Not all messages are displayed:
show all messages (18 of them)
Yeah that's what I was getting at by shameless. I don't spin it all the way through each time but the liner notes positing each track as a representation of music from famous cities of antiquity, going backwards in time to Atlantis 21,000 BC = admirably cosmic liner notes
― Milton Parker, Monday, 19 November 2012 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
I said "a bit kitschy". I wanted to say "extremely kitschy". Yeah, hats off to someone who can teleport back to Atlantis in 21,000 BC and convey that mysteriously intuitive 'ambience' that we can all relate to, on wax.
This is a good one from the liner notes, Pompeii 76 AD (the Blade Runner track).
"Shifting moonbeams fall upon the splendid fountain in the rotunda of the temple of Isis, glinting occasionally on the golden coins and trinkets tossed there so lightly by the carefree youth and maidens of Pompeii. As the beautiful city dreams, Vesuvius smolders"
I totally agree though, its shameless. You can kind of listen to it with the liner notes and those intentions, or without, which is a bit harder but possible. It's like the opposite of how I see Brian Eno's music, in that he (I think) wanted to make music that is blank and open to the listeners interpretation, maybe not with tracks like "Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960" but you know what I mean.
― inventionsforjohn, Monday, 19 November 2012 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
Good read, I'm going to try and listen to 'Harps of the ancient temples' with the sound turned down and wait for it to rain.
If anyone's bothered, I want to expand the recommendations so it doesn't just have to be harp music. Any sickly, pretty music similar to Budd's 'Pavillion Of Dreams'? Choral even? Preferably mid 20th century onwards.
Maybe harps aren't that popular.
― inventionsforjohn, Monday, 19 November 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
Several weeks ago my favorite local jazz program devoted an entire show to a jazz harpist called 'Destiny the Harpist'. The name was a turn-off for sure, but I was won over completely by show's end. She's rather new, so there's not much out there (a few Youtube vids, but all with terrible mixes - she plays in jazz combos and as you can imagine, is regularly drowned out by the other musicians). She has several tracks on a FB page and if you want something in the area of Alice Coltrane I think you'll be pleased: Destiny the Harpist (the facebook page).
― rattled, Monday, 19 November 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link