- Trout Fishing in America, "I Get Ideas". Trout is a great band; they do both children's music and adult music. This is one of their children's songs, but I love it anyway. What's not to like about a song that features shampooing with peanut butter?
- Gordian Knot, "The Brook The Ocean". Gordian Knot is an instrumental progressive rock band consisting of bassist Sean Malone, and whoever else he feels like playing with. GK has included Bill Bruford, Adrian Belew, Trey Gunn, Steve Hackett, Mike Portnoy, and a ton of other amazing people. This is a spectacular track, a thoroughly great exaple of GK.
- Fairport Convention, "John Gaudie". A classic old folk tune performed by Fairport Convention.
- Martin Hayes, "The Crooked Road/The Foxhunter's Reel". Martin Hayes is a phenomenal Irish fiddler. In general, he plays things at a very reasonable pace, and is very sparse and elegant in his ornamentation. This tune is pretty much his way of saying "Yes, I can play as fast and fancy as any of those snotty showoffs, I just usually choose not to." Amazing musicianship, played with the same kind of elegance that characterizes his normal playing. I'm glad that he doesn't do everything in this showy style, but for a once-in-a-while thing, it's positively brilliant.
- John Corigliano, "Etude Fantasy 4. Ornaments". A modern classical piece for piano written by one of the finest composers in America. Corigliano isn't an easy composer to listen to, but he's well worth the effort.
- Broadside Electric, "Bucimis". Broadside is a local-ish (Philadelpha/Central NJ) band that plays electricified folk music. They specialize in old broadsides from Childe's ballads, along with Irish and Klezmer themed instrumentals. This is an instrumental track of theirs, which is based on a Bulgarian folk dance in a meter of - get this - 15/16. (4 fast 2s, followed by one 3 that takes as long as two of the twos, followed by one more two; repeat until dizzy.)
- Psychograss, "Big Gravel". Funky newgrass from a Darol Anger led band consisting of some of the most brilliantly twisted players in modern bluegrass: Darol Anger on fiddle, Mike Marshall on Mandolin, the great Tony Trischka on banjo, Todd Phillips on bass, and David Grier on guitar.
- Kate Bush, "Nocturn". A beautiful piece off of Kate's latest.
- Darol Anger's Republic of Strings, "The Seagull/Bay Day". Another brilliant effort from Darol Anger. The man has such a range!
- Marillion, "Interior Lulu". A wonderful, long piece from my favorite neo-progressive band. This one has a very interesting structure. It starts out with an intro that sounds very much like recent Marillion work. Then it flashes back into a sound like the genesis cover band that they were when they started out, and gradually changes until they sound like todays Marillion again by the end. Very, very cool.
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Posted on: November 17, 2006 10:02 AM, by Mark C. Chu-Carroll
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Actually, John Gaudie is a Chris Leslie original, though the reels that go with it, including the inspiration source "Jack Broke the Prison Door", are all traditional Shetland tunes.
Posted by: Joe Shelby | November 17, 2006 10:47 AM
Great Kate Bush tune. Nice blog, btw. I'm adding it to our sci-tech blog at our university, which you'll find here.
Andrew
Posted by: Andrew | November 17, 2006 3:06 PM
Wow - a Kate Bush AND Marillion fan. Who would have thunk it? I saw Marillion 20 years ago in Germany. They never seemed to catch on in the states much. Shame.
Posted by: slpage | November 21, 2006 8:39 AM