I've got a copy of a very late piece of Rudhyar's from 1981. It's called "Rite of Transcendence" and it was published in a magazine called Soundings 12. There exists a scan of the piece online as well. I have tried several times to play it, but I've had some challenges - it's not excessively hard to play, but pretty much impossible to read. It's anyone's guess where the notes and accidentals were intended to go, and there are many parts of the notation that don't add up mathematically, so you have to additionally guess how it was supposed to be interpreted. One of these days I will suffer through its 8 indecipherable pages enough to make a serviceable score-video. Anyway, I bring this up because there is a recording of Rite of Transcendance that exists in a physical form. It's a reel-to-reel tape of a performance by Yvar Mikhashoff. Years ago I was able to listen to it thanks to a scan by a librarian from SUNY Buffalo. I don't know of any other way to hear any performance of this work. If you have an interest in Rudhyar, maybe you could beat me to it.
Although I love the drama and pathos in his music, I feel there are too many squares and oppositions (discordance); not enough conjunctions, sextiles and trines (concordance). It comes off as improvised incidental music to an avant-garde silent film (which, again, is not a bad thing - but is not what i typically look for in composed piano music).
a true artist - and, as others have noted, this is magical! I have loved Lisa since seeing her onstage with Mellencamp's band 30 years ago. (Check out OP8 - -Slush for one of her side projects)
I fell down a Lisa Germano rabbit hole today, listening to later albums on Amazon, which are fine. But this album is so pure and artistic and magical, I keep coming back to it. Again - thank you for uploading it! I found my CD, but so much easier to listen to it here! Also happy to see Lisa playing again with Johnny Cougar. She made his sound in the early 90's and even though she was replaced a couple times, there was no substitute for her inspired playing on those songs!
00:00 Just Trinity The Man 07.10 Homeostasis (Pheroen AkLaff, recitation) 11:53 Higher Places 19:34 Subject To Change 30:36 This 36:14 A Piece Of Software * (Amina Claudine Myers, vocal)
To the tables down at Mory's To the place where Louie dwells To the dear old Temple bar we love so well Sing the Whiffenpoofs assembled with their glasses raised on high And the magic of their singing casts it's spell Yes, the magic of their singing of the songs we love so well "Shall I Wasting" and "Mavourneen" and the rest We will serenade our Louie while life and voice shall last Then we'll pass and be forgotten with the rest We're poor little lambs who have lost our way Baa, baa, baa We're little black sheep who have gone astray Baa, baa, baa Gentleman songsters off on a spree Doomed from here to eternity Lord have mercy on such as we Baa, baa, baa
There is a double gatefold album (vinyl) one disc is 'Live at Montezuma' Hall ...the other disc is 'Looks like Rain'. This was sent to me here in England by my son in N.C. a couple of years back. Released on Elektra ( Part of Warner Communications) . Some years back i obtained a muti CD Box Set from the Mickey Newbury website (10 albums on 8 CD's ) . Love the hiss and crackle too . Hope that helps Phil. 🤔
Amazing performance! I first heard this piece back in the late 80's-early 90's on a new age type music program on a National Public Radio station and loved it. Awesome sounds. It is so glad to hear it again after all these years as well as the entire album. I would love to see The Well and the Gentle album reissued on CD.
Amazing performance by the late Pauline Oliveros. Wow! I first heard this very recording on a new age, experimental music, or new music program on a National Public Radio station back in the late 1980's or early 1990's and loved it. I never forgot about it, because it is simply awesome. So glad to hear it again after all these years, as well as the entire album in its entirety. The Well and the Gentle album needs to be reissued on CD as well as her other recordings.
This upload is a bittersweet waft from a past of mixed fortunes (I won't bore you with the details). I saw this album (Different cover-if the above picture is indeed the cover-it featured what I assume to be Mikel Rouse reclining on a bed as I recall), in Bonaparte Records (later it became Warehouse Records, then a junk shop and last time I saw it, it was boarded up) in King's Cross in 1982, but had no money on me. A short while later, I went all the way back down (up?) to London, and was more than a little miffed to find that they were closed. The shop next door said they were closed on Saturdays (go figure). To make matters worse, on my way back on the train, two youths were gleefully gloating over their successful purchase of the picture disk version of Toya's "Brave New World". Alright for some. A few weeks (or months, I can't remember) later, I returned to the scene of the crime (Well, scene of my intense irritation anyway), on a Friday (I think), and was surprised and delighted in equal measure, to find that not only were they actually open (shrewd business move), but also, they still had the album. All's well that ends well.
