Playlist

Upcoming This Week

 

Thursday, September 4, 2014 9pm

Your Mother Should Know

The Spencer Glenn Band

Canals of Venice

Rendezvous, Seattle

 

Recorded

 

August 26, 2014

Percussion Symphony - Charles Wuorinen - New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Raymond DesRoches

 

There are very few pieces of recorded music I feel are better served on headphones than through speakers. This may be one of them, simply because the volume needs to be cranked so high to bring the quiet stretches up from inaudible that the loud bits make me nervous for my speakers, not to mention my neighbors. Live, I presume, the effect would be magnificent - thunderous to intimate whisper.

 

The Flowers of Romance - Public Image Ltd.

 

Fastidious insistence on deliberate drabness. Upside-down sound design. Eno's flip side.

 

Casio Improvisation No. 1 - Larry Solomon

 

Cross-rhythms of frantic birdhoot in viscous undulation. Starlings flock through honey.

 

August 28, 2014

Two3 No. 5 - John Cage - Stefan Hussong, Hiroyuki Okano

 

All cues to pitch-centered listening activated in order to be thwarted.

 

Deceived By Starlight - Roger Zahab - Dale Speicher

 

steady yearning unwavers

firm vigorous resolves

shrugging off magic if possible (or)

 

Tango Orientale - Ole Saxe - Karen Bentley-Pollick, Ivan Sokolov

 

Never gives up its dance.

 

Midnight at the Apollo 13 - Gas Huffer [from The Funhouse Comp Thing]

 

This is not about being new, it is about being plugged in to a source.

 

In The Pines - No Man's String Band

 

Sthrum-heavy plain song straight play.

 

In Session at the Tintinabulary

 

August 24, 2014

Transverse Flute 140824

 

August 25, 2014

Banned Rehearsal 868 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Meyer

 

One last time on the porch for the Summer. (we presume).

 

August 29, 2014

Walk Home (parts 1 and 2) - Keith Eisenbrey

 

Last year I walked home from work (about 7 miles) one evening, meeting Karen at the half-way point for supper. This time I decided to record the experience. I tucked a miniature recorder into the right side pocket of my backpack, padding it with a wool sock, and off I went. I turned it off when I got to the restaurant and started it again when we left. The first part, from the Columbia Center at 5th and Columbia, north on 5th Avenue, right on Stewart, left on Eastlake is mostly traffic noise and a few glimpses of conversation. The second part, across the University Bridge, right on Campus Parkway, left on the Ave, right on NE 75th, left on 20th, left on 88th to home, includes my conversation with Karen, the subject of which is partly the remarkable coincidence of our chance dinner companions at Little Water Cantina. We were sharing our table with a young couple and as we talked it eventually came out that they were also Karen and Keith. We showed each other our IDs to prove we weren't pulling legs. On top of that, they had gotten married in Ship Bottom, New Jersey, which is the one place on the shore I've actually been to.