Museum Musica

Zhanteimi · 12-18-2018, 07:18 PM

That's amazing! Love Henry Cow and all that RIO crap.

The Batlord · 12-19-2018, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

Loved that band ... and Dagmar is the queen of RIO with her fabulous voice.
A while back, after a concert in Köln, I was being interviewed on stage with a Q&A afterward.
One of the guys in the audience, who asked me a question, turned out to be Anthony Moore
from Slapp Happy (and some with Henry Cow). My childhood flashed in my mind.

Why were you being interviewed?

rostasi · 12-19-2018, 12:53 PM

Just an after-concert interview about my work.
The interviewer was the head of music programming
at the Office of Culture for the City of Köln and so you
usually have a Q&A from audience members afterwards.

The Batlord · 12-19-2018, 01:04 PM

Look are you being annoyingly humble because this sounds to me like something other people would brag about at the drop of a hat.

rostasi · 12-19-2018, 01:25 PM

Well, I'll just mention something like this when it's some kind of special context.
You don't see Slapp Happy mentioned all that much and it just triggered this
memory of Köln 'cause I hadn't thought much about that band for many years
at the time that it happened, so, it's one of those things kinda pasted together
(whether one wants it or not sometimes). Would this be called a "mind-worm?"

Zhanteimi · 12-19-2018, 06:02 PM

0092 Frank Zappa – Joe’s Garage
(USA, 1979, rock opera / comedy rock / experimental rock)

If you’re going to be self-indulgent, you better be damn good at it or your art is going to fail spectacularly. Zappa is damn good, and he’s so damn self-indulgent on this triple album. So what’s the story here? Well, it’s about Joe starting a band in his garage, but he gets in trouble with the law for noise. Joe can't get over Mary (the Catholic girl) or Lucille (the girl at the hamburger joint). He's been used by heartless Catholic sluts, so he looks for love (and humiliation) in the arms of a sexbot. This is the conclusion of Joe's story, after he gets out of prison for fucking a sexbot to death and not being able to pay the company for the damage he'd caused their product. In this dystopian world, Zappa shows us his persecution complex: a world where music is outlawed (like that would ever happen!). So all Joe's got is the music in his mind, and therein he plays his last guitar solo...and this is Zappa at his best. I've got a real love-hate thing for Zappa. He's an utter douche (just watch Baby Snakes ffs), but he writes such great music. This album needs to be right up there with Part I. One simply cannot stop Joe's story with his heart and mind broken by cruel, cruel Lucille. Parts II & III are just as worthy of attention.

Zhanteimi · 12-20-2018, 05:23 PM

0093 Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger
(USA, 1974, outlaw country / progressive country)

The deepest heartbreaks are the most beautiful, and this album—and its theme—is beautiful in its lonesomeness. Lonesome, not lonely. The red-headed stranger meets plenty of women along the way, but none of them can replace the wife of his youth, the one for whom he bought the black bay stallion, the one whom he caught in bed with another man and subsequently shot dead. And at the end of his travels? He tries to convince himself that he can buy love in the arms of working women. This album is a well-crafted sojourn through the mind of a betrayed man.

The Batlord · 12-20-2018, 05:28 PM

I thought the "working woman" was supposed to be his new love? I know he's found a family at the end at least.

And in the shade of an oak down by the river
Sat an old man and a boy
Setting sail, spinning tales and fishing for whales
With a lady they both enjoy

Zhanteimi · 12-20-2018, 05:38 PM

Ah.

Zhanteimi · 12-20-2018, 06:03 PM

0094 Shugo Tokumaru – Night Piece
(Japan, 2004, folk pop / singer-songwriter / contemporary folk)

On this, his debut album, Tokumaru Shugo is doing what he does best: play around innocently. I hear xylophones and something making cricket noises. There are some moments of him trying to make a harder edge, but he just can't escape the wonderful world of folk pop he lives in. The lead track pulls you into his world at once.

12-18-2018, 07:18 PM	#1041 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,874	That's amazing! Love Henry Cow and all that RIO crap. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

12-19-2018, 06:02 PM	#1046 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,874	0092 Frank Zappa – Joe’s Garage (USA, 1979, rock opera / comedy rock / experimental rock) If you’re going to be self-indulgent, you better be damn good at it or your art is going to fail spectacularly. Zappa is damn good, and he’s so damn self-indulgent on this triple album. So what’s the story here? Well, it’s about Joe starting a band in his garage, but he gets in trouble with the law for noise. Joe can't get over Mary (the Catholic girl) or Lucille (the girl at the hamburger joint). He's been used by heartless Catholic sluts, so he looks for love (and humiliation) in the arms of a sexbot. This is the conclusion of Joe's story, after he gets out of prison for fucking a sexbot to death and not being able to pay the company for the damage he'd caused their product. In this dystopian world, Zappa shows us his persecution complex: a world where music is outlawed (like that would ever happen!). So all Joe's got is the music in his mind, and therein he plays his last guitar solo...and this is Zappa at his best. I've got a real love-hate thing for Zappa. He's an utter douche (just watch Baby Snakes ffs), but he writes such great music. This album needs to be right up there with Part I. One simply cannot stop Joe's story with his heart and mind broken by cruel, cruel Lucille. Parts II & III are just as worthy of attention. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

12-20-2018, 05:23 PM	#1047 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,874	0093 Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger (USA, 1974, outlaw country / progressive country) The deepest heartbreaks are the most beautiful, and this album—and its theme—is beautiful in its lonesomeness. Lonesome, not lonely. The red-headed stranger meets plenty of women along the way, but none of them can replace the wife of his youth, the one for whom he bought the black bay stallion, the one whom he caught in bed with another man and subsequently shot dead. And at the end of his travels? He tries to convince himself that he can buy love in the arms of working women. This album is a well-crafted sojourn through the mind of a betrayed man. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

12-20-2018, 05:38 PM	#1049 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,874	Ah. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

12-20-2018, 06:03 PM	#1050 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,874	0094 Shugo Tokumaru – Night Piece (Japan, 2004, folk pop / singer-songwriter / contemporary folk) On this, his debut album, Tokumaru Shugo is doing what he does best: play around innocently. I hear xylophones and something making cricket noises. There are some moments of him trying to make a harder edge, but he just can't escape the wonderful world of folk pop he lives in. The lead track pulls you into his world at once. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

12-19-2018, 12:53 PM	#1043 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,007	Just an after-concert interview about my work. The interviewer was the head of music programming at the Office of Culture for the City of Köln and so you usually have a Q&A from audience members afterwards.

12-19-2018, 01:25 PM	#1045 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,007	Well, I'll just mention something like this when it's some kind of special context. You don't see Slapp Happy mentioned all that much and it just triggered this memory of Köln 'cause I hadn't thought much about that band for many years at the time that it happened, so, it's one of those things kinda pasted together (whether one wants it or not sometimes). Would this be called a "mind-worm?"