I’m not particularly religious, but Christian Zeal and Activity has become one of my favorite bits of classical music. See also the Lego version that focuses on the preacher segments.
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new Beach House MP3, “norway”
so excited for this album.
Easily my favorite song when I saw them in concert a few weeks ago.
The Wu-Note Project, as if the Wu-Tang Clan had appeared on Blue Note Records.
It’s the lyric that makes a song a hit, although the tune, of course, is what makes it last.
Irving Berlin. This applies to many things besides songwriting.
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Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
New single released today, available at amblingalp.com
Niiiice. Can’t believe I missed this. Got an ‘80s vibe in this one.
I am frankly embarrassed that most of my musical life has been spent in the search for new materials. The significance of new materials is that they represent, I believe, the incessant desire in our culture to explore the unknown. Before we know the unknown, it inflames our hearts. When we know it, the flame dies down, only to burst forth again at the thought of a new unknown. This desire has found expression in our culture in new materials, because our culture has its faith not in the peaceful center of the spirit but in an ever-hopeful projection onto things of our own desire for completion.
John Cage. What silence taught John Cage: The story of 4’33" by James Pritchett. (via)
How to play piano like Philip Glass
I so love this guy.
Nothing so refreshing as naked enthusiasm.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Saudade
The famous saudade of the Portuguese is a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future; not an active discontent or poignant sadness but an indolent dreaming wistfulness.
(via molly lambert)
Which reminds me of Chega de Saudade, which some say is the first bossa nova song, which makes perfect sense.
Today’s Pictures: Remember the Record Shop? James Dean, 1955.
Brook Farm group was among the first to hear Beethoven’s brilliance – The Boston Globe
“If Beethoven is standard American orchestral fare today, it’s because a group of Bostonians in the 1830s and ’40s decided he was the next big thing.”
Brook Farm group was among the first to hear Beethoven’s brilliance – The Boston Globe
Paul McCartney Wake Up Call. In November 2005, Paul McCartney and 15,000 fans in Anaheim, California broadcasted a few songs to the International Space Station, part of the grand tradition of NASA wake-up calls [pdf]. He opens with “English Tea” and closes with “Good Day Sunshine”. Pretty neat moment.
Score for “Belle, Bonne, Sage” (lyrics), a song with eye music by Baude Cordier included in the Chantilly Codex. Part of the ars subtilior music tradition of the early Renaissance.
Unquiet Thoughts
Alex Ross’ new music blog on the New Yorker website. Nice counterweight to the blog of Sasha Frere-Jones .
A visual interpretation of Erik Satie’s famous piano suite… The movement of each column maps the physical activity of each the pianist’s fingers respectively. The pitch of each key struck is represented by an assigned colour.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
The Album Covers of Brian Eno.
The album’s pastoral cover art is a detail from After Raphael, a painting by Tom Phillips, Eno’s mentor during his days at Ipswich Art College. (Some believe that the boy in the foreground, with the blond hair and the red beanie, is meant to be Eno.) The back cover depicts the decidedly un-rocking image of Eno sitting up in bed, reading a book – underlining the album’s general vibe of stillness, solitude, and quiet reflection.
Mark Larson 