World Diary [Import]
Track Listings
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1. Chasms
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2. Train
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3. We Stand In Sapphire Sile
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4. Smoke
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5. Etude In The Key Of Guild
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6. Espresso & The Bed Of Nai
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7. Mingled Roots
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8. Nyatiti
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9. Jewels
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10. La Tristesse Amoureuse De
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11. Heat
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12. I Cry To The Dolphined Se
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13. Sound Of Goodbye
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Editorial Reviews
Product Description
His Long Awaited Solo Album featuring Shankar, Bill Bruford, Manu Katche and Jerry Marotta. Complete with Diaries and Photos from his Last Two Years on the Road.
World Diary,Tony Levin,Disci
World Diary [Import]
Average customer rating:
- These are not the same arrangements as the original movie soundtracks
- An outstanding compilation
- The really good ones are missing.
- "many were winners by the Academy for best scores"
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The Longest Day: The Ultimate World War Movie Theme Collection
Manufacturer: Silva America
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- Battle of Britain
- The Longest Day: Music From The Classic War Films (Soundtrack Anthology)
- Epics: The History of the World According to Hollywood
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- Patton (1970 Film): Also Featuring Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970 Film) (1997 Studio Recording)
ASIN: B00020R02O
Release Date: 2004-05-25 |
Tracks:
- The Longest Day
- Attack On The Iron Coast
- Band Of Brothers-Prelude
- Band Of Brothers-Theme
- Battle Of Britain
- The Battle Of The Bulge
- The Blue Max
- Das Boot
- The Bridge At Remagen
- The Bridge On The River Kwai
- A Bridge Too Far
- The Caine Mutiny
- The Captive Heart
- Casablanca
Tracks:
- Coastal Command
- The Cruel Sea
- The Dambusters
- The Diary Of Anne Frank
- The Eagle Has Landed
- Empire Of The Sun
- The English Patient
- Fear And Desire
- Force Ten From Navarone
- Gallipoli
- The Great Escape
- The Guns Of Navarone
Tracks:
- Hanover Street
- The Hindenburg
- In Harm's Way
- Is Paris Burning?
- King Rat
- Lawrence Of Arabia
- Lifeboat
- Macarthur / Patton
- Malta G.C.
- Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
- Midway
- The Mountain Road
- 1941
Tracks:
- The Naked And The Dead
- The Night Of The Generals
- Paradise Road
- Paths Of Glory
- Pearl Harbor
- Saving Private Ryan
- Schindler'S List
- Sergeant York
- The Sharkfighters
- Sink The Bismarck!
- 633 Squadron
- Where Eagles Dare
- The World At War
- The Longest Day
Customer Reviews:
These are not the same arrangements as the original movie soundtracks.......2007-01-21
I was disappointed that these are not the same arrangements as the original movie soundtracks. For example, in Colonel Bogey, the countermarch from the movie soundtrack is not included in the arrangement on this CD. Don't get me wrong, the songs are good, but I would have preferred the same arrangements as the original movies.
An outstanding compilation.......2006-08-25
This compilation is superb and a real must-buy. From Band of Brothers to A Bridge Too Far: every war movie theme is represented here. An all time classic.
The really good ones are missing........2005-07-18
While this compilation has some masterpieces such as the theme from The Great Escape and Is Paris Burning, it's missing some of the finest tracts ever written. Where is the theme from Victory and Ernest Gold's stirring epic from Cross of Iron? The closing theme from Inchon was also a feast for the ears, but it's not here. It was written by Jerry Goldsmith, one of the foremost soundtrack composers of our time. Instead we're subjected to the likes of Hanover Street and The English Patient. I'll admit Inchon and Victory weren't Academy Award winning movies, but their soundtracks were second to none. As John Stossel would say," Give me a break"!!!
"many were winners by the Academy for best scores".......2004-05-26
Silva America presents the essential in film music during the period of World Wars ~ "Longest Day:Ultimate World War Movie Theme", featuring some long forgotten cues, 53 to be exact that sent chills and thrills into the pulses of world events ~ selections from a limited collectors edition that would make any "film-score-buff" green with envy.
Released to commemorate the sixth Anniversary of D-Day, never has there ever been such a tribute compilation package from any other label and Silva comes to the forefront ~ featuring The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (Paul Bateman, Nic Raine Tony Bremner and Carl Davis as conductors), The Philharmonia (Kenneth Alwyn, Jerry Goldsmith, Mario Klemens and Paul Bateman as conductors) and also the world renown Crouch End Festival Chorus (David Temple as choir master) ~ what a gathering of talented musicians and singers fill this collection supreme.
