{"id":675,"date":"2008-08-22T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2008\/08\/22\/friday-random-10-august-22\/"},"modified":"2008-08-22T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T20:50:08","slug":"friday-random-10-august-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/22\/friday-random-10-august-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random 10, August 22"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Solas, “Darkness, Darkness”:<\/b> One of my favorite Irish
    \nbands doing a great cover of an old song.<\/li>\n
  2. A Silver Mt. Zion, “Goodbye Desolate Railyard”:<\/b> a decent
    \nASMZ track, but not an outstanding one.<\/li>\n
  3. Mogwai, “Acid Food”:<\/b> Anything by Mogwai is terrific. This
    \nis no exception.<\/li>\n
  4. Kansas, “Myriad”:<\/b> One of my favorite tracks of the latest
    \nfrom Kansas. <\/li>\n
  5. Metaphor, “Stella Maris”:<\/b> I just got this album today, and haven’t even gotten to listen to it all the way through yet, so I haven’t really formed a strong opinion yet. But it sounds like Metaphor, and that’s a good thing.<\/li>\n
  6. Rush, “The Enemy Within”:<\/b> A classic old Rush tune.<\/li>\n
  7. David Sylvian and Robert Fripp, “Jean the Birdman”:<\/b> this is
    \npretty much what you’d expect from Fripp and Sylvian. Sylvian’s
    \ncrooning; Fripp playing with tape loops and strange tonality. Even
    \nthough it’s what you expect, it’s still amazing – these are two of the
    \nmost creative guy’s you’ll find anywhere, and when they work together,
    \nthe result is something special.<\/li>\n
  8. Porcupine Tree, “The Moon Touches Your Shoulder”:<\/b> A bit
    \noff of PTs most traditionally progressive album. Not my favorite
    \nbit of the album, but the whole album is amazing.<\/li>\n
  9. Kruzenshtern & Parahod, “Sippurim”:<\/b> K&P is one of my
    \nfavorite things to listen to lately. I usually describe it as
    \nprogressive klezmer, which I think is accurate; but it’s also
    \nnot really adequate. These guys are stretching the boundaries so
    \nfar that it’s hard to describe. There’s a very strong Klezmer element;
    \nbut also very strong Jazz and Rock influences. Their stuff is hard
    \nto track down, but well worth the effort. It’s really spectacular.<\/li>\n
  10. Tie the Bonnet:<\/b> Traditional Irish, from the masters. Lunasa
    \nis wonderful. This, however, is not one of my favorite bits by
    \nthem. Like many popular Irish bands, they tend to over-rush
    \nthe tempo. It’s damned impressive, but it deprives the music of some
    \nof its heart. This stuff is music to dance to – but they’re playing it at tempos that no one could ever dance to.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Solas, “Darkness, Darkness”: One of my favorite Irish bands doing a great cover of an old song. A Silver Mt. Zion, “Goodbye Desolate Railyard”: a decent ASMZ track, but not an outstanding one. Mogwai, “Acid Food”: Anything by Mogwai is terrific. This is no exception. Kansas, “Myriad”: One of my favorite tracks of the latest […]<\/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-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-aT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}