Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
(I'll bet you can guess his cockney rhyming nickname.)
I believe this is a reference to the wonderful Dead Ringers send-up of Mr. Blunt, "It's Bloody Cold", from earlier this year. It's so good that it's funny even if you don't know the original. Here it is on YouTube.
With 20 hours to go in Round Two of that VU acetate auction, bidding is at a far more reasonable $25,100.
Hmmm.... I wonder if the 'prankster' bidder was a shill?
It's the kind of music that would make Angel misty-eyed.
Hee! I think I've managed to avoid hearing this guy, by some strange grace, though that description makes me think of John Mayer, who I kind of want to strangle every time I hear that song about "fathers, be good to your daughters, because someday they'll grow up and be wives and mothers." Ugh.
It's a choral/chant piece called Path of Miracles, composed by Joby Talbot and performed by Nigel Short and Tenebrae.
Sean, that sounds really fantastic. Thanks for the long writeup; I think I'm going to have to track that down.
Oh God I hate that song "You're Beautiful." I have this really unpleasant reaction to it and change the station whenever it comes on, which is a LOT. Gag.
Sean, after that writeup I can't not check that out.
Sean, that sounds really fantastic. Thanks for the long writeup; I think I'm going to have to track that down.
Sean, after that writeup I can't not check that out.
I'm working on some edits today, and hope to post them later today, along with a few other program notes on the piece.
John Mayer is way better than James Blunt. They only play his two sappy songs on the radio, but he's got a lot of stuff that is really really good.
Since I've been negligent in posting xmas music (I'll rectify that tonight, if possible) here's the WOXY Holiday Mixer to tide you over.
The last 10 songs spun
1:54pm The Flaming Lips - A Change At Christmas
1:51pm The Dandy Warhols - Little Drummer Boy
1:50pm Classic Cartoon Christmas - We're A Couple Of Misfits
1:46pm Rosemary Clooney - Christmas Song (remix)
1:43pm Saint Etienne - I Was Born On Xmas Day
1:40pm Jimmy Donley - Santa! Don't Pass Me By
1:37pm The Crystals - Santa Claus Is Coming...
1:34pm Cale Parks - Oh, Holy Night
1:32pm Yo La Tengo - It's Christmas Time
1:30pm The Raveonettes - The Christmas Song
So.... Buffistarawk. mp3s or wavs?
So.... Buffistarawk. mp3s or wavs?
mp3
More on Path of Miracles
The first movement covers the period of time between St. James' death, beheaded by King Herod, and the founding of the St. James cathedral almost a millennia later, in Santiago. This theme is dramatically demonstrated by the pasiputput technique used at the begining of the piece. In fact, this is something that Talbot does repeatedly throughout the whole piece -- making the themes and events described by the music manifest in the music itself.
There's a moment in the final movement, Santiago, where you can hear the moment when the pilgrims crest a hill and set eyes on Santiago for the first time.
I've put the pasiputput section up at Buffistarawk. It's a six minute section, about 8.5 megs. I think there's been some loss in my necessary multiple conversions and editing passes, but there should still be plenty of fidelity left.
More on other parts of the piece later, but I have to step away from the computer for a couple hours.