The lineup of composers is a Who's Who in the world of film music ~ John Addison, Tomaso Albinoni, Kenneth J. Alford, Paul Anka, John Barry, Arnold Bax, Elmer Bernstein, Eric Coates, Carl Davis, Klaus Doldinger, Antonin Dvorak, Benjamin Frankel, Gerald Fried, Hugo Friedhofer, Jerry Goldsmith, Ron Goodwin, Bernard Herrmann, Maurice Jarre, Michael Kamen, Jerome Moross, Alfred Newman, Clifton Parker, Alan Rawsthorne, Ryvichi Sakamoto, Lalo Schifrin, Gerard Schurmann, David Shire, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Williams, Gabriel Yared and Hans Zimmer ~ set the stage for compositional human drama while exploring the deepest troves of musical emotion ~ one masterpiece after another, each cue manages to display both a convincing authenticity of the times and places ~ experience every tracks passion and skill for striking the exotic orchestral colors, explosive power and spectacular works of full large scale orchestral arrangements previal at every turn.
We are grateful to James Fitzpatrick (producer), Reybnold da Silva (executive producer), Rick Clark (associate producer/album sequence), Marion Garden (associate producer) and the whole gang at Silva America who have resurrected many of the soundtracks for the "film-score-buffs" in all of us.
Total Time: 4-CD-Set ~ Silva America 812 ~ (5/25/2004)
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Enclosure Two: Harry Partch
Manufacturer: INNOVA
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- Enclosure Five: Harry Partch
- Harry Partch: Enclosure 7
- The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1
- The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 2
ASIN: B000004AF9
Release Date: 2000-12-06 |
Tracks:
- I am Harry Partch - Harry Partch
- By the Rivers of Babylon - Harry Partch
- Texts and Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 1 - A Dream - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 2 - An Encounter in the Field - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 3 - On Hearing the Flute - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 4 - The Intruder - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 5 - I am a Peach Tree - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 6 - With a Man of Leisure - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 7 - A Midnight Farewell - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 8 - Before the Cask of Wine - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 9 - On the Ship of Spicewood - Harry Partch
- Ten Li Po Lyrics: 10 - By the Great Wall - Harry Partch
- The Use of English in Serious Music - Harry Partch
- Barstow - Eight Hitch-Hiker's Inscriptions. . . - Harry Partch
- San Francisco - Newsboy Cries - Harry Partch
- Life is too precious to spend it with important people - Harry Partch
- U. S. Highball - A Musical Account of Slim's Transcontinental Hobo Trip - Harry Partch
- While my Heart Keeps Beating Time - Harry Partch
- San Francisco II - Harry Partch
Tracks:
- I'm going to start right off by giving you some sounds - Harry Partch
- Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake: 1 - Isobel - Harry Partch
- Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake: 2 - Annah the Allmaziful - Harry Partch
- Dark Brother - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 1 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 2 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 3 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 4 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 5 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 6 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 7 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 8 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 9 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 10 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 11 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 12 - Harry Partch
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- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 14 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 15 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 16 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 17 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 18 - Harry Partch
- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations - 19 - Harry Partch
Tracks:
- June 11, 1935 - Santa Rosa, California - H. PARTCH
- June 12 - Federal Shelter, Stockton - H. PARTCH
- June 13 - H. PARTCH
- June 14 - H. PARTCH
- June 16 - Huntington Ranch, San Joaquin - H. PARTCH
