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What are you listening to? Part III

All of those bubbles fill the room so I hit my head on the ceiling ...

 
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Scepticalscribe said:
I'm also rather partial to Dancepieces - and Glasspieces
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Mmmmm, arpeggios!

I also like Glassworks--enough to have bought it three times (the standalone Glassworks, the version in the Complete Sony Recordings box that adds a special cassette mix, and the ballet arrangement plus the funeral movement from Akhnaten on Dancepieces).

If the ballet is ever performed near you, I highly recommend it. Even though it is late period Jerome Robbins, the piece truly does elevate the music.
 
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KaliYoni said:
Mmmmm, arpeggios!

I also like Glassworks--enough to have bought it three times (the standalone Glassworks, the version in the Complete Sony Recordings box that adds a special cassette mix, and the ballet arrangement plus the funeral movement from Akhnaten on Dancepieces).

If the ballet is ever performed near you, I highly recommend it. Even though it is late period Jerome Robbins, the piece truly does elevate the music.
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While you have to be in the mood in order to be able to listen to it, when you are in the mood for Philip Glass, nothing - but nothing - else will suffice.

Glassworks sounds excellent; I have an odd feeling that I may have a copy (as a CD) in the midst of many other CDs, but, for some, strange, inexplicable reason, not transferred to my iPod Classic.
 
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KaliYoni said:
Especially not John Adams or Ezio Bosso!
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Well, yes, I hear you.

Actually, John Adams has his moments, too, (but far, far, fewer of them, agreed, than has Philip Glass).

I think (no, I know) that I have one of his CDs (Nixon in China) - bought impulsively having heard it on a late night radio show that I listened to regularly, - notepad and pen close to hand to hastily scribble down barely heard names of pieces of music and composers to track down subsequently - and which played endlessly fascinating music chosen by a presenter with eclectic and informed musical tastes (yes, that was where I first came across the music of Philip Glass, too).
 
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Mano Chao: Sunshine in vocals and voice and music.

Two albums (originally on CD, now on my computer's iTunes, and on my iPod's drive - that is, my iPod Classic):

Clandestino, and Próxima Estación: Esperanza.
 
KaliYoni said:
If you haven't already, check out his break-out band Mano Negra. And if you dig that, you might like The Sway Machinery.
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Thank you very much for these recommendations, much appreciated; no, I hadn't known of them, - in fact, I had never heard of them - and I will most certainly check them out.

I love that music, especially in winter.
 
KaliYoni said:
If you haven't already, check out his break-out band Mano Negra. And if you dig that, you might like The Sway Machinery.
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Thank you for these recommendations:

Mano Negra seem to me to be a sort of less polished version of Mano Chao (yes, I read about the background), but The Sway Machinery are really interesting, they strike me as being a curious hybrid, or strange blend of Balkan (or Serb, to be precise), brass band, or brass instrument music (the music of the award winning Marko Markovic Orkestar comes to mind), and klezmer music mediated by modern musical sensibilities.
 
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