YouTube of Ryuichi Sakamoto and his wife Akiko Yano playing an old YMO standard together at the piano. Back in the day I couldn't get my sophisticated record collecting friends interested in YMO or Sakamoto. They just couldn't go there. I'm glad to see that people are still discovering them/him through the Net or what have you. [/self pitying reminiscence]
What I'm listening to now: Barbara Morgenstern. The Grass Is Always Greener, Nichts Muss, Fjorden are the ones I've heard. Kind of Slapp Happy-era Dagmar Krause meets To Rococo Rot but an original songwriter as interested in texture as tonality. The "transposition queen"--you never know where her key and chord changes within a song are going to take you, but it's not meandering, it's completely focused and intentional. Lyrics in English and German, alternating.
I'd thought all versions of this had been deleted... thanks!
Looks like someone in Japan posted a del.icio.us link a few days ago, then wizardishungry, which is where I found it. It's great--sorry to hear others are being removed in the great "if you want to have fun you have to pay us for it" crackdown.
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YouTube of Ryuichi Sakamoto and his wife Akiko Yano playing an old YMO standard together at the piano. Back in the day I couldn't get my sophisticated record collecting friends interested in YMO or Sakamoto. They just couldn't go there. I'm glad to see that people are still discovering them/him through the Net or what have you. [/self pitying reminiscence]
What I'm listening to now: Barbara Morgenstern. The Grass Is Always Greener, Nichts Muss, Fjorden are the ones I've heard. Kind of Slapp Happy-era Dagmar Krause meets To Rococo Rot but an original songwriter as interested in texture as tonality. The "transposition queen"--you never know where her key and chord changes within a song are going to take you, but it's not meandering, it's completely focused and intentional. Lyrics in English and German, alternating.
- tom moody 3-29-2007 8:03 pm
I'd thought all versions of this had been deleted... thanks!
- Travis (guest) 3-30-2007 12:36 am
Looks like someone in Japan posted a del.icio.us link a few days ago, then wizardishungry, which is where I found it. It's great--sorry to hear others are being removed in the great "if you want to have fun you have to pay us for it" crackdown.
- tom moody 3-30-2007 4:57 am