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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:19:32 +0100
From: flamerik@best.ms.philips.com
Subject: Re: A Fistful of Film Music
Doug McKay wrote:
> The Ennio Morricone Anthology.
> I like it too. It's a 2 CD set put out by Rhino in '95. I don't know if
> there are other collections I might have liked even more, though. There are
> a few selections I cringed at: specifically Joan Baez singing on two from
> the film Sacco & Vanzetti, and Jackie Eaton singing on one from The Ballad
> of Hank McCain. I could have done without any singing. It comes as an
> interruption, for me.
Although the best track on the album, IMO, is one that features singing, namely
"Il Ritorno di Ringo".
I've been looking out for Morricone compilations too, and this one is probably
the best when it comes to compiling Morricone's western and more well-known
stuff. Most compilations focus on his Sergio Leone stuff anyway. However, there are a few VERY good compilations out that focus on his work for (mostly) Italian
B-movies: thrillers, erotica, giallos. These compilations are the result of
the easy-tunes hype that swept the world about one and a half year ago. As long
as they are as brilliant as they are, I don't really care why they are released,
though. We should thank the easy hype, 'cause most of this would be totally
unavailable otherwise. Titles:
Mondo Morricone - compilation on the German Colloseum label.
More Mondo Morricone - another compilation on Colloseum. This one features the
whole of "Maddalena". A shortened version of this track is found on many
compilations, but this is the only time I've ever seen the 9:05 complete
version. Also has some really great thriller music.
Morricone A Go! Go! - 2CD on the Japanese Kiss label. I picked it up in Tokyo,
but it is available outside of Japan as well, at least in Europe. At a
ridiculous price, of course... Nevertheless, this has got to be my favorite
Morricone album, especially disc one. Opens with "Belinda May", which is
such a nice track that nothing can go wrong after that. A few tracks here
also appear on the Mondo albums, but who cares. Listen to "Tema From Eat It"
and all of sudden Bungle's "Violenza Domestica" makes sense. There's also
a Trovaioli A Go! Go! double album which, unfortunately, I haven't been able
to find yet.
If anyone knows any other compilations that I might have forgotten, I'd be glad
to find out...
Frankco.
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:45:52 +0100
From: flamerik@best.ms.philips.com
Subject: Musique Concrete
I totally agree with Caleb Deupree that it is virtually impossible to find
musique concrete. When I asked at my local "classical music" record store for
Parmegiani, they took out a catalogue as thick as a phone book, but the name
Parmegiani wasn't in it, so they couldn't order it. Since this stuff is so
hard to find, I wouldn't really know which recordings are essential - heck, I'm
not even sure of some of the stuff I have whether it is musique concrete or
electro-acoustic music or whatever. But, here's some of the stuff I happen to
like. I'm especially partial to the Edition RZ stuff, but these records mostly
don't have titles...
Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock - HO (Schimpfluch 25)
This has to be one of my all-time favorite albums, and probably the one that
changed my perception of music the most, if not entirely. I've heard other
stuff by Rudolf Eber/Runzelstirn, but this has to be the best. 69 tracks of
cut-ups, fucked up, blocks of sounds, silence, screams, noise blasts, etc.
It's incoherence makes it coherent again. Totally brilliant sound, amazing
conceptual artwork. Unfortunately, the thing is out of print.
Iancu Dumitrescu - Medium III/Cogito (Edition Modern ED.MN 1001)
I think this could be called electro-acoustic music, but I'm not sure.
Medium III is a piece for solo bass that will totally blow you away.
The most profound and scorching double bass sounds ever put to record.
This should be a reference CD for testing stereo systems. Originally
released on vinyl on the Edition RZ label, but re-released on CD on Edition
MN, with a couple of other cool pieces as well.
"album of musique concrete on Edition RZ"
This is an album of four or five Finnish musique concrete composers,
released on vinyl only on the Berlin-based Edition RZ label. Beautiful
sounds, taken from every-day life.
"the Iani Christou album on Edition RZ"
Much in the minimalist vein of Scelsi, exceptional stuff.
MB (Maurizio Bianchi)
I don't know if this qualifies at all. I have only one track of his, which
is among the best stuff I've ever heard (yeah, I like to exaggerate, sue me)
The piece is called "MB55" and features one instrument - some sort of
analogue keyboard, but I don't know which. Long drawn out sounds, very
beautiful. It's from the early 80s.
Nurse With Wound - Merzbild Schwet
Featuring the ominous "Futurismo", which sounds like it is designed to
accompany a dark Blake's 7 episode. Compelling stuff, to say the least.
Best NWW stuff I've heard, but I admit that I haven't heard all of it.
