Now Music in New Albion: Playlist

Preface

". . . How blind the minds of men to fate
and future, to minding limits even in good luck!
There'd come a time when Turnus would wish
he'd left Pallas untouched. He'd hate this day, these spoils.
But a crowd of Pallas' friends, with many groans
and tears, set him on his shield and took him home.
Ah, Pallas, you'll bring grief and glory to your father!
You entered war and left it the same day, but still
you left behind huge heaps of the Rutulian dead."

Vergil - "The Aeneid" (translated by Shadi Bartsch)

Texts

Recorded

July 2, 2022

Frenzy - Screamin' Jay Hawkins [from Frenzy]

cowboy movie bass line yee haw horse riding rhythm

Assemby Rechoired 22 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey [April 22, 1987]

Keith Eisenbrey · Assembly Rechoired 22 870422

turn the Funmaker rhythm on slow
play small
a special birthday celebration
Assembly Rechoired for Karen's sister Yvonne
with a promised surprise at the end of it
the big red bag of fun emptied all over the floor
the desire to play
baseball history
the surprise you've been waiting for
make up the rules as we go along
thump up stairs
no team spirit

a
man
that
is taught
to scatter
seeds at will
will be accepted

e.g.
fellow
speaker

July 3, 2022

A Squirrel Is a Pretty Thing - Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Penny Seeger [from Animal Folk Songs for Children]

the world is full of thieves
such a nice lullaby

Dead Man Walking - David Bowie [from Earthling]

the vocals of the verse
spread across the drive
those of the chorus get in line
punctuationed quick break
before
the fade any time
instrumental coda

Gavotte and Rondo from Partita in E Major - Johann Sebastian Bach - Gidon Kramer [from Masters of the Bow - Violin]

Bach was all over writing pieces
to prove that such a thing could be done

Consider the Birds 30 - Keith Eisenbrey [February 3, 2007]

these birds seem to be shivering

Sound Check - The Ancients [recorded live at Rat and Raven, Seattle, August 9, 2012]

the band
somewhat nervous
on edge
getting the tech to work

stickers
to break the ice

Focus - Your Mother Should Know [recorded live at The Sunset, Seattle, April 18, 2017]

another one of Karen's songs
partially inverted Cinderella theme

Bow of Everyone - Michael Bisio, Matthew Shipp [from Flow of Everything]

bowed string bass
huffing and puffing
like a digeridoo
finally dug the piano out
so they can dance
their ponderous dance
after some stretches
they limber up

The King's Hunt, Fvb 135 - John Bull - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]

presumably there were hunting calls in use during hunts
a hint of another music going by
behind this civilized version
or
the soundtrack album
of the film
an entertainment
depicting a previous entertainment
like Chopin's waltzes

Sonata in A minor, Kk. 188 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

spreading out his segments dramatically
loves interrupted cadences

String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 #5 - Franz Joseph Haydn - Kodály-Quartet

to repeat
sneaks around back
to suddenly be there
coming through again
the experience of experiencing repeating
music as the structure of memory
and of its making
made into a sound sequence
designed to be memory
form of our data storage
also
a good way to demonstrate to his fellow musicians
just how clever he was at it
since the quartetists would be intimately involved
in the production of its cleverness

Don Carlos, Appendix 2, Introduction et Chaeur: Que de fleurs. Pour une nuit me voilà Reine - Giuseppe Verdi - - Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Claudio Abbado, Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Lucia Valentini Terani, Leo Nucci, Ruggero Raimondo, Nicolai Giaurov

depicting
presumably
the activity onstage
depicting the entertainment
of which it is a part

Banned Rehearsal in our 4th of July finery

July 4, 2022

Wang Wang Blues - Dixie Stompers [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]

this has a lot of words
to fit in each verse
so they get left out
or just do some nonsense stuff instead
since it's the quantity of syllables that counts
not the lexical content

Mean to Me - Billie Holiday, with Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra [from Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia]

the figure climbs half steps
on two ladders
then skips back down
twists around
the title
from
you're mean to me
to
what you mean to me
with cleverly paced rhymes

No Good Rider - Lead Belly [from Where Did You Sleep Last Night, Lead Belly Legacy]

you're my blues
guitar has a loose resonance
no more control over it
than he feels like having

I'll Be Home for Christmas - Elvis Presley [from Elvis' Christmas Album]

"messeltoe"

Of Wounds and Something Else - Sun Ra [from The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra]

a story is told from several different parts of now
in sequence

Twentieth Century Fox - The Doors [from The Doors]

talk amongst the guys

Mudmen - Pink Floyd [from Obscured by Clouds]

lying on the beach tempo
nothing happens fast
use sunscreen

Oh Oh I Love Her So - The Ramones [from Leave Home]

in their girl group mode
rather than
their sophomoric punk loser in your face mode

Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Live) - Bob Dylan [from Before the Flood]

all sorts of ways to pronounce door

Klee 1977 - Ann McLellan

comparing pitches
in gentle throbs
moving slowly

Florida Suite (By the River) - Frederick Delius [from Meditations for a Quiet Night]

clothed in languor
your perfect getaway

Messe de la Nativite (Benedicamus Domino) - Ensemble Organum [from Portrait]

the slow bass tones underneath
go very low indeed
to inspire awe

July 5, 2022

Ballade #2 - Frédéric Chopin [from The Romance of Music Chamber Concert, April 14, 2002]

played correctishly
the ferocious part
is properly ferocious
without being specifically so
they play fast
better than I ever could

Heavens At My Feet - The Hope [from In The Deep]

her voice distracts from everything

Banned Rehearsal 816 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [June 18, 2012]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 816 120618

number 8 16
on 6 18
the Bannediversary
number 28
celebrated
drums radio and Joyce
something about the way this was recorded
makes it all sound distant
probably the wrong microphone for the job
there's probably one loud sound
that overpowers the rest
the actual sound is pretty good
if turned way up
I'm just afraid
of that one loud sound
decays intro rattles and brass raspberries
we snore at each other
Joyce got tired and joined the puttering about
the Aaronsbundler collects itself
for a late appearance

Bullfrog - Steve Layton [from No Answer]

to be comfortable
working within a meter of fours and twos
and their multiples
is not something I think I could accomplish
in my voice
I'm glad though that others can and do

Banned Telepath 86 Tintinabulary - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, April 25, 2022

small instruments making small sounds
large instruments making their large sounds
on a small device
which brings them home
as small sounds
stepping stone to stone

July 7, 2022

Pavana and Galiarda, Fvb 136 and 137 - John Bull - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]

measured patterns
spread out
on broad swaths
patterns of measured patterns
turns of turns

I Don't Love Nobody - Earl Johnson and His Dixie Entertainers [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]

text set in a cyclic pattern
the story part
alternates
with the complaint part
with fiddling
to fill in the gaps
strident tone quality
only partly due to the recording technology of 1927