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OccultHawk · 09-12-2020, 04:08 PM

Felix Mendelssohn Was the First to Like Bach Again

Bach died on 28 July 1750

Mendelssohn was born on 3 February 1809

“Everyone loved KISS as a kid. I was the first to love KISS again.”

- King Buzzo

Bach was gone and damn near forgotten until Mendelssohn resurrected St Matthew Passion. At the time, the rare musicians who were familiar with Bach considered his work merely “mathematical” and lacking passion (like a bad math rock band). Felix, twenty years old at the time, didn’t agree. So he took to work organizing a massive performance of St Matthew Passion. He got Carl Friedrich Zelter who was the Head Honky in Charge at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin to lend him around 250 singers and the entire city of Berlin went ****ing balls to the wall nut **** about it and Bach was BACK mother****ers.

Recommended listening:

Bach: Matthäus-Passion (St. Matthew's Passion) / Sir Georg Solti

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Seiji Ozawa
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Mendelssohn composed the overture when he was 17.

Nice compliment record:

MOZART Requiem / Böhm

**Marie Monday** · 09-12-2020, 04:13 PM

'Head Honky in Charge' lmao, you're at your best lately
good stuff

OccultHawk · 09-13-2020, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marie Monday

'Head Honky in Charge' lmao, you're at your best lately
good stuff

Preciate it. I might be benefiting from your Europeanality, however.

ISOLATED FIELD RECORDING SERIES: LAURA ORTMAN - DUST DIVES ALIVE

https://thedustdiveflash.bandcamp.co...st-dives-alive

Field recording from her Flatbush apartment. Collage and violin with effects that sometimes mimic circular breathing sax playing.

Donations accepted here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/white-mou...nRevU2Ti74lfex

White Mountain Apache Tribe COVID-19 Relief Fund

Ortman has mad skills but rarely showboats. Even alone she defers to the project at hand and only uses her violin as a compliment to whatever sounds happened to float into her apartment. She is an artist of great discipline and discernment.

OccultHawk · 09-14-2020, 05:11 PM

Advance! by Philly Joe Jones

This 1979 release may be late in the game for hard bop and the names have changed, well not really- they were veterans on the genre, but these are the guys who stuck with it. This is as true a hard bop record as you’re likely to find and it’s absolutely smoking.

I can’t remember if initially my goal was to comment on every recording PJJ played on just the ones he led. I few skipped here and there because... Idk... I don’t get why if you have to copyright you don’t make it available. But anyway, for now you can find this on YouTube. I know there’s a lot to listen to but this really is a good one. As so many are.

OccultHawk · 09-15-2020, 12:38 PM

THE ELEPHANT’S JOURNEY by LAMA + Joachim Badenhorst

Joachim Badenhorst clarinet and bass clarinet / Susana Santos Silva trumpet and flugelhorn / Gonçalo Almeida double bass, effects and loops / Greg Smith drums and electronics

Name checked previously by Frown: https://www.musicbanter.com/1615422-post23529.html

Listen here: https://cleanfeed-records.com/produc...hants-journey/

Unassailable 2015 release / composition driven electroacoustic free jazz

Historic reference points: compositionally reminiscent of The Art Ensemble of Chicago and makes a nice companion record to the at the time yet to be released Roscoe Mitchell’s Bells for the South Side. Expressive/spiritual moments, frequently provided by Silva evoke the sensations of three particular very big name compositions: Lonely Woman, Alabama, and Enter, Evening. Take that as the praise intended.

OccultHawk · 09-19-2020, 01:24 PM

Buxtehude: Abendmusiken

Artists: Ensemble Masques, Lionel Meunier, Olivier Fortin, Vox Luminis, Dietrich Buxtehude

I’m bringing this record to attention because it’s not only the music of a composer who deeply influenced Bach but according to an old textbook I have it’s specifically the music of that composer to which he was exposed. Bach, at the time was barely getting by as a professional organist in Arnstadt

but Bach didn’t just like playing music. He also made incredible efforts to hear the works of other instrumentalists and composers. He was so interested in the music of Dietrich Buxtehude that he walked 225 miles to Lübeck

to hear him play his compositions. Bach lived like a pauper at the time. He stayed there to hear Buxtehude’s daily performances for four months living exclusively on charity and often sleeping without shelter and going hungry.

The music on this recording sometimes sounds like Vivaldi, who was born around forty years later and some of it sounds like it’s barely branching out of the Middle Ages. It’s a great listen and a wonderful effort by the artists that devote so much time and hard work preserving the world’s musical heritage.

**Marie Monday** · 09-19-2020, 02:37 PM

OccultHawk · 09-24-2020, 06:07 PM

Lazy non-jazz highlights for the first twenty years of this century just by seeing what catches my eye scanning Wikipedia

Dopethrone
The W
God Hates Us All
The Glow Pt. 2
The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Sea Change
Sean-Nós Nua
( )
American IV: The Man Comes Around
Elephant
Mississippi: The Album
Greendale
The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
MTA2: Baptized in Dirty Water
Scissor Sisters
From a Basement on the Hill

To be continued...