I've noticed that some of the more adventurous techno borders on
electro-acoustic music. I don't know if any of you are familiar with the
releases on the Berlin-based Basic Channel and Chain Reaction labels, but this
stuff is soooo close to electro-acoustic. I completed my Basic Channel
collection this weekend, and am now the proud owner of all the 9 12"-es released
on this label, each a classic in its own right. If you've ever heard the
"Radiance" or 12", you know what I'm talking about. The latest edition of The
Wire has a VERY good article on Chain Reaction, although I think Basic Channel
has released better stuff (but it is defunct now).
Since I'm such a sucker for this stuff, I'd like to know other people's
favorite stuff.
Frankco.
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:21:05 +1100
From: "Julian" <jcurwin@hartingdale.com.au>
Subject: Re: Cobra>>>Phlegm
> That'd probably be the performances of Cobra organised by Phlegm's Oren
> Ambarchi and Rob Avenaim in Sydney for the first What Is Music? festival
> (I'm guessing, of course). By that stage, I think they'd both played with
> Zorn in NY in some Radical Jewish Culture events: in any case, they'd met
> him, asked for permission to perform Cobra out here, and received
> instructions on its performance from him.
Wow, it's good to see a name that rings a bell. I actually jammed with that
Rob guy at a free improvisation thing called "Left Of Centre". I never
realised he was in Phlegm. Are they any good?
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 04:26:08 EST
From: Dgasque <Dgasque@aol.com>
Subject: Re: praxis
In a message dated 98-03-20 08:54:09 EST, you (cdeupree@interagp.com) wrote:
<< I'd have to cast my vote to the new Arcana, Arc of the Testimony, for
Buckethead's finest hour. This album has really grown on me, and
Buckethead makes a significant contribution to a very intense and
exhilarating album. >>
While the music and musicians here are truly outstanding, I can't understand
for the life of me why this set is recorded so damn loud. Distortion levels
are exceeded throughout, putting a damper on an otherwise excellent CD. Tony
Williams last recording deserved to sound better than this...
=dgasque=
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 04:26:35 EST
From: Dgasque <Dgasque@aol.com>
Subject: Re: musique concrete
In a message dated 98-03-21 23:01:34 EST, you (cdeupree@interagp.com) wrote:
<< Maybe I'm a minority of one, and many of you have collections of musique
concrete to parallel the complete Masadas. What would you consider
essential musique concrete? What recent purchases are interesting (or not)
and why? >>
The music of Un Drame Musical Instantaine should fit your listening request.
Unfortunately, the group has woefully poor distribution outside of Europe.
The only way I was able to obtain their early LPs was through Ultima Thule in
England. No doubt you've seen some of their later offerings in the Wayside
catalog on the Adda label. These later works are much more electronic in form
than the early stuff, which is more acoustic-based. I can see a lot of Masada
fans digging these earlier works.
Those interested may wish to try Mole Jazz in England. Their website URL is
their name-
http://www.molejazz.com/
=dgasque=
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:33:43 +0100
From: Julien Quint <Julien.Quint@xrce.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: juke/19
From ScottRussell <ScottRussell@scottishmedia.com>:
> here's a poser for all fans of Japanese mayhem. Yesterday I picked up
> a 5 cd box by a band called Juke/19 on the Time Bomb label. It's a
> retrospective of their work from the late 70's and early 80's. I know
> nothing about them at all. They sound kind of like Musica Transonic if
> they had been influenced by Ubu, Beefheart and UK punk rather than
> Blue Cheer and Hendrix! There are copious notes but they are all in
> Japanese. I have noticed the odd reference to the Boredoms and
> Yamatsuka.
Eye cites this band as one of his big influences and an inspiration for
Hanatarash. He actually has a band / project together with the main guy behind
Juke/19 (I think "19" is really the name of the band, they added "juke" so
that people pronounce it correctly, japanese-style, not "nineteen" or
"dix-neuf" or what have you), Shinro Ohtake, called Puzzle Punks.
As far as I know they have two releases out: "24 hits by 24 puzzle punk bands"
or something along these lines, featuring 24 tracks by 24 supposedly different
bands (which are all of course the duo of Eye and Ohtake). It comes with a
very beautiful and thick CD-sized booklet full of the pair's drawings and art,
but is very expensive because it was put out in Japan by a modern art
institution... I haven't heard it, unfortunately so I won't comment further,
but I've read good reviews.
Their other release I have though: "Budub", an album on the aforementioned
Time Bomb label, relatively available for decent prices, comes in CD format
and picture-disc LP, very beautiful too. Minimalistic electronics would be a
quick and dirty way to describe this, very much in the vein of the more
electronic Boredoms such as Super Roots 6 (well, the electronic tracks of
course) and the "ambient" track on Chocolate Synthesizer ("Synthesizer
Guidebook on Fire" ?) I'd recommend it to any Boredoms fan (and, I guess, to
any 19 fan).
*
Julien
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