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May 3, 2004 at 10:33:00 PM CEST [music, links] May 3, 2004 at 10:33:00 PM CEST My telephone/internet broke down this week-end and I really enjoyed it
link (no comments) ... comment April 30, 2004 at 10:40:00 PM CEST [music, thoughts] April 30, 2004 at 10:40:00 PM CEST listening to a thousand leaves great bands just sound like themselves. i haven't heard a band just sounding like themselves for a long time. maybe massive attack. but they didn't really on their best album mezzanine. more like the cure for the late 90s. sufjan stevens does but he is not a band. p.s. of course the beta band sounds special. but their singing is absolutely unsupportable. arab strap? always the same song. the ones which sound like themselves today are so boring. please prove me wrong if you can. link (no comments) ... comment [journal] April 30, 2004 at 10:01:00 PM CEST
In our garden.
link (no comments) ... comment [journal] April 30, 2004 at 9:51:00 PM CEST
L'origine du monde.
link (no comments) ... comment [music, thoughts] April 30, 2004 at 9:06:00 PM CEST How many pints to like rubbish music? Ich frage mich gerade, ob man sich Musik schöntrinken kann. Zuerst dachte ich ja natürlich, angesäuselt kann auch Schlagermusik gut sein. Aber eigentlich stimmt das nicht. Es ist das Setting, was die schlechte Musik erträglich macht. Man hört sie im Grunde gar nicht richtig, man konzentriert sich auf das Gespräch, aufs Flirten, auf das Drumherum. Wenn ich mein eigener DJ bin, was meistens der Fall ist, und was getrunken habe (kommt auch vor), ist mein Anspruch an die Musik eher höher als niedriger als wenn ich nüchtern bin. Allein schon das Problem aus meiner Sammlung das Richtige auszuwählen. Plötzlich ist alles Mist, zu offensichtlich, zu abgenudelt. Und doch ist in diesem Zusammenhang die Vertrautheit mit der Musik ganz wichtig. Wobei die Musik schon etwas älter sein sollte und fast vergessen. Nichts ist schöner als das Wiederentdecken. Man hat sich Reihen von Albumtiteln angesehen, die alle mal wichtig oder halbwichtig waren, aber jetzt gerade nur noch kalter Kaffee. Und dann sieht man ein Album im CD-Regal, das man lange nicht gehört hat, von dem man weiß, dass es gut ist, aber nicht mehr ganz genau wie. Und es ist klar, dass es diese CD (s.u.) jetzt sein muss. Und dann ist sie auch noch viel besser als in der Erinnerung. Ist mir vorgestern so gegangen. Und heute wieder. By the way I am just relistening to PJ Harvey's awesome To Bring You My Love. An absolute killer. Her "bass" organ "riff" on Working for the Man. Her shrieking on The Dancer. What a power girl. Minus ten pints. I am very much looking forward to her new one. link (no comments) ... comment April 29, 2004 at 12:36:00 AM CEST [journal] April 29, 2004 at 12:36:00 AM CEST Träum weiter
Jonas, 9 Jahre link (no comments) ... comment [music, songs] April 29, 2004 at 12:10:00 AM CEST Blues meets lofi meets 21st century meets phantastic female voices Somehow this really makes me think of Michelle Shocked's first (almost accidental) album Texas Campfire Tapes. Put through the shredder or something. Coco Rosie is a name to keep in mind. La Maison de Mon Rêve is an album title easy to retain. link (no comments) ... comment April 28, 2004 at 8:05:00 PM CEST [music, songs] April 28, 2004 at 8:05:00 PM CEST You Only Tell Me That You Love Me When You're Drunk link (no comments) ... comment April 26, 2004 at 8:47:00 PM CEST [music, albums] April 26, 2004 at 8:47:00 PM CEST Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
The result of my last poll was a little bit of an unpleasant surprise for me. The only jazz album won. And I have never written anything about jazz music. I like jazz and have listened to it a lot before I discovered indie rock but to write about it is extremely difficult for me as I have no technical knowledge of music at all and writing on jazz without this seems a contradiction in itself. On the other hand the jazz music reviews I read in my life were almost all tedious and unappealing exactly because of this. End of embarrassing introduction.
Monk's Dream is a seminal jazz album from 1962. I like it because it gives me exactly that relaxed late night feeling I expect from classic jazz. My heretical theory on most good jazz music is that it flows and that it does not ask anything from the listener. That it is the opposite of obtrusive. That it rests in itself in a way. Monk's Dream is a perfect example. We have a quartet with a rhythm section of bass and drums plus piano and tenor sax providing the chords and harmonies. Everything is in equilibrium. I read that Monk has a special piano style. Probably he has but I am not experienced enough with it to confirm this. My favourite tracks on this album are the blues numbers. Blues Five Spot starts with a piano theme where the tones are following each other like the pearls on a bead. On Blue Bolivar Blues there is a lot of lyrical tenor sax. The improvisation quality of the saxophone which I love about this instrument is fully realised. Later on Monk plays single keys on the piano in a simple but memorable succession. He then improvises a little to the left and right and sax and piano come back to the motif. There is nothing spectacular about all this but this is exactly which is amazing. The ease and lightness of it all. There is nothing more satisfying after a "hard" office day than having a Weißbier or two and listening to this kind of untightening music. P.S. It could well be that when I say jazz I mean bebop. For me that is the incarnation of jazz, I guess. link (2 comments) ... comment [science] April 26, 2004 at 7:52:00 PM CEST Sparen auch der Umwelt wegen Ein paar Tips (und Infos) aus dem Energie-Spezial der ZEIT wie man beim Autofahren ein Fünftel Sprit sparen kann (Fettsetzungen von mir):
Wenn man gar nicht Auto fährt, spart man natürlich noch mehr. Den Kommentar nehme ich jetzt mal vorweg. link (no comments) ... comment ... Next page
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