Finally, Anton Ferdinand Titz comes via Elaine Fine, who may not share my opinion on how great rdio is for discovering new music. I still buy obscure stuff on CD and the occasional MP3 download but rdio streaming is now my default choice.
Dedette Lee Hill and Willard Robison's Old Folks shows up on jazzstandards.com.
Marriages is a new group. The following quote clarifies why I like it: "Formed as a splinter trio from Red Sparrowes - themselves an impressive instrumental group - Marriages' prime concern appears to be creating a sensation of slow movement."
I now know of Mieczyslaw Wienberg and coincidentally, Q2 will feature his Cello Concerto on The New Canon.
The only new item on my rdio repeat playlist is a movement from the Cello Concerto of Russian composer Mieczysław Weinberg. There's been a wealth of interesting sports events this week -- the Euro 2012 soccer tournament, Matt Cain's perfect game for the SF Giants, and the US Open in San Francisco this weekend -- so a little less focus on new listening. And the new Jimmy Fallon album was silly but not particularly repeat-worthy.
The current list:
Cello Concerto No. 20 - II. Moderato. Mieczysław Weinberg
Space Drift (Moog Generated Space Shuttle Ambience). White Noise Research - White Noise for Baby Soothing Sounds for Newborn Babies to Aid Sleep
Two months before his death in 1996, dispirited by Russia’s disregard for him and weakened by a long battle with Crohn’s disease, Weinberg converted to the Russian Orthodox Church.
Weinberg: “Many of my works are related to the theme of war. This, alas, was not my own choice. It was dictated by my fate, by the tragic fate of my relatives. I regard it as my moral duty to write about the war, about the horrors that befell mankind in our century.”
Four repeats from last week on this week's on repeat playlist. I'm still enamored of that white noise for babies album. Singer Susan Manoff is a name new to me.
The list in text form:
Space Drift (Moog Generated Space Shuttle Ambience). White Noise Research - White Noise for Baby
One more diary day to inflict to go. I've cleaned up the formatting of the music log. See below.
Still, this has been an interesting listening exercise so kudos to Sick Mouthy for the inspiration again. Because of this, I've refined how I listen and maintainplaylistsonrdio. No change for legacy media i.e. MP3s, though.
Quote of the day from stdout.be (via TightWind who correctly says that if you only read one thing this week, this is the one):
...people still find new music through Pitchfork or Rolling Stone, but services like Spotify and Rdio actually replace music journalism for many...People who like to read about music, not just find good music, are a niche audience. Reading about music just happened to be one of the few ways to explore new music before the web, together with mixtapes or radio, so reading is what you did...We’re living through a much more radical shift from narrative and stories and reporting to entirely different and entirely unrelated ways of sharing knowledge...Amp up storytelling and personality, because those things are irreplaceable.
I'm approaching 50% of my music coming from rdio rather than my locally owned and operated MP3s. Somehow, it feels like a different experience, more so than did CDs vs. MP3s (or CDs vs. LPs). The most recent symptom is that I have stopped going to the local record store (Rasputin in Mountain View) as a matter of habit. Still can't live without Amoeba, though.
A prior indication is when I quit buying Fanfare (or the occasional Gramophone or American Record Guide). I still read as many (free) niche music blogs as I can, though. The question is how much would I miss reading blog posts by professional music critics. Dunno.
Note that for the most part, it's not the social features of streaming that are causing this disruption. Right now, I can see on rdio exactly what the people I follow are currently listening to. Except for the guy gal who is listening to Cedar Walton and the musical sophisticate who for some reason is listening to Vanilla Fudge, it's not particularly interesting.
And as the local spouse would say, if I follow this to its logical conclusion, I'm only blogging for myself. Partly true.
Disclaimer: I still pay money for criticism via newsprint -- SF Chronicle (Joshua Kosman! Mick LaSalle!) and Wall Street Journal (Terry Teachout! Heidi Waleson!).
<aworks operational note: as i grind through my "on repeat" playlist, due to other activity, tonight's diary is not up to the usual discographic standards>
Philip Glass
Building. Knee 5. Scene 2 - Bed: Either the Tomato/Sony recording or the later one or both
Music in Similar Motion
String Quartet No. 4
Weather Report
Mysterious Traveler
Yet another baroque composer
Sonata XI
John Fahey
Sunflower River Blues: Pelt
The English Beat
Mirror in the Bathroom
Radiohead
Dollars & Cents
Pyramid Song: Matt Haimovitz, Christopher O'Riley
Eric Dolphy
Iron Man
Caribou
Melody Day (Four Tet Remix)
Lou Harrison
Marriage at the Eiffel Tower - March for the Marriage of Frank and Anne Wigglesworth
Philemon and Baukis
Largo Ostinao
Homage to Milhaud
Beatie Boys
Sabotage
Carl Stone
Banteay Srey 1991
Aaron Copland
Episode
Steve Reich
Different Trains
Charles Mingus
Hora Decubitus
Bob Dylan
Million Miles
Thelonious Monk et al
Abide with Me
Martin Bresnick
Wir Weben
John Cage
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs. Joan LaBarbara
