First track is the stunning masterpiece that inevitably and irrevocably brings us to post this one:
You can just copy and paste my usual comments here which I'll outline in microsoft powerpoint form:
-perfect meld of the three streams or rather Nile rivers of classical, jazz, rock
-as good a piece of music as anything you hear in a symphony hall in N. America or Europe or the moon
-utterly unfair that the composer is completely unknown (--even to progressive music fans!)
-said progressive music fans, the enlightened ones, number in the low hundreds, in an overall world population approaching 7 and a half billion
-popular music fans are all morons
-the Kardashian phenomenon is possibly worse than the bubonic plagues of old, and quite similar
-why is music the stupidest art in its popular form, as I realize whenever someone turns on the radio at work and I'm forced to hear 'Everybody dance now!!' at 9 o'clock in the morning
-Hollywood films, as well, have become more and more stupid over time, for us old people the idea of having comic books as movie releases is inane/insane
-surely these are signals, along with the entirety of twitter, indicating the decline of our civilization
-how are the optimists among us able to maintain that, worldwide, things are bound to improve (without simultaneously being climate change denialists, I might add) without an element of psychosis
-surely these are signals, along with the entirety of twitter, indicating the decline of our civilization
-how are the optimists among us able to maintain that, worldwide, things are bound to improve (without simultaneously being climate change denialists, I might add) without an element of psychosis
No idea what the title means (Лоренцс, Карлсонс, Плакидис, Васкс) or the name of this song (Концертино для симф. орк. и рок-группы) or the provenance of this, or even what this is, or even who the brilliant composer is. Danged Russians and their secret writing...
Hopefully a commenter will enlighten us again!
Hopefully a commenter will enlighten us again!
Discogs page here. Composer of the first track is Zigismunds Lorencs, with his discography here and the title of his incomparable work is appropriately enough Concertino for symphony orchestra and rock band. The musicians were from Latvia, though the release is Russian of course.
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Thanks! What an interesting hodgepodge. Track one reminds me of Lalo Schifrin. Tracks 3-5 are more like chamber music. I was already familiar with Peteris Vasks, but not this early work.
ReplyDeleteGoogle translate gets you nearly there, and the Discogs entry has more details if you click on each name that has an *.
It's their last names in Russian. Using Yandex Translate, from Russian to English you get: Lorenz, Carlsons, Plakidis, Vasks .
ReplyDeleteThe piece title translates to: 'Concertino for Symphony. orc. and rock bands' , assuming Russian to English; using https://translate.yandex.com/ .
Excellent album thank you.
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