{"id":788,"date":"2009-07-17T12:38:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T12:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2009\/07\/17\/friday-random-ten-july-17\/"},"modified":"2009-07-17T12:38:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T12:38:57","slug":"friday-random-ten-july-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/friday-random-ten-july-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten, July 17"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. John Corigliano, “Fantasia on an Ostinato”<\/b>: Corigliano is absolutely my
    \nfavorite modern composer. He writes stunningly beautiful music. This is a wonderfully
    \nsubtle piece: unaccompanied solo piano. Just incredible.<\/li>\n
  2. Isis, “Not in Rivers, But in Drops”<\/b>: The transition between the last one
    \nand this just about scared me out of my seat. From solo piano to loud, heavy
    \npost-rock. Once the shock of the volume change was past, I love this track. Isis
    \nis a really fantastic group.<\/li>\n
  3. Dirty Three, “Amy”<\/b>: Dirty Three is another interesting transition. DT is another
    \npost-rock, but from the opposite end of the post-rock spectrum from Isis. DT is mostly
    \naccoustic, heavily classically influenced post-rock. Most of their studio work doesn’t have
    \nthe energy or the focus of a band like Isis, but it’s still very good stuff. <\/li>\n
  4. Trans Am, “(Interlude)”<\/b>: from post-rock to math rock. Trans Am is a pretty neat
    \nlittle band. Not nearly as good as some of the others in my collection, but definitely fun.<\/li>\n
  5. Jadis, “Need to Breathe”<\/b>: Finally, some neo-prog. Jadis is a new neo-progressive
    \ngroup that’s heavily influenced by Marillion. They’re pretty good. Not great, but good.<\/li>\n
  6. Broken Social Scene, “Our Faces Split the Coast in Half”<\/b>: a big disappointment. I heard Broken Social Scene being interviewed on NPR. They’re a Canadian collective, which has
    \nsome overlap with the deities of postrock, “Godspeed you Black Emperor”. The bits they played
    \nlive sounded great. But when I got one of their albums, it’s profoundly dull. Pretty much
    \nthe only time I ever listen to it is when it comes up in a random playlist, and then
    \nI usually wind up skipping past.<\/li>\n
  7. Echolyn, “The End is Beautiful”<\/b>: very good neo-progressive rock. Maybe a tad on the emo side,
    \nbut the quality of the musicians more than makes up for that. Seriously good stuff,
    \nvery highly recommended. Includes a really beautiful fugue section.<\/li>\n
  8. Gong, “Magdalene”<\/b>: Brilliant prog-rock, with nothing neo about it. Gong has been
    \ntogether since the 70s (although I just recently found out about them). They’re one of the
    \nmost amazing bands I’ve ever heard. Very strange, very silly at times, but always
    \nmusically brilliant. They’ve got unusual instrumentation – very woodwind heavy for a rock
    \nband. I can’t recommend them highly enough.<\/li>\n
  9. Alan Holdsworth, “The Sixteen Men of Tain”<\/b>: Alan Holdsworth is someone who’s music
    \nI simultaneously love and hate. The guy is, without a doubt, one of the most skillful
    \nand artistic guitar players ever. He can play fast or slow with every note being crisp
    \nand perfect. He can play rock, jazz, and classical guitar with equal skill. And yet,
    \nmost of the time, he leaves me cold. He’s like a guitar playing machine – perfect in every
    \nmechanical way, but somehow, his playing just totally lacks humanity.<\/li>\n
  10. The Flower Kings, “The Blade of Cain”<\/b>: The perfect ending for a FRT: my
    \nfavorite band, the Flower Kings. These guys are the<\/em> neo-progressive band
    \nto watch. Brilliant composition, brilliant performances. They come closer to musical
    \nperfection than any other rock band I’ve ever seen or heard. I found a youtube clip
    \nof them performing this track live, so you can get a sense of what I mean, which is below.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    John Corigliano, “Fantasia on an Ostinato”: Corigliano is absolutely my favorite modern composer. He writes stunningly beautiful music. This is a wonderfully subtle piece: unaccompanied solo piano. Just incredible. Isis, “Not in Rivers, But in Drops”: The transition between the last one and this just about scared me out of my seat. From solo piano […]<\/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-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-cI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}