Steve State

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Pet symmetry

Have a look at this. Kanye West's College Dropout album fused with Pet Sounds. All Falls Down works the best. It's mixed with Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder). Slow Jamz is mixed with Caroline, No which also works well. The others work less well but it's still an interesting listen. I'm guessing the site will be taken down soon so be quick. (courtesy Yorkshireman)

Saw this piece in the Observer today. Paul Morley discusses Kenny Wheeler's Angel Song which I'm yet to hear but must check out asap:
Kenny Wheeler collaborated with three very distinctive greats from different generations - saxophonist Lee Konitz (who played on Miles' Birth Of The Cool), bassist Dave Holland and guitarist Bill Frisell - for the Angel Song album on the snidily underrated ECM label: every year for the past 36 years ECM has released at least half a dozen neglected classics. Absolutely beautiful, drummerless, delicately abstract hybrids of composition and improvisation , it's astonishing that this piece hasn't become the modern equivalent of Kind of Blue or Love Supreme and crept into the mainstream pop canon. I played it non-stop in Barcelona after buying it in 1997, spending a few days with my partner Elizabeth in the Arts Hotel overlooking the Mediterranean, and every time I listen to it now I hear love, sun and sea, as if the music was written just for us.

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