Youtubin': The KLF - "White Room" Movie

It's 1:34 AM eternal......

PST

Steve Reich w/ Kronos Quartet & Pat Metheny - Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint (Nonesuch, 1989)

 

These scans of the CD booklet tell the story of "Different Trains" best (here's a link to all the scans someone generously posted on discogs) :

 

 I like the idea of the piece incipient and brewing in Reich's mind as a child making cross-country trips on trains...

Really, I wanted to post Pat Metheny's lovely recording of "Electric Counterpoint" after hearing it for the first time, with fresh ears, after many years this past week (scrounging up burned CDs you've left at a friend's place can be a Proust Jr. memory hunt...!!!). Certainly some of the most inventive looping guitar music I've heard...even if it was overdubs.

"Pat Shreds"... I should really make a T-shirt that says that...

 

Enjoy 

Tri Atma w/ Klaus Netzle - Yearning and Harmony (1983, Fortuna)

Jiro over at Panther Club turned me on to this group, his description is a great place to start to learn about Tri Atma. What's important to know is that Clara Mondshine (aka Walter Bachauer) and Claude Larson (aka Klaus Netzle) are involved. If you're familiar with their output, you'll know a little better what to expect.

Nothing like Germans getting a little silly. On first listen, I was thinking of Oregon and Between, and then the electronics enter, channeling the best of Pyrolator and Netzle's solo work as Larson (which I should really put up soon). 

Some really enjoyable music, crossing Eastern/folk/kosmiche/new age styles, blurring the lines between "depth and surface."

(There's an alternate posting of this song on youtube with nude beach bums throughout! Saucy!) 

For fans of: 

- Claude Larson

- Clara Mondshine

- Pyrolator

- Between, but then silliness

Enjoy

Youtubin': Reebop with Phantom Band

This footage is incredible, apparently uploaded by the guitarist himself, Dominik Von Senger.

Youtubin': "Hang Up Your Hang Ups"

Thought about this phrase, then remembered the seminal track (BTW, saw a killer band cover/repurpose Herbie's "Future Shock" last night)...

 And a great user-created video of New York on the silver/big screen to boot!

Here you go, high-school me, enjoy...