... this was going to be tacked briefly onto the end of the previous post; but that one turned out to be such a pain in the arse to write (not to mention very probably impossible to read) that this tiny little bit of emendata had to acquire a life of its own:
I am now halfway through the ZIM recordings on that (official?) Youtube channel, listening to one composition per day. (Most of them have continued to sound fresh and enthralling and inspirational; the one I listened to last night, not so much, but I think that says more about the mood I was in and what I was forcing myself to do at the time.)
The nit-picking thing is, though: either the tracklists on Discogs are wrong, or the one on Youtube is. (I haven't looked yet on Firehouse 12's site, or on TCF or anywhere else official.)
Discogs has separate entries for the digital download (perversely, since Discogs is primarily a site for traders and digital content is not permitted for sale on it) and for the Blu-Ray, but the tracklist in each case is identical. The twelve compositions are in ascending numerical order, starting with Comp. 402, then continuing with Comps. 408, 409, 410; then Comps. 412-16 inclusive; and finally Comps. 418-20 (the last three being the ones which were recorded during the Cafe Oto residency in London, sigh).
However, on Youtube there are some discrepancies. The first four pieces are the same, and the timings match the ones given here. After that, things seem to get a little mixed up.
The fifth piece is named as Comp. 416, lasting 47.20 - which is indeed the correct duration of that piece, in principle, though the running order has got disrupted at this point. (Comp. 416 is the ninth piece on the other tracklist.)
The sixth piece is named as Comp. 411. The sharp-eyed reader will note that this opus number is conspicuous by its absence from the listings on Discogs. The duration of this piece is 57.58, which is to say, the timing elsewhere attributed to Comp. 412 (which is the fifth piece on the other tracklist).
The seventh piece is listed as Comp. 412 and lasts 51.10, the timing elsewhere attributed to Comp. 413 (which is the sixth piece on the other tracklist). Confused yet..?
Track eight on Youtube is Comp. 414 (51.40) and track nine is Comp. 415 (49.17), which are listed elsewhere as being tracks 7 and 8 respectively, but with those same durations: so at this point it's again just the running order which is messed up.
The last three tracks on Youtube are back in synch with the other tracklist(s).
Youtube does not list Comp. 413 at all, but does list Comp. 411 as noted above.
Gonna stick my neck out here and say that it's the Youtube listing which is wrong. This is probably not the biggest problem in the world right now.
Just thought it was worth flagging up, having noticed it. (And in the writing, it was long enough in the end that I'm glad I gave this trivial little piece of pedantry a post of its very own...)
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