File Under M for Music

07.04.20

George Hider plots a path through a series of recordings that will hopefully all sit somewhat happily together under his rather loose filing system of M for Music. 

In this months show we consider (and celebrate) Isolation, and Collaboration.

ISOLATION

1. Sunrise, the introduction of Also sprach Zarathustra, by Richard Strauss, performed by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & conducted by Andris Nelsons

2. I’m so lonesome, I could cry, by Hank Williams, performed by Bill Frisell

3. Introduction to “8 Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California”, by Harry Partch, taken from the Music of Harry Partch, Vol. 3: Sonata Dementia

4. Barstow, “Eight Hitchhikers’ Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California” performed by Kronos Quartet & Ben Johnston

5. Ask the lonely (isolated vocal track), by The Four Tops

6. Reading from ‘Walden’ by H.D. Thoreau, (read by Steven Mayer) from Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 “Concord” & The Celestial Railroad, released as part of Naxos ‘American Classics’ series.

7. IV. Thoreau, from Charles Ives “Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60”, performed by Easley Blackwood & Richard Graef

8. Acknowledgement from John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme

COLLABORATION

9. Ocean, and …

10. On and Ever Onward, by Dirty Projectors and Bjork, from Mount Wittenberg Orca

11. Certain Cells, by Kris Davis, from Diatom Ribbons, feat. Esperanza Spalding & Nels Cline

12. Help me Somebody, form My Life In The Bush of Ghosts, Brian Eno & David Byrne

13. Storm Warning, by Latryx & DJ Shadow, from Quannum Spectrum

14. III. Lento  – Cantabile-Semplice from Henryk Górecki: Symphony No 3, performed by Beth Gibbons, The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra & conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki

15. It doesn’t matter, by Wyclef Jean, featuring The Rock, and Melky Sedeck

Links  for this month’s episode

“The Coltrane Home in Dix Hills”

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/23/the-coltrane-home-in-dix-hills/

Saint John Coltrane – A Love Supreme – BBC Documentary with Alab Yentob

https://youtu.be/XUVPmfkNbm4?t=1408

Certain Cells, Kris Davis

https://krisdavis.bandcamp.com/track/certain-cells

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