Bang on a Can - Music for Airports C/D?

they precisely notated the original record's chance combinations of tape loops, and reperformed 'live' with real voices & instruments instead of eno's tailored sounds

if your idea of the final track was 'nice, but could use slightly more reverb and maybe a lovely sax solo over the top towards the end' then By All Means, Head On Downtown

(actually the back cover of the album I think is offered as a casual after-the-fact graphic score)

in a similar vein - i've recently acquired a bootleg of a 1999 concert from amsterdam with an orchestra performing 'the shutov assembly' and a couple of other things. this one is so good it made me go back and listen to the original again.

It seems I will be seeing BOAC this weekend, feat. Lee Ranaldo. I don't think I've heard a note of BOAC in my life, and have no idea what to expect.

this is amazon's deal of the day. http://www.amazon.com/Music-for-Airports-Live/dp/B004FX8OP6/ref=amb_link_356214962_4?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=browse&pf_rd_r=1GYRC144JVCD5Z47M8ES&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1297174542&pf_rd_i=163856011
it's a great performance, really lovely.

Buyer Beware!,

This review is from: Music for Airports: Live (MP3 Download)

This CD sounds okay but it is not Brian Eno...kind of like one of those old albums from K-Tel: covers of famous songs.

haha.

tho i guess i can see someone being confused from the cover art. i get upset sometimes when i find out that bach isn't playing on all these damn records with his name on them.

They were great in the foyer of the Barbican at the weekend.

Heading along tonight to see BoaC at the Muziekgebouw - performing Music for Airports alongside Reich's 2x5 & works by, uh, one of Dirty Projectors and an English composer called Steve Martland. Anyone seen/heard them recently?

if your idea of the final track was 'nice, but could use slightly more reverb and maybe a lovely sax solo over the top towards the end' then By All Means, Head On Downtown

i saw BoaC perform that Steve Reich piece 2x5 just last weekend; it was fantastic.

I saw BOAC perform Music for Airports at Big Ears #2 in 2010 -- one of the highlights of the festival for me.

They only performed 1/1 from MfA - glad to have caught it. The Reich was a really good choice; bit closer to Branca than any other Reich I've seen performed.

The Steve Martland piece, "Horses of Instruction", was the highlight for me, though - will have to track down some recordings.

Anybody else heard Psychic Temple Plays Music for Airports? It's Psychic Temple + Mike Watt, and they do 2 takes of "1/1," sort of treating it like "Dark Star." It's really good. There's also an original called "Music for Bus Stops."

I'm visiting NYC in early May and I noticed the dates perfectly coincide with this event, which includes Bang on a Can doing Music for Airports, David Lang, Matmos, Glenn Branca Ensemble and about a million other things. I caved and bought a full pass more or less immediately.

https://www.longplayfestival.org/

That lineup is verging on the insane!

This rules -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLJ0dhJg4xU