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My three favorite albums (at this moment)

Thursday, 1. May 2008, 11:03:30

Scott tagged me to do the following:

1. Name your three favorite music group's albums (can be individual or group). Yes, yes i know "what is an album?" for those not older than dirt like me-that is CD. And DWG's don't count - - I don't really think they ever produced an album.

2. Name your three favorite songs from each. Feel free to tell us why, if you would like.

3. Then, feel free to pick on three of your friends with links to their sites posted.

My three favorite albums (at this moment)

I'm trying to take this tagging as an opportunity to talk about the following three amazing albums but, of course, there are many more artists and genres that I enjoy as well.

John Cage: Atlas Eclipticalis (1961-62) - instrumental parts for flute 1-3
performed by Eberhard Blum - piccolo, flute and alto flute, hat ART CD 6111

There are four tracks ("The index points at 15:00, 30:00, and 45:00 are provided for convenience of reference and are not indications of divisions in the work.") and it's impossible to make any commitments regarding the quality of the tracks. This music is intensive but also kind of relaxed. The flute and John Cage's music go along pretty well.

Jean-Luc Godard: Nouvelle Vague (premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990)
ECM New Series

This is the complete soundtrack - music, dialogue, sounds. You'll find music by Dino Saluzzi, David Garling, Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schönberg, Paul Giger, Patti Smith, Meredith Monk, Heinz Holliger and Werner Pirchner on two CDs. Forget about the three songs. This is one of my favorite albums just because you can only enjoy it as a whole.

John Zorn / Naked City: Radio (1992), Avant

John Zorn's music (all his albums are great) made me curious about many other artists. Track 9 "The Bitter and the Sweet" is a nice one but, again, it's much more impressive if you've listened to the faster and noisier tracks 1 - 8 before. And after "The Bitter and the Sweet" comes track 10 "Krazy Kat" (the title speaks for itself) followed by track 11 "The Vault" which has some metal influences with a lot of energy and so on and on.

I asked the following people to write about their favorite albums - only if they feel like it:

Melissa
Aya
Hungry Ghost

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Comments

Lynn Rosentrater # 1. May 2008, 17:27

Cool list. Very Avant-garde.

scott cumming # 1. May 2008, 18:33

ahhh elmar, congratulations. you did dig deep. i've been into john cage since the sixties, but i was unaware of nouvelle vague. i'll give it a listen. i am intrigued already.

thank you for coming through. you did your 'homework' very well.

yooperprof # 2. May 2008, 01:14

Very interesting choices - "favorite" being a subjective term, of course, but it's still an interesting exercise.

I've tried to enter the John Zorn universe in the past, but I've had difficulty finding an entry point, if you know what I mean!