mrpretzel_

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Member Since: 2/27/2007
Total Mixes: 55
Total Feedback: 9

Other Mixes By mrpretzel_

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CD | Pop

Classicism

Artist Song
Clikitat Ikatowi  "Pleiadian Dance" (3:01)
   River of Souls EP, 1998, Gravity Records 
The Fiery Furnaces  "My Egyptian Grammar" (3:21)
   Widow City, 2007, Thrill Jockey 
Sufjan Stevens  "Jupiter Winter" (6:27)
   Peace, vol. 5 from Songs for Christmas, 2006, Asthmatic Kitty 
Erik Helling  William Byrd's pavan and galliard "The Earle of Salisbury" (2:21)
   unpublished, available here 
The Mountain Goats  "An Inscription at Salonµ" (2:53)
   Jack & Faye, 1995-1996, unpublished, available here 
Tom Pascale  Claude Debussy's "Dr. Gradus ad Parnassum", from his piano suite Children's Corner (2:12)
   unpublished, available here 
Chase Coleman  Erik Satie's first gymnopedie (3:15)
   unpublished, available here 
Hala Strana  "Streets of Raised Platforms" (3:36)
   Hala Strana, 2003, Emperor Jones 
Beirut  "Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)" (3:15)
   Gulag Orkestar, 2006, Ba Da Bing! 
The Mountain Goats  "Quetzalcoatl Eats Plums" (2:25)
   Zopilote Machine, 1994, Ajax Records 
Chris Breemer  Isaac AlbTniz' "Evocaci=n", from the first book of Iberia (6:17)
   unpublished, available here 
Joseph Kingma  FrTdTric Chopin's polonaise in A flat maj. ("The Heroic Polonaise") (6:49)
   unpublished, available here 
Beirut  "Postcards from Italy" (4:17)
   Gulag Orkestar, 2006, Ba Da Bing! 
Ben Folds Five  "Smoke" (4:52)
   Whatever and Ever Amen, 1997, 550 Music 
Chase Coleman  Satie's third gymnopedie (2:21)
   unpublished, available here 
       Full download of Classicism (57:22, 66.3MB)  

Comment:

I got "Inscription at Salonµ" and "My Egyptian Grammar" together in random play and got an idea for a Classical Studies-themed LP. I didn't have enough tracks like that that worked together, so I filled it out with some piano pieces and other things.

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doowad
Date: 11/17/2007
Very impressive. I only have a few Mountain Goats cuts, but any song entitled Quetzalcoatl Eats Plums gets my rapt attention. íGracias!
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sumac tea
Date: 11/18/2007
There are some really powerful tracks here. "Dr. Gradus ad Parnassum" and the two Satie pieces are personal favorites.