Sunday, 13 February 2011

Emerson

"OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29433/29433-h/29433-h.htm

Wednesday, 2 February 2011

Weather Report

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Report

I didn't know that this track, Unknown Soldier, had its origin in Zawinul's discovery, as a child, of the dead body of a soldier in Austria in WWII:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9G6x98WdpA

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

Stockhausen

Stockhausen's obituary in The Guardian from 2007. One of the joys of blogging is that there is no pressure to be topical.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/dec/07/7