It's not quite true that he did the sex/porn thing only early in his career. He was featured in the porn magazine Hustler in 1984, to promote his intended Broadway musical "Thing-Fish". I don't...
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It's not quite true that he did the sex/porn thing only early in his career. He was featured in the porn magazine Hustler in 1984, to promote his intended Broadway musical "Thing-Fish". I don't...
I think that most people who read this forum agree that Zappa made some good music. But you can't always separate a man from his art, and especially not Frank Zappa. I mean, what are his songs about?...
Has anyone seen the documentary When Zappa came to Sicily? It is a film about the concert that ended with riots and they (both the audience and the band) were gassed. Pluss it is about the Zappa...
Check out this Youtube video:
https://youtu.be/5aFRBbnF-ag?si=RwSLpDtyOHVAk6Ei
I saw a documentary once where he openly talked about his relationship with groupies. "I just like to get laid", he said, and if he got the clap he just took some pills and it would be OK. Then he...
This is out now. I have listened to it a few times, and I am mighty impressed! I was wondering how this complex music would sound live, without overdubs and studio trickery. But the sound is good for...
Last weekend I decided to listen to a solo album from all the Beatles kids. I liked Julian's album the most. It is quite straight pop music, but with nice melodies and well-produced. Julian is a good...
Burning Shed has a 5 CD box called Audio Diary 2014-2018. They cover almost everything from the 1969-74 versions of KC, plus much from the 1980-2000 period. This box is the only live recordings you...
The Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra: Heiner Goebbels & Frank Zappa: The Perfect Stranger. This is a hybrid SACD and CD album with 5.0 or stereo. It sounds fantastic. They play 5 Zappa pieces,...
I think that Fripp was inspired by McLaughlin when he did his chordal solo on Sailors Tale. McLaughlin did the same on the track Two for Two on Extrapolation.
Henry Cow themselves, or at least Frith and Hodgkinson, were dissatisfied with the original mix of Legend. Frith said that they had crammed too much into too little space. And according to Piekuts...
A surprising comeback after almost 50 years of silence. Let's hope it is good. The guy was, and probably still is, a great guitarist.
Stop Mortal is one of my favourite classical works by Hodgkinson. Unfortunately, it was never professionally recorded. But I have a couple of tapes, one from 1995 that Hodkginson sent to me, and one...
Dagmar Krause: Tank Battles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkPvS85L998
This album from 1971 seems appropriate for our times:
https://youtu.be/itgQPdjdpOw
Warm Dust is perhaps a bit forgotten these days. I saw them a couple of times live and owned this album.
Here is another version of "The Hunting of the Snark":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi9ezGH9IU8
Agreed! The album is very good, one of the best from last year.
What amazes me is that something like this seems to pop out of nowhere. Officially Shamblemaths is a band with two regular members...
Agreed. I am listening to it right now. Fantastic album. Varied, complex, great sound, great musicians. Retro-prog and avant-prog in the same package. Or whatever it is.
I would like to add René...
I just finished the series. It was great and could have lasted even longer, I enjoyed every minute. Funny, half of what I assumed to be the truth about the Beatles and these sessions through the last...
His new album, Musical Sanatorium, is out now. After listening to it a few times I would say that the album is absolutely brilliant. Fans of Farmers Market will probably know approximately what to...
I would recommend their live album from 2014. I have seen them live twice, and the last time with this quartet. The greatest thing with their live stuff is Mats's wild improvisations. His musical...
This album is a candidate for "best album of the year" for me. René Lussier is a fantastic musician and composer. As a guitarist, he is very original and a true virtuoso. He is also a great...
"Revolution 9" sounds fantastic in 5.1. But I don't know how they did it technically. King Crimson had a similar challenge when they remixed "The Devils Triangle", for which they only had the stereo...
The modern way of doing things is to have everything digital. I have digitalized my entire CD and DVD collection, plus the most important LPs and cassettes, and put it on a silent hard disk connected...
ReR have split long tracks into sections long before they offered digital downloads. They have done this back to the very first CD they released, which was before digital downloads was a thing. They...
Quartetski Plays Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring:
https://youtu.be/EwMNGtjngY4
Larry Coryell also made a version of The Rite of Spring. I didn't buy it, because I thought it was a bit ridicoulus to play such a work on an acoustic guitar. When I saw it I had already bought his...
Carstensen is known as a man with a good sense of humour. His concerts have a lot of standup comedy in-between the tunes. When I saw the video I thought that his humour had become darker. But it...
