Post Midnight Music from Jazzy D #3
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jazzy_daveDecided to add some more music - a mixed bag from the CD collection. starting witha track from an influential mind warping CD - Kaddish.
Towering Inferno - The Rose (featuring Marta Sebestyen)
This round world as it colapses on me, This round world as it colapses on me, The wind blows through me, The wind blows through me. And the old and the new, And here and far away, Familiar and unknown, And you and everything, Love of the Universe ... This sky will cover you when you fall down, This sky will cover you when you fall down....
.Endre Szkarosi - lyrics
Towering Inferno's Kaddish has slowly gathered acclaim as one of the most interesting rock-influenced experimental recordings of the mid-'90s; Brian Eno, for instance, has referred to it as the most frightening record he's ever heard. Towering Inferno are the British duo of Richard Wolfson and Andy Saunders, who are principally responsible for the composition of Kaddish (with some additional material from other sources), and also for much of the programming, keyboards, and guitars. British prog-rock vets Elton Dean and John Marshall (ex-Soft Machine) and Chris Cutler, as well as Hungarian folk singer Marta Sebestyen, also add important contributions to this 75-minute concept album of sorts, inspired by the horrors of the Holocaust. Rabbinical chants, hard rock/heavy metal guitar, ambient synthesizer, and Eastern European folk singing are all elements of an ambitious palette which gets its disturbing message across without sounding pedantic. Wolfson and Saunders have presented Kaddish as a mixed-media performance as well; originally released in 1994, it was picked up by Island for larger distribution, and issued in the U.S. in 1996. Wolfson and Saunders have something quite different in mind for their next project, which they described in the British magazine Record Collector as "a light-hearted, fun, post-rave kind of B-movie affair.
The ostensible subject matter of "Kaddish" -- the Holocaust -- is in fact just the building material with which this collage was constructed. It is not so much ABOUT the Holocaust as it is an auditory artwork which stands alone.
Wolfson (R.I.P.) and Saunders utilize several styles of music (rock, jazz, liturgical, folk, deep space electronics) as well as recordings of Nazi and Jewish speakers, crowd noises and various other sounds. The term "collage" isn't really appropriate I guess, because "Kaddish" is arranged into a series of musical vignettes, many with no sound effects over the top at all. It is this wide-ranging, unclassifiable character which makes "Kaddish" so difficult to pigeonhole, or summarize, or remember clearly. It is also what makes it endlessly fascinating.
Towering Inferno - Toll II
Sainkho Namtchylak - Boomerang
The Wilderness of Manitoba - November
The Last Shadow Puppets - Calm Like You
Knossos - Al Sahid
Paavoharju - Valo tihkuu kaiken läpi
Enjoy!
Towering Inferno - The Rose (featuring Marta Sebestyen)
This round world as it colapses on me, This round world as it colapses on me, The wind blows through me, The wind blows through me. And the old and the new, And here and far away, Familiar and unknown, And you and everything, Love of the Universe ... This sky will cover you when you fall down, This sky will cover you when you fall down....
.Endre Szkarosi - lyrics
Towering Inferno's Kaddish has slowly gathered acclaim as one of the most interesting rock-influenced experimental recordings of the mid-'90s; Brian Eno, for instance, has referred to it as the most frightening record he's ever heard. Towering Inferno are the British duo of Richard Wolfson and Andy Saunders, who are principally responsible for the composition of Kaddish (with some additional material from other sources), and also for much of the programming, keyboards, and guitars. British prog-rock vets Elton Dean and John Marshall (ex-Soft Machine) and Chris Cutler, as well as Hungarian folk singer Marta Sebestyen, also add important contributions to this 75-minute concept album of sorts, inspired by the horrors of the Holocaust. Rabbinical chants, hard rock/heavy metal guitar, ambient synthesizer, and Eastern European folk singing are all elements of an ambitious palette which gets its disturbing message across without sounding pedantic. Wolfson and Saunders have presented Kaddish as a mixed-media performance as well; originally released in 1994, it was picked up by Island for larger distribution, and issued in the U.S. in 1996. Wolfson and Saunders have something quite different in mind for their next project, which they described in the British magazine Record Collector as "a light-hearted, fun, post-rave kind of B-movie affair.
The ostensible subject matter of "Kaddish" -- the Holocaust -- is in fact just the building material with which this collage was constructed. It is not so much ABOUT the Holocaust as it is an auditory artwork which stands alone.
Wolfson (R.I.P.) and Saunders utilize several styles of music (rock, jazz, liturgical, folk, deep space electronics) as well as recordings of Nazi and Jewish speakers, crowd noises and various other sounds. The term "collage" isn't really appropriate I guess, because "Kaddish" is arranged into a series of musical vignettes, many with no sound effects over the top at all. It is this wide-ranging, unclassifiable character which makes "Kaddish" so difficult to pigeonhole, or summarize, or remember clearly. It is also what makes it endlessly fascinating.
Towering Inferno - Toll II
Sainkho Namtchylak - Boomerang
The Wilderness of Manitoba - November
The Last Shadow Puppets - Calm Like You
Knossos - Al Sahid
Paavoharju - Valo tihkuu kaiken läpi
Enjoy!
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Date: 2016-02-21 01:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-02-21 07:38 am (UTC)Paavoharju isn't too bad either.
Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2016-02-22 06:04 am (UTC)trippy folk sounds
just for you..
; )
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Date: 2016-02-22 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-02-23 03:07 am (UTC); )