” Two Lists for Friends. First List. ”

01. J.S. Bach – Englisch Suite Nr.2 a-inor, BWV807 4. Sarabande
J.S. Bach: Toccata, Partita, English Suite 2/ Martha Argerich (1980)
02. Sergei Prokofiev – Cinderella op.87: 2. Quarrel. Allegretto
Prokofiev: Cinderella Suite; Ravel: La Mère l’Oye (2004)
03. Debussy – Pour les notes répétées
Maurizio Pollini. Debussy: 12 Etudes; Berg: Sonate Op. 1 (1994)
04. Messiaen – Catalogue d’oiseaux / Book 3 – 6. L’Alouette Lulu
Hommage a Messiaen: 8 Preludes; Selection from: Quatre Etudes de rythme (2008)
05. Bartók – Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1 (1921) – 1. Allegro appassionato
Bartok: Violin Sonata No. 1 (1921) / Janacek: Violin Sonata (1914-1921) / Messiaen: Theme and Variations for Violin and Piano (1932) (1991)
06. Webern – Piano Variations, Op.27 – 3. Ruhig, fliessend
Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Webern, etc / Maurizio Pollini (1996)
07. Mozart – Sonata in F major, K.376 (374d) III. Rondeau. Allegretto grazioso
Anne-Sophie Mutter & Lambert Orkis Mozart: The Violin Sonatas (2006)

note: To make up for the slow week. It’s various modern pieces that I’ve been listening a lot lately. I can only describe the performances as scandalously magnificent. Tho’ I suspect I am getting a little partial and not exploring as wide as I should. I love Argerich’s style dammit. At any rate, a small modern list. A return to first reason why I am posting for MdM. My fantasy is to explore cutting edge music and put it together in a way that breaks the boundary. Well, if nothing else MdM is still about few people exchanging note and comment about music that tickles ones imagination. Enjoy.

PS. There are 2 files in .flac format. The Debussy might be more acessible han the webern, but they are great just the same.

see also: Song. Simply.

image: ground*floor

People are aware of having too many external stimuli. What do you hear when you stop listening? The question is about whether anyone has an internal world any more.

- Kate Kellaway for the Guardian.

1. Aphex Twin – Tha
   Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (R&S Records, 1993)
2. Crystal Stilts – Converging in the Quiet
   Crystal Stils (Woodsist, 2008)
3. Radiohead – These are my Twisted Words
   Unreleased
4. Smashing Pumpkins – Suffer
   Gish  (1991)
5. Memory Cassette – Listen to the Vacuum
   Rewind While Sleeping EP (self, 2009)
6. Young Marble Giants – Music for Evening
   Colossal Youth (Rough Trade, 1980)

You’ve begun, now use your props.

Photo: Amalia Ulman via Boom.

Dans le désert de mon âme, desséché par toute une vie d’ indifférence,
il me faut arracher à chaque pas les mauvaises herbes de la négation et du scepticisme.

- François Coppée, La bonne souffrance.

1. Free Energy – Dream City
   Free Energy (DFA, 2009)
2. Magic Wands – Black Magic
   Magic Love & Dreams Ep (self, 2009)
3. Taxi Girl – Chercher le garçon
   Cherchez le garçon (Pathé-Marconi, 1980)
4. Tiny Masters of Today – Skeletons
   Skeletons (2009)
5. The Phenomenal Handclap Band – 15 to 20
   The Phenomenal Handclap Band (Friendly Fire, 2009)
6. The Millioners – Up to You
   Most Sexiest Music (Suomen Musiikki, 2007)
7. Delorean – Deli
   Ayrton Senna EP (Fool House, 2009)

note: I’ve been slowly building a blue arsenal in my mind. I don’t remember exactly where did this playlist came from but it ended up being a really good one to play in the morning to start pumping some energy. Whole playlist is around half hour long so should you feel like taking it for a run – which is what I ended up doing with it -  it should last you somewhere around 3 miles. Have a nice start of week everybody.

The fact there is massive social repression that has an enormous
effect on desiring-production in no way vitiates our principle: desire
produces reality, or stated another way, desiring-production is one and
the same thing as social production. It is not possible to attribute a
special form of existence to desire, a mental or psychic reality that is
presumably different from the material reality of social production. - Deleuze and Guattari. Capitalism and Schizophrenia. pp.30.

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” Desiring and Past Images ”

01. Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours
Closer (1980) (wiki)
02. Trans Am – Cocaine Computer
Futureworld (Thrill Jockey, 1999)
03. C.A. Quintet – Sleepy Hollow Lane
Trip Thru Hell (Sundazed Music Inc., 1968)
04. The Monkees – Words (Single Version)
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
05. The Seeds – Rollin’ Machine
A Web Of Sound (Diablo Records UK, 1966)
06. 13th Floor Elevators – Slide Machine
Easter Everywhere (Snapper UK, 1967)
07. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Plastic Factory
Safe As Milk (Buddha, 1967)
08. Talking Heads – This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Speaking in Tongues (1983) (wiki)

note: A retro list. A prop for DMC for track no.2 with which this list was based. The rest? Enjoy and let it flow.

image: Julie Dennis Brothers

The only way to make love worthwhile is without caution.

1. Kahimi Karie – Habanera
   Trapeziste  (2003)
2. Roberto Cardoso – Taquito Militar (Milonga Porteña)
   Guitarra (Dial, 1999)
3. Susana Baca – De los Amores
   Eco de Sombras (Luaka Bop, 2000)
4. Shigeru Umebayashi – 2046 (Rumba version)
   2046 (2004)
5. Brigitte Fontaine – Il se passe des choses
   Brigitte Fontaine… est Folle (Saravah, 1968)
6. Love – A House is not a Motel
   Forever Changes (1967)
7. Scott Walker – The Old Man’s Back Again
   Scott 4 (1969)

Tango is a practice already ready for struggle. It knows about taking sides, positions, risks. It has the experience of domination/resistance from within. Tango, stretching the colonized stereotypes of the latino-macho-Catholic fatalism, is a language of decolonization. So, pick and choose. Improvise. Hide away. Run after them. Stay still. Move at an astonishing speed. Shut up. Scream a rumor. Turn around. Go back without returning. Upside down. Let your feet do the thinking. Be comfortable in your restlessness. Tango.

– Marta E. Savigliano, Tango and the Political Economy of Passion.