Highly recommended set, includes Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time
Text: Gerhard Ruhm
This CD by Spanish composer/singer Abad made my 2002 Best of.
LP features Leo Smith, Steve McCall, James Jefferson, among others.
The Soundtrack you hear in your head as you hand the toll collector your last dollar and drive tentatively into the lonely tunnel toward the arms of Morpheus. But like, who's playing that crazy organ?
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| Sergei Prokofiev | Kes Ridicules | For the Love of Three Oranges | Vinyl | |||||
| Joe Simon | Pool of Bad Luck (Listen: Real) | Drowning in the Sea of Love | Spring | Vinyl |
Simon's Philly Sigma Sound session. Pretty good, too.
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1972 | ||
| Gustav Mahler | Trauermarsch (Listen: Real) | Symphony #5 in C# Minor | Apollo | CD | Austrian Radio Orchestra. Funereal. Part of Mahler's genius is that he can deliberately compose a parody while at the same time be completely serious. | |||
| Bob Dylan | Tryin' to Get to Heaven (Listen: Real) | Time Out of Mind | Columbia | CD | I used t have the same Triumph motorcycle tee shirt Dylan wore on the cover of Highway 61. Wore it t rags. | |||
| Patty Waters | Wild Is the Wind (Listen: Real) | College Tour | ESP | CD | with Burton Greene | 1966 | ||
| Gustav Holst | Saturn (Old Age) (Listen: Real) | The Planets | Front Row | CD | Robert Ashkey cond. London Festival Orchestra Now here's Bob Rixon, the only WFMU DJ ever arrested, convicted & incarcerated for stalking another WFMU DJ | |||
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| Karen Mantler and Her Cat Arnold | I Love Christmas (Listen: Real) | Get the Flu | Watt / ECM | CD | 1990 | |||
| Solenoid | Bike (Listen: Real) | Ingrid / Bike | Audraglint | 7" | Syd Barrett song. | |||
| Volcano the Bear | There in the House of the Moon` (Listen: Real) | Guess the Birds | Beta-Lactam Ring | 10" | ||||
| Mary Lou Newmark | Cosmos (Listen: Real) | Green Angel | Green Angel | CD | 5 string electric violin | 2000 | ||
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| Jean Francaix / Dorian Quintet | Quintet for Woodwinds (1948) (Listen: Real) |
Music for Winds
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Vox Box | 2 CD |
Andante tranquillo -
Presto -
Andante -
Tempo di marcia francese Highly recommended set, includes Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time |
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| Kristina Olsen | Live Man in the Dead of Night (Listen: Real) | Love, Kristina | Philo | CD | 1993 | |||
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| Henry Brant / Boston Musica Viva | Hommage for the Brothers Marx: Chico, Groucho, Harpo (1938) (Listen: Real) | Works from a Lifetime | Newport Classic | CD | This is one of the best pieces of music I heard for the first time in 2002. CD also includes two "spatial" compositions, & two lighthearted suites. | 1994 | ||
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| Dmitri Shostakovich | Symphony #2, dedicated to the October Revolution (1927) (Listen: Real) | October Revolution | BBC Magazine | CD | 1996 performance by BBC Orchestra & Choris cond. by Mark Elder. Includes the humungous Prokofiev "Cantata for the 29th Anniversary of the October Revolution," which didn't please the Kultural Kommittee. Shostakovich was only twenty years old. This CD is one the best I heard this year. | 1996 | ||
| Ann-Margret & Johnny Green | Bye Bye Birdie Main Title & Overture (Listen: Real) | Bye Bye Birdie Soundtrack |
RCA
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Vinyl | Did anyone embody the American Teenage Whore / Madonna of the Early Sixties better than Ann-Margret? In this movie, Ann-Margret's dad was played (hilariously) by Paul Lynde, in the same snide queen character that made him so funny (& dirty) on Hollywood Squares. | 1963 | ||
| Louis Armstrong | Got a Lot of Livin' to Do (from Bye Bye Birdie) (Listen: Real) | Hello Dolly | Kapp | Vinyl | Another precious throw-away by Pops. Play it again, Rix. | |||
| Terje Rypdal | The Dain Curse | Waves | ECM | Vinyl | 1978 | |||
| Esperanza Abad | Hymne an Lesbierinen | Voz | RNE (import) | CD |
Composer: Agustin Gonzalez Acilu Text: Gerhard Ruhm This CD by Spanish composer/singer Abad made my 2002 Best of. |
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| Marion Brown | Karintha | Geechee Recollections | ABC | Vinyl |
Text: Jean Toomer LP features Leo Smith, Steve McCall, James Jefferson, among others. |
1973 | ||
| Susumo Yokota | Secret Garden | The Boy and the Tree | Leaf | CD | 2002 | |||
| Syl Johnson | Sweet Thing | Ms. Fine Brown Frame | Erect Records / Boardwalk | Vinyl | DJ Rix Mixed Message Award for this particular program. | 1982 | ||
| Ben E. King | I Betcha Didn't Know That | I Had a Love | Atlantic | Vinyl | This song produced by Norman Harris at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia. | 1976 | ||
| Hydroponic Sound System | shu bop shu bop | The Synthesis EP | Bomb/Althernate Take | 12" | 2002 | |||
| The Dells | All Your Goodies Are Gone | New Beginnings | ABC | Vinyl | This cut produced by George Clinton | 1978 | ||
| Parliament | All Your Goodies Are Gone | Funked Up: Best of Parliament | Mercury | CD | Just the "P" part of "P-Funk." | |||
| Twilight Circus Dub Sound System | Filter 13 | Essential Collection | M Records | CD | ||||
| Sam Phillips | Power World (Listen: Real) | Omnipop | Virgin | CD | 1996 | |||
| Verlaines | Lucky In My Dreams (Listen: Real) | Way Out Where | Slash | CD | 1993 | |||
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