Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
And I find Laurie's "United States" to be pretty consistently fascinating. Go figure.
[QUOTE=noisynoise;922268] It is finally getting a CD rerelease on August 30:
https://burningshed.com/godley-and-c..._category=true
mmm
I have it on cd for many years
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
I still have a two-tape, two and a half hours long version I made from the local library CD decades ago. It served me well for years. In addition to the Big Science material, there were also pieces that appeared on her later albums in different guises, like the faster (and Gabriel-less) version ”La langue d'amor”. Some of those different readings are interesting. I heard ”O Superman” first on this and its ending sounds so wonderfully gothic in the hall ambience that I was a bit disappointed with the more sterile (for effect, I think) studio version. I also liked some of the linking musical cues (”Rising Sun”) and spoken numbers (well, I had to include ”Finnish Farmers”, right?).
Having said that, I agree that as a whole it is indeed fascinating but I still think that there is quite a lot of stuff that doesn't seem to work when reduced to the record format. And I've never tried listening to the whole thing on one sitting.
Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate is a great movie. Very ambitious (maybe too much) and quite depressing, showing the dark side of the American dream. You have to watch the director’s cut to truly appreciate it. But be prepared it’s a (very) long movie !
Back on topic: I gave Consequences a a few listens years ago. Maybe I should revisit it, but I remember finding it very tedious. Another one of those "evolved" pieces of music I have no use for.
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
I love it, and have loved it since it came out in 1977 and was (amazingly) heavily featured on local radio, with promotional interviews from G&C and everything. I think the only way to take it is as a whole movie for the mind, maybe only listen to it once every couple of years. It's pretty amazing when you're stoned too ! Sonically there is some amazingly sophisticated recording experiments....the `Fire' section gives me chills, and The Flood is pretty amazing too....the `drowning' section at the end pretty frightening. I love the dialogue by Peter Cook, it's a real one man tour de force although some of the humour may be too `English' for some tastes I suppose. I love Walter's little nonsensical aphorisms, they make me chuckle to think of them..."you can't teach ducks to dance" ! I THINK he came up with the characters, but they obviously fit together as a microcosm (four conflicting forces) of what's happening outside with the elements spiralling out of control.
listening to this for the first time now and I only have one thought: lol
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...and kevin
I've been enjoying the Consequences podcast which is up to 24 episodes!!! Don't worry, most of the episodes are about 10cc and related projects, but they do spend the first seven episodes dissecting the album.
The latest episode is an interview with Kevin Godley about his recollections and thoughts on Consequences, I found it fascinating.
https://consequences.podbean.com/
-noisynoise
www.polarizedguru.com - 5-piece jazz fusion group
www.incandescentsky.com - inventive improvisational instrumental ensemble
Wanted to bump this one.
Picked up a copy and it's....diverse.
It's wonderful, and not all that hard to absorb because the full set is really three separate stage shows. Big Science has most of the songs, but the monologues and long instrumentals are really just as enjoyable. And there are jokes, which you don't really hear on Big Science.
I had the book version of United States out of the library once. It's a good guide to the piece. (In fact I find some of her lyrics funnier in print than set to music.)
The 2019 mini box set release on CD has, in addition to the three original discs, the Music From Consequences disc is just the songs and a couple of the sound design pieces. But I like Edited Highlights disc which mixes the songs, some of the sound design and some of the dialog, I think it hangs together well but doesn't lose the quirkiness of the full-length program.
-noisynoise
www.polarizedguru.com - 5-piece jazz fusion group
www.incandescentsky.com - inventive improvisational instrumental ensemble
Steve F.
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www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
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