tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post6970288778382044039..comments2024-03-03T13:59:25.573-08:00Comments on If You Know What I'm Saying: braxtothon redux (1) - comp. 23mUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-21670269049884883322008-04-01T06:47:00.000-07:002008-04-01T06:47:00.000-07:00of course, when i appeared to suggest in the artic...of course, when i appeared to suggest in the article that i might or might not get round to discussing comp. 23g... i meant in *this* same sort of close-up detail. what temporarily eluded my memory at time of writing (somehow) was the fact that the album which captured it was fast approaching on the braxtothon schedule... and indeed it got covered in week one, as will become clear.<BR/><BR/>this article is probably the nearest thing to serious musicological examination/"proper criticism" i've ever attempted, so it doesn't surprise me at all that i finished it at such a time that i quickly buried it as soon as i'd posted it ;-) i have no aspirations really to being thought of either as a musicologist or a critic, on the other hand the maestro's offhand appellation "music guy" will do me fine... if anything of value to others comes out of it, that's great, if they communicate that back to me occasionally that's even better, but i basically keep doing it cos it's demonstrably good for me (even when it's hard work!). and the reason it's good for me is because my honest love for the music keeps me on the straight and narrow, or pretty close to it :)<BR/><BR/>in any case the post is likely to appeal to a tiny minority of people who are both interested and blessed with a copy of the tokyo recording - ! so it's not the sort of thing i would expect anyone to seize on and go "wow!" in any case i'm still far from sure whether i really got to the centre of this one, or even near it, ultimately... one man above all could enlighten me on that score :)centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-70843139146979854672008-03-23T08:05:00.000-07:002008-03-23T08:05:00.000-07:00this is not phase three, not quite yet! no, rather...this is not phase three, not quite yet! no, rather the first of a series - of how many, depends on how efficient i get at this writing business (not very, so far!) - which will re-examine in more detail certain pieces which got written up in the original october '07 braxtothon... when i first conceived the series itself i planned to make comp. 6d the subject of the first "microscope inspection" - as i reported at the end of january - but *this* piece, heard as part of the second playlist, came along and hijacked my focus! the article itself was started weeks ago in an unexpected burst of enthusiasm... when that particular flame burned itself out, i had to wait some time before i had another crack at rekindling it. the piece, only now just finished, looks forwards as well as backwards because i want to get it up and out of the way before i launch *braxtothon phase three* next week - and because that new phase is itself characterised by greater attention to detail in some respects. playlist three follows next... <BR/><BR/>of course it would be nice to offer a sound file of the recording for download! the tokyo album's not exactly the commonest item in the canon... but even i draw the line at upping a compression of a compression, and the audiophile contingent would doubtless put out a fatwa on me ;-) within the next few months, i would hope to have secured a (lossless) copy of glmlr's lossless vinyl rip, and then we'll see about sharing the whole album, maybe... till then, if anyone is really really curious, drop me a line: braxtonhead@gmail.comcentrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.com