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Relaxing Music
by Zachary Steiner 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Any good, interesting recommendations for music to listen to when you are under stress? Thanks. Zach

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Re: Chung's Messiaen
by Crowmeat Bob 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

the recording of 'Des Canyons aux Etoiles' I have was conducted by Salonen with Paul Crossley on piano. According to the liner notes, it's one of his major orchestral works of allegorical christian mysticism. It features the sort of becomings-avian that characterize much of Messiaen's piano work. There are extended solo sections for the piano and to a lesser extent the horn and percussion soloists. Parts of the full orchestra sections are a little bombastic, but not to the point of self-parody. It doesn't seem to me to have anything quite like the intensely distorted rhythmic passages of Turangalila, but it's full of really nice passages that only Messaien could have produced, particulary with some of the tuned percussion and piano sections. The bonus on the 2-CD set that I have (CBS Masterworks) is that it includes two other, smaller, but at least as good (and probably better), works: Oiseaux Exotiques (1956) and Couleurs de la Cite Celeste (1963) It's definitely worth a listen to get your own take on it. and there are no doubt Messiaen scholars greater than I who recognize subtler values in the piece. --crawtome bob pence >From: thesubtlebody <thesubtlebody(a)yahoo.com> >To: zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com >Subject: Re: Chung's Messiaen >Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:18:49 -0800 (PST) > >While there's discussion of Messiaen, has anyone heard >"Des Canyons Aux Etoiles", particularly the recording >just (re)issued by Montaigne? I'm curious if this is >a remarkable composition among Messiaen's others. >I've never heard much about it. > >-----s > >np: Sofia Gubaidulina, "Viola Concert" (D-G, 20/21) > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. >http://mailplus.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >zorn-list mailing list >zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com >To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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relaxing indeed....
by tyrone d.c.washington 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

as someone pointed out, you can do this 2 ways: something nice: phill niblock - touch works for hurdy gurdy brian eno - shutov assembly or disc 3 of the instrumental box set any minimal jamaican dub like king tubby, scientist etc. john fahey - any takoma album really (niceness never stops so something un-nice to blow the steam....it works too.) black flag - first four years minor threat - first 2 ep's discordance axis - anything the locust - anything (and since this is a Zorn-list:) Naked City - Torture garden. NOTHING CAN TOP GOOD OL' HARDCORE!! go figure. -brother tyrone- ------------------------------------------------- Get your free @Elvis e-mail account at Elvis.com! http://www.elvis.com

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Re: Relaxing Music
by TagYrIt＠aol.com 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

I was thinking the ambient/electronic side of Discreet Music too actually. Dale. In a message dated 12/10/2002 11:55:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, ssmith36(a)sprynet.com writes: > Subj: RE: Relaxing Music > Date: 12/10/2002 11:55:43 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: <A HREF="mailto:ssmith36@sprynet.com">ssmith36(a)sprynet.com</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com">zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > My choices are usually Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports' or Chitti Babu's > 'Art of the Veena, Vol. 2.' >

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Re: Relaxing Music
by pm.carey＠utoronto.ca 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

* Zachary Steiner wrote: >Any good, interesting recommendations for music >to listen to when you are under stress? Too many to list, but when you don't want to fight stress with stress... Hildegard von Bingen - "Heavenly Revelations" (Naxos) Erik Satie - "Early Piano Works" 2CD (Philips) Cocteau Twins - "Victorialand" João Gilberto - "Aguas de Março (1972)" Nara Leão - "Dez Anos Depois" Keren Ann - "La Disparition" Françoise Hardy - "Ma jeunesse.." ou "La Question" Vangelis - "Blade Runner OST" Lots of goodies on ECM... -Patrick NP: Soledad Bros. - "Steal Your Soul..."

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re: Merzbow recommendations
by pm.carey＠utoronto.ca 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

* "Bruno Bissonnette" <burningwater(a)hotmail.com>: >Definitely get "Rainbow Electronics" on Alchemy, it's the tops. Agreed. Also "Pulse Demon" (Relapse), great 80's stuff like "Antimonument", "Ecobondage" & "Batztoutai...", and the lovely "Music For Bondage Performance" discs (1 & 2) on Extreme. >Also absolutely necessary is "Noisembryo", the label is Eskimo I think. That's "Releasing Eskimo" out of Sweden. A good one, although I never kept it when I cut my Merz collection down from some 50 items to 10 or so... -Patrick NP: Soledad Bros. - "Steal Your Soul..."

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RE: Relaxing Music
by Andy Marks 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Brian Eno - Music for Airports Robert Rich - Trances/Drones -----Original Message----- From: Zachary Steiner [mailto:zsteiner@butler.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 5:01 PM To: zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com Subject: Relaxing Music Any good, interesting recommendations for music to listen to when you are under stress? Thanks. Zach

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Re: Relaxing Music
by Fritz Feger 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

I've obtained good results with Ricky Lee Jones: Pop Pop. A classic (in any sense) relaxation music is all slower moving compositions of Bach. One of my favourites for this occasion is the prelude of the second cello solo suite. Also very relaxing for me is some d'n'b stuff like Drums 'n' Bass for Papa by Plug. Fritz ############################################## Fritz Feger mail(a)fritzfeger.de www.fritzfeger.de Fon: 0177 - 6424 020 Fax: 0721 - 151 435 058 Rüttenscheider Str. 253 Eulenstraße 56 45131 Essen 22765 Hamburg 0201 - 455 4555 040 - 3980 4766 ##############################################

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EISLERMATERIAL: Heiner Goebbels (2002 - ECM)
by Fritz Feger 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Patrice and all, >NP: EISLERMATERIAL: Heiner Goebbels (2002 - ECM) I was tempted to buy it - should I? Fritz ############################################## Fritz Feger mail(a)fritzfeger.de www.fritzfeger.com ##############################################

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RE: Borbetomagus
by David Keffer 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

>From: "Steve Smith" <ssmith36(a)sprynet.com> >Subject: RE: Borbetomagus (was Re: Merzbow recommendations?) > >I ought to mention, by the way, that there was a pretty professional looking >multi-camera crew shooting through the Borbs' and Merzbow's sets. No idea >why, but I'm sure someone somewhere knows. Steve, you are right; someone does know. That same crew was at the Haino & Fushitsusha shows at Tonic on November 15 & 16, 2002. Working on separate television documentaries of Haino & Merzbow. More info at the Haino site, http://www.planetc.com/users/keffer/haino/index.html . Borbetomagus is the only show I have ever walked out of for the simple reason it was simply too painful (Minneapolis, circa 92-93). >NP - Swans, "I Am the Sun," 'Swans Are Dead' (Young God) On a related note, Young God Records (www.younggodrecords.com) has a new cdr website-only (a la incus) release of the M. Gira solo show in Lisbon from earlier this year titled "Living '02" which is fantastic. David K. NP: Johnny Cash, "Wichita Lineman", 'The Man Comes Around' (American Recordings)

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