It's again time for the week of music diary logging. Repeat-worthy tracks are in bold.
Bernard Herrmann
- Bernard Herrmann at Fox Vol 1: Tender Is the Night. Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. I don't know the film Tender Is the Night but the soundtrack reminds me of a pre-Hitchcock score by Herrmann without the life-threatening drama but also without too much schmaltz.
Lou Harrison
- Scenes from Cavafy: Soedjatmoko Set. Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan. Scenes from Cavafy. I think the popularity of Harrison's music is on the rise as we learn to value his gentle take on this new Asian/American world. These are not favorite tracks, though.
Steve Roach
- WXPN 88.5 Star's End 30th Anniversary Anthology: Star Offerings
Newcleus
- Machine Soul: An Odyssey Into Electronic Dance Music: Jam on Revenge. My least favorite track of the day; kiddie voices on top of less than exciting electric instruments.
Matthew Shipp
- Art of the Improviser: Module (Live). Wholetone (Live). These mildly remind me of McCoy Tyner.
Harry Partch
- Bitter Music. Bitter, a bit crazy, and interesting. "Bitter Music is basically a sort of road movie, way before On the Road, but with many similarities. Only a very small portion of this set is music. Partch’s self-portrait is not always complimentary, but is brutally honest, including references to his homoerotic character." Audiophile Audition
Eric Dolphy
- Iron Man: Ode to C.P. C.P. is presumably Charlie Parker.
Ezra Sims
- Musing and Reminiscence - Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Concert Piece.
Sonny Sharrock
- Monkey-Pockie-Boo: Monkey-Pockie-Boo
Robert Sirota
- Tryptych: Chiara String Quartet.
William Carlos Williams
- White Women: The Vast Canvas from End to End.
Elinor Warren
- Good Morning, America!: The Crystal Lake
Peter Garland
- Waves Breaking - John Duykers: Roque Dalton Songs.
Wolfgang Rihm
- Orgelwerke: Bann, Nachtschwarmerei. Fantasie. Drei Fantasien Fur Orgel. Avant-garde organ is good.
Earle Brown
- Abstract Sound Objects - Sabine Liebner. Home Burial. Folio. Hopefully it is evident by now that today anyway, I'm not listeing to albums from to start to finish although on rdio at least, I've listened to about 200 total albums. For the record, yesterday I listened to 30 second clips of Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol. 1 by Steffen Schleiermacher on rdio. That was too fragmented, even for me. And Folio is by far the most sparse music on this list.
Keith Fullerton Whitman
- Occlusion (Rue de Bitche). Via Total Vibration.
Ferruccio Busoni
- Marc-André Hamelin. Piano Concerto. Via The Rest Is Noise. Note that I had to look up Busoni's first name for the precise spelling.
Jorge Grundman
- Brodsky Quartet. God's Sketches. rdio. I don't yet have the courage to listen to the second work on this album - Surviving a Son's Suicide.
Karl Mallden
- World of Vice. It's new releases night on rdio and not many classical recordings of note so I'm checking out other recordings. This is a new release of dance music and bears no relation to the actor Karl Malden, as far as I can tell.
Silversun Pickups
- Neck of the Woods: Out of Breath.
The Gaslight Anthem
- "45"
Damon Albarn
- Dr Dee: The Dancing KIng. Includes birds at the end. WTF.
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