Musique Mecanique

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Lunatic creativity and great technical polish are seldom heard in close combination, but Carla Bley's 1978 band had plenty of both, making it a brilliant forum for some of her most playful and challenging compositions. Tenor saxophonist Gary Windo and trombonist Roswell Rudd are the outstanding soloists--Windo an explosive compound of free-jazz wailing and R&B punch, and Rudd the wry and romantic master of every vocal sound effect in the jazz trombone legacy (he literally sings on "At Midnight"). They're matched with consummate sectional players like Michael Mantler on trumpet and John Clark on French horn, as well as unclassifiable musicians like anarchic guitarist Eugene Chadbourne. The opener, with its title reference to concert pitch, is an exercise in tuning, while "Jesus Maria..." is an extended pastiche of most things musically Spanish. The title suite, inspired by a broken musical toy, is the pièce de résistance, complete with erratic interruptions and mechanistic repetition. --Stuart Broomer

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Average customer rating: well, well, well ...Carla, you did it again Jazz with Humor

Musique Mecanique Carla Bley Band Manufacturer: Ecm Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music ECM Classical | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ECM Jazz & World | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: European Tour (1977) ASIN: B000026FML Release Date: 2000-07-25

Tracks:

1. 440
2. Jesus Maria And Other Spanish Strains
3. Musique Mecanique I
4. Musique Mecanique II (At Midnight)
5. Musique Mecanique III

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Lunatic creativity and great technical polish are seldom heard in close combination, but Carla Bley's 1978 band had plenty of both, making it a brilliant forum for some of her most playful and challenging compositions. Tenor saxophonist Gary Windo and trombonist Roswell Rudd are the outstanding soloists--Windo an explosive compound of free-jazz wailing and R&B punch, and Rudd the wry and romantic master of every vocal sound effect in the jazz trombone legacy (he literally sings on "At Midnight"). They're matched with consummate sectional players like Michael Mantler on trumpet and John Clark on French horn, as well as unclassifiable musicians like anarchic guitarist Eugene Chadbourne. The opener, with its title reference to concert pitch, is an exercise in tuning, while "Jesus Maria..." is an extended pastiche of most things musically Spanish. The title suite, inspired by a broken musical toy, is the pièce de résistance, complete with erratic interruptions and mechanistic repetition. --Stuart Broomer

Customer Reviews:

well, well, well ...Carla, you did it again.......2003-02-04

This is definitively Carlas best...The compositions are tight and very original (check samples)and as the title implies, it is all about mechanical structures with looser parts all around. The solos by some of the guys in the band are amazing ....not that they are fast or anything...they are totally original and wacky for the most part, and fit well with this type of music. In this period i think Carla did her best music...check "social studies" if you like this one. Highly recomended to Jazz , jazz rock and progressive / avant garde music fans!

Jazz with Humor.......1999-02-26

Like Jazz? Like to laugh? - O yeah!, who doesn't?

Bley's band, composition, and the improvisations on this album are very creatively, calculatedly bombastically humorous.

440 starts with delightful expansion from a simple tuning procedure - a very tentative them walks down over an insistent pedal tone and driving beat. However, recalling Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, it seems arrogant by comparison, except that the rhythms are so hip, so good-naturedly cool that you wonder if the intention is to feign pretention, to parody.

The trombonist, as featured in "Spanish Strains", lets out a very ticklish monolgoue with his fun, slippery-slidy technique, comical in the way a drunk might be.

The 'mechaniques' guide the ear via expansive but risky harmonies, flavored with taps and ticks and jetting sounds occasionally - "At Midnight" is an overwhelming intimation of a fatigued dreamland that is yet beautiful and appealing (and hilariously non-sensical!). The musicians rhythmical precision is cause for many ooohs and ahhs as they mimic a scratch in a recording!

Try it! It's *great fun!*

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L'Art de la Musique Mecanique - Vol. 2: Collection Claude Marchal Manufacturer: Arion ProductGroup: Classical Binding: Audio CD General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000LUL6D4

Product Description

Complete CD package is in mint condition. Brand new case. 20 tracks on authentic and vintage instruments include pieces by Verdi, Rousseau, Laprevote, Lecocq, Adam, Haydn, and others. This French import ships first class.

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l'Art de la musique mecanique, Vol.1 Manufacturer: Arion ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Baroque Dance Suites | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music | Allemandes | Courantes | Gigue | Sarabande Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Chopin | Chopin, Frédéric | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Donizetti | Donizetti, Gaetano | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Flotow | Flotow, Friedrich von | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gounod | Gounod, Charles | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Moore | Moore, Thomas | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Strauss Jr., Johann | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Bagatelles | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Sound Effects | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Sound Effects | Miscellaneous | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000000TTK Release Date: 1998-02-17

Tracks:

