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I don’t have too much to say about the genre of new Jazz fusion other than to point out certain tracks by Jean-Luc Ponty that absolutely stand out. Check out if you can, “No More Doubts” from his otherwise unremarkable 1987 album The Gift of Time. Jean-Luc Ponty helped to popularize the electric violin playing . . . → Continue reading: Jean-Luc Ponty 
I do not want these albums to be obscure, but they are. Even the ones I take for granted — by famous bands like Kraftwerk, remain unknown to so many! This is why musical evangelism is so important. Lacking magic and prophecy, we have the next best thing, perhaps the only thing: art. And . . . → Continue reading: Music Evangelism While the blog has barely made a peep in the last month, I’d like to point out to interested readers and voyeurs that I’ve been blogging music related essays over at the new music site, mog.com. You can read them in all of their snarky and music-dork glory here. . . . → Continue reading: less quiet than you might think 
Part of the mystery of progressive rock in the 70s and early 80s were bands covering Beethoven and J.S. Bach. Listen for example to “Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony” on Jethro Tull’s A Sackful of Trouser Snakes (1977) or “Cans and Brahms” on Fragile by Yes (1972). In prog circles, this sub-genre is often referred to as . . . → Continue reading: On the lookout for electro-baroque (und beethoven) So David Hyman, whose project we enjoy in this here website, messaged me after reading my earlier blog post. He had some corrections. See below. I had made a point in Hyman not having mentioned last.fm or other audio based social networking sites in his explanation on the origins for his idea for mog, quoted . . . → Continue reading: from the mouth of mog These are the artists I listened to last week, as recorded by Audioscrobbler/last.fm: And these are the artists I’ve listened to the most (since 03/2003): If you were reading boingboing.net this past week, you might have thought that Mog was the first social network site with the idea of connecting audiophiles based on their listening habits. When David Pescovitz asked David Hyman where he got the idea for Mog from, Hyman didn’t reply that his idea had already been implemented . . . → Continue reading: Mog and Audioscrobbler is a hidden thing. the excellent student run radio station here in Baton Rouge is KLSU. Late nights keep me sane. there is no conquering the fleas. though they feast on me, i shall not become one of them. Or will I… ? confession: my JITW friends have great patience listening to me wax . . . → Continue reading: random things Moineşti (pronounced MOI-nesht) is a small city in north-eastern Romania, in the Moldavian region, and in the county of Bacău. According to Wikipedia, The name is derived from the Romanian word moină, which means fallow or light rain. Moineşti once had a large Jewish community; in Jewish contexts the name is often given as . . . → Continue reading: From Moineşti Inspired by Borges’ 14 kinds of animals catalogued in “a certain Chinese encyclopedia, The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge,” here are 14 kinds of people those mistaken for bigfoot those who are asleep government workers nameless ones those who exist only in dreams women with cats seafaring ones those who are crying that cannot be . . . → Continue reading: More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge |
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