What are you listening to? January 2021
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Unsomnambulist
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Hum - Inlet (2020)
axolotl
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I have usually been on the edge about Hum. I kinda liked YPaA and DiH.Hum - Inlet (2020)
Still, it's been two decades. How is this?
Unsomnambulist
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I think it might be too heavy and dark for you.
Still, it's masterfully done and very trippy.
Unsomnambulist
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Radiohead - Amnesiac (2001)
Ojai Sam
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Eddy Manson - Suite From "Little Fugitive" (1955)
Vinyl Rip Of The Day.
The above album scan isn't badly cropped; the cover is black with the picture pasted on.
I've seen minimalist soundtracks but never one with only a harmonica. Eugene Chadbourne on AMG as usual has the whole bizarre story:
Eddy Manson's masterwork is considered to be "The Little Fugitive," a musical score played entirely on chromatic harmonica. Listeners who have heard it can judge whether it lives up to the grandiose claims Manson has made about the powers of music, including on-screen quotes used in the anti-rock video entitled Hell's Bells.
Mind control with a harmonica? Perhaps it's possible, if one has the right training. Manson received his at the Juilliard School of Music and the New York University School of Radio and Television. He studied composition with Vittorio Giannini and Rudy Schramm, took on clarinet with Jan Williams and analyzed techniques of orchestration with Adolf Schmidt.
Manson's first scores were done for live television productions of the '50s such as Armstrong Circle Theater, Kraft Theater, Westinghouse Theater, Studio One, and Lamp Unto My Feet. The score for The Little Fugitive, which he both wrote and performed, was nominated for several awards in 1953.
As the decades passed, the often lonely or haunting sound of his harmonica was heard in many films and television shows. Ben Casey walked the halls of his hospital with Manson noodling in the background, and The Virginian was also unable to jump astride his horse without similar accompaniment. Coal Miner's Daughter, Oklahoma Crude, The Longest Day, Hard Times, and Born on the Fourth of July are among his movie soundtrack credits.
Apart from film work, Manson's musical activities couldn't be more versatile. He has arranged material for Michael Jackson prior to that artist's nose job, as well as the Miracles, the Jackson 5, actor and comedian Red Buttons, and Hawaiian wonder Don Ho. The Rosemary Clooney novelty number "I Found My Mama" was one of Manson's most famous hit parade appearances on harmonica.
And Manson has his serious side, with a respectable repertoire of compositions to prove it. These include his "Symphony No. 1," the tasty "Fugue for Woodwinds," the slowly evolving "Ballad for Brass," and the pretty and profound "Parable For 16 Horns", a piece appreciated by the brass players in the musician's union if no one else. Manson has also dabbled in Americana with his arrangements entitled "Yankee Doodle Toccata" and "Bachiana Americana."
Under his own name, he produced a series of wild instrumental "hi-fi" type platters in the '50s for labels such as RCA. Throughout his career he kept up appearances as a harmonica soloist, which is where it all began for him.
One guy worked for both Michael Jackson and Red Buttons? Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Vinyl Rip Of The Day.
The above album scan isn't badly cropped; the cover is black with the picture pasted on.
I've seen minimalist soundtracks but never one with only a harmonica. Eugene Chadbourne on AMG as usual has the whole bizarre story:
Eddy Manson's masterwork is considered to be "The Little Fugitive," a musical score played entirely on chromatic harmonica. Listeners who have heard it can judge whether it lives up to the grandiose claims Manson has made about the powers of music, including on-screen quotes used in the anti-rock video entitled Hell's Bells.
"Music is used everywhere to condition the human mind. It can be just as powerful as a drug and much more dangerous because nobody takes musical manipulation very seriously."
There's more: "Music is a two-edged sword. It's really a powerful drug. Music can poison you, lift your spirits or make you sick without knowing why."
And Manson -- remember this is Eddy, not Charlie -- also claims, "You can hypnotize people with music and when they get at their weakest point you can preach into their subconscious minds what you want to say."
As for Hollywood, Manson feels "We manipulate people like crazy in films. It's a tremendous release. I can make you feel any emotion I want you to feel at any time. It's a Machiavelli an power we project gut to gut."
There's more: "Music is a two-edged sword. It's really a powerful drug. Music can poison you, lift your spirits or make you sick without knowing why."
And Manson -- remember this is Eddy, not Charlie -- also claims, "You can hypnotize people with music and when they get at their weakest point you can preach into their subconscious minds what you want to say."
As for Hollywood, Manson feels "We manipulate people like crazy in films. It's a tremendous release. I can make you feel any emotion I want you to feel at any time. It's a Machiavelli an power we project gut to gut."
