Sucked Screaming Through Old Age and Death by Curtis

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Submit Date: 6/14/2004
Format: CD
Category: Mixed Genre

Sucked Screaming Through Old Age and Death


Artist	Song
Margaret Leng Tan	Eleanor Rigby

Denman Maroney	Fluxations Part 3

Joan Jeanrenaud/William Winant	Five-Tone Kit (Lou Harrison)

Rohan de Saram	Kottos - for solo cello (Iannis Xenakis)

Shadow Music of Java	Patetan Sanga Wantah

Joyce Cardiff	The Missing Voice

Dan Warburton	A Walk through L

Khac Chi Ensemble	Spring Walk

The California EAR Unit	Crippled Symmetry [excerpt] (Morton Feldman)

Emerson String Quartet	String Quartet No. 4: VII. Basket of Flowers: Very fast (Ned Rorem)

Mark Dresser/Frances-Marie Utti	Montebell

Helmut Franz & Norddeutschen Rundfunks Chor Hamburg	Lux Aeterna (Gy÷rgi Ligeti)

Comment:

City Afternoon
A veil of haze protects this
Long-ago afternoon forgotten by everybody
In this photograph, most of them now
Sucked screaming through old age and death.
If one could seize America
Or at least a fine forgetfulness
That seeps into our outline
Defining our volume with a stain
That is fleeting too
But commemorates
Because it does define, after all
Gray garlands, that threesome
Waiting for the light to change,
Air lifting the hair of one
Upside down in the reflecting pool.
-- John Ashbery

Feedback:

Rob Conroy
Date: 6/14/2004

I wish I knew a single song...

Johnny Staccato
Date: 6/14/2004

I propose Curtis changes his name to Mr. Obscure. Oh, yeah, I'm sure this mix is totally rad.

Thomas_Mohr
Date: 6/15/2004

Uhm, you ALMOST got me here, but jus' almost . . . I know (and even own) that Ligeti recording, but the rest . . . well, at least it comes with a nice poem. ;) Joking aside, I guess I'd like to give this one a try and a spin some time.

isamguy0
Date: 6/15/2004

true story, where did u get this stuff?

Muzag
Date: 6/15/2004

Looks excellent, Curtis. For the pile, undoubtedly.

Siobhan
Date: 6/15/2004

I know one (Chor Hamburg) - yay! Otherwise, I wish I knew the rest because I would really like to imagine the atmosphere of this a little better. I'm sure it's wonderful, though! :)

valis
Date: 6/15/2004

Great poem, illustrating yet again the notion, cliched as it is: "in a hundred years it won't matter." Old photographs-and old movies, do that to me...

g.a.b. l@bs
Date: 6/15/2004

Metinks anudder winning Burns' brew!

"...and jumped the silent cars that slept at traffic lights..."

Media Vixen: Radio Sally
Date: 6/15/2004

Poetry and music, two of my favorite muses ... love that title and then M. L. Tan ... cool track (s)

G-Sphere
Date: 6/15/2004

Looks good but ditto Rob.

12vman
Date: 6/15/2004

Gosh darn it - how do you do it, man?!? I know the CA EAR Unit, but not that Feldman piece; I think I may have heard that "Eleanor Rigby" song before, but I'm certain a man was singing it; wait.....waitaminute......I know a track on here! - Lux Aeterna! This looks so rich and full of depth.

Dom1
Date: 6/15/2004

Curtis 12 Dominic 1....(though I have heard of John Ashberry)...i'LL GIVE MYSELF 2!

lo-fi jr.
Date: 6/15/2004

Same as Rob, I'm outside looking in.

gobi
Date: 6/16/2004

I would love to have an opinion on how this would sound.

James Jackson
Date: 6/20/2004

I'm beginning to think you make shit up and post it just to see if we will comment on it. Truly fascinating -- I guess. I know none of this. You amaze me!

Slack-a-gogo
Date: 6/21/2004

Excellent spelling. Great call on using brackets on cut 9 along WITH the parentheses. Sorry man, I've got nothing else. This one confuses me as much as it intrigues me.