CD s, movies, links & other stuff

This page is just for fun. I will cumulate different things, CD suggestions, stories, other links, etc... everything pretty ecclectic.

I just re-discovered the famous Koln concert by Keith Jarrett. Amazing piano improvisation. Only piano, nothing else. Nothing else except an annoying little huhummmmmnm that he mumbles because he can't shut up when he is playing.

Each time I am listening to this CD, I remember a good friend of mine, Benoit, who came to sleep over when I was in Abitibi (I had a pretty good sound system). I played this CD before when we went to sleep. The next morning, the only thing he said was: I dream that my head was stucked in a &*^%&^$ piano. I guess the music was a bit too loud. Sorry Benoit.

The only album I knew was Never Mind, until I finally saw Sid & Nancy in which Sid is doing a sound version of My way. When I heard that, my brain disjunct, somehow. I got My Way on Flogging a Dead Horse.
My Way is the best song to play loud when frustration starts to be just too much, which happen every 2 minutes in science.

I hate live albums. They just don't sound good, they are never as polished as the studio versions etc... Except that one. A pure masterpiece from the first to the last note.

I used to have that on cassette and play it on long road trips. That was pretty good until the cassette got overheated and Pat started to be out of tune.The CD survived the heat better.
Pat Metheny Group: Travels

Donnie Darko. Pretty good movie; not the greatest film ever but it has some moments. I really like the rebel side of that kid and his honesty about stupidity which is real and present all around. The rabbit in there is pretty interesting too. I discovered Echo & the Bunnymen and The Church because of that movie.

Really a good movie on the life of Jackson Pollock, the modern American painter.
That movie changed me. Totally. You should see how I am spreading Nutella on my toasts these days

Album covers are a never ending source of amusement

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/quixote/shock_and_awe__banned_cover_art/

http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/

This one is from high school days. A good friend at the time, Bernard Falaise (today a successful modern music composer) introduced me to Mahavishnu Orchestra and it sticked. Jazz fusion masterpiece.
For those who did not see the movie La Grande Séduction (Seducing Dr. Lewis), there is an hilarious scene in which the main character is trying to create friendship by listening to fusion jazz with someone that lives in Sainte-Marie-la-Mauderne, a fishing village lost somewhere, pretty deep. A villager is designated by the community to be "the friend". He then reported to the others that they had no idea how much they were asking of him because jazz fusion is the ultimate torture for mankind. That made me think of this album, although I don't agree on the torture statement.
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Visions of the Emerald Beyond
These goes to 11! Thanks Nigel
Classic movie. Including the hits: Hell hole, Big bottom, Sex farm, Rock and roll creation, Lick my love pump... Smell the glove, the title of the 4 th (?) album became an expression used for album covers that were censured because of controversy. See higher on this page for a few real bands that had to do a "Smell the glove" which resulted in boring covers; quite funny...
Thanks to Cor & Marie for that DVD
Joe Satriani is one of my guitar heroes. This album in particular is a stylistic cornerstone and a very impressive demonstration that instrumental rock could be successful
I recently bought a Satriani DVD with interviews, videos, etc... At the end of the DVD, there is an interview with Nigel from Spinal Tap (see above), commenting on Satriani's style and techniques. I had no idea who he was: "I was very impressed by Satriani because his fingers were moving so fast, I could not see it ..." made me laugh quite a lot.
In our actual Cicurina revision, we are describing about 12 new species and one of these will be named Cicurina satriani. That will be a way to thank him for all these years of companionship. I am pretty sure that Joe have no idea that he was used as : field trip music, sorting music, idying music, sequence alignement music, etc... May be, if he likes it, he will support spider phylogenetic research! Unlike Alice Cooper who never answered my emails in which I was asking for money to support work on endangered spiders, but that is another story...
One of the best album of all time, really. Interesting result of early punkish-reggae influences. Quite cool cover too. I recently read that if he'd knew that this album was meant to become what it became, he would have looked at the camera instead.
For some reasons, some albums (or songs) are sticking to events and I am not sure why or how this happens, especially when things are going rather smoothly. This one is associated with the Atypoides 2001 collecting trip with Jim, Stephen and Marshal. Especially on the day that we stop at the river to have a swim. I know that it was playing when we stopped, but why did it stick to that event like that? A bit mysterious. The funny thing about it, is that for Jim too, London Calling is assiocated with that day.... Whoooooo.... spooky!
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