- June 17 - H. PARTCH
- July 4 - H. PARTCH
- July 14 - H. PARTCH
- July 16 - H. PARTCH
- July 19 - H. PARTCH
- July 20 - Heading north, between Sacramento and Redding (Later incorporated into The Wind) - H. PARTCH
- July 24 - Federal Shelter, Portland - H. PARTCH
- July 25 - Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington - H. PARTCH
- July 27 - H. PARTCH
- July 29 - H. PARTCH
- July 30 - H. PARTCH
- August 7 - Between Grants Pass and Klamath Falls, Oregon - H. PARTCH
- August 15 - H. PARTCH
- October 22 - Nearing Monterey (reworked in 1943 as The Letter) - H. PARTCH
- October 24 - Leaving Big Sur - H. PARTCH
- October 25 - Near Slate's Hot Springs (Now the Esalen Institute) - H. PARTCH
- October 26 - H. PARTCH
- October 27 - H. PARTCH
- October 28 - H. PARTCH
- October 29 - H. PARTCH
- October 30 - Big Creek - H. PARTCH
- November 12 - Santa Barbara - H. PARTCH
- November 14 - H. PARTCH
- November 15 - Leaving Santa Barbara - H. PARTCH
- November 16 - Ojai - H. PARTCH
- November 17 - H. PARTCH
- November 23 - Los Angeles - H. PARTCH
- November 28 - H. PARTCH
- December 4 - H. PARTCH
- December, 1935 - H. PARTCH
- Feburary 1, 1936 - San Bernardino - H. PARTCH
Tracks:
- Yankee Doodle Birds - H. PARTCH
- Y.D. Fantasy - On the Words of an Early American Tune - H. PARTCH
- O Frabjous Day! - H. PARTCH
- You are charged with being guilty. Are you drunk or not drunk? - H. PARTCH
- Ring Around the Moon - A Dance Fantasm for Here - H. PARTCH
- Bless This Home - H. PARTCH
- Harrys Wake - H. PARTCH
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Enclosure 2, all four cds, is curated as a sprawling notebook filled with sounds and speech instead of sketches and words. Of any Partch recording extant, it gives the best picture of the man--as the curmudgeonly, extremely innovative misanthrope that he was, as the composer who was impossibly unlike anyone else before or since. The essence of Partch's music reflects the history of the world--from his particular perspective--the imaginings of ancient Greece to the influence of Chinese musical melodrama, all propelled by homemade instruments based on a 43-tone scale named things like the "Kithara" and the "Boo." These recordings also give the best sense of his philosophy of language in music. Lamenting the whole time how text in music had become detached from the language of everyday life, Partch ran music alongside newsboys' cries and hobos' diaries, following the forms, cadence, and dynamics of speech, rather than the other way around. From his juvenilia (a wonderful song he wrote at 18) to a 45-minute segment of his wake in 1974, the first steps towards exploring Partch's sparkling works fully are made here. --Robin Edgerton
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- Virtuoso + Melody + Eclecticism = Excellent!!
- unbelievable
- Every bassist should own this album!
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World Diary
Tony Levin
Manufacturer: Pony Canyon
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Binding: Audio CD
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- Waters of Eden
ASIN: B0000564XK
Release Date: 1995-11-17 |
Tracks:
- Chasms
- The Train
- We Stand In Sapphire Silence
- Smoke
- Etude In The Key Of Guildford
- Espresso & The Bed Of Nails
- Mingled Roots
- Nyatiti
- Jewels
- La Trisesse Amoureuse De La Nuit
- Heat
- I Cry To The Dolphined Sea
- The Sound Of Goodbye
Album Description
1995 Papa Bear records out of Japan
Customer Reviews:
Virtuoso + Melody + Eclecticism = Excellent!!.......2007-02-26
Tony Levin is one of rock's greatest living bass players. On this record, he collaborates with musicians from around the world, showcasing his ability to blend with other musical styles while still making musical statements of his own. He also plays a lot of Stick, the electronic guitar/bass hybrid he made famous.
Many of the musicians Levin plays with are people he got to know through his work with Peter Gabriel. So there is a real "world music" vibe to this instrumental record. It's one of those rare albums that is intellectually and artistically challenging, yet does not punish the listener. It is warm, cerebral, and pleasurable. It will appeal to listeners of all genres, and really open their minds and ears.
unbelievable.......2003-05-08
this is one of, if not the finest album Ive ever heard. has great spacial qualities, amazing techniques, and master artistry. One of the first albums Ive found to really make "world" music approachable, since most instruments used arent of the western culture, it adds a certain purity to it. A MUST BUY.
