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Post by Sordel on Dec 25, 2007 18:48:51 GMT -5
As expected, Santa brought me Naked City: The Complete Recordings ... but to make my listening dilemmas all the more profound, the postman brought IAO and Heliogabalus on Christmas Eve. It all made for very strange Christmas programming around the Christmas tree ...
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Post by Offering on Dec 26, 2007 4:02:05 GMT -5
As expected, Santa brought me Naked City: The Complete Recordings ... but to make my listening dilemmas all the more profound, the postman brought IAO and Heliogabalus on Christmas Eve. It all made for very strange Christmas programming around the Christmas tree ... Thats a hell of a Xmas listen.......For me, Balan and Songs From The Hermetic Theater the choice picks this holiday......With more to follow..... |
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Post by Offering on Dec 26, 2007 14:19:15 GMT -5
Just oredered Filmworks XV - Protocols Of Zion....
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Post by Sordel on Jan 9, 2008 9:26:36 GMT -5
The Masada concert from the 50th Birthday Celebration series arrived in the post today: only my second purchase from that series (after the Bar Kokhba sextet). I really love it already, and it makes a pleasant change from my recent listening.
Put it this way: I had listened to IAO and Heliogabalus on headphones today before Masada arrived, and I was about ready for a change! ;D
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Post by Offering on Jan 9, 2008 10:31:44 GMT -5
The Masada concert from the 50th Birthday Celebration series arrived in the post today: only my second purchase from that series (after the Bar Kokhba sextet). I really love it already, and it makes a pleasant change from my recent listening. Put it this way: I had listened to IAO and Heliogabalus on headphones today before Masada arrived, and I was about ready for a change! ;D Cool....ALL the 50th Birthday Series are good IMO. |
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Post by Sordel on Jan 9, 2008 10:58:23 GMT -5
Cool....ALL the 50th Birthday Series are good IMO. I doubt that I would find them so! Every now and again I give the extracts on amazon.com a listen and a lot of those volumes sound way too leftfield for me ...  |
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Post by Offering on Jan 10, 2008 0:28:53 GMT -5
Cool....ALL the 50th Birthday Series are good IMO. I doubt that I would find them so! Every now and again I give the extracts on amazon.com a listen and a lot of those volumes sound way too leftfield for me ... Well, yeah, I can understand that! I guess people that enjoy Masada / Bar Kokhba wont necessarely dig Hemophilliac or the Zorn / Eye Duo...... |
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Post by HolgerregloH on Jan 10, 2008 8:50:58 GMT -5
Cool....ALL the 50th Birthday Series are good IMO. I doubt that I would find them so! Every now and again I give the extracts on amazon.com a listen and a lot of those volumes sound way too leftfield for me ... The problem with the samples on amozon and other pages is the short time of it. 30 seconds are not enough at all. Especially for 10 or 20 minute songs (Painkiller, Hemophliliac...). Masada and Bar Kokhba are one of my Zorn-favourite, but from time to time is a freaky&crazy album from NaniNani or Hemophiliac very exciting. You can hear every time other things on it, the experience is changing. I love his insane stuff, but I listen to that stuff not often. |
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Post by Sordel on Jan 10, 2008 10:46:39 GMT -5
The problem with the samples on amazon and other pages is the short time of it. 30 seconds are not enough at all. Especially for 10 or 20 minute songs (Painkiller, Hemophliliac...). Well, I don't rely on the samples, but together with the reviews they do provide a lot of useful information. For me, Zorn has two extremes: deady dull at one end of the spectrum & too "out there" at the other end. I liked The Circle Maker when I first heard it, but I find it soporific now and rarely listen to it. On the other hand, most of Heretic, to me, is just rubbish. God help me if i'm ever such a Zorn fan that I find myself justifying this stuff. And to make matters worse, sometimes he's deadly dull and too "out there" all at once: most of Absinthe, for example. When I was sixteen I would have puzzled over this until I almost convinced myself that I liked it, but these days I don't find it to be a failing in myself to say that something falls outside my range of musical taste. The fact that I enjoy Heliogabalus already puts me in a tiny minority of music listeners without my having to go that step further and buy Merzbox. With Zorn I feel that I've swallowed the hook and most of the line, but that's no reason to gobble up the sinker as well. |
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Post by HolgerregloH on Jan 10, 2008 12:29:22 GMT -5
With Zorn I feel that I've swallowed the hook and most of the line, but that's no reason to gobble up the sinker as well. ;D Me too! Very nice explaination. |
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Post by Offering on Jan 10, 2008 14:52:23 GMT -5
The problem with the samples on amazon and other pages is the short time of it. 30 seconds are not enough at all. Especially for 10 or 20 minute songs (Painkiller, Hemophliliac...). Well, I don't rely on the samples, but together with the reviews they do provide a lot of useful information. For me, Zorn has two extremes: deady dull at one end of the spectrum & too "out there" at the other end. I liked The Circle Maker when I first heard it, but I find it soporific now and rarely listen to it. On the other hand, most of Heretic, to me, is just rubbish. God help me if i'm ever such a Zorn fan that I find myself justifying this stuff. And to make matters worse, sometimes he's deadly dull and too "out there" all at once: most of Absinthe, for example. When I was sixteen I would have puzzled over this until I almost convinced myself that I liked it, but these days I don't find it to be a failing in myself to say that something falls outside my range of musical taste. The fact that I enjoy Heliogabalus already puts me in a tiny minority of music listeners without my having to go that step further and buy Merzbox. With Zorn I feel that I've swallowed the hook and most of the line, but that's no reason to gobble up the sinker as well. Good point man. Its great that different people like different aspects of his work, thats what its all about....... I must admit to pretty much enjoying most of what he has done though! |
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Post by Sordel on Jan 14, 2008 12:20:01 GMT -5
Masada Live in Jerusalem arrived today: great recording of Joey's drums. It may be my last Zorn purchase until the new releases come out.
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Post by acephale on Jan 15, 2008 6:26:56 GMT -5
just received Filmworks XIX and Environment for Sextet (Bradfield, Centazzo, Kondo, Chadbourne, Zorn, Cora)
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Post by noddy on Jan 15, 2008 12:46:48 GMT -5
Not a purchase but I have just been privileged to hear an advance of Filmworks XIX a week early. Buy it folks, you will NOT be disappointed.
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Post by Sordel on Jan 15, 2008 13:40:21 GMT -5
Not a purchase but I have just been privileged to hear an advance of Filmworks XIX a week early. Buy it folks, you will NOT be disappointed. Tell us more!  |
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