yes, it's great. I saw them performing it with him once, playing behind a screen on which the film was being projected. Sometimes they were lit in such a way that you could see them as spectral presences. RoXoR.
― loggedoutvicar, Friday, 8 October 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
although I don't find Crumb's Black Angels meaningless, either musically or programmatically. and I think it's the best overall Kronos album, I like most of the other pieces on it as well, the Istvan Marta piece & their Ives arrangement...
I don't get much out of any of Riley's pieces for Kronos but that's just taste, I know many people think those are his best.
The Kronos Performs Philip Glass quartets album is pleasant bookstore music, but as noted upthread, it is all about the original Mishima soundtrack (if I had to reduce my Glass collection to three records it'd be this, Einstein and North Star)
I find many of their thematic compilation albums to be a bit stifling & calculated, but they're not catering to fringe listeners, they are trying to introduce new music to the widest possible audience and I think they do a wonderful job.
― (Jon L), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link
following that lead, another store, the Downtown Music Gallery, claims to have a bunch of copies of the Jon Gibson LP on Chatham Square for like 14 bucks.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link
there are two -- Visitations is a murky environmental sound + flute collage, almost industrial strength lo-fi, like it but don't listen to it too much. Two Solo Pieces has "Cycles" for wall-of-sound solo organ, and is religious, and easily worth 14 bucks.
― (Jon L), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― (Jon L), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I say buy two
― (Jon L), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link
(We need a thread for the arditti quartet if there isn't one)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 8 October 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 24 December 2005 06:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Saturday, 24 December 2005 07:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 24 December 2005 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link
(I realize it hasn't gone completely unnoticed, and it is even a Grammy nominee, but even the absence of discussion around here is curious.)
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 24 December 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
(I like the Mysore Nagamani Srinath recording Sundar sent though. Carnatic classical, which seems to be my the broad sub-area of Indian music I find most accessible.)
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 24 December 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Joan Jeanrenaud is doing a record release show tomorrow night -- are such things special enough to make a weeknight effort to see?
― Leee, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 02:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone heard them play Reich's 9/11?
― etc, Thursday, 17 May 2012 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ hstencil upthread
― Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Thursday, 17 May 2012 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
Aleksandra Vrebalov's "…hold me, neighbor, in this storm…" & Nicole Lizée "Death to Kosmische" were amazing.40 year anniversary this year, wonder if Nonesuch or someone will do anything?
― etc, Monday, 11 March 2013 10:00 (eleven years ago) link
Saw 'em in a collaborative project with Laurie Anderson recently
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 March 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
How was it? I'm seeing it in May.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 02:23 (eleven years ago) link
I was kinda disappointed tbh. Laurie's verbiage did not really impress me, and Kronos' playing was ok but not wow-worthy.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
Just saw Kronos with Malian group Trio de Kali, and it was a great show (their first public show together). I liked Kronos better live than I did a year ago. They did 2 compositions themselves first-- a short impressive kinda noisy one and then a longer one that was dedicated to their friends in Ukraine. After the intermission they were joined by Trio de Kali- a great southern Mali female vocalist; a Malian balafon player, and a Malian bass ngoni player. They adapted Malian tradionals plus a Mahalia Jackson song. All very nice.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 February 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
I like the song just released that will be on their new album Placeless that features vocals from Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat and her sister Marjan
https://youtu.be/TK2sHz8Rs5k
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 06:16 (five years ago) link
They've also been doing "Music from Banned Countries" shows with compositions from some of the original countries on trump's banned list--Yemen, Syria, Iran
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 06:19 (five years ago) link