OccultHawk · 09-25-2020, 05:06 AM

Who Is Mike Jones?
Get Behind Me Satan
Takk...
The Peoples Champ
Prairie Wind
Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Everything All the Time
At War with the Mystics
Living With War
The Drift
Burial
American V: A Hundred Highways
Christ Illusion
Beach House
In Rainbows
I-Empire
Devotion
Mail on Sunday
Watershed
Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
xx
Embryonic

to be continued

**Marie Monday** · 09-25-2020, 06:35 AM

of course I had to check out Scissor Sisters, that **** slaps

09-12-2020, 04:08 PM	#1161 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Felix Mendelssohn Was the First to Like Bach Again Bach died on 28 July 1750 Mendelssohn was born on 3 February 1809 “Everyone loved KISS as a kid. I was the first to love KISS again.” - King Buzzo Bach was gone and damn near forgotten until Mendelssohn resurrected St Matthew Passion. At the time, the rare musicians who were familiar with Bach considered his work merely “mathematical” and lacking passion (like a bad math rock band). Felix, twenty years old at the time, didn’t agree. So he took to work organizing a massive performance of St Matthew Passion. He got Carl Friedrich Zelter who was the Head Honky in Charge at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin to lend him around 250 singers and the entire city of Berlin went **ing balls to the wall nut about it and Bach was BACK mother**ers. Recommended listening: Bach: Matthäus-Passion (St. Matthew's Passion) / Sir Georg Solti Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Seiji Ozawa Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus Mendelssohn composed the overture when he was 17. Nice compliment record: MOZART Requiem / Böhm __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

09-14-2020, 05:11 PM	#1164 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Advance! by Philly Joe Jones This 1979 release may be late in the game for hard bop and the names have changed, well not really- they were veterans on the genre, but these are the guys who stuck with it. This is as true a hard bop record as you’re likely to find and it’s absolutely smoking. I can’t remember if initially my goal was to comment on every recording PJJ played on just the ones he led. I few skipped here and there because... Idk... I don’t get why if you have to copyright you don’t make it available. But anyway, for now you can find this on YouTube. I know there’s a lot to listen to but this really is a good one. As so many are. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

09-15-2020, 12:38 PM	#1165 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	THE ELEPHANT’S JOURNEY by LAMA + Joachim Badenhorst Joachim Badenhorst clarinet and bass clarinet / Susana Santos Silva trumpet and flugelhorn / Gonçalo Almeida double bass, effects and loops / Greg Smith drums and electronics Name checked previously by Frown: https://www.musicbanter.com/1615422-post23529.html Listen here: https://cleanfeed-records.com/produc...hants-journey/ Unassailable 2015 release / composition driven electroacoustic free jazz Historic reference points: compositionally reminiscent of The Art Ensemble of Chicago and makes a nice companion record to the at the time yet to be released Roscoe Mitchell’s Bells for the South Side. Expressive/spiritual moments, frequently provided by Silva evoke the sensations of three particular very big name compositions: Lonely Woman, Alabama, and Enter, Evening. Take that as the praise intended. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

09-19-2020, 01:24 PM	#1166 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Buxtehude: Abendmusiken Artists: Ensemble Masques, Lionel Meunier, Olivier Fortin, Vox Luminis, Dietrich Buxtehude I’m bringing this record to attention because it’s not only the music of a composer who deeply influenced Bach but according to an old textbook I have it’s specifically the music of that composer to which he was exposed. Bach, at the time was barely getting by as a professional organist in Arnstadt but Bach didn’t just like playing music. He also made incredible efforts to hear the works of other instrumentalists and composers. He was so interested in the music of Dietrich Buxtehude that he walked 225 miles to Lübeck to hear him play his compositions. Bach lived like a pauper at the time. He stayed there to hear Buxtehude’s daily performances for four months living exclusively on charity and often sleeping without shelter and going hungry. The music on this recording sometimes sounds like Vivaldi, who was born around forty years later and some of it sounds like it’s barely branching out of the Middle Ages. It’s a great listen and a wonderful effort by the artists that devote so much time and hard work preserving the world’s musical heritage. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

09-24-2020, 06:07 PM	#1168 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Lazy non-jazz highlights for the first twenty years of this century just by seeing what catches my eye scanning Wikipedia Dopethrone The W God Hates Us All The Glow Pt. 2 The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Sea Change Sean-Nós Nua ( ) American IV: The Man Comes Around Elephant Mississippi: The Album Greendale The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place MTA2: Baptized in Dirty Water Scissor Sisters From a Basement on the Hill To be continued... __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

09-25-2020, 05:06 AM	#1169 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Who Is Mike Jones? Get Behind Me Satan Takk... The Peoples Champ Prairie Wind Shovel Headed Kill Machine Everything All the Time At War with the Mystics Living With War The Drift Burial American V: A Hundred Highways Christ Illusion Beach House In Rainbows I-Empire Devotion Mail on Sunday Watershed Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust xx Embryonic to be continued __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html