Mind control with a harmonica? Perhaps it's possible, if one has the right training. Manson received his at the Juilliard School of Music and the New York University School of Radio and Television. He studied composition with Vittorio Giannini and Rudy Schramm, took on clarinet with Jan Williams and analyzed techniques of orchestration with Adolf Schmidt.
Manson's first scores were done for live television productions of the '50s such as Armstrong Circle Theater, Kraft Theater, Westinghouse Theater, Studio One, and Lamp Unto My Feet. The score for The Little Fugitive, which he both wrote and performed, was nominated for several awards in 1953.
As the decades passed, the often lonely or haunting sound of his harmonica was heard in many films and television shows. Ben Casey walked the halls of his hospital with Manson noodling in the background, and The Virginian was also unable to jump astride his horse without similar accompaniment. Coal Miner's Daughter, Oklahoma Crude, The Longest Day, Hard Times, and Born on the Fourth of July are among his movie soundtrack credits.
Apart from film work, Manson's musical activities couldn't be more versatile. He has arranged material for Michael Jackson prior to that artist's nose job, as well as the Miracles, the Jackson 5, actor and comedian Red Buttons, and Hawaiian wonder Don Ho. The Rosemary Clooney novelty number "I Found My Mama" was one of Manson's most famous hit parade appearances on harmonica.
And Manson has his serious side, with a respectable repertoire of compositions to prove it. These include his "Symphony No. 1," the tasty "Fugue for Woodwinds," the slowly evolving "Ballad for Brass," and the pretty and profound "Parable For 16 Horns", a piece appreciated by the brass players in the musician's union if no one else. Manson has also dabbled in Americana with his arrangements entitled "Yankee Doodle Toccata" and "Bachiana Americana."
Under his own name, he produced a series of wild instrumental "hi-fi" type platters in the '50s for labels such as RCA. Throughout his career he kept up appearances as a harmonica soloist, which is where it all began for him.
One guy worked for both Michael Jackson and Red Buttons? Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Unsomnambulist
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Los Mundos - La Fortaleza del Sonido (2021)
Unsomnambulist
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Here Lies Man - Ritual Divination (2021)
Ojai Sam
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Various Artists - Swing Piano Bar 1921-1941 (Fremeaux et Associes comp. 1993)
In the last year or so I've been catching up on this eclectic French reissue label which happily is still in business.
www.fremeaux.com
They have released dozens of collections of vintage music from all over the world. Here's an outstanding group of rarely heard solo jazz piano sides, featuring both obscure artists (Herman Chittison, Donald Lambert) and obscurities from folks like Fats Waller and Earl Hines, even Duke's sepulchral solo version of (what else) "Solitude".
This is my cover scan, which wins the "most stickers" award.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
In the last year or so I've been catching up on this eclectic French reissue label which happily is still in business.
Editions, Galerie et Librairie Sonore Frémeaux & Associés
Ecoutez des extraits sonores du catalogue de Frémeaux & Associés. Demandez notre catalogue gratuit.
They have released dozens of collections of vintage music from all over the world. Here's an outstanding group of rarely heard solo jazz piano sides, featuring both obscure artists (Herman Chittison, Donald Lambert) and obscurities from folks like Fats Waller and Earl Hines, even Duke's sepulchral solo version of (what else) "Solitude".
This is my cover scan, which wins the "most stickers" award.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
Nickyboy
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I need this.Various Artists - Swing Piano Bar 1921-1941 (Fremeaux et Associes comp. 1993)
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In the last year or so I've been catching up on this eclectic French reissue label which happily is still in business.
Editions, Galerie et Librairie Sonore Frémeaux & Associés
Ecoutez des extraits sonores du catalogue de Frémeaux & Associés. Demandez notre catalogue gratuit.
They have released dozens of collections of vintage music from all over the world. Here's an outstanding group of rarely heard solo jazz piano sides, featuring both obscure artists (Herman Chittison, Donald Lambert) and obscurities from folks like Fats Waller and Earl Hines, even Duke's sepulchral solo version of (what else) "Solitude".
This is my cover scan, which wins the "most stickers" award.
axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
^ C'mon, who can say that at some point in their life they were not a dick?
But, really... it's just the name of the album and the first song.
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Nadja ~ Radiance of Shadows (2007)
Drone Metal, Drone, Post-Rock, Ambient, Shoegaze
But, really... it's just the name of the album and the first song.
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Nadja ~ Radiance of Shadows (2007)
Drone Metal, Drone, Post-Rock, Ambient, Shoegaze
~ Robert J. Oppenheimer (from the album notes)
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