https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ860P4iTaM
― Waldstein Sinatra (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 23 December 2010 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5nKarxwV0
sakamoto is kinda the god of this sorta stuff
― missingNO, Thursday, 23 December 2010 08:02 (thirteen years ago) link
on one of those evenings where I listen to 19 versions of Etude No. 6 after hearing this guy do it live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1lvxx9lzAg
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 04:43 (two years ago) link
Well now funnily enough look what's here today
https://philipglass.bandcamp.com/album/philip-glass-solo
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 January 2024 21:40 (four months ago) link
Thank you for sharing
― Indexed, Thursday, 25 January 2024 21:50 (four months ago) link
Interesting that most of that material is from the original Solo Piano CD (omitting one of the "Metamorphosis" movements). Don't know if I need new versions; I love that original album, though.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 25 January 2024 23:30 (four months ago) link
I first heard these pieces orchestrated for The Thin Blue Line soundtrack and even learned them by ear, so when the Solo Piano CD showed up it was immediately my favorite Glass.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Friday, 26 January 2024 02:09 (four months ago) link
Sorry for not solo piano but who plays electric guitar on Mishima, in partic. Kyoko's House & Osamu's Theme? One of the Kronos Qts?
The credits on my edition are pretty sparse, only mentioning string players which I guess is technically correct...
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:53 (four months ago) link
^ now I've given up at trying to google an answer I want to know too
― StanM, Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:46 (four months ago) link
Yeah, I was intrigued so I checked Discogs - nothing. I have the Criterion Blu-Ray of the movie, but there's no information in the booklet there, either.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 28 January 2024 00:24 (four months ago) link
re: solo piano, I love the original album even though I'm not convinced Glass is the best player of his own work.
― StanM, Sunday, 28 January 2024 00:26 (four months ago) link
I'm writing a review comparing the two sets and this is something that's really leaping out at me — the hesitancy and weird pauses on the 1989 record, like he has to stop and think about what comes next and I'm like, dude, you wrote the shit! Shouldn't you know how it goes?
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 28 January 2024 01:14 (four months ago) link
I had the idea from something I read ages ago that the surf guitar track on Mishima was played by a band he'd produced. So maybe Polyrock?
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Sunday, 28 January 2024 02:33 (four months ago) link
He produced the surf band The Raybeats too around that time
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Sunday, 28 January 2024 03:55 (four months ago) link
oh wow - https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/2474/2024-03-19/philip-glass-the-complete-etudes-1-20
― StanM, Sunday, 28 January 2024 19:26 (four months ago) link
xps to my intriguing question: Interesting mention of the Raybeats as their drummer (Don Christensen, also drummer for Contortions) did receive a credit for assistant engineer on Mishima...
Makes me wonder if Glass and Christensen got fellow Raybeats and Contortions alum Jody Harris to play the guitar parts...?
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 28 January 2024 22:01 (four months ago) link