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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 27 June 2015 CE
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Edited Jun 28, 2015, 11:05
Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 27 June 2015 CE
Jun 28, 2015, 07:08
Maldoror wrote:

Erwartung - Arnold Schönberg


That'll take the cobwebs away. Who's singing?

I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969-1970
Band Of Gypsys - s/t
Sly & The Family Stone - Fresh (UK cd with "wrong" mixes)
Trigger Hippy (yes, really) - s/t
Zimerman / Cleveland / Boulez - Ravel: Piano Concertos
Buckingham Nicks - s/t
Rush - Farewell To Kings
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Cross / Fripp - Starless Starlight
Anais Mitchell - Xoa
Charlotte Church - 1,2,3 & 4
David Byrne - Catherine Wheel
Richard Thompson - guitar, vocal
Don Cherry - Art Deco
Kronos Quartet - At the Grave of Richard Wagner
Grace Jones - Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions
HvK / Vienna - Bruckner #7
Spirogyra - Bells, Boots And Shambles

Two books to recommend -

Mick Houghton - I've Always Kept A Unicorn
The most illuminating Fairports / Sandy book by a country mile. It's pretty raw in places but doesn't make the mistake of painting Sandy and her fairly commonplace problems (body image issues, thwarted ambition, addiction, marital strife, PTSD, post natal depression) as one of Rock's tragic heroines. He doesn't for a moment pretend that her talent and creativity were fueled by those issues or that her lack of commercial success was anyone else's fault. The impression you get is that everyone around her was just doing their best with the hand dealt and she fell through the cracks. As Lou Reed would have said "it's called bad luck".

James Rhodes - Instrumental
It's largely a memoir about living with abuse and mental illness but he writes about classical music with an unusual clarity but without even thinking about dumbing down. Worth reading for the playlist and his commentary alone.

Disappointment of the week: THX1138 at the Barbican with live score from ADF. Dialogue and brilliant original sound design rendered all but inaudible by a poor sound mix that favoured the new score of guitar noodlings laid over occasional bursts of dub. Felt almost as sorry for the drummer and bass player as I did for the audience. Hopefully they will figure it out before they tour it as the movie deserves a lot better.
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