A meditation on contemporary music.
Today Kairos starts of quite ‘poppy’. But ‘poppy’ doesn’t mean ‘easy’. In fact, the song ‘disintegration loop’ by Moon Moon Moon is inspired by the work of William Basinski bearing the same name. Definitely not light music.
The regular Kairos listener will know, especially after the last episode, that ‘a meditation on contemporary music’ doesn’t mean ‘consuming only easily digestible music.’ Meditation means to research oneself. This takes determination.
The music of Kairos is visual music. It’s worth the effort of letting the hour of Kairos wash over you and see which images, emotions and associations this musical journey awakes inside you, even the unpleasant ones. The trick of those images, associations and emotions is, to not engage, but experience them neutrally, yet curiously. They come and go. And no matter how intense the music gets, you can always find a calmer undercurrent to calm yourself.
And, as we often do in this programme, we have hidden a little Easter egg for the careful listener. This time it’s the deep musings of a well-known someone.
Playlist:
00:12 Sander van Munster. Another Sea. No Ninja Am I. Album ‘Share A Dream‘. Own release.
01:05 Moon Moon Moon. Disintegration loop. Album: ‘Help! Help!’ Tiny Room Records TR015.
05:21 Richard Bolhuis. Music We Make Will Keep Us Sane. Houe of Cosy Cushions. EP ‘Music We Make Will Keep Us Sane – Spirit Door’. Outcast Cats.
09:40 Jherek Bisschoff. Attuna. Album ‘Cistern’. LEAF.
14:29 Cato Farstad & Rune Lindbæk. My frozen spirit. Pechenga. Album ‘Helt Borte’. Smalltown Supersound STS202CD.
17:59 Jherek Bisschoff. Cistern. Album ‘Cistern’. LEAF.
23:38 Pauline Oliveros. A love song. Album ‘The Well And The Gentle’. hat ART 2020.
27:53 Robert Ashley. Robert Ashley. Hidden similarities. Ensemble MAE. Album ‘Tap Dancing In The Sand’. Unsounds 15U.
33:48 Paul Glazier. Brain Space. Paul Glazier. Album ‘Slow Static’. Own release, album available through Paulglazier.com or cdbaby.com.
36:35 Claude Debussy. Finale – Animé. Harriet Krijgh, cello; Kamilla Isanbaeva, piano.
Capriccio C5131.
39:39 Girolamo Frescobaldi. Toccata. Axel Wolf en Hugo Siegmeth. Van album ‘Flow, Jazz and Renaissance – from Italy to Brazil’. OEHMS classics OC 1826.
41:59 Resina. Tatry I. Album ‘Resina’. FatCat CD 13-23.
48:53 Broeder Dieleman. Adriana. Broeder Dieleman. Album: Gloria. Snowstar Records 14-056.
54:32 Ignacy Jan Wiśniewski. let’s pray (fragment). Ignacy Wiśniewski trio. Album ’Jazz Shirim’. Wood and mood.
