A Sleepy Migration

Here's some of that New Age music in which nothing ever happens.

Which is a shame, because as Synchestra, Ed van Fleet wrote and performed a great album called Electric Snowflake, as heaRd on the Hearts of Space program of that title.  Here's what's in this release:

01. Aurora (2:15)

02. Gold Coast (7:43)

03. Indigo (9:13)

04. Summer's End (4:43)

05. Deo (10:42)

06. Remembering the Future (2:55)

07. Canyons (11:04)

THIS LINK GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.

PERMANENT LINK.

See you on Thursday.

  

You Too May Be Remarkable

And then I can meet ya!

Until then, listen to this introspective, interesting music.

01. Thomas de Hartmann - Main Title - Father & Son (3:21)

02. Thomas de Hartmann and Laurence Rosenthal - Boyhood in Kars (3:56)

03. Thomas de Hartmann and Laurence Rosenthal - The Duel (The Artillery Range - The Question) (3:03)

04. Thomas de Hartmann - 'American Canary' (1:25)

05. Thomas de Hartmann and Laurence Rosenthal - At the Ruins of Ani (3:08)

06. Thomas de Hartmann - Prince Lubovedsky (3:59)

07. Thomas de Hartmann and Laurence Rosenthal - The Gobi Desert (4:01)

08. Thomas de Hartmann and Laurence Rosenthal - The Expedition Fails (The Stilts - Death of Soloviev - Departure) (5:26)

09. Laurence Rosenthal - The Journey (5:09)

10. Thomas de Hartmann - The Great Prayer (5:18)

11. traditional - The Contest of the Ashokhs (3:43)

THIS LINK GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.

I trust you too may be fascinated.

PERMANENT LINK.

See you Monday.

  

Figure This One Out

... And if you can, you speak more languages than I do!

01. Poulenc: 4 Motets Pour Un Temps De Pénitence - Vinea Mea Electa (3:49)

02. Poulenc: 4 Motets Pour Un Temps De Pénitence - Tenebræ Facta Sunt (4:13)

03. Poulenc: 4 Motets Pour Un Temps De Pénitence - Tristis Est Anima Mea (3:26)

04. Poulenc: Laudes De St Antoine De Padoue - O Jesu Perpetua Lux (2:23)

05. Poulenc: Laudes De St Antoine De Padoue - O Proles Hispaniae (0:52)

06. Poulenc: Laudes De St Antoine De Padoue - Laus Regi Pleni Gaudio (2:36)

07. Poulenc: Laudes De St Antoine De Padoue - Si Quaeris (2:29)

08. Poulenc: 4 Motets Pour Le Temps De Noël - O Magnum Mysterium (3:26)

09. Poulenc: 4 Motets Pour Le Temps De Noël - Quem Vidistis Pastores Dicite (2:41)

10. Poulenc: 4 Motets Pour Le Temps De Noël - Videntes Stellam (3:17)

11. Poulenc: 4 Motets Pour Le Temps De Noël - Hodie Christus Natus Est (2:13)

12. Poulenc: 4 Petites Prières De St. François D'Assise - Salut, Dame Sainte (2:29)

13. Poulenc: 4 Petites Prières De St. François D'Assise - Tout Puissant, Très Saint (1:28)

14. Poulenc: 4 Petites Prières De St. François D'Assise - Seigneur, Je Vous En Prie (1:23)

15. Poulenc: 4 Petites Prières De St. François D'Assise - O Mes Très Chers Frères (2:12)

16. Poulenc: Figure Humaine - De Tous Les Printemps Du Monde (2:44)

17. Poulenc: Figure Humaine - En Chantant Les Servantes S'Élancent (2:09)

18. Poulenc: Figure Humaine - Aussi Bas Que Le Silence (1:44)

19. Poulenc: Figure Humaine - Toi Ma Patiente (2:00)

20. Poulenc: Figure Humaine - Riant Du Ciel Et Des Planètes (1:04)

21. Poulenc: Figure Humaine - Le Jour M'Étonne Et La Nuit Me Fait Peur (1:58)

22. Poulenc: Figure Humaine - La Menace Sous Le Ciel Rouge (3:58)

23. Poulenc: Figure Humaine - Liberté (4:28)

24. Poulenc: 4 Motets Pour Un Temps De Pénitence - Timor Et Tremor (3:16)

Understand the language or not, this music is by turns fascinating, challenging, puzzling, intriguing … but never boring, and never off-putting.

THIS LINK GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.

PERMANENT LINK.

See you Thursday, fellow humaines!

  

Happy or Manic -- Your Choice!

It's a 1987 release.

