Jazzy D's Soul Notes

Giya Kancheli - Symphony No.6 (1978–1980)




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More avant and wonderful wired sounds -

Param Vir - Wheeling Past the Stars: I. Unending Love



Milton Babbitt - Soli e Duettini



Roger Sessions - String Quintet (1958)



Robert Gross - Chronicles



Chronicles · Robert Gross
Robert Gross: Chronicles
℗ 2021 New Focus Recordings


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Making up for a lack of recently ...

Anna Meredith - Unfurl



Eriks Esenvalds - Stars



Snorri Hallgrímsson - Chasing the Present



Tim Hecker - A Sodium Codec Haze



Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Houston, the 5th




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Apart from the PCO today's selection here is all classical.


Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Scherzo And Trio




Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight"



The sonata has three movements:
0:00​ 1 mvt: Adagio sostenuto
6:00​ 2 mvt: Allegretto
8:05​ 3 mvt: Presto agitato


Edgard Varèse - Octandre




Octandre, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, and double bass (1923)
I. Asses lent
II. Très vif et nerveux
III. Grave -- Animé et jubilatoire

ASKO Ensemble
Riccardo Chailly

Morton Feldman - Why Patterns? (1978)



Morton Feldman (1926-1987): Why Patterns? for flute, glockenspiel and piano (1978).

The California EAR Unit:
Dorothy Stone, flute
Arthur Jarvinen, glockenspiel
Gaylord Mowrey, piano
Cover image: painting by Mark Rothko.


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More musical diversions -


Annea Lockwood - Thousand Year Dreaming: In Full Bloom (Part 2)




Saint Abdullah - The Birds Discuss The Journey (ft. John Butcher)




Bulgarian State Television Female Choir - Houbava Milka (Beautiful Milka)



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Fairly new to me but only discovered through Wire and BBC Radio 3 is the Scottish composer and avant popster, Anna Meredith.

So here is a selection of her wonderful inclusive music - starting with an audiovisual delightful piece form the BBC Proms.


BBC Proms: Anna Meredith: Five Telegrams - Sender & Receiver (2018)



Her current and second "pop" album from 2019 "FIBS" includes this delightful electronic pop number -


ANNA MEREDITH - Sawbones



And apparently, this was the single form FIBS -

ANNA MEREDITH - Paramour




Wow! Such highly energetic music. I love it! So yes I do have FIBS in my collection.

And finally another live event -

Anna Meredith: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert




Anna Meredith was a former BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Composer in Residence. The songs performed here come from her 2016 release called Varmints, which is where two of the three songs performed here can be found. It's been a long while since a contemporary composer has captured my musical imagination. I hope and trust this will open many to a new way of thinking about what music is and what it can do.

SET LIST
"Nautilus"
"Ribbons"
"The Vapours"

MUSICIANS
Anna Meredith, Jack Ross, Tom Kelly, Sam Wilson, Maddie Cutter

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This one is for pigshitpoet and coming42

Just a few to ease you into the midnight slumbers -

Ellen Fullman - Departure



Body Music
℗ 1993 Experimental Intermedia Foundation
Released on: 2004-11-09

Meredith Monk - Strand (Gathering) from Songs of Ascension



Ondas do mare (Martim Codax) - 13th c. Galician-Portuguese cantiga d'amigo



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Music every hour as they say - well almost -

Maria Szymanowska - Nocturne in A-Flat Major, La Murmure




Florence Price - Nimble Feet



Margaret Bonds - Dream Variation (from Three Dream Portraits)



Anna Meredith - Moonmoons



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My latest abstract -



Crippled Symmetry

This abstract colour field painting is inspired by the large colour field paintings of Mark Rothko and the slow undulating music of the 20th-century composer Morton Feldman. The title is based on a composition by Feldman which lasts for around ninety minutes. The Tate Modern has a room dedicated to the large colour field paintings of Mark Rothko.


Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry



The IXION Ensemble was formed by Andrew Toovey in 1988 to perform music by young composers alongside established figures. One of the most important composers at that time in the ensemble's repertoire was Morton Feldman whom Toovey had been taught by in 1986 and decided that more of his music needed to be played in the UK. This piece, Crippled Symmetry was featured in the 'Cutting Edge' series of concerts in the Warehouse, Waterloo, London in the early 1990s and recorded by Bob Briggs for his label Terra Nova, but never released. It was assumed lost on the death of Bob Briggs, but a cassette copy was recently found in the IXION Archive and thankfully composer Leo Grant masterfully transferred the cassette making it available for the first time publicly on here. The performers are Rowland Sutherland, flutes, Benjamin Morison - percussion and Michael Finnissy - piano/celesta.

Probably the most neglected modern composer - gay and black - and as far as I am concerned his music is a phenomenon.

Julius Eastman - Stay On It



Composed by Julius Eastman
Score realization by Tim Leopold
Performed by Alarm Will Sound
Live at the Sheldon Concert Hall, Feb 8, 2018
Filmed by Four/Ten Media

He was a composer that rocked the cerebral world of process music with his explosions of free improvisation. It's little wonder that Julius Eastman, who died in 1990 under unexplained circumstances, remained the supreme underground composer!





HIS MUSIC IS A WILD RIDE and I love it.

Enjoy.