bulgarian rhythms, really glad i bought it, hope i listen to it again after
october's over. hey, i'm not proud, it's a compulsion, but i love cds and i love
the store so keep your cakehole shut if you're one-a those who thinks expansive
collections is somehow bad for society. you probably think it's wrong to smash
guitars onstage, too!)
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:17:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: Whit Schonbein <whit@twinearth.wustl.edu>
Subject: douglas' a thousand evenings
sombody asked for some comments on the new dave douglas offering. here's
my 2 cents:
i've listened to it about 4 or 5 times now. it lacks the lyrical quality
that made the first charms of the night sky so nice to my ears. after 5
listenings, the only song to which i can recall the melody is
'goldfinger', and even that was hard to recognize at first. this is in
stark contrast to the first charms disc, where after the first listening
the title track was burned into my brain, and others were soon to follow.
close attention rewards the listener, however. i particularly like the
solo klucevsek piece. this disc will no doubt stay in rotation because
(1) i like the instrumentation and mood, and (2) i'm hoping it will reward
repeated hearings, although (3) it hasn't grabbed me like the first album.
cheers,
whit 'who thinks the track after goldfinger sounds like jethro tull for
some unknown reason' schonbein
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:29:36 -0700
From: "s~Z" <keith@pfmentum.com>
Subject: See Han Bennink In Ventura Tonight
[I don't make a dime from this series. Promoting Han not myself.]
Ventura New Music Concert Series
The Legendary HAN BENNINK
Solo Percussion
October 20, 2000
Ventura City Hall, Ventura California
501 Poli Street
8 PM
$10 Admission
NO ADVANCE TICKET SALES. Tickets at the door only.
Opening will be Jeff Kaiser, Trumpet and Electronics
with Rich West, percussion
For Directions: http://www.mapblast.com/
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:01:45 -0700
From: "Benito Vergara" <sunny70@sirius.com>
Subject: RE: what was i thinking?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-zorn-list@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-zorn-list@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of
> kurt_gottschalk@scni.com
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 10:11 AM
> i used to have a rule that i couldn't buy a new cd unless i'd
> listened to the
> last ones i picked up. HA! i totally understand the fella with
> the 'never heard'
> section.
My "never heard" section is growing exponentially as well. To deal with
that, I have some rules: new, shrinkwrapped CDs go to the top of the pile.
However, if it's a used copy of a CD that just came out in the last month or
so, that goes to the top of the pile as well.
Every first of the month I go through the "never heard" section and select
the stuff that I really want to hear, and put those on top of the pile. I
usually get to the end of the month without hearing all that month's
selections, so those get placed under the new month's selections.
This all started in high school, when I was young and stupid. Somehow I got
it into my head that I had to own a copy of every Number One album on Casey
Kasem's American Top 40 countdown. This was, of course, completely
unfeasible on a high school allowance -- but I tried, anyway, and now I have
a pile of moldy Duran Duran tapes, and much more, to show for it.
When I got started on Zorn and Co. I was a lowly grad student and didn't
have much money at all to spend. Now I'm actually employed, and I still
don't have very much money to spend, but Zorn (indirectly, of course)
regularly takes a bite out of my paycheck.
I find that I tend to get obsessive about
musicians-with-large-discographies-on-import-labels. Those Avant pressings
are pretty expensive. And I won't go into detail about my Current 93 / Keiji
Haino obsessions as well. (I'm just glad I'm not a Laswell completist.)
Later,
Ben
http://www.bigfoot.com/~bvergara/
ICQ# 12832406
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Date: 20 Oct 2000 10:14:30 -0700
From: Dan Given <dlgiven@altavista.com>
Subject: Re: What was I thinking? (again no obvious Zorn content...but maybe)
> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:32:45 -0700
> From: "Patrice L. Roussel" <proussel@ichips.intel.com>
> Subject: Re: What was I thinking? (again no obvious Zorn content...but maybe)
>
> > << So, a question for you all - when did *you* realise that your music
> > obsession was out of control? And did you care?
>
> When I realized that I had more excitement to buy records than to listen to
> them, it was a clear sign that something wrong was going on...
>
> Patrice.
I know that feeling. I've had too many incidents lately where I go to buy a disc and the person in the store asks me a question about something I had bought a few weeks earlier (we have similar tastes) -- and I can't answer it because I haven't heard more than 10 minutes of it on the drive home from the store.
