Jueves 28 Sep 2006, 22:54
Oh, funny, It's 4am and I'm still wide awake. Damn. Which reminds me 2 am, oh so fine. Pity I'm 2 hours late. Anyway. Nothing incredible to advice, but there's something fine anyway.
Very fine electronic music. One of the discover I made through last.fm, who continously proposed this band to me, and it was right. I'm quite enjoying it: right enough experimental without getting to hard to listen to without much concentration.
Ok, I'm late for the Gogol Bordello hype. Ok, they're nice and funny, but when looking to cabaret I still remain more an afficionado of Dresden Dolls. For the rest… interesting style mashup, but I'm not getting so excited. Am I so harsh towards them because I missed their concert when they were in Bologna?
I listened too little times to this album to give an overall impression, but I think I will get to like it quite a lot in time. It's that kind of album which the first time you hear it you ask yourself what are they moaning to, the second time you're humming along them, the third you discover one hundred subtleties you missed first two times.
Ok, nice enough. But, honestly, I can't listen to all the album tracks subsequently: too uniform of a style.
- John Field nocturnes
Heard about them as the best nocturnes around. Mmm. Nice, that's true. But I wouldn't put them between the best ones for sure.
- Lamb of God stuff
Honestly, even if it's not my cup of tea (hello Spike…), I found some tracks which I liked. Then I read the lyrics. No, it's not my cup of tea.
Supersilent's 7 is a DVD, to speak the truth, but I have only the audio version. Damn, I've fallen in love with them. I'm not so much into this kind of freejazz-experimental stuff, but Supersilent are really too good not to make you be raptured by their improvisations!
How can you make 69 variations on a same theme (love), a so abused theme, without being boring or unimaginative? Old composers did tens of variations of a same theme without getting obnoxious, but you need a good mastery of your art, and The Magnetic Fields surely have. Lots of different styles, different tones, different instruments and singers. Lots of (usually very short) renditions of some aspect of love. For sure you won't like them all the same, but you can't avoid to love some of them too!
Incredibly famous, yet I hadn't listened to it yet. Wonderful, for sure, a bit on the "commercial" side but nonetheless really enjoyable. Moreover, how can I avoid to love Here to There, with its wonderful change in rhythms and simplicity?
Quite disappointing. I know the Tortoise of the Millions Now Living Will Never Die, and this has barely something in common with that. To a wonderful exploration in the synthetic sound world, they have substituted a bad mix between rock/pop and electro, which really don't fit them. Pity. Just an "easy listening" album with nothing really special in it.
Pretty good. Listened to because of GiampaoloM journals, and got really satisfied. A pretty easy electro album which brings you some unheard sounds and combinations, never boring at all.
Yet another electro album near the postrock wave which I find very, very valuable. Even if it is not too hard to listen too even at first listening, it contains lots of layers and particulars which I heard too little times to be able to comment about.
Don Caballero are quite an assurance of good quality, and I think that American Don is between the best thing they've ever done. Keeping they typical timbric and style reference, they are able to reinvent themselves all the time and never get boring. Just hear I never liked you, its strikingly simple riff which you would listen to all day, and the genial reprise: perfect! If math rock is that emotional, it's good to me.
Always heard about Foetus, but never listened to. Then, you listen to it and understand where lots of music got its crossroad, which determined evolutions and regressions of more than one genre. Musical milestone, according to me, either you like it or not.
- György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments
May I be damned if I can tell you exactly what kind of compositinal technique this guy uses. Very far from tonality, anyway.
Well, it's pretty rare I really like atonal stuff. Arnold Schönberg quite failed to me, Anton Webern did instead succeed quite a lot, Alban Berg did not score. These incredibly short lyrical pieces for violin (treated in an inenarrable way!) and soprano still remain a mistery to me. Sometimes I feel really caught by them, as if I suddenly understood what are they about and how they tell it, then I get completely out, and find them nonsense. I'm still wondering if I love them or hate them. In the meanwhile, I keep listening to them.
- György Ligeti's Études for Piano, Musica Ricercata
This man is a fucking genius. That's all I can say.
As I've already said, I'm not much into jazz. But this album is… err… how can I say it sithout getting lots of people offended… well… incredibly boring?
Much the same I said for Valende. First time is a "mmm", secondo time is a "perhaps", third time is a "I want to listen to it again".
I don't like to judge genres well-known-bands for genres I don't like without thinking about it quite a lot. Well, I'm sure I heard some stuff on MTV quite a lot of years ago which Missy Eliott did and that was pretty fine. I suppose it wasn't on this album…
This is a guilt admission. Yes, I listen to this album. Kill me, alternative guys.
- Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie
Got the hit as my favourite Messiaen's composition. Main theme is simply wonderful!
Almost all good tracks, but too often lyrics get a bit too stupid. Really.
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "The Seasons"
Well, pleasant enough, but lots of months… well, they could have been skipped ;-P. Best one to me: Août, or Barcarolle.
What else could I expect from Doseone? Nothing less than a good album. Funny that I got in touch with Subtle much before rediscovering Doseone with its other project, 13 & God
Listened to his Violin and Viola concert. Nice, nice… not anything incredible, but nice enough.