CD Club Sessions: Recent Episodes
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Each member is asked to choose a track/piece of music based on a theme. This time it is Mr. M's choice 'Spoken Word'.
Mr. P goes on a bit.
Mr. B: Allen Ginsberg - Howl
Mr. K: Kathryn Joseph et al. - Noup Head
Mr. M: R.S. Thomas - The Island
Mr. P: Tom Waits - Nirvana
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece of music based on a theme. This time it is Mr. B's choice 'Sound track'.
Mr. B's shorts and summer thoughts.
Mr. B: Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma
Mr. M: Jóhann Jóhannsson - A Song For Europa from Orpheus
Mr. P: Start to Finish short film
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece of music based on a theme.
This time it is Mr. K's choice 'Coast.
Very much down to business this week!
Mr. B: Loscil - Hastings Sunrise fro, Sketches from New Brighton
Mr. K: Philip Glass - Knee Play 5
Mr. M: David Sylvian - Waterfront
Mr. P: Dmitry Kormann - Fractal Music
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece of music based on a theme. This time it is Mr. B's choice 'Subjugation'.
Mr. B's shorts and summer thoughts.
Mr. B: Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (Part 1)
Mr. K: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14 / Act 1 - No. 8
Mr. M: Vilde & Inga - How Forests Think
Mr. P: Alva Noto - A Forest.
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece of music based on a theme. This time it is Mr. K's choice 'Forest'.
Mr. P's choice gets a drubbing, free jazz is hard and we all wanted the Sakamoto album.
Mr. B: Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (Part 1)
Mr. K: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14 / Act 1 - No. 8
Mr. M: Vilde & Inga - How Forests Think
Mr. P: Alva Noto - A Forest.
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece of music based on a theme. This time it is Mr. B's choice 'Something Lost in Translation'.
We also continue the theme of 'what's for tea'.
Mr. B: Gen'ei - Meitei - Daisuke Fujita,
Mr. K: Sakura - Cherry Blossoms,
Mr. M: Cornelius Cardew - Autumn 60,
Mr. P: A Winged Victory For The Sullen - There is One of Which You Never Speak.
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece based on the theme of the Brian Eno 'Oblique Strategies' cards. We had 'Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture)'.
This time around we also discuss what's for tea.
Mr. B: John Lurie - The First and Royal Queen,
Mr. K: Brian Eno - Fullness of Wind (Variation On 'The Canon In D Major'.),
Mr. P: Bro, Henriksen, Rossy - Morning Song (Var.),
Mr. M: Brian Eno - Bell Improvisation 2
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece based on the theme of 'Most Loved'.
This time around Mr. P forgets to start the recording and misses the beginning of Mr. M's discussion around Steve Reichs 'Electric Counterpoint'. In other news, we were in mid-COVID during this recording and we mention its effect on us and what is happening in the South West of England and Michigan, USA.
Mr. M - Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint,
Mr. K: Brian Eno - Discreet Music,
Mr. P: Eddie Cochran / Sid Vicious - C'mon Everybody,
Mr. B - Harold Budd - As Long As I Can Hold My Breath
Each member is asked to choose a track/piece based on the theme of 'winter'.
This time around Mr. M moves house and no one likes Mr. P's choice.
Mr. P: Clint Mansell - Lux Aeterna (Winter),
Mr. M: Tom Waits - November,
Mr. B: Pole (Stefan Betke) - Erinnerung,
Mr. K: Adrain Chandler - Vivaldi, The Four Seasons - Winter F Minor, RV. 297: I. Allegro non molto,
Mr. KE: Bill Evans - You Must Believe In Spring
Choose a track/piece based on a colour beginning with the letter 'B'
This time around, there were slight clicks on the recording due to a terrible mic, sorry!
We also had a track fade in under the conversation, hopefully, we don't get a 'take down' on this one. Oh, and a minor f bomb, I hope you can put that to one side :-)
Mr. P: Aphex Twin / Alarm Will Sound - Blue Calx,
Mr. M: Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead,
Mr. B: Chet Baker - Almost Blue,
Mr. K: Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
Random cards from Oblique Strategies;
Mr. B: Lenzan Kudo - The Shakuhachi Document,
Mr. K: David Sylvian - Approaching Silence,
Mr. M: Kassel Jaegar - Meith,
Mr. P: John Cage - 4.33
Random cards from Oblique Strategies;
Mr. P: Give way to your worst impulse
(Ecstasy of Gold - Ennio Morricone)
Mr. K: Describe the landscape in which this belongs
(The Hawk in the Rain - Ted Hughes)
Mr. M: Emphasise the flaws
Incomplete - Jiko)
Mr. B: What else is this like?
(Punk China Doll - John Zorn)
In this episode we discuss;
Mr. K, Courage - Jon Hassell
Mr. P, I Cut Like A Buffalo - The Dead Weather
Mr. B, Waiting On A Friend - The Rolling Stones
Mr. M, Black Sea - Fennez
In this episode we discuss;
Mr. B, Startoucher - Biosphere
Mr. P, Cars - NIN with Gary Number 15.07.09
Mr. M, Pulling Mussels - Squeeze
Mr. K, The Tenant - Japan
In this episode we discuss;
Mr. M: River Mara at Night - Chris Watson
Mr. K: Nocture No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 7, 37, No. 1
Mr. P: Uni Acronym (ft. Anne-James Chaton)
Mr. B: Chill Out, The KLF