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Post by jk on Apr 25, 2024 14:55:19 GMT -5
Wonderful bell sounds, probably courtesy of Emil Richards, abound on "Pisces – The Peace Piper", the hypnotic closing track on The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds, which I bought at the time of its release in 1967 on the strength of hearing this track and the album opener, "Aries – The Fire-Fighter", on John Peel's radio show: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zodiac:_Cosmic_Sounds
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Post by jk on Apr 28, 2024 3:42:01 GMT -5
This is only slightly off-topic... The main subject of a recent online exchange I had with another music enthusiast was the glass harmonica, an instrument I only knew about from the Mozart connection (he wrote for it on at least two occasions). It seems it was seriously in vogue for a while, slipped from favour and is now back with a bang, so to speak, with the likes of Damon Albarn putting its ethereal sounds to use. I was looking for live footage of the glass harmonica as part of an ensemble and this video fits the bill perfectly. Here is Mozart's Adagio and Rondo for Glass Harmonika, Flute, Oboe, Viola and Violoncello, KV 617, played by Christa Schönfeldinger (glass harmonica), Maria Beatrice Cantelli (flute), Paul Maier (oboe), Axel Kircher (viola) and Floris Fortin (cello): thelistenersclub.com/2020/01/17/mozart-and-the-glass-armonica/
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Post by jk on May 1, 2024 4:54:06 GMT -5
Time to drift away on eighty-plus minutes of jangly stuff courtesy of Bull of Heaven, probably the most radical act in the entire history of pop. From their roman numeral series of 2009, this is "VII": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_of_Heaven_(band)
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Post by jk on May 17, 2024 4:50:49 GMT -5
I bought two LPs of music by Edgard Varèse (1883–1965) during the last year of the composer's life. One LP began with Ionisation, probably the most extreme composition in a body of work characterized by extremes. It was written for 13 percussionists playing some 40 instruments, only three of which have a fixed pitch. These enter at the very end to stunning effect. I've compiled a collage of the last 17 bars for players 10–13, not least to show that what the chimes, keyboard glockenspiel and piano are doing is meticulously notated and anything but random: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionisation_(Var%C3%A8se)Attachments:
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