{"id":835,"date":"2009-12-18T20:47:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T20:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2009\/12\/18\/friday-random-ten-1218\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T20:47:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T20:47:46","slug":"friday-random-ten-1218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/friday-random-ten-1218\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten, 12\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Naftule’s Dream, “Speed Klez”<\/b>: Naftule’s Dream is a
    \nbrilliant progressive klezmer band. I happen to love klezmer,
    \nbut I think that anyone into jazzy prog rock would also enjoy
    \nthem. They’re terrific. <\/li>\n
  2. Oregon, “Celeste”<\/b>: Oregon is a band that I can’t make
    \nup my mind about. They’re a jazz trio, with most melodies played by
    \na wonderful oboist. They tend to really push the boundaries –
    \nplaying with unusual tonalities, really pushing the edge of
    \nthe envelope with their improvisation. It’s quite impressive. And yet,
    \nthey frequently leave me feeling cold, like there’s nothing under
    \nthe technique.<\/li>\n
  3. The Flower Kings, “The rainmaker”<\/b>: Ok, you’ve heard me
    \nbabble about the Flower Kings before. They’re the best prog band in
    \nthe world today, and quite possibly the best ever. They’re wonderful,
    \nand I’ve yet to hear anything by them that I didn’t absolutely love. Go
    \nbuy their recordings.<\/li>\n
  4. Parallel or 90 degrees, “Jitters”<\/b>: Po90 has a new album! Po90
    \nis Andy Tillison’s original band. Tillison is the co-founder, with Roine
    \nStolte from the Flower Kings, of The Tangent, another wonderful band.
    \nPo90 has been mostly inactive for quite a while – but they just came
    \nback with a new album, and it’s absolutely terrific. It’s interesting
    \nhow different it is from the Tangent – Tillison is the primary composer
    \nfor both, but they manage to have very different sounds. Highly<\/em>
    \nrecommended.<\/li>\n
  5. Do Make Say Think, “In Mind”<\/b>: fantastic post-rock. DMSY is one
    \nof the best at what they do. If you like Godspeed or Mt. Zion, you should
    \nenjoy DMST.<\/li>\n
  6. Isis, “False Light”<\/b>: More fantastic post-rock, but from a very
    \ndifferent style. Where DMST is post-alternative, Isis is sort of
    \npost-metal. The vocals take a bit of getting used to, but the overall
    \nquality of the music makes it worth the effort.<\/li>\n
  7. The Clogs, “Tides of Washington Bridge”<\/b>: Still more fantastic
    \npost-rock, from still another style. As you can tell, I’m a very big
    \npost-rock fan. Part of what I love about it is the breadth of the
    \ngenre – it ranges from almost classical like the Clogs, to almost
    \nthrash, like Isis – and yet, it also manages to have a common form
    \nthat makes it post-rock. The Clogs are one of my two favorites from
    \nthe classical side of the genre. (The other being “Rachel’s”.) <\/li>\n
  8. Red Sparrowes, “Buildings Began to Stretch Wide Across the Sky”<\/b>:
    \niTunes seems to be in a post-rock mood. Red Sparrowes are another
    \nterrific group, from the same stylistic family as DMST.<\/li>\n
  9. Bach, “Wiewohl Mein Herz in Traenen Schwimmt”, from the St. Matthew Passion<\/b>:
    \nIn my opinion, Bach is quite simply the finest composer who ever lived.
    \nAnd the St. Matthew Passion is probably my favorite of his compositions.
    \nIt’s a work of sheer musical perfection. Music just doesn’t get
    \nany better than this. If you can listen to this and not be moved,
    \nthen you have no heart.<\/li>\n
  10. Thinking Plague, “Consolamentum”<\/b>: Every time Thinking Plague
    \ncomes up in a FRT, I manage to get something about them wrong. Their
    \nguitarist either has a Google alert set up, or he reads my blog, because
    \nhe shows up and patiently corrects my errors. I think of
    \nThinking Plague as a very unusual post-rock group; lot’s of people try
    \nto categorize them differently, because exactly what they are is a bit
    \nhard to pin down. They’ve got a very unique style that really isn’t
    \nmuch like anything else I’ve ever heard. They work with odd tonalities,
    \nsometimes verging on atonal; they’ve got vocals, but the voice isn’t
    \na lead, it’s treated as just another instrument in the mix. It’s not
    \nthe easiest thing to listen to – but if you like interesting,
    \ncomplex, beautiful music that doesn’t stick with conventional
    \ntonality, then these guys are amazing. I found a couple of youtube clips to
    \ninclude below the fold to give you a taste.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Naftule’s Dream, “Speed Klez”: Naftule’s Dream is a brilliant progressive klezmer band. I happen to love klezmer, but I think that anyone into jazzy prog rock would also enjoy them. They’re terrific. Oregon, “Celeste”: Oregon is a band that I can’t make up my mind about. They’re a jazz trio, with most melodies played by […]<\/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-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-dt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","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=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}