September 22, 2006
Two new MP3s
The weather turned this week, and the crisp air has led me to quieter precincts of my record crates and iTunes library. The two new MP3s just uploaded reflect that. The Max Richter composition is from is 2004 album Blue Notebooks, released on a FatCat Records subsidiary named 130701. Richter, who plays and composes for piano, wrote these pieces for piano, violin, cello, viola, and electronic instrumentation. The record is inspired by Kafka, and quotes from the writer's Blue Notebooks read by the actress Tilda Swinton are interspersed throughout, though thankfully not too frequently.
The other track is by Portland, OR–based musician Matthew Cooper, who records for Temporary Residence under the name Eluvium. This track is from his 2005 release "Talk Amongst the Trees" (another track off the record is available at that link), and captures succinctly my mood when on the beach in northern California. (See picture above.)
As always, please right-click and "Save As" rather than stream the songs from my web server. Thank you.
UPDATE, 5:55PM: An apropos quote, via About Last Night:
There comes a day, in the ripe maturity of late summer, when you first detect a suggestion of the season to come; often as subtle as a play of evening light against familiar bricks, or the drift of a few brown leaves descending, it signals imminent release from savage heat and intemperate growth. You anticipate cool, misty days, and a slow, comely decadence in the order of the natural. Such a day now dawned; and my pale northern soul, in its pale northern breast, quietly exulted as the earth slowly turned its face from the sun. — Patrick McGrath, "The Angel"Posted in Music. Permanent link here.