{"id":777,"date":"2009-05-29T15:12:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2009\/05\/29\/friday-random-ten-may-29th\/"},"modified":"2009-05-29T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:12:26","slug":"friday-random-ten-may-29th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/friday-random-ten-may-29th\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten, May 29th"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. The Flower Kings, “The Truth Will Set you Free”<\/b>: One of the superlong Flower Kings opuses – in fact, the first thing by the Flower Kings that I ever heard. <\/li>\n
  2. Solas, “Pastures of Plenty”<\/b>: a stunning version of the old Guthrie song, played by one of my favorite Irish bands. It’s a brilliant cover – the original song is clearly there, and yet its embedded in a reel.<\/li>\n
  3. Valley of the Giants, “Cantara Sin Guitara”<\/b>: truly fantastic post-rock. Valley of the Giants is the first PR ensemble that I think really
    \nstacks up to Godspeed. <\/li>\n
  4. Jadis, “Standing Still”<\/b>: neo-progressive rock, produced by
    \nMarillion’s guitarist. It’s a bit on the poppy side, but after listening
    \nto it a bunch of times, it’s really grown on me. Jadis’s songs tend to have
    \ndecent poppy hooks, but they’ve also got a lot of complexity, and they
    \nhave the ability to keep surprising you with their changes even after
    \nmultiple listenings.<\/li>\n
  5. Riverside, “Volte-Face”<\/b>: more neo-prog. But this time, it’s a band that I love without reservations. Riverside is the greatest new band that
    \nI’ve heard in a very long time. Highly recommended. <\/li>\n
  6. Keith Emerson Band, “The Art of Falling Down”<\/b>: the great Keith Emerson is back. Emerson is a really brilliant keyboardist, and I used
    \nto love his stuff with ELP. But then ELP fell apart; he tried to bring it back a couple of times, with results ranging from mediocre (Emerson, Lake and Powell) to piss-poor (Three). Then he went off to do mediocre movie soundtracks. And now, he’s back with a new prog-rock band. And they’re good. They’re not ELP, but they’re better than any other post-ELP work that he’s done.<\/li>\n
  7. Cynic, “Evolutionary Sleeper”<\/b>: What do you get when you mix up
    \ndeath metal, neo-progressive rock, and jazz fusion? That’s the best
    \ndescription I can come up with for Cynic. I gave Cynic a listen based on
    \na suggestion from a reader after I raved about Gordian Knot; Cynic includes
    \nSean Malone, the genius behind GK. They’re really excellent.<\/li>\n
  8. Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, “Transit”<\/b>: another hard to describe group. Modern big-band jazz, with influences from classical
    \nmusic. Very interesting stuff. Not my favorite, but definitely very cool and well worth a listen. I suspect it will grow on me with time.<\/li>\n
  9. Van Der Graaf Generator, “The Sleepwalkers (live)”<\/b>: Wow.<\/li>\n
  10. John Corigliano, “Fantasia on an Ostinato”<\/b>: Corigliano is one of my favorite modern classical composers. This is an intimate little piece for solo piano. Very beautiful, very stirring, and yet very delicate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And as a special bonus, this irresistible video of two dancers playing Bach’s Tocatta and Fugue on the giant piano at FAO Schwartz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Flower Kings, “The Truth Will Set you Free”: One of the superlong Flower Kings opuses – in fact, the first thing by the Flower Kings that I ever heard. Solas, “Pastures of Plenty”: a stunning version of the old Guthrie song, played by one of my favorite Irish bands. It’s a brilliant cover – […]<\/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-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-cx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","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=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}