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- First Essay. Samuel Barber. Jean Guihen Queyras, Pascal Rophé, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI - Samuel Barber: Concerto per piano - 3 Essays
- Dollars & Cents. Radiohead. Amnesiac (Collector's Edition)
- Resonance Alloy. Keeril Makan. David Shively - Target. /deserving wider recognition/
- Channel 1 Suite. Buddy Rich Big Band. Jazz Drumming Legends
- Portrait of Mahalia Jackson. Duke Ellington. New Orleans Suite
- We Speak of Deep Night. Roger Kleier, Annie Gosfield. Deep Night, Deep Autumn
- Sabali. Amadou & Mariam. Welcome to Mali
- Piano Quintet. Chester Bicardi. In Time's Unfolding
- Sing (Extended Mix). Four Tet. Sing. /deserving lesser recognition despite my four tet fandom and sf gig later in october/
- Companion Piece (for Morton Feldman). Chester Bicardi. In Time's Unfolding
- WTC 9/11. Steve Reich. Reich : WTC 9/11 EP
Uh, the Reich piece was in my rdio queue but is no longer available for streaming, so I've still never heard it. I find streaming restrictions annoying, Nonesuch Records, but removing what I thought I was already allowed to listen to is worse. Rephrasing, I follow the law and I spend too much money on music, but surprising the consumer can't be good.
I'm headed to Amoeba/SF tomorrow but fortunately, will likely find other selections to add to my bricks and mortar legacy media shopping basket.
Interrupting my attempt at nobility, I'll speak a moment about guilty pleasures. Although I don't and won't ever subscribe to Showtime on cable, I watched Season 1 of Californication on Netflix streaming. Then, although not as instantly gratified since it was not available on my computer and involved frequent inbound and outbound post office transactions, I watched season 2 and 3 via Netflix DVD. And then I learned that Seasons 4 and 5 are not available at all on Netflix.
Not optimal but at least understandable. Hmm, maybe I'll buy my own copy of Season 4 tomorrow.
I haven't precisely zeroed in on it yet, but there's a lesson here about the abundance of interesting music versus the limited amount of video I care about versus the $112/month I continue to reliably shovel to Comcast. So, I'm still sorting through what I expect and what I will or will not pay for to satisfy the family's media consumption. There are bigger problems in life, of course.
By the way, the Keeril Makin recording is on Starkland, which also has interesting recordings like Ellen Burmeister playing Vincent Persichetti and Bimsten: Larkin Grifford's Harmonica. The latter includes Philip Bimstein's EatDrinkGambleSex which could be the theme song to Californication except that David Duchovny character doesn't gamble, at least through season 3...
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