like this mebbe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZhhw6vbXdw
― wilter, Sunday, 23 August 2009 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link
sakamoto's BTTB is good, if not a little over sentimental at times. "energy flow" is a beautiful song, and the cd is worth it for the version of "tong poo" alone. can also recommend Cendre, if you don't mind fennesz electronics in the background. really woozy late night summer music
akira rabelais's Eisotrophobia is a stunning album, satie and bartok put through a ring modulator
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Sunday, 23 August 2009 13:00 (fifteen years ago) link
"energy flow"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btyhpyJTyXg
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Sunday, 23 August 2009 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks, will def check this stuff out
― wilter, Sunday, 23 August 2009 23:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XPKFuvtnL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
I absolutely LOVE this album.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 24 August 2009 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i second that gonzales. you'll find lots of pretty & sad stuff in the classic department. chopin (eg nocturnes), schumann (eg kinderszenen), satie (eg gymnopedies). my all-time fave are still keith jarrett's sun bear concerts though. there are more dynamics in them than in the usual solo piano stuff. paul bley is another great solo pianist. you could start with open, to love. another pianist to check out: george winston (tuneful, impressionist, almost new age, esp. his season albums are worth it). if impressionist jazz trios are your bag (they are mine), you chould also try brad mehldau, bobo stenson and e.s.t. christopher riley's radiohead piano covers are sublime too.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 24 August 2009 08:55 (fifteen years ago) link
cheers for the reccomendations brohs. I can't stop listening to energy flow!
― wilter, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone got more to add here...love this stuff.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry i meant more music in the style of solo piano
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z9ujgHdw9E
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 11:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Did not know that Rachel Grimes had a solo album!
― Domingo Halliburton (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
this album is really nice: http://open.spotify.com/user/iamronan/playlist/15gejrbANjS4DK5plzZQ8T
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
this dude alsohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaT7Ub6Neo
― zappi, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
This is my favorite Philip Glass piano piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le6cQKC1_aY
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 23 December 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (three 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 (eight months ago) link
Thank you for sharing
― Indexed, Thursday, 25 January 2024 21:50 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight months ago) link