Now Playing ( NON film / game / tv scores ) - Part ~~~~~

Enjoy yourself!

I dunno....some of the people on some of the boards I've been quite moved to subject to a Turing test from time to time.

Quite interesting. Look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test

Volker

Very true. In so many ways John Williams is the natural successor to Vaughan Williams, his writing in the woodwinds, brass and particularly strings is very reminiscent yet at the same time I've never heard him directly crib from Vaughan Williams like some other composers have, mentioning no names

Driving home I listened to The Dire Strait's "Telegraph Road". Perfect song for driving!

The Kick Inside by Kate Bush 1978

A really astounding rock album. "Wuthering Hights" is one of the best rock songs ever!

Volker

Turn of the Tide by Barclay James Harvest

BJH: A British prog rock band, my all time favourite! They experianced the hight of their success during the late 70s and early 80s. Superstar status in Germany, moderately popular in the UK, almost unknown (but not quite) in the US. I'm gonna see a remnant of the band live next month.

Today I recieved the said album in its remastered form. Only one album left to get that treatment. BJH is the only band of which I own every single sound ever released.

Did you know RVW studied under Max Bruch while in Berlin in the late 1800's? A very different beast but I'd recommend Bruch's Violin Concerto # 1, another piece that takes a true virtuoso to play. He later studied with Maurice Ravel. I think you can hear a hint of both composers influence in 'Lark'.

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I've been quiet lately not feeling well at all but I hope I'm on the mend.
Tom

NP : THE ANTIDOTE - Ronny Jordan


Excellent jazz album.

Here's his version of the Miles Davis composition...

SO WHAT

Corking version it is too. Tom, check it out.

Catch the Spirit: The Complete Anthology - Mostly Autumn

Whoever likes Pink Floyd and that ilk of progressive rock can do no wrong with Mostly Autumn. Great rock music.

Volker

NP: LIEBE IST FÜR ALLE DA (Rammstein)

I'm getting pissed at the idiot neighbour downstairs who keeps playing the same crappy song over and over again really loud -- and has been doing it all week -- so I'm countering it with Rammstein.

Cut The World - Antony & The Johnsons

Antony's fragile, aethereal singing style remains very much an acquired taste (or something that one really likes. Or really despises. I happen to fall in the former group), but the songs on his latest 2012 album -aside from the surprising and rather out of place monologue on the moon and its effects on mental health in track 2- seem to cater a bit more to more generic tastes than any of the previous albums.

All the melancholy is still there (not entirely surprising with an album title like this), but the compositions and arrangements seem to be far more accessible. I still like it, quite a bit even, but its more generic appeal both strengthens and weakens this release. It's a strong side as it is sure to draw in more than your moody niche crowd.
It's weaker than earlier outings as exactly the more jarring shifts in style and tone of earlier albums made Antony something of an enigma. An extremely hard to peg odd solo stylist, with shards of genius and echoes of pathetic dismal ostentatiousness. This side is dampened, and while the average quality of the tracks is trsonger, there is no true standout, or even any track that really, truly 'cuts the world'.

This is a very good album.
It's full of strong melody lines and melancholy.
And it's clean. It's exactly what we've been led to expect from Antony, but with any inappropriate, inexplicable little impurities neatly polished away.

EDIT: Ah! Upon a bit more research this turns out to be a live album of a performance Antony Hegarty did with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, which explains the more audience-friendly almost Mike Batt-like feel.