of updating the Drip thread. Their catalog is truly awesome, and I now have 2 Roky Erickson albums in my collection thanks to them. Well worth it.
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Continuing to work through the vast archive of dumped AFX stuff.
I must remember that you cannot get a Beatles album image from Amazon digital!
Found that two earlier SFJazz Collective albums are available at the usual places, except emusic. For me Google Play was the cheapest source.
fwiw, I find most of my images at allmusic; they might be less problematic than amazon?
Interesting to compare harpsichord and piano...
I'm very happy that Light in the Attic joined up on Drip.FM.
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Really wish I could get down to Austin for the 13th Floor Elevators reunion (without Stacy, of course). Seeing Roky last year was so freakin' awesome.
Craig
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
NYOP. Sounds kinda like how that cover looks.