aworks ordered list :: top five for today /pre-baroque/

1. Musique Bulgare – Taksim & Dance. Jordi Savall
2. Melody Day (Four Tet Remix). Caribou
3. Love Cry. Four Tet
4. The National Anthem. Radiohead
5. Le Chant Des Fauves. Tinariwen

No interesting jazz or American classical music today...The Jordi Savall album, The Forgotten Kingdom, is classifed by lala as "Pre-Baroque." I've not heard that as a classification term before but sign me up as I continue to listen to non-vocal music earlier than say, Gabrieli...On first listen, the new Four Tet album, There Is Love in You, strikes me as too sweet and yet the remix of Caribou I like so much is in fact sweet, in a ringing, singing kind of way. Love Cry appears to not have this quality despite vocals...The National Anthem is a somewhat challenging track although a comparsion with Stockhausen I've heard made seems a stretch...Tinariwen reminds me of slow, rhythmic alternative guitar rock as in Soundgarden but I'm not prepared to justify that observation.

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top five today :: 01/27/10