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Feb. 25th, 2012
Writer's Block: Weatherman’s Day
Feb. 25th, 2012 12:17 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Right now, it is warm and sunny. Feels as though spring is here already.
Right now, it is warm and sunny. Feels as though spring is here already.
Hot Women , compiled by R. Crumb
Feb. 25th, 2012 04:39 pmI actually bought this CD over three years ago, and I still can't get over how cool (or perhaps I should say hot) this collection is. And baffling. Compiled by R. Crumb, its a collection of old recordings (between the '20s and '50s) from around the world. The title is a brilliant play on words, referring to the fact that all these women come from the warmer parts of the globe - South America, Africa, the Mediterranean, South and South-east Asia, etc. All of it was culled from old 78 RPM records, almost all of which are no longer widely available.
The music itself is beautiful and very well preserved considering the era from which it came, so its very nice to have this released on CD. Given the great variety of regions, there are many diverse styles and instruments represented here. From the classical Hindustani singing of Miss Nilam Bai and Turkish ghazal sung by Ayda Sonmez to a Spanish Flamenco by La Nina de Los Peines and the Swahili singer Hadija binti Abdulla, this CD represents a wide ranging slice of world music. There's Greek rembetika, a couple of Algerian singers, Italian folkloric music, an ethnographic recording from the Congo, Polynesian chants, old Norteno and Cajun songs, Vietnamese art music, and more.
The only downside are the uneven liner notes. Crumb must be applauded for his efforts, and he provides a great deal of information about the recordings and their world. However, on the other hand, there are a few places where he himself admits to not knowing anything about the singers, or even being able to read the Hindi and Burmese titles! Nonetheless, even without detailed ethnographic data, this is still a wonderful archive of world music from the earliest days of recording. If nothing else, the music should be enjoyed on it's own merits.
Congrats to Crumb for making such great music available and enriching us in this special way.
The music itself is beautiful and very well preserved considering the era from which it came, so its very nice to have this released on CD. Given the great variety of regions, there are many diverse styles and instruments represented here. From the classical Hindustani singing of Miss Nilam Bai and Turkish ghazal sung by Ayda Sonmez to a Spanish Flamenco by La Nina de Los Peines and the Swahili singer Hadija binti Abdulla, this CD represents a wide ranging slice of world music. There's Greek rembetika, a couple of Algerian singers, Italian folkloric music, an ethnographic recording from the Congo, Polynesian chants, old Norteno and Cajun songs, Vietnamese art music, and more.
The only downside are the uneven liner notes. Crumb must be applauded for his efforts, and he provides a great deal of information about the recordings and their world. However, on the other hand, there are a few places where he himself admits to not knowing anything about the singers, or even being able to read the Hindi and Burmese titles! Nonetheless, even without detailed ethnographic data, this is still a wonderful archive of world music from the earliest days of recording. If nothing else, the music should be enjoyed on it's own merits.
Congrats to Crumb for making such great music available and enriching us in this special way.
The Saturday Sublimation
Feb. 25th, 2012 09:11 pmThis morning been listening to some CD's I have had for a long while such as the Crumb compiled “Hot Women” and “Ethiopiques 5 , Tigrigna Music” (Buda Musique). The former from old 78's of the twenties and thirties whilst the latter music is from Ethiopia in the seventies.
Read the first chapter of the Peter Guralnik book “Sweet Soul Music” and some of Jack Kerouac's “The Subterraneans” , another on my list of books in the challenge for this year. An autobiographical tour de force of a love affair written in a stream of consciousness stye.
I must admit this the anti Dawkins rhetoric is untenable, and that this gentle Darwinian scientist is more right the evils of religion than anyone else. He remains an agnostic, rather than a total atheist, and that intelligent design is totally a non scientific view of the world and the universe. My socialist leanings veer towards the side of atheism. I still haven't read his book “The God Delusion” which is on my list of books in the fifty book challenge.
It has been another fine day here, with me out sitting in the garden early afternoon catching up with the news in the newspapers, and seeing that the Tory government is trying to fuck up education again with their dogma. Privatized companies running schools had lower results than state run schools, proving that Gove and his cronies are going down the wrong highway.
Listened to more music this evening , “Zanzibara 2” (Buda Musique) , sixties and seventies taarab music from the Swahili coastline of Kenya , and particularly Mombasa, followed by David Shea's “Shock Corridor” (a tribute to the Sam Fuller movie of the same name) using samplers, turntables, electric and acoustic instruments to convey a cinematic flux which plays inside and outside of its film source.
This was followed by John Zorn's “Filmworlks Vol. One” (Tzadik), a smorgasbord feast of different styles clashing together.
Well there hasn't been much on the television. Saturday TV is usually pretty dire without a Dr.Who or a Merlin.
Read the first chapter of the Peter Guralnik book “Sweet Soul Music” and some of Jack Kerouac's “The Subterraneans” , another on my list of books in the challenge for this year. An autobiographical tour de force of a love affair written in a stream of consciousness stye.
I must admit this the anti Dawkins rhetoric is untenable, and that this gentle Darwinian scientist is more right the evils of religion than anyone else. He remains an agnostic, rather than a total atheist, and that intelligent design is totally a non scientific view of the world and the universe. My socialist leanings veer towards the side of atheism. I still haven't read his book “The God Delusion” which is on my list of books in the fifty book challenge.
It has been another fine day here, with me out sitting in the garden early afternoon catching up with the news in the newspapers, and seeing that the Tory government is trying to fuck up education again with their dogma. Privatized companies running schools had lower results than state run schools, proving that Gove and his cronies are going down the wrong highway.
Listened to more music this evening , “Zanzibara 2” (Buda Musique) , sixties and seventies taarab music from the Swahili coastline of Kenya , and particularly Mombasa, followed by David Shea's “Shock Corridor” (a tribute to the Sam Fuller movie of the same name) using samplers, turntables, electric and acoustic instruments to convey a cinematic flux which plays inside and outside of its film source.
This was followed by John Zorn's “Filmworlks Vol. One” (Tzadik), a smorgasbord feast of different styles clashing together.
Well there hasn't been much on the television. Saturday TV is usually pretty dire without a Dr.Who or a Merlin.
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