Every bassist should own this album!.......2001-11-17
I've been a huge fan of Tony Levin since I started listening to King Crimson and Peter Gabriel. I feel that he is one of the most talented bassist currently on the planet. His performances on this CD are only further credit to his genius. I got TL's Waters of Eden before I got this one. I liked Waters of Eden a great deal, but I was totally unprepared for the sheer brilliance of this release. Waters of Eden has more of a smooth pollished feel, which almost comes off as sounding like elevator music sometime. This album is comprised almost completely of duets that Tony did in the mid ninetys. Guests on the album include Bill Bruford, who plays some excellent percussion (especially on the song "Jewels"), Brian Yamakoshi, who provides some airy koto to a couple songs, and Levon Minassian, whose Doudouk (an Armenian double-reed instrument) is soaring and beautiful, and combined with Levins bowed bass, makes for one of the strongest tracks on the album, "Mingled Roots". Some other album highlights include "Heat" which sounds paranoid and tense and is a nice change of pace from the rather relaxed vibe on the rest of the album. Also, "I Cry to the Dolphined Sea" is a moving song with Bendik on Saxophone and Jerry Marotta on drums. Tony is playing this melody on a distorted stick that brings me to tears. Overall, if you like ethernally beautiful and experimentally creative music, this is the album for you, 'nuff said!
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- Berning down the house....
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World Cup: A Sort of Travel Diary (book and CD)
Manufacturer: Messenger Records
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- The Swastika E.P.
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ASIN: B0002CSAPI
Release Date: 2002-11-12 |
Tracks:
- All Right Kind of a Girl
- My Love Is Not For Sale
- Suicide Bomb
- Reeperbahn
- Comme Vous Le Faites Tous
Album Description
In the past decade, few songwriters have proven as prolific, and at such a phenomenally high consistency of quality, as Dan Bern. Here we have the opportunity to glimpse into his method and madness, as every witticism and whim unfolds, as both the sour and sublime moods hit, and as he ultimately undergoes the process of birthing and molding all those amazing songs. That, at its core, is what World Cup provides.
World Cup is a travelogue, "A Sort of Travel Diary" that follows our intrepid guide, armed with a well-traveled acoustic guitar, a notebook, and strumming partner Slim Nickel, on a short two-man European trekthrough London and Spain, Italy, Switzerland, France, and The Netherlandsin support of the previous year's "New American Language" CD. The book is ostensibly about international soccer, World Cup fever having overtaken the continent at the time, as well as the delights and frustrations of touring. But more fascinatingly, it is a journey through the mind and imagination of one of rock & roll's preeminent creative artists.
Through bits of lyrics, offhanded jottings, flash aphorisms, off-the-cuff sketches, and snatches of conversations, intoxicating portraits of the artist and the summer gradually take shape. In the cracks between, we are treated to some indelible flights of fantasy: carefully wrought set pieces during which Pablo Picasso's father becomes a pigeon-sketching artist, or Dan imagines himself as a spirited old Catalan bricklayer, or Mozart stars in a stand-alone time travel story, with a walk-on role for the ghost of Hitler.
Best of all, Dan treats us to five pristine new songsintimate, acoustic, troubadour tunes, simply recorded and decidedly somber, but in the romantic, mooning, starry-eyed mold of mythic old Europe.
Customer Reviews:
Berning down the house...........2007-02-08
Dan Bern is a genius. I collect everything that he does. I have a number of autographed books and CDs and when I saw this item in the Amazon catalog I just had to have it. A book AND a CD! It's not one of his most monumental efforts but it's still the man from Mount Vernon, Iowa. A visionary man. If you ever get to see him ask him to do his song called SWOOSH. It's not on any album and after you hear it, you'll know why.
