myboyblue Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Yikes do I like this. Link to post Share on other sites
solace Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Yikes do I like this. pretty good stuff. think he coulda cut it down to one really great single disc, but there's not any downright awful tracks or anything Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted July 7, 2006 Author Share Posted July 7, 2006 Yes! I have lots of Morton Feldman. Can upload some for ye if you like. I think I gave Big Perm some a while back. Here is an addendum to that article, where Alex Ross lays out which recordings to look for: http://www.therestisnoise.com/2006/06/digital_morty.html This is the record to start with -- Rothko Chapel & Why Patterns? : I have this and the Kronos/Takahashi piano quartet recording on Nonesuch he talks about in that link at home.. A warning, tho -- it's VERY minimal music. As in, early Brian Eno (Discreet Music, Ambient 1/2, etc) looks almost a little punk rock compared to this. I like it v. much but don't be surprised if you find yourself turning it up and wondering when the noise will come in.. If I could get in on the upload action I'd be very grateful - I also read the piece on him in the New Yorker the other day and was really intrigued - I downloaded some tracks from epitonic.com and really liked what he was doing... I don't often go for "classical" music so wonder where I might find some in town this weekend... Yikes do I like this. Couldn't get into that at all - a bloated mess of an album; too long and not enough tunes. His voice even sounds as if he couldn't be arsed in half of it... meh... NP for this Friday morning: Link to post Share on other sites
solace Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 hmm... think his voice sounds great myself not that different than his last few solo records Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted July 7, 2006 Author Share Posted July 7, 2006 I liked Honeycomb, but this just didn't do anything for me at all... definitely too long and it just lacked focus for me. NP: Thom Yorke - The eraser Link to post Share on other sites
Deaf Ro Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 If I could get in on the upload action I'd be very grateful - I also read the piece on him in the New Yorker the other day and was really intrigued - I downloaded some tracks from epitonic.com and really liked what he was doing... I don't often go for "classical" music so wonder where I might find some in town this weekend...Couldn't get into that at all - a bloated mess of an album; too long and not enough tunes. His voice even sounds as if he couldn't be arsed in half of it... meh... NP for this Friday morning: Uploading Rothko Chapel and the Kronos recording of his piano quartet for the two of you. Anyone else who wants in, send me a PM. And what do you think of Brightblack? Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted July 7, 2006 Author Share Posted July 7, 2006 Thank you very much - really appreciate it! Brightblack is really lovely... very chilled and delicate. Also, that Swam and Sing is on Oink... Link to post Share on other sites
Deaf Ro Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Yeah, I found that, thank you. Still have to give it a spin this weekend. It occurs to me -- if you like Feldman, as well as some of the more classically inflected pop stuff out there today (Radiohead, Bjork, Sigur Ros, Aphex Twin, Mum, etc), you're really only a half-step away from someone like Ligeti, or Shostakovich, or Charles Ives. Maybe I'll make a little sampler to go along with the Feldman. Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted July 7, 2006 Author Share Posted July 7, 2006 Ooooo - cool! That sounds like a nice sampler... I like all the artists you listed there. The article on Feldman in the New Yorker was really good and really sparked my interest, I'd not really heard anything by Cage either, opened up another avenue of music for me. Link to post Share on other sites
Deaf Ro Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Honestly, if you want to continue along that avenue, and have an entirely new world of sounds opened up to you, you could do worse than to spend a little time browsing through Alex Ross's site, which I linked to earlier. He has a list somewhere or other of 10 starter classical recordings, starting with Bach or Monteverdi and running through Stravinsky or Messiaen or Schoenberg, I think. He also has an *amazing* essay about how he basically "discovered" pop music in college after listening to nothing but classical his entire life. For what it's worth, his essays on Radiohead, Pavement, Dylan, Bjork, and Nirvana are some of the best music criticism I've read by anyone, ever. Anyway, I'll find my version of Leonard Bernstein conducting Ligeti's "Atmospheres," which was the music Stanley Kubrick used for the climactic scene in 2001. It was uncanny in fact to be at the Radiohead show in NYC on the day that Ligeti died (2-3 weeks ago) and to be hearing the very same textures in that piece being replicated in the low end of "The Gloaming" (not a coincidence at all). Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted July 7, 2006 Author Share Posted July 7, 2006 I'm just going to jump in now! Link to post Share on other sites
Deaf Ro Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Word Here, to make it easy-- His writings on pop (probably the single best piece I've ever read on Radiohead): http://www.therestisnoise.com/popular/index.html Starter classical recordings: http://www.therestisnoise.com/top_10_summer_hits/index.html Popular vs. classical music: http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/05/more_to_come_6.html Really great essay more or less laying out a definition of music: http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/05/grove_dictionar.html And a short primer on Ligeti: http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/05/ligeti_2001.html Okay, shut this guy up already Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Okay, shut this guy up already No, thanks, that's all interesting stuff! Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted July 7, 2006 Author Share Posted July 7, 2006 This has really grown on me - but it still sounds too similar to a Manics record though... Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted July 7, 2006 Author Share Posted July 7, 2006 That's a storming album - could be one of the best live albums ever... Link to post Share on other sites
muller Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 That's a storming album - could be one of the best live albums ever... It really is. Havent heard it in years, Come Together came on whilst I had itunes on random so I thought id listen to the whole thing. Link to post Share on other sites
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