ok: February 2010

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Joanna Newsom

Good thing she finally came out with an album I'm sure I can pronounce the name of.
STREAM WHOLE ALBUM "Have One on Me"
thnx NPR!

Mondo Boys release a mix tape a few times a year. It's like they've been watching me in my day to day and put together all the songs I've been listening to. It's weird. And 10 extra points for the Alan Watts clip.

TRACKLIST
01 JAVELIN – THE MERKIN JERK (TAKE 3) / ALAN WATTS: ZEN TALES
02 ARABIAN ANTLERS: WOLVES OVER TROUBLED WATERS (INTRO) / ONG-ART CHIRAPHAN: KIT TUENG THER (MISS YOU)
03 CHUCK WRIGHT: AT SEVENTEEN / PROF. HAROLD BOGGS & THE BOGGS SPECIALS: GOD’S L.S.D.
04 GOKÇEN KAYNATAN & ELEKTRONIKIERI: PENCERENIN PERDESINI
05 VOLCANO CHOIR: ISLAND, IS
06 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE: GRAZE
07 RADIOHEAD / BECK: HARRY PATCH, HARRY PARTCH
08-11 BECK / FIERY FURNACES: FRIEDBERGER FAMILY FEUD
12 THIRD WAVE: ELEANOR RIGBY / RONNIE PROPHET: ELEANOR RIGBY
13 ELO: TURN TO STONE / THE FOUR TOPS: I’LL TURN TO STONE
14 ADA: LUCKYCHARM / ERLEND ØYE: INTUITION / BORN RUFFIANS: FOXES MATE FOR LIFE
15 MIDLAKE: THEY CANNOT LET IT EXPAND
16 BORN RUFFIANS: FOXES MATE FOR LIFE
17 ES: ENNEN OLI HUONOMMIN
18 NAGISA NI TE: PREMONITION
19 HERE WE GO MAGIC: FANGELA / THE TURTLES: YOU SHOWED ME / BORN RUFFIANS: FOXES MATE FOR LIFE
20 SPOON: TROUBLE COMES RUNNING
21 ATLAS SOUND: DOCTOR
22 BILLY PRESTON: NOTHING FROM NOTHING
23 AIR: VENUS / THE KORGIS: EVERYBODY’S GOTTA LEARN SOMETIME
24 CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG: ME AND JANE DOE
25 RAY DAVIES: ALL NIGHT STAND / THE THOUGHTS: ALL NIGHT STAND
26 RICHARD SWIFT: LADY LUCK
27 FLEET FOXES: WHITE WINTER HYMNAL
28 ELLIOTT SMITH: BOTTLE UP AND EXPLODE
29 DR. DOG: SHADOW PEOPLE
30 SONNY AND THE SUNSETS: TOO YOUNG TO BURN
31 BEACH HOUSE: ZEBRA
32 ARABIAN ANTLERS: WOLVES OVER TROUBLED WATERS (REPRISE)

Download HERE

Monday, February 22, 2010

Chopin

I had the pleasure of seeing the Philadelphia Orchestra a couple of weeks ago. This piece was played incredibly well by soloist Louis Lortie.

It is mournful and light all at the same time.

The program included a great quote from a Warsaw critic from one of Chopin's performances at the time, he wrote, "These tones seem to be the happy echo of our native harmony."