Like many people, I’ve spent the holidays hanging around my house, sifting through old records, cassettes, and CDs that I have lying around. They say physical media is having a renaissance. There’s something magical about the way an album becomes a part of the fabric of who we are. It’s actual presence in our space reminds us of it’s existence in a way that the algorithm cannot.
To quote Olivia Newton John, "Let’s Get Physical":
On this episode of A Curious Ear, we’re going to listen to a mixtape of sorts, music by Anna Clyne, Devin Shaffer, Steve Reich with Susanna Mälkki & the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and rarely heard works by William Duckworth and Paul Lansky. Some tracks taken from CDs, others from vinyl records.
Show Notes:
Drive Into Woods - Devin Shaffer
from In My Dreams I’m There
1987 - Anna Clyne
Seattle Chamber Players
from Blue Moth (Tzadik)
Memory Pages - Paul Lansky
from More Than Idle Chatter (Bridge Records)
Music for Ensemble and Orchestra - Steve Reich
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Susanna Mälkki
from Steve Reich: Runner / Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (Nonesuch)
Gambit - William Duckworth
William Youhass
from New Directions In Sound (Capra Records)