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whoa thanks for the heads up on that laura cannell, sounds amazing.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
I'm aware it's an unseemly & gratuitous opinion to have of such a niche artist but I kind of hate cannell's relentless melodrama. rarely approve of the word but it comes off as pretentious & it's such a one-note slog, I just want some space, some awareness but it's always fluttering around in its own shadow. it's close to being something I'd love but imo aiming for 'ancient-sounding' v directly, which I think it is, is shooting yourself in the foot. you end up sounding twee
― ogmor, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
I enjoyed it both in my kitchen at loud volume and wandering through greenbelt with my headphones, so it gets a double thumbs up from me. But I can understand how some will think it twee , but idk it just works for me.
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link
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Music Of The Gothic Era or Music From The Crusades...
I already have these on CD, but would totes buy LPs if I saw them.― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Wednesday, August 1, 2012 12:37 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was lucky enough to grab a pristine copy of the Music Of the Gothic Era 3 LP set for $15 a few days ago. I've appreciated this music digitally for years, but studying the liner notes and texts has illuminated it big time, especially with the ars antiqua and ars nova motets.
This is deeply strange music--two (or three) different texts sung simultaneously, alternately harmonizing and hocketing with each other. Sometimes the texts are closely related to each other, and sometimes sung from different/contrasting perspectives. Of course I don't understand Latin or medieval French, but I'd imagine if I did understand the language, listening to these motets would be even more of a head-spinning experience, figuring out which text to follow or attempting to keep track of both at the same time.
So I'm wondering if there are examples of motets or other music with a similar effect in English, from that era or beyond (The Velvet Underground "The Murder Mystery" is what immediately comes to mind for me). It seems like after the gothic era composers tended to base compositions around a single text rather than two or more overlapping texts, but maybe I'm wrong about that...
― J. Sam, Thursday, 2 February 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
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Thanks, I was surprised at how much was out there, I had the idea that it was just the Hurrian hymn, but could've put together several hours.