writer, writing professor, music freak. Deep South.
David Lang's Love Fail is a reasonably powerful antidote to today's presidential press conference. Virtually all a cappella, all women singing, layers of voices, but not too many. Almost as calming as tea. https://youtu.be/F1LZI6aL4oY?list=PLHLvXgm2a3BqwgEBXNlmw0lh9RYOndPtu
A friend of mine from the school of music gave me a spread sheet with 100 modern and composers I should know. I've been working my way through, alphabetically. Now I'm in the Ls. Helmutt Lachenmann's music is so many tiny, spectacularly beautiful pieces of pieces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mGYSgquvnE&list=PLSx6PSVmSb3K3OLbwun-K7rMUtCcIpwRI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brva1zK6Q1E&list=PL9Ht0F7_zR0hH-9sHvE3oYKgiwuWLUzbV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjhFbepytds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtaVDOFFDWE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoFniQnYQ4&list=PL1iMaTxupTd6lIlMg037F1yI-e4Q0k9Dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2xBaX5awlc&list=PLD6sDWM0Y7Ot2j0EKRGjOTbup7trqXjmL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W79x_WuvQ5Y&list=PLZqsyBiYZFQ2ObzRWAi5QaV5YK7ygrF3y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7xstWcgGiA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu7Ae9Gcj0U I've been listening my way through the Stax/Volt Complete Singles box set. I had a copy for a while right after I graduated from college and it always hit me right in the solar plexus. It's doing it again today, even more so than ever. It's a weird, warm, partly cloudy spring-like day, and… Continue reading Stax/Volt
The fifty all-time weirdest records:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn4aLJB74Ts&list=PL4Gxqh0ZRKkhE5sCUmPW1ubcR1RMlkqDs This is a quasi Christmas tradition. Quasi because it's not always observed. But this year it is! Christmas on Mars! One of the first used records I bought when I started collecting again was the soundtrack for Christmas on Mars, Once Beyond Hopelessness. It's an ambient, outer space record, so there's not much cause… Continue reading Christmas on Mars
On the stereo today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fh133ZO1AE&list=PL0z5a235GY1ZXphF3iFi2jlSa6_I6Kbnz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK-ZFicnMjE&list=PL8VD63IfTFYwKxJiX_LXXly01CjwIPg0p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhNeWaPdXwc&list=PLJgKAZsf4pxaTyGBwltvDyT_56MRGzVBN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VynHXrWGAks&list=PL2g-7NS0WKivzEXfh_KeISY3nLLfH4Cbe Merry Xmas!
