Playlist

Recorded

March 16, 2019

Psycho (Live) - The Sonics [from Boom]

dip dap digi digi do || Waoww!

My Melancholy Baby - Thelonius Monk [from The London Collection]

an opportunity to touch exquisitely
articulate press and delicate release

Daily Records - The Who [from Face Dances]

stage confessional
stage in life
soliloquy

you
are at a show

Banned Rehearsal 96 - Karen (Meyer) Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 1986]

no rush getting to session mode

your blogger, Neal, and Karen, 1986

but when we do it is done

I have a place
I read Intermezzo V with a ukulele at my belly

Neal has a high regard
of the arranging of my tapes in three neat little stacks
a hero's task

a journey
everything cold
and now slowly open the eyes

Some Things Have Holes (a sudden song by Neal)

then two thirds of us wander off session briefly
drum beat pitched on 3 and 1 (in 3)

I'm So Sorry About That (another one by Neal)
tracing excuse to repentance to silliness of not my fault, reverts to blaming the victim
Karen, finally, has had it

March 17, 2019
I'm Waiting for the Man - Moe Tucker [from I Feel So Far Away - Moe Tucker Anthology 1974 - 1998]

like slow dance nothings whispered in your ear

Symphony #1 - Beethoven - Philharmonia Northwest, Roupen Shakarian

no feathers ruffled here

one might re-argue the familiar critique of this, i.e. that it isn't a Symphony it's a piece for wind band with strings, in terms of: it uses too many resources for the type of piece it is. It tries to goose the style just by noising it up. Too many out-of-doors instruments in-of-doors for what is still pretty much an in-of-doors piece

Coming Home - Dean Evensen [from Native Healing]

I hate being snarky about this, it's just my tone.

the idea is that if music is [A] Healing, then you will feel [B] Better
and that there is a cause and effect relationship between this music and Healing

but I may be misunderstanding the relationship completely
A does not cause B
but brings B within A
i.e. feel Better by being here in Healing where we feel fine

Banned Rehearsal 704 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer

on the porch

Mt. Rainier National Park 2006

we sure been doin' this a long time hain't we?
steady on the quiet water
it's never the same jungle out there on the drifting banks as the drifting banks drift by

we pluck back at the quiet evening
now and then we get all excited about something and run off to scribble

but we return

for Milton - Samuel Adler - Michelle Ross [from Milton Babbitt: A Composers' Memorial]

enters fully into the whole concert piece mode

Half a Bus Closer to Home - St. Rage [June 2016]


St. Rage is the fictional band in my wife's soon to be second editioned debut novel "The Gospel According to St. Rage." In this recording they are impersonated by Karen Eisenbrey and Neal Kosály-Meyer, both of Your Mother Should Know, and were recorded by me. My favorite part is the angelic teen chorus in shiny "Homework!" harmony.