Playlist

Recorded

June 29, 2014

Hoh Rainforest - Olympic National Park

Tone Roads 1 - Ives - New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein

 

mock fugue gnarly tree

tangle of woody stems stops

that's how far it grew

 

Violin Concerto - Frederick Delius - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley, Ralph Holmes

 

colours: non lethal :: warm weightless :: cushioned

diaphano-sonorous

blows softened, sans joint-jolts.

 

Concerto in C (#3) - Prokofiev - Nürnberger Symphoniker, Ainslee Cox, Jorge Bolet

 

Front-loads his big tune, though he does soft-pedal it how the clarinet splits itself in two a few measures in, and never does gush it the way Rachmaninoff can't resist. Bubbles up youthful bursting forth out of doors FAST or brought up short by some hard surfaced lyrical upwelling.

 

Mamie Smith

Royal Garden Blues - Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
Boneyard Shuffle - The Red Heads [from Allen Lowe's Really the Blues]

 

July 2, 2014

Piano Concerto #2 - Bartok - Orchestre de Paris, Lorin Maazel, Sviatislav Richter

 

Musical material is musical material. Look at the brick and it says "brick". Unable to let on that there might be more going on than he planned. All those arch-forms and putative Fibonacci game plans - why do I get the nagging feeling that these are all there not entirely for heart-felt musical reasons but also partly because they can be explained in program notes, because they are the sorts of things journalists can understand, but which are, as to the musical experience, a smokescreen or a brick wall?

 

July 3, 2014

Symphony #1, op. 17 #2 (Exile) - Alan Hovhaness - Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz

 

A fascinating, if not entirely successful, take on a folk-idiom symphony. It seems to progress, or at any rate shift along, like a series of block-prints, related more by their stylistic voice than by any particular thematic or dramatic undercurrent. The ending took my breath away: two clarinets on a perfect fourth: a softly fading linger.

 

In Session at the Tintinabulary

 

June 30, 2014

Banned Rehearsal 864 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer

Banned Rehearsal: abusers of microphones

 

Our session was out on the porch since it was so nice out. Steve brought along his recording of our concert (mine failed due to user-error). During the first of those two sessions Neal opened all the chapel windows wide, causing a certain amount of wind noise on the recording. Unexpectedly, the effect of this was to take me back to our early days when we would often break the fourth wall, so to speak, picking up the recording microphones, put them in cans, rub paper on them, pretend they were dinosaurs, and in general abuse them no end.

 

July 4, 2014

Ain't No Easy - Keith Eisenbrey

track 1 - wood drum

track 2 - vocal

track 3 - hollow-body electric guitar

track 4 - buzz banger stick

track 5 - electric toy reed organ