Category Archives: Music
György Ligeti 1923-2006
Guardian obituary and later article. I only discovered Ligeti’s music quite recently. I found 2001: A Space Odyssey unbearably dreary and didn’t really register the presence of Ligeti’s music in the soundtrack, so it wasn’t until the recent Proms retrospective … Continue reading
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Zappa on “Crossfire”
Whatever did we do in the days before Youtube? Here’s an excerpt from the US current affairs debate show “Crossfire”, featuring Frank Zappa and Washington Time writer John Lofton slugging it out over rock music censorship… Frank Zappa on Crossfire … Continue reading
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The layman’s life in the bush of ghosts
It’s 25 years since Brian Eno and David Byrne released “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” and you can learn all about this groundbreaking album on a shiny new website. Of particular interest to musical types, though, is the … Continue reading
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Alf Clausen and the Simpsons
Working through the vast backlog of “ooh, that looks interesting” podcasts I’ve downloaded recently, I found a great little feature on Alf Clausen, composer of all the background and incidental music on “The Simpsons”… basically, everything except for Danny Elfman’s … Continue reading
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One of my (rare) Keith Flett moments
A letter to the Guardian… As Patrick Collinson says, the legality of Russian download provider allofmp3.com is questionable, but his dogmatic insistence that “real music fans should choose legal services” is simplistic and reminiscent of music industry propaganda. While the … Continue reading
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Eddie is no longer kidding (warning: extreme Zappa geek content)
Edward Nalbandian, the LA tailor whose TV adverts inspired a daft parody song by Frank Zappa, has gone to that great textile warehouse in the sky. LA Times Obituary All together now… # I’m coming over shortly # Because I … Continue reading
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“I’d like to make the Smiths eat dirt!”
Ivor Cutler 1923-2006 The world will be a duller place without him…
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Different sizes of music
[I started writing this entry on my phone last year, trying to relieve the boredom of an airport lounge. I couldn't get GPRS access at the time, so I forgot about it. Hey ho. It's still relevant.] Adding a few … Continue reading
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New music – “Peaches en Regalia”
I think I’ve mentioned this before… considering how much time I’ve spent listening to Frank Zappa’s music over the past twenty years, I’ve barely played any of it, given the vast quantity available. I put it down to a mixture … Continue reading
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www.custom-transcription.com
I had been intending for a couple of years to make a more formal statement of my availability as a freelance transcriber. After all, the brief mention on the “Who?” page of this site wasn’t really going to drum up … Continue reading
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