01. Let Me Call You Sweetheart / Some of These Days / Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet (3:36)

02. The Bantam Step (2:34)

03. Fluffy Ruffles (2:31)

04. Good Gravy Rag (2:17)

05. Triangle Jazz Blues (1:31)

06. Piano Tuners Walk Away Rag (3:06)

07. Maple Leaf Rag (3:14)

08. Take Me Out to the Ballgame (2:22)

09. There's a Tavern in the Town (1:11)

10. Dill Pickles Rag (1:54)

11. Put Your Arms Around Me Honey / Come Josephine in My Flying Machine / Chinatown, My Chinatown (3:35)

12. The Band Played On / East Side West Side / Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie (3:08)

13. At a Georgia Camp Meeting (2:39)

14. Hello My Baby / In the Good Old Summertime / My Gal Sal (3:49)

15. Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland (2:02)

16. I'm A Yankee Doodle Dandy / Shine on Harvest Moon / By the Light of the Silvery Moon (2:41)

I assume we reach the count of 26 by adding the medley elements?  I didn't try.

This is way too artificial to me!  We got an aggressively semi-tuned piano, and some very cheesy sound effects via wood blocks, wheezing whistles, and the like.  Something played bass in a couple of cuts, sounding to me like an oompahing tuba.

All I can say is, if this is good as your memories get, I pity you.

THIS LINK GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.

PERMANENT LINK.

See you on Monday, if you haven't been checked into a rubber room after listening!

  

Visualize Whirled Peas!

There. I had to say it.

It's a 1986 cassette, with two selections:

01. Relaxation Music 01 (22:08)

02. Relaxation music 02 (23:47)

THIS LINK GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.

PERMANENT LINK.

It's crystal synth music with little form but repetition.  So dreamy it’s BORING!

When you wake up, I'll see ya Thursday!

  

I'll Say It's So Jo!

It's a fine anthology of a wonderful singer from the Big Band era.

DISC ONE:

01 - Little Man with a Candy Cigar - Jo Stafford With Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - 1941

02 - Haunted Heart - Jo Stafford - 1948

03 - If - Jo Stafford - 1950

04 - In a Little Spanish Town (T'was on a Night Like This) - The Pied Pipers Feat. Jo Stafford - 1939

05 - April and You - Jo Stafford & Liberace - 1953

06 - Where Are You - Jo Stafford - 1953

07 - The Trolley Song - The Pied Pipers Feat. Jo Stafford - 1944

08 - I'll Remember April - Jo Stafford - 1958

09 - Blues In The Night - Jo Stafford, The Starlighters - 1959

10 - Floatin' Down to Cotton Town - Jo Stafford & Frankie Laine - 1953

11 - Every Night When the Sun Goes In - Jo Stafford, The Starlighters - 1959

12 - The Night We Called It a Day - Jo Stafford - 1963

13 - The Gentleman Is a Dope (from Allegro) - Jo Stafford - 1958

14 - My Darling, My Darling (from Where's Charley) - Gordon MacRae, Jo Stafford, The Starlighters - 1949

15 - Young and Foolish (from Plain & Fancy) - Jo Stafford - 1955

16 - Tomorrow Mountain (from Beggar's Holiday) - Jo Stafford - 1958

17 - (There'll Be) Peace in the Valley (For Me) - Jo Stafford,Norman Luboff Choir - 1953

18 - Teardrops from My Eyes - Jo Stafford & Gene Autry - 1950

19 - Dancing in the Dark (from The Bandwagon) - Jo Stafford, The Starlighters - 1952

20 - Love Is Here to Stay (from The Goldwyn Follies) - Jo Stafford - 1953

21 - The Gypsy in My Soul - Jo Stafford And Art Van Damme Quintet - 1956

22 - Imagination - Jo Stafford - 1960

23 - If I Were a Bell - Jo Stafford - 1953

24 - No Other Love - Jo Stafford - 1963

25 - You're Blase (from Bow Bells) - Jo Stafford & Paul Weston (as Jonathan & Darlene Edwards) - 1957

DISC TWO:

01 - You and Your Love - Jo Stafford - 1943

02 - As I Love You - Jo Stafford - 1955

03 - Teach Me Tonight - Jo Stafford - 1954

04 - When April Comes Again - Jo Stafford - 1950

05 - St. Louis Blues - Jo Stafford - 1955

06 - Good Nite - Jo Stafford - 1957

07 - Make the Man Love Me (from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) - Jo Stafford - 1951

08 - Warm All Over (from The Most Happy Fella) - Jo Stafford - 1956

09 - The Best Things in Life Are Free (from Good News) - Jo Stafford - 1947

10 - One (based on One Hand, One Heart from West Side Story) - Jo Stafford - 1957

11 - These Foolish Things (Remind Me oOf You) - Jo Stafford and Art Van Damme Quintet - 1956

12 - The Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening (from Here Comes The Groom) - Jo Stafford & Frankie Laine - 1951

