Album of the Evening

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You know that Curtis education paved a bright future when you can get by using this as an album cover.  Whatever artistic effect was intended requires being 10' away or you just see pixels and square edges.  

 

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I should note that this is an excellent (studio) recording from their time as 'Ensemble-In-Residence at NPR.  

 

Would be interested to see reception, not going break my streak of older discs, new Artemis Quartet Shostakovich release garners.  There are multiple others here whose balliwick this more closely aligns with.  

 

 

 

 

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An album that spawned an interesting and unexpected conversation here on the outright utility and meaning of jawn.  You young kids hanging out in clubs picking up all the latest lingo!

 

 

Realized I'd never heard a single track off this album that wasn't a remix.  In fact, an artist approved remix became the de facto version of everything on the album.  Disquieting how lifeless the studio versions are in comparison to how much further the same musical elements are turned up in the semi-official techno-rock versions everyone actually listened to.

 

The xx

 

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6 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

Where does “jawn” come from? “The consensus is that it came from ‘joint,’ and from New York"

 

From smoking too many joints is the most likely origin.  Certainly came to prominence in some indiscriminate East coast location. 

 

Hella sick jawn boi... and so on among the less well spoken social elements that lay claim to overusing new words until they lose respectable usage.  A handful of years back it was less widely appreciated.  Someone closer to ground zero could more accurately comment on how fashionable the term jawn is.  For the purpose of our conversation there are no negative connotations, but it is past its sell by date.

 

 

Interesting very low DR disc someone gave me their promotional copy of.  Getting my "dark" albums out of the way before you animals litter the next page with sin.

 

 

 

Bob Moses 

Days Gone By

 

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Not shy about saying the modern meaning of this holiday is about entertaining fireworks first and the need to remember masses of our recently dead who made that so gratefully diminishing every year.  Discouraging focus on the evil of man.

 

Single layer SACD Special Expanded Edition.  

 

 

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Thought this was interesting when I came across it.  Couple weeks later curiosity got the better of me. 

 

1982 German import CD (photo is from LP).

 

 

@EuroChamp the redhead in back certainly looks bewitching enough she could've parked her broom next to the stage door.

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The pretty out there selection groans are justified here, mostly.  Unlike my previous post of Armenian Lullabies this was aimed at young children being spoonfed versions of lullabies from other countries.  A few tracks were stunning accapella (Norway) or perfectly nuanced sweet dreams (Hungary) that were a very enjoyable end to a late night.  

 

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Where have all the prudes gone that used to hold court over posts in here?  👅

 

 

 

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Perfect on a mercifully cool day.  

 

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Before the subject completely drops.  Sexing up classical music for widespread commercial success and the gosh darn kids taking an interest that opens up the complete catalog for them.  Let's check in on what Sony has conspired to release recently from modern classical composers.

 

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, sphinxsix said:

Beethoven's 9th Finale be performed by an orchestra and rappers instead of a choir

 

Yuja is, let's say, more lithe than breathtakingly beautiful.  Aspects of which could be said to come through a recording of her playing.  For all intents and purposes this is a successful modern update to well established repertoire.  She changes nothing by adding life into her performances.

 

What you appear to be contemplating after witnessing the video I posted is confusion.  A "Con" leading you into believing a "Fusion" could have the least amount of merit.  You'd be fooling yourself by committing to pursuit of something many times removed from even the low standing of derivative works.  Simply because nothing had been created.

 

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4 hours ago, EuroChamp said:

I was really curious and I wanted to understand, why you in the Netherlands get a different (better) cover

 

Negative elevation and terminally flat terrain.  Anything that gives a slight rise would be naturally considered life affirming.  

 

Before anyone gets upset.  I'm quite fond of this country's people, cuisine, and by far cycling in the many varieties it exists.  Would not care to live there.

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Should have posted that in a new thread.  

 

The Flower album was meant to be humorous by offending/titillating advocates of a few musical genres.  Any notice of serious musicianship went out the window as soon as that video started playing.

 

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Speaking of cross-genre stretches by serious musicians.

 

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@rumpelstiltskin left the site over a similar conversation.  My part in it being pointing out the lack of conflict free, or at least lacking in heavy dramatic elements tied to life experiences, rap/hip hop.  Which was not disputing his ability to see or hear positivity.  I suspect other elements on the site played a larger part, but it was unfortunate.

 

 

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10 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

...and now back to the Album of the Evening.

 

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The starstruck will be deflated to discover the composition penned by one Karasis instead of a Kardashian and Senator Paul Simon selected over the folk singer to provide narration.  😱

 

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Awful title, reasonably proficient. 2 disc overview of early to mid 90s Decca recordings.  Complemented by Christmas in late July.

 

 

 

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"L1's five tracks focus on themes provided by a natural phenomenon in gravitational physics known as Lagrangian points. The title itself refers to the point in space where a satellite can fall in synchronous orbit with the earth around the sun, caught between the two gravitational pulls and never falling out of sync."

 

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Latin was an unexpectedly good SACD.  Finally got around to picking up another album by this quartet.

 

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Looking around for a specific remix of a London Grammar song yesterday lead to a live Mazzy Star performance, posted in song of the day, instead.  Ended up deciding to look at slightly newer and less overexposed material last night.

 

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