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
Week Ending: Apr 22 Apr 15 Mar 25 Mar 18 Mar 11 Feb 25
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
2. Dec 12, 2012: minimum entropy
Bead-Eyed Bellygods
5. Apr 18, 2007: Eran Mukamel (MCCFMK)
Bead-Eyed Bellygods
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
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.

Track Listing
1. Bead-Eyed Bellygods   7. Messitative
2. Honesty's The Best Fallacy   8. Boykh Vaitek
3. Ventured, Nothing Gained   9. Le Charmeuse
4. The Mad Ventures Of Marginman   10. Luv Schmuv
5. Misunderestimation   11. Misremembrances (In Memoriam George Rochberg)
6. Shpilkes   12. Valediction (In Memoriam Jon Sutton)