It’s taken Him so long
‘Cause we’ve got so far to come
Amazing song on an amazing album – but I stand by my tweet. Mental note: tumble music more often.
c-d:
Here’s You’re No Good, a live performance using moog and tapes from 1968. He takes Harvey Averne’s r&b song of the same name and cuts it up, layering and multitracking parts above and below.
1968. Terry Riley, OG.
A really, really good episode about the business of hip hop from the beginnings to now. Worth a listen/read.
Dan Charnas, Author of The Big Payback: Interview on The Sound of Young America
SHITTY LOCAL BAR presents…. Photographed in Atlanta’s Little Five Points neighborhood, apparently. (via)
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Labi Siffre – “It Must Be Love” (from Crying Laughing Loving Lying)
I wish I’d known about this song long, long ago. So catchy.
Not even Reich’s music is as exhilaratingly tense as “Doing it to the Death,” or “The Payback.” Reich’s pieces take long, extended journeys; they are exquisite processes which slowly unfold through time, irreversibly. Brown’s best music never takes a journey: it’s either just where it should be, or tantalizingly close to where it should be.
Strangely enough, I think that ”The Payback” has more in common with Tristan und Isolde than it does with Glass or Reich. It’s all about tension and release.
This whole post is straight-up brilliant.
Meadowlark Lemons.: James Brown and Wagner: Tension and Release
As certain foodies score points by having eaten everything—blowfish, yak milk tea, haggis, hot dogs—so the person who knows and likes all music achieves a curious sophistication-through-indiscriminateness.
Somewhat guilty as charged. See also Tyler Cowen on the internet and eclecticism.
Tehillim by Steve Reich, performed last night by Asko|Schönberg and Synergy Vocals. Light design by Carel Kuitenbrouwer
via wmmf / vpro
Reich-reblog rule still in effect. I’m amazed at the quality of this recording.
Destroyer’s Kaputt is $3 on Amazon.
Get it. It’s awesome.
Take heed. My most heavily-played album of Q1 2011. The only dude I’ve played more this year is Bach, and he had a bit of a head-start.
The greatest audience comment ever recorded is, I think, a remark overheard at a performance of Ernst Krenek’s Second Piano Concerto at the Boston Symphony in 1938. A Boston matriarch responded to Krenek’s twelve-tone discourse by saying, ‘Conditions in Europe must be dreadful.’
Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill. If I were Peter Gabriel you could be damn sure I’d ride a bike around the stage.
“Would the Summer of Love have ever happened without Stanley, the reclusive acid impresario who turned on the world?”
He did not, contrary to popular lore, release a product called Purple Haze; in interviews, he sounded quite miffed that anything emerging from his laboratory could be thought to cause haziness rather than the crystalline clarity for which he personally vouched.
Owsley Stanley, Artisan of Acid, Is Dead at 76 – NYTimes.com
Chairman Mao’s 30 Greatest Hip-Hop Demos. I know the instinct is to complain about these things and surely my inner nerd is gritting his teeth on some fronts but come the fuck on… I hadn’t even heard a good chunk of this stuff. And they have entire tapes up there! Just be excited, listen and stfu.
Françoise Hardy – Ce Petit Cœur. Good lord.
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