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Cover of Giacinto Scelsi
And speaking of drone, the only La Monte Young track on rdio is For Brass on an interesting recording, Roots of Drone. Young, John Cage, John Lee Hooker, Shostakovich, Sam Cooke, Muddy Waters, Ravi Shankar, Giacinto Scelsi, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, Miles Davis...
I used to think that the music of Young was as radical as could be but this recording is good at making the link to out-there drone music.
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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...
It Is Time is also a new release and interesting. The composer:
It Is Time marshals the virtuosity of the individual members of So to speed, slow, warp, celebrate and mourn our perceptions of time. Each of the four sections of the piece is a mini concerto for one of the players.
I do wish more of the Cantaloupe catalog was streamable on rdio.
I'm listening to John Mackey's Turbine from an album Stravinsky & Friends. I'm not particularly a liker of Stravinsky so we'll see how the album goes. Ursula Oppens is one of the artists on the recording.
I'm also trying what appears to be the new music feature on the redesigned Facebook (I accidentlly just typed that as "resigned Facebook." Anyway...). So far, so meh. All I've seen is a Music link at the top of the Facebook page. If I click on that, I get a search box. If I enter John Mackey, I get to select a music service to use: YouTube, Rdio, or MP3s. Then I can click on a particular track and it creates a new Facebook post with the appropriate player. Presumably, tomorrow's official roll-out of Facebook's music integration will offer more features than just a shortcut for posting from a music site...
