Into The Night #1

Time for some post-midnight music - as we head towards the Xmas Day morning.


These New Puritans - Fragment 2

Tim Hecker - In The Fog 1

Kendrick Lamar - Institutionalized

Jlin - Carbon 7

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Into The Night #2

Then some more -

Dirty Three - Hope

Bill Evans - Symbiosis 2nd Movement

Aphex Twin - The Waxen Pith

Fennesz - Chateau Rouge

Oneohtrix Point Never - Zebra

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Good Morning , And Oh Balls, It's Xmas

This Is What It Is all About Really

Archway

This is the railway arch leading from Grove Close to Waller Road - where I walked through to the local shop in Lower Road to get some items this morning.
A sunny cold morning as well and a metaphor for the tunnel into a brighter future from the darkness of this year.

Spring Heel Jack Live

Back in January 2003, I saw Spring Hill Jack live at the Corn Exchange Brighton for an amazing night of improv. This is the recording of it. Strange that in the nineties SHJ were a drum n' bass electronica band.

Spring Heel Jack - Live (part 1)

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Winter

Since nine this morning I have playing a mixed bag of CDs from my collection - so after Joni, jazz and some improv, next up the classical style. Full playlist later tonight.
So for you folk here is winter from one of his greatest oratorios.

Joseph Haydn - Winter (The Seasons)

The Seasons (German: Die Jahreszeiten), Hob. XXI:3 is a secular oratorio by Joseph Haydn, first performed in 1801.
Haydn was led to write The Seasons by the great success of his previous oratorio The Creation (1798), which had become very popular and was in the course of being performed all over Europe.
The composition process was arduous for Haydn, in part because his health was gradually failing and partly because Haydn found van Swieten's libretto to be rather taxing. Haydn took two years to complete the work.

Like The Creation, The Seasons had a dual premiere, first for the aristocracy whose members had financed the work (Schwarzenberg palace, Vienna, 24 April 1801), then for the public (Redoutensaal, Vienna, 19 May). The oratorio was considered a clear success, but not a success comparable to that of The Creation. In the years that followed, Haydn continued to lead oratorio performances for charitable causes, but it was usually The Creation that he led, not The Seasons.

The ageing Haydn lacked the energy needed to repeat the labour of self-publication that he had undertaken for The Creation and instead assigned the new oratorio to his regular publisher at that time, Breitkopf & Härtel, who published it in 1802.

Soloists:
Hanne (Soprano) - Sibylla Rubens
Lukas (Tenor) - Andreas Karasiak
Simon (Bass) - Stephan MacLeod

Performed by Morten Schuldt-Jensen, the GewandhausKammerchor, & the Leipziger Kammerorchester.

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Playlist so far -

Joni Mitchell - Mingus
Electrelane - Power Out
Spring Heel Jack with Mathew Shipp, Evan Parker etc - Live
AMM - Newfoundland
Morton Subotnik - Silver Apples On The Moon
Steve Reich - It's Gonna Rain
W.A. Mozart - Violin Concertos
W.A. Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 9
Joseph Hadyn - The Seasons

Move Ever Forward

For all you spirits of the divine jazziness -

Brother Ahh ‎– Move Ever Onward (1975)

1-Nature's Children
2-Transfiguration
3-Enthusiasm
4-Spirits In The Night
5-Transcendental March (Creation Song)
6-Boundless Rhythm
7-Celestial Strings
8-Sweet Illumination "Chile Woman"

Arranged By, Composed By, Conductor, Drums, Flute, French Horn, Sitar, Sounds [Nature Sounds] – Brother Ah*
Bass – Eugene Cooper (2)
Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Shawm – Pat Patrick
Congas, Drums – John Belcher
Congas, Drums, Tabla – Mbutu*
Design – Dawson Prater
Design [Original Cover], Layout – Dennis Critchlow
Drums [African Drum] – Omowale
Drums, Oboe – Steve Solder
Drums, Performer [Kiti Kup] – Ras Karby*
Electric Piano, Piano – Olu (3)
Engineer – Tony May
Gong, Percussion, Shakuhachi, Performer [Space Beam] – Kufu Ptah
Guitar – Ayida Tengemana
Guitar, Percussion – Obowale
Koto – Barbara Mc Cloud, Branice Inemugo Williams, Carolyn Davis, Elssi Atiba, Harold Lucious
Liner Notes – Jean Carn
Panpipes [Pan Flute] – Lance Dozier
Photography – Jill Rucker, Nneka
Remastered By – Brother Ah*, Rob Buhrman
Soloist – Kamau (3), Kassin (2), Khadijah, Kwesi*
Tambourine, Coordinator – Alfred Wade, Jr.

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Today I Have Been Playing ...

On this unusual Xmas day ... started at 9 AM .. lol!

Joni Mitchell - Mingus
Electrelane - Power Out
Spring Heel Jack with Mathew Shipp, Evan Parker etc - Live
AMM - Newfoundland
Morton Subotnik - Silver Apples On The Moon
Steve Reich - It's Gonna Rain
W.A. Mozart - Violin Concertos (Naxos CD)
W.A. Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 9 (Uchida/ECO/Tate)
Joseph Hadyn - Winter from The Seasons (RPO/Dorati/Brighton Festival Chorus)
W.A. Mozart - Kyrie (Lso & Chorus/Davis/Kiri Te Kanawa)
R.E.M - Monster
Brother Ahh - Move Ever Onward
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - PCO Remastered
Galina Ustvolskaya - Octet (London Musici)
Jonathan Harvey - Tombeau de Messiaen
Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.5 (Tonhalle-Orch/Paavo Jarvi)
Marisela Norte - NORTE/Word
Wanda Coleman - Berserk On Hollywood Boulevard
Linda J. Albertano - Skin
Autechre - Sign

Finished at nine in the eving. 12 hours of musical blast and three spoken word poetesses before Autechre!

Three American Female Poets

Some cutting edge poetry on record.

Linda J. Albertano - An Open Letter to School Girls of America

Wanda Coleman - Prove It Why Don't You

from the 1991 album "Berserk On Hollywood Boulevard"

Marisela Norte - Three Little Words

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Xmas Friday Five

What's the scariest holiday movie you've ever seen?

Do you believe peace on earth, goodwill towards all people is more or less within our grasp?

Truthfully, would you want to wake up to discover someone had been in your house while you slept and left you stuff, but ate your cookies and drank your milk?

So, what did you get from Santa or pressies you received?

With this current lockdown/pandemic/whatever how are coping around Xmas?