aworks #musicdiaryproject :: april 6, 2011

Cover of Thelonious Monk

Day 3 of this week's Music Diary Project:

1. *String Quartet No.1. Complete String Quartets of Leon Kirtchner Kirchner. Boston Composers Quartet
2. *String Quartet No. 2
3. *String Quartet No. 3

I remain enamored of these quartets, including the Pulitzer-winning Third that includes a part of (for?) electronic tape.


4. *Ripples Through Pitch Space. Carl McTague
5. *Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are. Live at the Jazz Workshop. Thelonious Monk

I've worked out a formula for determining which Monk recordings I like best. They need to have a catch and clever melody, Monk's piano solo needs to be emphatic, and the tenor saxophone needs to be well-recorded. 


6. *String Quartet No. 1. Complete String Quartets of Leon Kirchner. Boston Composers Quartet
7. *Setting Sun. The Saint soundtrack. Chemical Brothers.
8. *Etudes Op. 8. Scriabin Piano Works. Marta Deyanova
9. *Music for Marcel Duchamp. Shutter Island soundtrack. John Cage - Philip Vandre
10. Electric Counterpoint. The Cinematic Orchestra - Late Nite Tales. Steve Reich
11. Atari Ajanaku. Ju Ju Roots: 1930's-1950's. Jolly Orchestra
12. Bloom. The King of Limbs. Radiohead
13. Morning Mr Magpie
14. *Little By Little
15. Feral
16. Lotus Flower
17. *Little By Little

I was late in buying the new Radiohead release. I like the instrumental part of these songs but I may suffer from Thom Yorke vocal malaise (his and mine). 


18. Endlessly. Dark Hope. Renee Fleming. rdio
19. No One's Gonna Love You
20. Oxygen
21. Today
22. Intervention

Tim Mangan's post ( "She didn't embarrass herself (a triumph in itself), but neither did she really get down.") reminds me to listen again to this attempt at pop, for better or worse. By the way, that last song is an Arcade Fire cover.


23. *Embroidery. Songs for the Ten Voices of the Two Prophets. Terry Riley. rdio
24. *Eastern Man
25. Chorale of the Blessed Day

Terry Riley vocals are an acquired taste, and it took awhile but I'm there...


26. To My Son. Solos and Duos. Andrew Imbrie - Aki Takahashi
27. Crystal Drops. Hi Kyung Kim - Aki Takahashi
28. Melody for Gayageum. Andrew Imbrie - Aki Takahashi
29. Duet for Two Friends
30. Mukashi Mukashi (Once Upon A Time)
31. Till the World Ends. Britney Spears. Vevo
    
    The song is ok and I have nothing against faux-apocalyptic dance videos but I did laugh near the end when Britney came out of the manhole into the sunlight. 


32. It's Like Reaching for the Moon. A Portrait of an Artist 1935-1948. Billie Holiday
33. *I Have the Moon, You Have the Internet. Yesterday and Today. The Field
34. *68 States. D-Sides. Gorillaz.
35. *[I'm Not Your] Steppin' Stone. More of the Monkees
36. *Lotus Blossom. Quiet Kenny. Kenny Dorham
37. *La Fiesta. Flowers. Chick Corea - Arturo Stalteri
38. One for Jarman. Certain Blacks. Art Ensemble of Chicago

Tracks from my rdio "collection."

Favorites with an asterisk. The full diary: April 4 April 5