A week of dislocated shoulder, morphine, a cold and a lot of books. Let's space out.
Aphex Twin - Logan Rock Witch
It's an unenviable position to follow on the heels of
Girl/Boy Song, the crown jewel of the
Richard D. James Album. But even in that shadow, this perfectly calibrated cacophony of odd sounds shines and sparkles in the sun. The little knocks. The toy flute. The beat drop at 3:03.
Axel Boman - Fantastic Piano
Swedish. Liquid. Fantastic. Crackling. Makes me long for summer.
Slow Magic - Feel Flows
I know nothing about this tune, except that it surges like the sea.
Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102: II. Andante
Next to Beethoven's
Emperor Concerto the most unapologetically beautiful piece of music I know. Romanticism, sentimentality, nostalgia, melancholy; I'll have it all, thank you! Once that piano starts tinkling my defences are worn down.
Bill Frisell - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
There's something breathtaking going on here. This is the music equivalent of what I look for in good drawing; a bunch of high tension lines, tentatively seeking out the contours of a greater whole; carving away at its essence, and then stopping just before completion, leaving every trace of the search alive to the eye.
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