December 22, 2018
King Arthur Act 5 - Henry Purcell - Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
The birth of the distinction between high art and low art can be blamed on the concept of Royalty and Nobility. The idea of Learned Court or Church Music, as an economy, allowed only the Learned to be written out, writing being the only means of preservation outside of oral tradition. The demotic appears in written form only through imitation by the learned and otherwise is left to its own devices, its praxis handed down personally - a process that did not stop at the courthouse or churchhouse doors. It remained there also, as always.
consistently engaging as a play of sound colors
nice orchestration!!
a symphonic movement with one of Brahms' few harp parts
about as fine a piece as any other of his
December 26, 2018
Grandpa's Spells - Jelly Roll Morton - George Mitchell, Edward 'Kid' Ory, Omer Simeon, Johnny St. Cyr, John Lindsay, Andrew Hilaire [from Alan Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
Arrangement is,
as composition is,
a tool for timbral amplification
Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber - Berliner Philharmoniker, Semyon Bychkov
poignant incomplete, enclosed
All The Things You Are - Art Pepper [from The Way It Was]
never losing cool in the spotlight
easy to hear
how the pairs
join
a winning combo of messy reverb and narrow bandwidth
Crepuscle With Nellie (take 3) - Thelonius Monk - Thelonius Monk, Al McKibbon, Art Blakey [recorded in London on November 15, 1971]
cyclily it goes
slow and heavy round
and round and round
Eliza (Interlude) - Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [December 1981]
three short movements for spinet and (trombone or tenor tuba?)
clever and brief
but not horrible either
Breakout - Swing Out Sister [a Rescued Record]
synthy machine backed
born to be bland
December 27, 2018
Banned Rehearsal 277 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [November 1991]
homespun sound with infant and fuss and very faintly if I am not mistaken a radio station brought in on the waves of electric chance
violin and hand drum shiny bright with bell duet
for violin squak and infant squall
deep dynamic focus from mezzo forte on down to where the airwaves shine dimly
öbjét d'kítsch
special brand young parent sleepiness yawn
lesson:
No session or sequence of sessions is important as to where the project might be going
they are only important in the sense that they and their kind exist within the corpus
the junkyard's accumulation is the key, not the particular trajectory of accumulating
history is not as granular nor as linear as we would care to think
this music is very close, near, to our ears, inhabiting its space precisely
its space is its and none others
In Session at the Tintinabulary
December 25, 2018
Fox Spit 181225 - Keith Eisenbrey
After the guests all left
a scribbled bit on the guitar my brother Paul made.
