{"id":651,"date":"2008-06-27T09:29:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T09:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2008\/06\/27\/friday-random-ten-june-27\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T09:29:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T09:29:27","slug":"friday-random-ten-june-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/27\/friday-random-ten-june-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten, June 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t done a FRT in a while.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Mogwai, “Kids Will be Skeletons”<\/b>: a typical Mogwai
    \ntrack; brilliant post-rock.<\/li>\n
  2. The Redneck Manifesto, “Bring Your Own Blood<\/b>: more
    \npost-rock in the same general vein as Mogwai. This one is a bit
    \nup-tempo, with a very cool rythym.<\/li>\n
  3. Gogol Bordello, “Dub the Frequencies of Love<\/b>: an Eastern
    \nEuropean gypsy punk band doing reggae. Insane, but very cool.<\/li>\n
  4. Tony Levin, “Beyond My Reach<\/b>: A few years ago, the god
    \nof the Chapman stick finally<\/em> started recording some of his
    \nown music. He’s got a surprisingly good voice. The album is
    \nterrific, ranging from some solid prog tracks, to some fun pop tunes
    \nto very well done ballads, like this one. Even in a mellow ballad
    \nlike this, he manages to work in some very impressive stick work.<\/li>\n
  5. Hawkwind, “Seven by Seven”<\/b>: very old progressive\/space
    \nrock. I just recently discovered Hawkwind, and was very surprised. I
    \nthought that I knew about all of the first wave of prog-rockers. And
    \nyet, these guys are famous and influential, but I somehow totally
    \nmissed out on them. They’re utterly brilliant. They’ve got a lot of
    \nthe typcial hallmarks of the early proggers in their sound – there’s
    \nsome similarity to Van Der Graff Generator, early Genesis, Syd
    \nBarret era Pink Floyd; but they’re got their own unique distinctive
    \nsound within that style. Really great stuff. This is a very typical
    \nHawkwind track; lots of very spacy sounding stuff, against a
    \ncomplex structure. Highly recommended.<\/li>\n
  6. IQ, “Red Dust Shadow”<\/b>: from early prog-rock to neo-prog.
    \nIQ is a neo-progressive band that got started around the same time
    \nas Marillion. They’re led by a guy named Peter Nichols, who’s got a
    \nvoice that sounds a lot like Peter Gabriel. They’re a really
    \nfantastic band.<\/li>\n
  7. Marillion, “Tumble Down the Years<\/b>: more neo-progressive.
    \nI’m a huge Marillion fan. I started listening to them back in 1985
    \nor so, and I’ve been a continual fan ever since. This is a sweet
    \nlittle romantic song from them. Typically for Marillion, even when
    \nthey do a poppy little sappy song, it’s got some beautiful structure
    \ninteresting harmonies, and great transitions.<\/li>\n
  8. Naftule’s Dream, “Free Klez”<\/b>: Very radical experimental
    \nKlezmer. Ornette Coleman meets Naftule Brandwien on acid.<\/li>\n
  9. Tony Trischka, “Celtic Melody<\/b>: unaccompanied banjo
    \nplayed by my former banjo teacher. (He’s also Bela Fleck’s banjo
    \nteacher.) Amazing technique. No one can play the banjo like Tony –
    \nwhen Tony’s on, not even Bela can match him. This is a medley
    \nof a couple of very traditional Irish tunes, played with absolute
    \nperfection.<\/li>\n
  10. IQ, “You Never Will<\/b>: another IQ track, from the same
    \nalbum as “Red Dust Shadow”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I haven’t done a FRT in a while. Mogwai, “Kids Will be Skeletons”: a typical Mogwai track; brilliant post-rock. The Redneck Manifesto, “Bring Your Own Blood: more post-rock in the same general vein as Mogwai. This one is a bit up-tempo, with a very cool rythym. Gogol Bordello, “Dub the Frequencies of Love: an Eastern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-av","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}