Preface
"Blake proposed seeing not with the eyes but through the eyes -- not, that is, with the limits of the natural organ as habitual frame but through an open channel. Same with ears, the open channel, passing through "the doors of perception." This stance is listening through sound to the core, as if the actual sound were a leak from another dimension asking to be tracked back to an original, which, however, never shows itself." George Quasha - "Hearing Speare Hearing Through Sounds Themselves", The Open Space Magazine Issue 10 Fall 2008
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August 7, 2016
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| Kid Ory |
You're Next - Louis Armstrong - Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds, Lil Armstrong, Johnny St. Cyr [from Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens]
How it moves from its empty foreboding chunk chunk opening harmony into summer weather, as simply as remembering what's for dinner that night.
How it moves from its empty foreboding chunk chunk opening harmony into summer weather, as simply as remembering what's for dinner that night.
Creole Rhapsody - Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington, Cootie Williams, Freddie Jenkins, Arthur Whetzel, Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol, Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Fred Guy, Wellman Braud, Sonny Greer [from The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz]
The opening musics reenter after the virtual record-flip break through a fissure made sneakily by the pattery snare drum, which leads the finish, thereby tying together an otherwise episodic amble.
The opening musics reenter after the virtual record-flip break through a fissure made sneakily by the pattery snare drum, which leads the finish, thereby tying together an otherwise episodic amble.
Romeo and Juliette, Premiere Tableau - Prokofiev - Orchestre du Theatre Bolchoi de Moscou, Algis Juraitis
Prokofiev lives in the troubled harmonies that occupy the middles of his phrases. Squarely in the Berliozian Romantic tradition, the music both amplifies and inhabits the dramatic scene.
Prokofiev lives in the troubled harmonies that occupy the middles of his phrases. Squarely in the Berliozian Romantic tradition, the music both amplifies and inhabits the dramatic scene.
Jig Walk - Pee Wee Russell [from Alan Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
Pretty sure it is just drums, piano, and clarinet, but the clarinet uses what are nearly multiphonics, with an assist from nicely particular registrations of the piano's chords, to impersonate backing horns.
Pretty sure it is just drums, piano, and clarinet, but the clarinet uses what are nearly multiphonics, with an assist from nicely particular registrations of the piano's chords, to impersonate backing horns.
You Go To My Head - Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan, Clarence Brereton, Buster Bailey, Russell Procope, Bill Kyle, John Kirby, Bill Beason [from Interlude - Early Recordings 1944-1947]
Long vocal line with surprise rhymes sprawling over a sumptuously cushioned accompaniment.
Long vocal line with surprise rhymes sprawling over a sumptuously cushioned accompaniment.
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| Red Rodney |
Let's move this along boys, we have a lot of notes to fit into three minutes.
August 9, 2016
Havana Moon - Chuck Berry [from The Best of Chuck Berry]
Just under the radar, CB's voice relaxes into a smoky smooth bluesy basso at the ends of phrases.
Just under the radar, CB's voice relaxes into a smoky smooth bluesy basso at the ends of phrases.
Hide Away - Freddy King [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]
In a way the Beatles did this track a loving disservice by referencing it so often. It's tricky to hear for itself.
In a way the Beatles did this track a loving disservice by referencing it so often. It's tricky to hear for itself.
Kicks (Remix) - Paul Revere and The Raiders [from The Legend of Paul Revere]
A pretty great song weakened by the author's message lyrics.
A pretty great song weakened by the author's message lyrics.
One Of These Days - Pink Floyd [from Meddle]
A seventies dorm room Bolero.
A seventies dorm room Bolero.
Mi-Parti - Witold Lutosławski - Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jacek KasprzykClouds of strings circle and envelop, or call forth and let evaporate, the unsustainable potent violence of the dead, ascending in glowing ash.
Elimination Dancing - Bow Wow Wow
Unimaginable without the virtual stage show, costume changes, the works. Power punk glitz.
The Boy In The Bubble - Paul Simon [from Graceland]
Turns around on itself so many times you would almost think it wasn't meant to be not a lullaby.
In Bloom - Nirvana [from Nevermind]
A canvas of solid colors, not primary, in dynamically proportional blocks and stripes. Strong and messy verticals.
August 10, 2016
Banned Rehearsal 416 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer, March 1996
We gather our tools, weigh them in hand, cross-calibrate, coalesce into: e-guitar, tenor sax, bass line (on the mighty W), drums, t-bone, various percussionals. Pressure is applied from angles low in the mix :: slowly squeezing violin and cornet out of guitar and sax, a residue of drone coats the wreckage. A late hurrah.
The Farthest Shore (Kalessin) - Keith Eisenbrey
This is a midi generated realization of a flute trio I wrote in 2001 for Sarah Bassingthwaighte, who took it to some little town in Russia with a bunch of flute students. It was apparently performed as a flute nonette, though the only record I have of it is the program with my name transliterated into their alphabet. I looked around for a scan of it, but was unable to find it. Alas, my sound files are quite well organized and indexed, but the image files are not. More to do.
In Session At The Tintinabulary
August 8, 2016
Gradus 295 - Neal Kosály-Meyer
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