{"id":845,"date":"2010-02-19T19:52:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2010\/02\/19\/friday-random-ten-2192010\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T19:52:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:52:16","slug":"friday-random-ten-2192010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/friday-random-ten-2192010\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten, 2\/19\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Transatlantic, “The Whirlwind (Part 4) – A Man Can Feel”<\/b>:
    \na track from the new Transatlantic album. Transatlantic is
    \na supergroup: it’s made of members of Marillion (Pete Trevawas on
    \nbass), the Flower Kings (Roine Stolte, guitar), Spock’s Beard (Neil
    \nMorse, vocals and keyboards), and Dream Theater (Mike Portnoy, drums).
    \nIn general, I don’t like supergroups; they’re usually more of a
    \ncommercial stunt than anything else. But I love Transatlantic;
    \nand this album is fantastic<\/em> – it’s a bit less smooth
    \nthan some of Transatlantic’s earlier work, but the writing is
    \nfantastic. Highly recommended.<\/li>\n
  2. Do Make Say Think, “Fredericia”<\/b>: a very typical track
    \nby one of my favorite post-rock ensembles. In sound, they’re
    \nsomewhere in between Mogwai and Godspeed, with a bit of classical
    \ninfluence.<\/li>\n
  3. Marillion, “Man of a Thousand Faces”<\/b>: absolutely classic
    \nMarillion. One of the things that Yes used to do that I love
    \nis slow builds. They start with a simple pattern, and repeat
    \nover and over, adding another layer each repetition. This song is
    \nthe only time that I recall Marillion doing it, and it’s
    \namazing. <\/li>\n
  4. Abigail’s Ghost, “Gemini Man”<\/b>: a big disappointment. A bunch
    \nof people recommended Abigail’s Ghost to me as a great neo-prog
    \nband. I find them incredibly dull. Pretty much the only time I
    \nhear them is when they come up randomly, because I never choose
    \nto listen to them.<\/li>\n
  5. The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band, “Sam”<\/b>: wonderful jazz-influenced
    \nKlezmer. When they’re actually playing Klezmer, FBKB is fantastic.
    \nUnfortunately, they often introduce songs with a sort of beat-inspired
    \npoetry recitation, which is just annoying.<\/li>\n
  6. The Andy Statman Klezmer Orchestra, “Galitzianer Chusid”<\/b>:
    \nmore Klezmer! Andy Statman plays very traditional klezmer. This
    \none I feel a special connection to. My mother’s family are Litvaks,
    \nand my father was a Galitzianer. (That is, ashkenazi Jews from
    \nLithuania and Galacia, respectively.) Traditionally, the Litvaks
    \nwere wealthier, and looked down on the Galitzianers. My grandparents
    \nused to tell my mother that if she weren’t good, she’d grow up
    \nand marry a Galitzianer. And she did – and they were happily married
    \nfor 44 years. <\/li>\n
  7. Peter Gabriel, “The Rhythm of the Heat”<\/b>: utterly wonderful
    \nold Peter Gabriel. Security is still my favorite of his albums,
    \nand this is my favorite track off the album.<\/li>\n
  8. Kansas, “Distant Vision”<\/b>: Often when an old band gets back
    \ntogether, it’s pure tripe. And Kansas has reformed itself several
    \ntimes over the years, only to produce more tripe. This time they
    \ngot it right. This album sounds like what you’d expect the old
    \nKansas to sound like if they were writing in the 2000’s. It’s
    \nnot exactly like their old stuff – it’s grown over time – but it’s
    \ngot all of the beauty, complexity, and quality of their older stuff.
    \nThe lead singers voice has suffered a bit with age; he can’t quite
    \npull off some of the stuff he tries to do. But it’s good stuff
    \noverall.<\/li>\n
  9. Parallel or 90 Degrees, “Entry Level”<\/b>: Andy Tillison has
    \nbeen very busy lately, coming out with new albums from both
    \nPo90 and the Tangent. Of the two, I think that the new Po90 is
    \nthe better album – I think it’s absolutely terrific. <\/li>\n
  10. Roine Stolte, “Spirit of the Rebel”<\/b>: the leader of
    \nthe Flower Kings recorded a solo album, which was intended to
    \nbe a tribute to the pop bands he grew up listening to. But Stolte
    \nbeing Stolte, even when he’s trying to play pop and R&B,
    \nhe still manages to play better prog than 9 out of 10 prog bands.
    \nIt’s definitely on the pop side, much less challenging that
    \ntFK, but it’s really good stuff. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Transatlantic, “The Whirlwind (Part 4) – A Man Can Feel”: a track from the new Transatlantic album. Transatlantic is a supergroup: it’s made of members of Marillion (Pete Trevawas on bass), the Flower Kings (Roine Stolte, guitar), Spock’s Beard (Neil Morse, vocals and keyboards), and Dream Theater (Mike Portnoy, drums). In general, I don’t like […]<\/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-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-dD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}