17 years after the first solo album, the excellent "Backwards into the Backwood", and 9 years after the last Farmers Market album, Stian Carstensen will release a new album this autumn. But now he...
What Chris wrote when asked about it was: well, a big chunk of it is on 'concerts' already and there are good live versions of all the other pieces we played in the 18CD henry cow redux box, so i'm...
Do you know who will be releasing it? It won't be ReR/Cutler, it seems. He says that the rest of that concert, which is written material, is already available in good versions elsewhere.
I think the abrupt ending of Lament is a great plus. Live versions of the same sound a bit lame in comparison. I also like the effect when the tape runs out on The Mincer.
I almost agree with Mr....
Robert Wyatt: Pigs... (In There) (about soon-to-be food)
The Satan Rock version: Shining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0j4WkoDrtg
Shameless self promotion here: My Henry Cow book was published by ReR Megacorp/November Books earlier this year, if anyone should be interested. My book concentrates on the music, with musical...
I had to listen to these albums again. And you are right: This is superb!
Some trivia: The first record, Sirens & Silences/Work Resumed On The Tower, specifies the exact dates of recording, but...
Cutler is releasing a new book soon: https://bit.ly/2xuUwYr
I am not sure if the content of that CD is final yet, or if Cutler plans to release even more CDs. Just a few weeks ago he asked if I had some concert tapes which hasn't already been released. Which...
The original version of the thesis was available from my homepage at the university (NTNU). It might be there still.
I did read Storløkken's thesis, yes. Very good!
The plan for my thesis is to...
That's me. I was hoping to publish an English translation of my MA thesis. It was basically finished last year. Cutler has read it, made corrections, comments and made it more readable. But I am...
It is a remix, not a remaster or reconstruction. So obviously the levels and panning is different. But they haven't removed voices or instruments or found something that wasn't there on the original...
Who knows what the Beatles intended to begin with? My guess is that they intended to have the best sound possible. But the equipment they were working on had limitations, most importantly, they had...
I have listened to the 5.1 mix twice and the demos and session takes once. Is it worth the price? For me, definitely. The 5.1 mix sounds fantastic. They haven't gone wild with panning effects or...
There are links to interesting interviews with William Sharp from their website: http://biotamusic.com/articles.html. Among other things they talk about the change of format from LP to CD in the 1994...
I can't see that Rackabones was made for the LP format more than their other releases. They only did LPs at that time. The early Mnemonists/Biota albums were half music and half visual art, and the...
Has Rackabones ever been released on CD? I haven't seen Awry or Biota on CD either. I agree that Rackabones is one of their best albums. It is also quite different from their other albums.
He was obviously a very productive composer. It seems like he wrote more music in a couple of decades than many others produce in a lifetime.
Also check out Henry Brant's orchestration of this, called A Concord Symphony. There are two recordings of this, and one of them has 5.1 surround sound. I haven't heard that version yet, but it seems...
Ives has been one of my favourite composers since the early 1980's. He explored atonality before Schoenberg, microtonality before anyone else, polytonality, polyrhythms, poly anything, like having...
I ordered this just for the 5.1 mix. I agree that The Beatles were so good that audiophile equipment isn't really necessary. So the original stereo version is probably OK if stereo is all you want. ...
I agree. But you should also check out another Swede, Jimmy Ågren. His music is also very Beefheart influenced. Best albums are probably Glass Finger Ghost and Close Enough For Jazz. He also made an...
I just ordered it from Amazon France at EUR104, including postage. They were cheaper than the other Amazons this time.
My favourites are Trout Mask, Lick My Decals Off and Bat Chain Puller (the original version). The latter hasn't been mentioned here, but it is really good. IMO much better than Shiny Beasts.
I haven't heard a Beatles cover that is better than the original either. I hate most of them. I can accept covers that don't try to copy their style and make it something completely different. I...
I had to listen through the whole interview. Very interesting! The first statement ever from Cotton about his years in The Magic Band. I am also surprised to learn that he is still working on music...
This track and similar from the same trio is available on one of Gasull’s solo albums, Punta Turment. The title there is El Califa Enamorat. Check his website www.feliugasull.com
Has anybody heard "200 motels, the suites", with Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salinen from 2013? I think it is pretty good.
Ives left an uncompleted symphony, The Universe Symphony, which has been completed based on his sketches by Johnny Reinhard. This symphony combines all of his most radical ideas, like spatialisation,...
They sell all their CD's directly from their website: www.marcoeur.com. All but Sports and Percussions is available.
This album is a hybrid CD/SACD with 5.1 sound. And the Goebbels piece is my favourite on the album.