Archive for June, 2008
Morton Feldman Primer – Vol 2 2
For Samuel Beckett (1987)
Morton Feldman
1. 51:30
The Orchestra Of The S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Conductor
Recorded January 11, 2000, Brooklyn NY.
Tarentel – Live Edit: Nosferatu 7
Edit of Soundtrack To F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu recorded live in the Phyllis Wattis Theater at the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, Jan. 2007.
Jefre Cantu Ledesma – Electric Guitar, Electronics, Tapes, Gong
Tony Cross – Harmonium, Violin, Electronics, Vocals
Steve Dye – Bass Clarinet, Homemade instruments
Danny Grody – Electric Guitar, Turntable
Jim Redd – Percussion, Electric Guitar, Electronics, Vocals
Root Blog Mix – Vol. 1 – Freedom Shapes! 2
01. East New York Ensemble De Music – Ti-Ti
02. Max Roach – Garvey’s Ghost
03. Philip Cohran And The Artistic Heritage Ensemble – El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
04. Clifford Thornton & The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra – O Desayo
05. Marion Brown – Once Upon A Time
06. Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe – Duo Exchange (Pt. 2)
07. Alice Coltrane – A Love Supreme
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass Rehearsal – 1970 3
01. Run Of The Mill
02. Art Of Dying
03. Everybody, Nobody
04. Wah Wah
05. Window, Window
06. Beautiful Girl
07. Beware Of Darkness
08. Let It Down
09. Tell Me What Happened To You
10. Hear Me Lord
11. Nowhere To Go
12. Cosmic Empire
13. Mother Devine
14. I Don’t Want To Do It
15. If Not For You
16. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
17. All Things Must Pass
18. Old Brown Shoe
19. Something
20. I Me Mine
Animal Collective – Brother Sport 5
Yeah I know, I’ve posted about Animal Collective before, but there is no denying that these guys are doing shit that sounds unlike anything anyone else is doing. And it fucking rocks, this song especially. Nevermind the corny intro vid, just hit the beats son, hard.
John Luther Adams 1
Big ups to Greg Davis for turning us onto the work of John Luther Adams via his always entertaining radio show last week (tune in thu. 2-4 EST). Sweet epic times from this dude that calls Alaska home. The music sorta sounds like it…The New Yorker did a pretty informative article on him a few weeks back that’s definitely worth checking out as well.
Among Red Mountains – mp3
The Light That Fills the World – mp3
Morton Feldman Primer – Vol 1 2
Rothko Chapel (1971)
Morton Feldman
1. 9:07
2. 4:35
3. 2:57
4: 4:38
5: 2:44
UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus
David Abel – Viola
Karen Rosenak – Celeste
William Winant – Percussion
California EAR Unit
Recorded October 1990, Marin County California.
To a large degree, my choice of instruments (in terms of forces used, balance and timbre) was affected by the space of the chapel as well as the paintings. Rothko’s imagery goes right to the edge of his canvas, and I wanted the same effect with the music – that it should permeate the whole octagonal-shaped room and not be heard from a certain distance. The result is very much what you have in a recording – the sound is closer, more physically with you than in a concert hall.
-Morton Feldman
-Morton Feldman