Noland, Gary / 24 Postludes For Piano, Vol. 2
Album: | 24 Postludes For Piano, Vol. 2 | Collection: | Classical | |
Artist: | Noland, Gary | Added: | Feb 2007 | |
Label: | North Pacific Music |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2007-02-18 | Pull Date: | 2007-04-22 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
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Week Ending: | Apr 22 | Apr 15 | Mar 25 | Mar 18 | Mar 11 | Feb 25 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Oct 12, 2019: | the Acupuncture Hour
Bead-Eyed Bellygods |
4. | Oct 16, 2010: | Music Casserole
Messitative |
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2. | Dec 12, 2012: | minimum entropy
Bead-Eyed Bellygods |
5. | Apr 18, 2007: | Eran Mukamel (MCCFMK)
Bead-Eyed Bellygods |
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3. | Nov 19, 2010: | KZSU Jazz Hour
Bead-Eyed Bellygods |
6. | Apr 09, 2007: | Mixed Up Class
14. Honesty's the best fallacy |
Album Review
mufaor
Reviewed 2007-02-21
Reviewed 2007-02-21
Solo piano, unique - cross between classical, jazz, ragtime, and avant garde. Are these any good? I think so. Satie is a good comparison. Virtuosic playing, almost sounds like a player piano at times. In a way it’s making fun of “difficult” music.... i think... The shorter tracks are easier to take – 5, 6, 10. 8 is a good “what the fuck” track. For some reason I’m in love with track 7. Quotes below are from the liner notes.
*1. Starts slow and meandering, after one minute starts some flirty runs that remind me of Ligeti’s piano etudes. Compositionally pretty damn cool – free.
2. Chopin or Schumann throwback.
3. Teetering, off-balance, poking at the keyboard in clusters and jerky runs.
4. Mysterious wandering – is apparently a tone poem about a guy who is a file clerk by day and anti-corporate saboteur by night.
*5. Quick, jerky, rockin’. Great chord very near the end.
6. Rythmic, melodically disjointed, a little bit like a less “out” Cecil Taylor. Yeah mull that one over.
*7. Kookily passionate. Lots of ragtime-ish riffs, kind of romantically frilly. Holds my attention if only for the insane technical piano playing.
*8. “aimed to induce a quasi-Sartrian nausea”
10. “Disillusionment. Greyness. Doldrums”
11. Kinda mechanical and fugue-like but whimsical. Neat quickie runs. Not sure I can take the whole 6 minutes but it’s fun for a while. According to the liner notes, it might be full of allusions to music I’m not familiar with.
12. Like a church organist who decides to mess with the congregation. Funny.
*1. Starts slow and meandering, after one minute starts some flirty runs that remind me of Ligeti’s piano etudes. Compositionally pretty damn cool – free.
2. Chopin or Schumann throwback.
3. Teetering, off-balance, poking at the keyboard in clusters and jerky runs.
4. Mysterious wandering – is apparently a tone poem about a guy who is a file clerk by day and anti-corporate saboteur by night.
*5. Quick, jerky, rockin’. Great chord very near the end.
6. Rythmic, melodically disjointed, a little bit like a less “out” Cecil Taylor. Yeah mull that one over.
*7. Kookily passionate. Lots of ragtime-ish riffs, kind of romantically frilly. Holds my attention if only for the insane technical piano playing.
*8. “aimed to induce a quasi-Sartrian nausea”
10. “Disillusionment. Greyness. Doldrums”
11. Kinda mechanical and fugue-like but whimsical. Neat quickie runs. Not sure I can take the whole 6 minutes but it’s fun for a while. According to the liner notes, it might be full of allusions to music I’m not familiar with.
12. Like a church organist who decides to mess with the congregation. Funny.
Track Listing