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aworks listening log :: albums #moondog #outofthecoma #monk

1. Thelonious Monk - Live 1961 (Stardust Records)
2. Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, James Tocco - Corigliano: Phantasmagoria (Remastered)  
3. Moondog - Rare Material 
4. Comus - Out of the Coma  
5. The Ruby Suns - Fight Softly

On Moondog: "Louis Hardin somehow managed to find the musical continuities between Bach, native american Sundances, be-bop, Stravinsky and yet still pursue his own musical paths and sound utterly unique."

Comus' Out of the Coma is the group's new album, four decades after their prior recording.

aworks listening log :: albums @thewiremagazine @CedilleRecords #luciferindub

1. Wire Tapper 17 
2. Gaudete Ensemble - Chicago Moves (Cedille Records)
3. No-Neck Blues Band - Parallel Easters
4. Peaking Lights - Lucifer
5. Peaking in Lights - Lucifer in Dub
6. Florian and Benjamin Feilmair. Busoni: Complete Works for Clarinet and Piano
7. Yo La Tengo - Fade #2013
8. Jordi Savall, Trevor Pinnock, Nederlands Bach Ensemble and others - Bach Edition Vol 16, Chamber Music Part: 10 
9. Dr. Lonnie Smith - The Healer 
10. The Academy Studio Orchestra - Soundtrack Music from the 2013 Academy Awards #2013
11. Birdy Nam Nam - Defiant Order EP #2013

I had the No-Neck Blues Band confused with La Monte Young's The Forever Bad Blues Band. Neither are particularly adherents of the traditional blues progression.

A review of Chicago Moves here.

I like Bach and Dr. Lonnie Smith, just not those recordings.

aworks listening log :: albums @sallywhitwell @theroyalbaths @carlstone

1. Sally Whitwell - Mad Rush: Solo Piano Music of Philip Glass 
2. Royal Baths - Better Luck Next Life
3. Carl Stone - Woo Lae Oak
4. Bill Ryan - Towards Daybreak #2013
5. Paul Hillier - In C
6. Christopher Hinterhuber - Rzewski & Bach: Variations #2013
7. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost

The video of Faster Harder by Royal Baths is mildly disturbing. I also like the first comment on that YouTube:

gNarLy cEe: brooklyn you're ugly!

Dare I say that I prefer the more relaxing piano music of Philip Glass as played by Sally Whitwell.

I'd put Carl Stone's Woo Lae Oak at the midpoint of that spectrum.

aworks listening log - albums :: #father #son #garyburton

1. Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Girls
2. Mountain Clear Water Remote. Bun-Ching Lam 
3. The New Crystal Silence. Chick Corea, Gary Burton 
4. Canzonas Americanas. Derek Bermel