13 - The Nearness of You - Jo Stafford - 1956

14 - Smoking My Sad Cigarette - Jo Stafford - 1952

15 - The Party's Over (from Bells Are Ringing) - Jo Stafford - 1969

16 - The Folks Who Live on the Hill - Jo Stafford - 1960

17 - A Thought in My Heart - Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae - 1949

18 - Yes, Indeed! - Jo Stafford - 1941

19 - I'm Your Girl (from Me & Juliet) - Jo Stafford - 1953

20 - When I'm Not Near the Boy I Love (from Finian's Rainbow) - Jo Stafford - 1965

21 - Whispering Hope - Jo Stafford - 1978

22 - Shenandoah - Jo Stafford - 1961

23 - What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry - Jo Stafford - 1960

24 - I'll Be Seeing You - Jo Stafford - 1958

25 - Candy - Jo Stafford - 1960

26 - The Last Time I Saw Paris (from Lady Be Good) - Jo Stafford - 1960

DISC THREE:

01 - All The Things You Are (from Very Warm for May) - Jo Stafford - 1952

02 - If I Loved You (from Carousel) - Jo Stafford - 1947

03 - What Is This Thing Called Love (from Wake Up & Dream) - The Pied Pipers Feat. Jo Stafford - 1969

04 - Come Rain or Come Shine (from St. Louis Woman) - Jo Stafford - 1952

05 - With These Hands - Nelson Eddy & Jo Stafford - 1951

06 - Use Your Imagination (from Out Of This World) - Jo Stafford - 1950

07 - Three-Cornered Tune - Jo Stafford - 1951

08 - It Happened in Sun Valley (from Sun Valley Serenade) - Jo Stafford, The Starlighters - 1956

09 - Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Jo Stafford - 1953

10 - Oh! Look at Me Now - Jo Stafford - 1963

11 - Ghost of a Chance - Jo Stafford feat. Warren Covington, trombone - 1967

12 - My Heart's in the Highlands - Jo Stafford feat. Mitch Miller, oboe & English horn - 1953

13 - My One and Only Highland Fling (from The Barcleys of Broadway) - Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae - 1949

14 - I Didn't Know About You - Jo Stafford with The Pied Pipers - 1944

15 - Indiscretion (from Indiscretion of an American Wife) - Jo Stafford & Liberace - 1953

16 - Old Devil Moon (from Finian's Rainbow - Jo Stafford - 1957

17 - For You - Jo Stafford With Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - 1941

18 - Silence Is Golden - Jo Stafford, Vic Damone - 1957

19 - The King of Paris - Jo Stafford, Norman Luboff Choir - 1956

20 - I Should Care - Jo Stafford - 1958

21 - Stardust - Jo Stafford - 1950

22 - I See Your Face Before Me (from Between the Devil) - Jo Stafford - 1965

23 - You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford - 1952

24 - Stayin' Alive (from Saturday Night Fever) - Jo Stafford & Paul Weston (as Jonathan & Darlene Edwards) - 1979

25 - I Am Woman - Jo Stafford & Paul Weston (as Jonathan & Darlene Edwards) - 1979

DISC ONE PERMANENT LINK.

DISC TWO PERMANENT LINK.

DISC THREE PERMANENT LINK.

THIS  LINKFOR ALL THREE DISCS GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.

Happy listening!  See you Monday.

  

Paging Paganini

Here's one man's version of the grandiose Violin Caprices of Niccolò Paganini.

01. Capriccio #1 In E (1:47)

02. Capriccio #2 In B Minor (2:45)

03. Capriccio #3 In E Minor (2:45)

04. Capriccio #4 In C (6:32)

05. Capriccio #5 In A Minor (2:43)

06. Capriccio #6 In G Minor (4:48)

07. Capriccio #7 In A Minor (3:56)

08. Capriccio #8 In E Flat (2:51)

09. Capriccio #9 In E (3:00)

10. Capriccio #10 In G Minor (2:06)

11. Capriccio #11 In C (3:55)

12. Capriccio #12 In A Flat (2:22)

13. Capriccio #13 In B Flat (2:37)

14. Capriccio 14 In E Flat (1:56)

15. Capriccio #15 In E Minor (2:42)

16. Capriccio #16 In G Minor (1:32)

17. Capriccio #17 In E Flat (3:42)

18. Capriccio #18 In C (2:32)

19. Capriccio #19 In E Flat (3:01)

20. Capriccio #20 In D (4:04)

21. Capriccio #21 In A (3:03)

22. Capriccio #22 In F (3:12)

23. Capriccio #23 In E Flat (5:06)

24. Capriccio #24 In A Minor (4:24)

These fun and devilish, quite competent!  Not quite as demented as Ruggerio Ricci’s 1973 release, but still lotsa fun!

THIS LINK GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.

You wouldn't think such a cute face could handle such deviltry, but Ehnes gives it the ole devil's college try.

PERMANENT LINK.