In a post packed with info, this was the statement that stood out to me most:-
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Originally Posted by rostasi
In 1972, I wrote a piano work that I had problems trying to realize because what I wanted needed a technology that wasn’t yet available, but I had faith that it would someday come.
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To be composing music requiring a technology that hadn't arrived yet is extraordinary!
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In contrast to rostasi's, my own review of
Program Music I is void of any background info or even rudimentary musical knowledge I'm afraid:
Stella: Starts with random sounds that tell you "expect the unexpected from this music". With the first glitching (copyright: Marie) I was checking for faults in my audio, but then I began to adjust better to what KD was doing. By about 11 mins I was enjoying an exciting bit where the music is really tripping over itself to get out, and then by 15 mins things had calmed down completely: this is the piano/violin section that Marie found disappointing and rostasi, I think, would call "the pretties". Personally I loved it, and was kind of reassured to hear female voices that could've come out of
Atom Heart Mother. To me, this whole track has a good balance of easy and more challenging listening.
Write once, run Melos: Coming after such a long track puts this one at a slight disadvantage, but KD does a good job of making it distinctive with its jazzy piano intro. There's a middle section with a lot of violin and glitching during which I couldn't repress the thought, "Oh, just more of the same then". But then halfway through the music gets faster, noisier than anything on
Stella. In the last section a repeated piano riff pushes the music along at a furious pace and KD keeps it interesting even as the sounds slow down to a few last isolated plinks of piano.
So, this album keeps growing on me and gets a
9/10, losing a point because, much as I like it, there's always a point in the one-hour running time when I think, "Ya, take it off please!" Also, both tracks have weaker sections that made me think of computer games like
Zelda, or of a violinist running to catch their bus home while still trying to finish off the concert.
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PS: Glad to hear that you were able to enjoy in this album too, rs.
