Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

best band EVER

traditional Chinese music – pipa solo by Liu Fang 劉芳琵琶

At least the quality of sound is good

Nixon in China (at last also in Greece)

At last a modern minimalistic opera for us the Greeks to enjoy.

Thelonious Monk plays Duke Ellington

and MUSIC comes to my ears

David Gilmour – The Red Sky At Night

The great sax melodic lines of Pink Floyd times.. this time though it’s sad sad sad than ever before.

I also found this (Greek)

George Michael – Amazing (Patience Album)

“So now I walk in the midday sun
I never thought that my saviour would come
I think it’s amazing
I think it’s amazing…”

Schumann, Arabesque, Op 18 – Leicht und zart – Minore I – II

Great sound by Maurizio Pollini in this magnificent piece by Robert Schumann.

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and I travel

The Doors – People Are Strange

People are strange when you’re a stranger
Faces look ugly when you’re alone
Women seem wicked when you’re unwanted
Streets are uneven when you’re down

When you’re strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you’re strange
No one remembers your name

Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

PF4ever

Yann Tiersen Sucked big time

Yesterday I went to see him in Lycabetus, Athens where he with others were supposed to be playing. He was marketed, as "Yann Tiersen, the Amelie Soundtrack composer".

Now, don't get me wrong, but I'm sure he knows about it. I honor and understand every composer's or songwriter's  right to extremely avoid playing the music he's well known for, in the same way as in the CD. In other words, "just buy the CD" is enough for me.

BUT, he went too far (at least for my ears), because: 

a. the music he played, apart from 15 minutes in TOTAL TIME, didn't contain any melody or melodic lines. Of course it wasn't heavy metal, but the sound reminded me of a combination of a bad Madrugada song with the worst song by Raining Pleasure or whatever.  The fact that he likes to play the violin doesn't mean I have to watch him play one fucking note for a whole minute, having a background with a lot of "bass noise".

b. he didn't play at all the music that made him rich and known. Now don't get me wrong again, but hey that's FUCKING IDIOTIC. He just touched some melodic lines of Amelie for about 1,5 minute, but still I play the score in my piano, and even I was getting lost. If he wanted, he could have completely changed the  instrumentation or keep it the same, and change a bit the melodic lines. He did nothing of those.

All in all, was a bad combination of mostly average music. That came a bit of shock to me, because of his minimalistic nature. I really hope we get to see Steve Reich in Athens (and not again Glass  [he came in 2004, now comes in 2006 again!]) before he's too old to travel.

Now to overcome that Tiersen concert,  I'm gonna watch again the minimalistic videoopera: Steve Reich & Beryl Korot – Thee Tales

I'll do that because I saw the same smiling robot in the upcoming "future talk" in CNN International.