Tuesday, May 5th
sounds of Cambodia
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll, 2014
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sounds of Cambodia
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll, 2014
tonight in Chicago
These folks—three reed players and a cellist from Chicago, along with a drummer from Norway—will be playing (and recording a live album) at a performing-arts center on the city’s northwest side (Elastic Arts).
Dave Rempis (saxophones), Keefe Jackson (reeds), Jason Stein (bass clarinet), Tomeka Reid (cello), Tollef Østvang (drums), live, Lafayette, Ind., 4/25/15
If this is the answer, what’s the question?
Bernhard Leitner (1938-), Serpentinata, Austria (Vienna), 2011
This I could listen to all day.
Brian Eno (1948-), sound installation (“Music for the Great Gallery”), Palace of Venaria, Italy (near Turin)
Of sounds there is no end.
Harry Bertoia (1915-1978), sound sculptures, Bally, Pennsylvania
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lagniappe
reading table
I found a bird this morning, down—down—on a little bush at the foot of the garden, and wherefore sing, I said, since nobody hears?
One sob in the throat, one flutter of bosom—’My business is to sing‘—and away she rose!
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), letter to Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Holland, c. 1862
Sometimes nothing is more enlivening than to hear something that sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before.
Rebecca Saunders (1967-), Fury II (2009); Remix Ensemble (Emilio Pomarico, cond.; Antonio Augusto Aguiar, bass), live, Portugal (Porto), 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
after the dance
right away, cutting
the morning grass—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
sounds of Malawi
The Very Best with Mafalika, “Let’s Go,” live, Malawi (Kumbali Village), 2/15
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Another take (Makes a King, 4/15)
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy (LB, trumpet; Steve Turre, trombone; Frank Lacy, trombone; Bob Stewart, tuba; Phillip Wilson, drums, et al.), live, Berlin, 1986
yesterday in Chicago
He played a version of this, wonderfully, along with Steve Reich’s “New York Counterpoint” and Duke Ellington’s “Come Sunday,” at the Chicago Cultural Center.
James Falzone, “Sighs Too Deep For Words,” live (studio performance), 2011
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lagniappe
random thoughts
Why settle for a mirror when you could have a window?
This I could listen to all day.
Daniel Lanois, “Senegal,” “Opera,” “The Collection of Marie Claire,” live (studio performance), Washington (Shoreline), 2/27/15
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