Random Music Thoughts

Unsomnambulist said:
I'm talking about sound quality, but I'm also talking about a personal hangup I have that I enjoy music more when I "own" it. Even if it's just 1s and 0s on a hard drive.

But I think I was in a bad mood when I wrote the original post and I do enjoy Spotify quite a bit. I just wish they offered lossless.
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So I gather you must be a Tidal member. If so, how is their catalog? The only reason I chose Spotify is because theirs seems like the largest and seems to stay that way.
 
Old Uncle Toe said:
So I gather you must be a Tidal member. If so, how is their catalog? The only reason I chose Spotify is because theirs seems like the largest and seems to stay that way.
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Nope, I've never tried Tidal. There's always been much speculation (even more so than Spotify) whether it will even survive.

I did try Qobuz, which offers lossless and sounds wonderful, but its catalog is woefully lacking.
 
Gabriela (of Rodrigo y Gabriela) talking about Pink Floyd:

Quintero: It was not long ago. I was a big fan of Pink Floyd when I was a little girl, and my mom went to see The Wall at the cinema and she said, “Yeah, they destroy the school,” and I was like, “That sounds incredible, I’d like to see this.” Eventually she got us the videotape, with subtitles in Spanish so we could read what the lyrics were saying, and then I discovered Dark Side of the Moon and all that. But it might have been about 10 years ago that I discovered “Echoes” through a friend, who loved the Pompeii video, so I knew I’d heard it before, but I didn’t know much about it. It left a great impression on me, I was very impressed with how this band in 1971 could come up with something like that, I think it’s genius.
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AllMusic: I've been known to play the original "Echoes" on bar jukeboxes, which generally doesn't go over very well. Do you think your version would work any better?

Quintero: It depends which bar. That sort of music is a perennial thing, it can get lost in the midst of all these new things that are so attractive, all so commercial and so produced, but eventually it will come back to the surface, maybe in 10 years, 40 years, this little wooden boat will come back to the surface. You can put on a great album in a nightclub and they won’t pay attention, they’ll think it’s boring. But through the years, these people’s names will come back, and that’s the best indicator we can all have. We tend to think in terms of these fires that come and burn and then die out and never stay, it’s not perennial. To me, “Echoes” and things like this have their legacy in music and humanity.
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www.allmusic.com

How Rodrigo y Gabriela Tackled Pink Floyd's Daunting "Echoes" With Two Acoustic Guitars

When acoustic guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela gave listeners a first taste of their upcoming album, Mettavolution, they didn't just tease them with a quick four-minute cut. Instead,…
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Perception of Emotion in Jazz Improvisation
This seems more of a white paper for a research journal than a fluffy arts article -- it even comes with an abstract, appendix and references. But if you read the introduction, skim the meat, and read the conclusions, you can catch the gist of it. And you may even be compelled to go back for the details.

[F]or music that has no lyrics or explicit cultural ritual such as jazz or classical music, the emotions being expressed may be ambiguous. In some cases it may even be perceived in contradictory ways. One example is the music of jazz tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. ...journalist Don Gold termed the saxophonist’s solo improvisations as produced by an “angry young tenor.” ... Joe Goldberg referred to “the rage in his playing.” ... He also mentioned that he had met the man several times and never considered Coltrane to have an angry personality, but still detected anger in his saxophone improvisations. ... when asked about being termed an “angry young tenor,” Coltrane said, “If it is interpreted as anger, it is taken wrong” (Gitler, 1958) and, when another interviewer asked, “Are you angry?” Coltrane responded, “No. I’m not” (Lindgren, 1960). It is also notable that elsewhere Coltrane stated creative goals that differed considerably from conveying anger: “I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need. Music that will uplift, and make them happy…” (Wilmer, 1962) “… what music is to me—it’s just another way of saying this is a big, beautiful universe we live in, that’s been given to us, and here’s an example of just how magnificent and encompassing it is” (DeMichael, 1962).
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Apparently, these sophisticated listeners were detecting the opposite emotion of what was intended. These discrepancies motivated the present series of fifteen studies.
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An intriguing read that questions whether we hear what the musician felt while composing/playing, or if we assign our feelings to the musician.
 
Unsomnambulist said:
variety.com

Bruce Springsteen Reveals He Just Wrote an Entire Album for E Street Band to Tour Behind

In a conversation with Martin Scorsese, Bruce Springsteen revealed he just wrote an entire album for "the band" — and has touring in mind.
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@Zeeba Neighba
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Saw that! He's releasing a solo album soon inspired by 70s California artists - can't picture Bruce channeling Jackson Browne or The Eagles but will hold off judgement. This is more exciting news. Solo Bruce is very personal but there's nothing like the whole EStreet Band coming together
 
Amazon offered me (another?) three month trial of Amazon Music Unlimited, so I'm checking it out. So far, it seems to have more of the music I listen to than Spotify, which is no mean feat. I'll see if this holds up.
 
Unsomnambulist said:
RYM needs to have a category for music that is in one's streaming "collection". As far as I can tell, it doesn't.
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Thinking about this some more, I think just indicating that an album is "in collection" and specifying "digital" would suffice for an album in a streaming library. It would still be better to differentiate streaming library or local digital file, though.
 
lpfreak1170 said:
I've heard very little of his music (Here Come The Warm Jets, Before And After Science, Ambient 1) but like what I've heard.
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He's become quite a musical chameleon over the decades. People who say they don't like Eno because all he does is ambient drone music, are quite mistaken. Yes, he does return to minimalist music often, but he can also be quite rocking, funky, jazzy, and poppy. Two examples:


 
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