1. Rondo
2. Sonatine
3. Extraits Du 1er Con, in e, Op.11
4. Sarabande
5. Grand Air
6. La Romance Des Porcherons
7. Les Vepres Siciliennes, Priere
8. Les Vepres Siciliennes, Valse
9. Le Quadrille Des Lanciers
10. La Muette De Portici, Barcarolle
11. Jenny Linds, Polka
12. Aminta, Mazurka
13. La Retraite ('As-Tu Vu Bismark')
14. La Juive 'Dieu M' Eclaire'
15. La Belle Persanne 'Les Choses Que L'on Dit'
16. La Muette De Portici, Barcarolle
17. La Tsigane, Choeur
18. Le Premier Jour De Bonheur
19. L' Eternal Est Ma Part, Cantique Protestant
20. Adeste Fideles, Cantique Catholique
21. Quot Chong, Danse Folklorique
22. Attente
23. Sweet Marie
24. Rigoletto, Quattour
25. Tannhauser, Ov
26. Les Rameaux
27. Wild Flowers (Fleurs Sauvages)
28. Sea Saw (La Balancoire)
29. Verse Margot, Chanson
30. Fascination, Romance
31. Wo Luzern Uf Weggis Zue (Retour De Lucerne), Folk Suisse
32. Alexander Rag Time Band, Rag Time
33. Berceuse
34. Ave Maria Sur Le 1 Prld De J.S. Bach
35. La Lettre A Elise
36. O Du Lieber Augustin, Folk Allemand
37. The British Grenadiers
38. Legende De La Foret Viennoise, Valse
39. Voici Noel
40. Malbough S'en Va T'en Guerre, Folk Francois
41. La Truite
42. Reve De Valse, Valse
43. La Diane, Sonnerie Militaire
44. Marche Des Bauers
45. Fleur De Castille
46. Ballade
47. Rigaudon
48. Arabesque
49. Lucie De Lammermoor
50. Fra Diavolo, Ronde
51. Cascade
52. Stradella, Brindisi
53. Romance Du Passeur, Romance
54. Barcarolle
55. Gavotte
56. Chaconne
57. Les Pipeaux
58. Gambade

Average customer rating: well, well, well ...Carla, you did it again Jazz with Humor

Musique Mecanique Carla Bley Band Manufacturer: Ecm Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music ECM Classical | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ECM Jazz & World | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: European Tour (1977) ASIN: B00000320N Release Date: 1994-05-10

Tracks:

1. 440
2. Jesus Maria And Other Spanish Strains
3. Musique Mecanique I
4. Musique Mecanique II (At Midnight)
5. Musique Mecanique III

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Lunatic creativity and great technical polish are seldom heard in close combination, but Carla Bley's 1978 band had plenty of both, making it a brilliant forum for some of her most playful and challenging compositions. Tenor saxophonist Gary Windo and trombonist Roswell Rudd are the outstanding soloists--Windo an explosive compound of free-jazz wailing and R&B punch, and Rudd the wry and romantic master of every vocal sound effect in the jazz trombone legacy (he literally sings on "At Midnight"). They're matched with consummate sectional players like Michael Mantler on trumpet and John Clark on French horn, as well as unclassifiable musicians like anarchic guitarist Eugene Chadbourne. The opener, with its title reference to concert pitch, is an exercise in tuning, while "Jesus Maria..." is an extended pastiche of most things musically Spanish. The title suite, inspired by a broken musical toy, is the pièce de résistance, complete with erratic interruptions and mechanistic repetition. --Stuart Broomer

Customer Reviews:

well, well, well ...Carla, you did it again.......2003-02-04

This is definitively Carlas best...The compositions are tight and very original (check samples)and as the title implies, it is all about mechanical structures with looser parts all around. The solos by some of the guys in the band are amazing ....not that they are fast or anything...they are totally original and wacky for the most part, and fit well with this type of music. In this period i think Carla did her best music...check "social studies" if you like this one. Highly recomended to Jazz , jazz rock and progressive / avant garde music fans!

Jazz with Humor.......1999-02-26

Like Jazz? Like to laugh? - O yeah!, who doesn't?

Bley's band, composition, and the improvisations on this album are very creatively, calculatedly bombastically humorous.

440 starts with delightful expansion from a simple tuning procedure - a very tentative them walks down over an insistent pedal tone and driving beat. However, recalling Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, it seems arrogant by comparison, except that the rhythms are so hip, so good-naturedly cool that you wonder if the intention is to feign pretention, to parody.

The trombonist, as featured in "Spanish Strains", lets out a very ticklish monolgoue with his fun, slippery-slidy technique, comical in the way a drunk might be.

The 'mechaniques' guide the ear via expansive but risky harmonies, flavored with taps and ticks and jetting sounds occasionally - "At Midnight" is an overwhelming intimation of a fatigued dreamland that is yet beautiful and appealing (and hilariously non-sensical!). The musicians rhythmical precision is cause for many ooohs and ahhs as they mimic a scratch in a recording!

Try it! It's *great fun!*

Average customer rating:

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Tresors de la Musique Mecanique (Mechanical Music Treasury) Manufacturer: Disques Pierro Verany ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000TQB7UM

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Musique Mecanique Brasserie Trio Manufacturer: Leo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002B6GQO Release Date: 2000-05-12

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