After yesterday, it’s nice to get some noise rock in here to offset that kind of thing. Variety is the spice of life, after all, and around here, loud rock is salt. Uh, or something like that. I’m saying it’s a lot of what we do get around here? So it’s salt, the biggest component of the spice mix? I think analogies work best when they’re laborious and opaque, how about you?
[Read More]Hooray, I made it the whole month without missing a day! Another meaningless milestone! Music!
This is a pretty jaunty piece that still manages to sound really otherworldly, thanks to the alien nature of the playing. In some ways, Nancarrow presaged electronic composition, of using a tool to create music that otherwise couldn’t exist if it had to be created by human hands.
This was from a blind grab bag from Hydra Head records, and I’ll be honest, I think this is the first time I’m hearing this. Well, snap impression: in some ways, it goes pretty well with the Nancarrow piece above. Maybe I’ll listen to the rest after these five songs are over.
[Read More]