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Basement Diary
Ayu Okakita
Manufacturer: Universal/Polygram
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Binding: Audio CD
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Brand New Menu/Another Diary
S Psy
Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD
General
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ASIN: B00005G7B1
Release Date: 2001-08-13 |
Tracks:
- Brand-New Menu
- Japanese Title
- Desert
- Another Diary
- Chasing The Rainbow
- Paper Love
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Asian Diary Pt. 1-Philly to China
Manufacturer: Pop Is Art Productions
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Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000CA7MEA
Release Date: 2004-06-22 |
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World Diary
Forrest Fang
Manufacturer: Ominous Thud
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000KVMIMM |
Product Description
13 Tracks
Customer Reviews:
Some Important Product Details.......2006-11-21
Label: Ominous Thud
Catalog#: OT 005
Format: CD
Country: US
Released: 1992
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Tribal, Experimental, Ambient
Tracklisting:
1 Ceremony At The Edge Of The Great Abyss (11:20)
2 Archipelago (9:10)
3 The Bushmen Clear The Savanah (8:20)
Pipa - Ting-Yi Lin
4 Garuda (2:15)
5 Nomads I: Gobi (3:35)
6 Nomads II: Rain of Stones (1:20)
7 Nomads III: An American In Okinawa (3:18)
8 Nomads IV: Song Of Divination (4:18)
9 Nomads V: Night Mask (4:03)
10 Nomads VI: Lion Festival (3:23)
Pipa - L'uo Y'et Chin
Tibetan Longhorn - Tashi Dhondup
11 Nomads VII: Passing The Chung (2:36)
12 Nomads VIII: Home In Exile (9:03)
Voice - Tashi Dhondup , Tsering Wongmo
13 New China (7:35)
Gu-zheng Solo - Zhang Yan
Jung-hu - Liu Qi-Chao
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I Remember - based on The Diary Of Anne Frank
Michael Cohen , Lisa Hansen , Susan Jolles , Jon Klibonoff , and Enid Futterman/Librettist
Manufacturer: Newport Classic
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00001R3MD
Release Date: 1999-09-14 |
Tracks:
- A Song For Silenced Silenced Voices: Andante
- A Song For Silenced Silenced Voices: Quasi cadenza
- Dialogues: Moderato
- Dialogues: Allegro
- Dialogues: Maestoso
- Dialogues: Con moto
- Dialogues: Piu mosso
- Dialogues: Allegro
- I Remember: Dear Kitty, I Am Thirteen
- I Remember: I Suppose
- I Remember: It's Like A Little Light
- I Remember
- I Remember: Dark Night
- I Remember: Dear Kitty, I Am Fifteen
- I Remember: I'm Facing Myself
- I Remember: Dear Kitty, I See The World
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Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
Manufacturer: Wergo
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Cage, John
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ASIN: B000031W5B
Release Date: 2000-01-11 |
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An eight-CD collection of John Cage reading his epigrammatic notes should not be mistaken as subsidiary, or merely complementary, to the composer's better-known work. This is, like so much of his output, a composition in the form of a series of instructions. He read evenly from his writing, consisting mostly of reminiscences, anecdotal evidence of the absurd, aphorisms à la Oscar Wilde or Marshall McCluhan. The tapes were treated in postproduction according to the same sorts of random projections that direct Cage's more recognizably "musical" output. Some phrases are heard quiet, some loud, some distant, some close up. Frankly, the "quiet" passages are so quiet as to make an appropriate listening venue hard to pinpoint. Most remarkable is Cage's delivery, which is so flawless, so natural, as to be almost eerie in its wholeness. If only the same could be said for the liner notes, which are obscured by a roughshod translation. Such sloppiness is inexcusable, given that the collection repackages a box first issued in 1992. Surely someone could have cleaned things up in the meantime. --Marc Weidenbaum
Customer Reviews:
An American Original.......2003-04-23
John Cage was an optimist par excellence. He recorded these diaries for CD at the age of eighty, and it covers his thought from 1964-1984. Using "chance operations," he devised differing type-faces for their publication, but that method is reproduced here in the channel placement and volume of his voice. His wry voice is oddly soothing as he reads his anecdotes, stories and ideas about Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan, Edwin Schlossberg, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie, Mao Tse Tung, H.D. Thoreau, Norman O. Brown, and assortment of his friends. Sometimes his pacific social anarchist views are naive, but when set in the context of the 1960s and surrounded by these wonderful, hilarious stories they give us a glimpse of this truly original American artist and philosopher. I listen to at least one of these CDs a week, for inspiration's sake...
Here are some choice Cageisms:
Two musicians who produce the same kind of music is one music too many.
Changed, a mind includes even itself; unchanged, nothing gets in or out.
Ready or not, we are being readied...
Ultimately it's not a question of taste; it's the other way around: Each thing in the world asks us: "what makes you think I'm not something you like"?
Looking for something irrelevant, I found I couldn't find it.
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- Café del Mar: 20th Anniversary [Enhanced] [Import]
- Celestial Light
Pop Music
pop music
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Going Inside [CD-single] [Import]
Mozart: Divertimento K 334 / Six German Dances K 606
Original Studio Radio Transcriptions [Import]
Music: Midnight Hour Blues
Untitled [Import]
Inolvidables En Arpa 2 & Orq De Cuerdas
Return to Me: Music from the MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Max Lorenz
Press on
Livin in an Igloo World
Other Side Of Keith Jarrett [Import]
Night Sessions [SACD]
Movin Too Fast [Import]
The Most Relaxing Classical Music in the Universe
Somewhere Down in Texas