Saturday, 1/8/11
Don’t try this at home.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, live, Detroit, 1971
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music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2011
Thursday, 1/6/11
street music
The brass band goes uptown.
Asphalt Orchestra, live, New York
#1 (2009)
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#2 (2010)
2011
Wednesday, 1/5/11
1, 2, 3 strings—that’s all
Maalem Ben Aissa, AKA Maalem Benaissa (gumbri [aka gimbri]), live, Algieria (Algiers), 2007
#1
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#2
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2011
Monday, 1/3/11
Perhaps the greatest drummer who has ever lived . . .
—Brian Eno
Tony Allen
Live, “New Morning”
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Secret Agent, 2010
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lagniappe
When I sit down there [at the drums], that’s what I’ve been waiting for . . .
—Tony Allen
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reading table
The time to make up your mind about people is never!
—Tracy Lord, The Philadelphia Story
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You get to decide what to worship.
Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind (2009), epigraphs
2010
Thursday, 12/30/10
When people hear I’m a criminal defense lawyer, they often ask: “How come there aren’t more songs about serial killers?”
Eddie Noack, “Psycho,” 1968
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lagniappe
In response to yesterday’s post, a reader writes:
Vodpod videos no longer available.Ever wonder what it would be like if Neil Young circa 1971 Heart of Gold and Bruce Springsteen circa his 1975 Time magazine cover performed “Whip My Hair”?
Here’s your answer.
2010
Saturday, 12/18/10
Captain Beefheart (AKA Don Van Vliet), January 5, 1941–December 17, 2010
replay: a clip too good for just one day
For some people, going their own way seems to be the only way they could possibly go.
Captain Beefheart (AKA Don Van Vliet)
The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart (BBC Documentary, 1997)
Part 1
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Part 2
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Part 3
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Part 4
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Part 5
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Part 6
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lagniappe
Don’t you think that somebody like Stravinsky . . . it would annoy him if somebody bent a note the wrong way?
—Captain Beefheart
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About the seventh or eighth time [I listened to Trout Mask Replica], I thought it was the greatest album ever made—and I still do.
—Matt Groening
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art beat
Paintings by Don Van Vliet
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(Originally posted 3/6/10.)
Having posted this, I’m going to return to the break I mentioned the other day—back soon.
2010
Thursday, 12/16/10
It’s a remix world.
Gil Scott-Heron, “New York Is Killing Me” (2010), Chris Cunningham remix
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lagniappe
Here’s the original track, followed by a couple more remixes.
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With Nas
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With Mos Def
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musical thoughts
In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times.
—Bertolt Brecht
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Want more of Gil Scott-Heron? Here and here.
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taking a break
I’m going to take a little break (my first since July)—back soon.
2010
Tuesday, 12/14/10
This guy moved to Chicago, after World War II, from Birmingham, Alabama.
The temperature outside, on this mid-December day, is 7 degrees.
Is it any wonder springtime meant so much?
Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra, “Springtime Again,” 1979
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lagniappe
Happy (90th) Birthday to Clark Terry!
(Yo, Michael: Thanks for the tip!)
2010
Thursday, 12/9/10
Some music asks nothing more than to be a source of delight.
Wim Mertens Ensemble, “Maximizing the Audience,” live, Spain (Madrid), 1998
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Wednesday, 12/1/10
recipe
take one electric guitar
add another
& another
& . . .
Glenn Branca Ensemble, Symphony No. 5, live, New York (The Kitchen), 1984
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lagniappe
Born . . . in 1949, [Glenn Branca] . . . ignored rock until attracted to the repetitiveness of certain songs by the Kinks and Paul Revere and the Raiders. He claims to have taught himself composition by listening to guitar feedback at point-blank range for forty-five minutes at a time.
—Kyle Gann, American Music in the Twentieth Century (1997)
