Björk - Homogenic (1997)

Tracklist:

1. Hunter
2. Joga
3. Unravel
4. Bachelorette
5. All Neon Like
6. 5 Years
7. Immature
8. Alarm Call
9. Pluto
10. All Is Full Of Love

I wanted to make it an honest record. Me, here, myself, at home. I asked myself if there is such a thing as Icelandic techno, and how it could sound. Well, in Iceland, everything revolves around nature, 24 hours a day. Earthquakes, snowstorms, rain, ice, volcanic eruptions, geysers... Very elementary and uncontrolable. But at the other hand, Iceland is incredibly modern; everything is hi-tech. The number of people owning a computer is as high as nowhere else in the world. That contradiction is also on Homogenic. The electronic beats are the rhythm, the heartbeat. The violins create the old-fashioned atmosphere, the colouring. Homogenic is Iceland, my native country, my home.

Björk

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Keith Jarret - Köln Concert (1975)

Tracklist:

1. "Part I" – 26:15
2. "Part II a" – 15:00
3. "Part II b" – 19:19
4. "Part II c" – 6:59

A musical chameleon, pianist Keith Jarrett was at his finest when he recorded these sustained solo improvisations in a German concert hall in 1975, the first lasting 26 minutes, the second 40. Melodies and rhythmic figures arise fluidly from his fingers as he moves from one idea to another, while his strong left hand is often used for repeated motifs that generate a rolling hypnotic power. This couples with strongly consonant harmonies to impart the flavor of gospel music at times, dance musics and Debussy at others. Above all, it's Jarrett's ability to knit all of his moods and wanderings into an almost seamless tapestry of warm and tuneful ideas that gives this music its enduring appeal.

Stuart Broomer

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Peter Gabriel - III (Melt) (1980)

Tracklist:

1. "Intruder" – 4:54
2. "No Self Control" – 3:55
3. "Start" – 1:21
4. "I Don't Remember" – 4:41
5. "Family Snapshot" – 4:28
6. "And Through the Wire" – 5:00
7. "Games Without Frontiers" – 4:06
8. "Not One of Us" – 5:22
9. "Lead a Normal Life" – 4:14
10. "Biko" – 7:32

Generally regarded as Peter Gabriel's finest record, his third eponymous album finds him coming into his own, crafting an album that's artier, stronger, more song-oriented than before. Consider its ominous opener, the controlled menace of "Intruder." He's never found such a scary sound, yet it's a sexy scare, one that is undeniably alluring, and he keeps this going throughout the record. For an album so popular, it's remarkably bleak, chilly, and dark — even radio favorites like "I Don't Remember" and "Games Without Frontiers" are hardly cheerful, spiked with paranoia and suspicion, insulated in introspection. For the first time, Gabriel has found the sound to match his themes, plus the songs to articulate his themes. Each aspect of the album works, feeding off each other, creating a romantically gloomy, appealingly arty masterpiece. It's the kind of record where you remember the details in the production as much as the hooks or the songs, which isn't to say that it's all surface — it's just that the surface means as much as the songs, since it articulates the emotions as well as Gabriel's cubist lyrics and impassioned voice. He wound up having albums that sold more, or generated bigger hits, but this third Peter Gabriel album remains his masterpiece.

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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David Bowie - Low (1977)

Tracklist:

Side A

1. "Speed of Life" – 2:46
2. "Breaking Glass" (Bowie, Dennis Davis, George Murray) – 1:52
3. "What in the World" – 2:23
4. "Sound and Vision" – 3:05
5. "Always Crashing in the Same Car" – 3:33
6. "Be My Wife" – 2:58
7. "A New Career in a New Town" – 2:53

Side B

1. "Warszawa" (Bowie, Brian Eno) – 6:23
2. "Art Decade" – 3:46
3. "Weeping Wall" – 3:28
4. "Subterraneans" – 5:39

"I blew my nose one day and half my brains came out." With these gentle words, David Bowie said farewell to L.A., where he'd spent much of the mid-Seventies buried up to his clavicle in white powder, and fled back to Europe for some personal detox - not to mention some of the most amazing music of his amazing career. Low, released in January 1977, was a new beginning for Bowie, kicking off what is forever revered as his "Berlin trilogy," despite the fact that Low was mostly recorded just outside Paris. Side One consists of seven fragments, some of them manic synth-pop songs, some just chilly atmospherics. Side Two consists of four brooding electronic instrumentals. Both sides glisten with ideas: Listening to Low, you hear Kraftwerk and Neu!, maybe some Ramones, loads of Abba and disco. But Low flows together into a lyrical, hallucinatory, miraculously beautiful whole, the music of an overstimulated mind in an exhausted body, as rock's prettiest sex vampire sashays through some serious emotional wreckage.

Brian Eno gets much of the credit for Low - not only did he play keyboards on six of the eleven tracks and co-write "Warszawa," but you can hear the heavy influence of his own solo records, especially Another Green World. Still, Eno only dreamed about making noise like this, mainly because he never assembled a band anywhere near this great: A big hand, please, for the fuzzed-out guitars of Ricky Gardiner and Carlos Alomar, and the fantastic production of Tony Visconti, who distorted Dennis Davis' snare to create one of rock's all-time most imitated drum sounds. Bowie sings haikulike lyrics about emotional death and rebirth, sometimes hilarious ("Breaking Glass"), sometimes brutally honest, as in the electric-blue loneliness of "Sound and Vision" and "Be My Wife" or the doomed erotic obsession of "Always Crashing in the Same Car."

The record company begged Bowie not to release Low, but it became a surprise hit and holds up today as one of his most intense and influential albums, inspiring two excellent Berlin trilogy sequels, Heroes (1977) and the insanely underrated Lodger (1979). It makes sense that Bowie released Low the week after he turned thirty, for the same reasons it sounds so timely today: Low is the sound of the slinky vagabond falling to earth, trying to catch up with the speed of life - and maybe even find some kind of home there.

by Rob Sheffield

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Kazuhito Yamashita - Wind Color Vector (Takashi Yoshimatsu) (1991)

Tracklist:

1. Guitar Sonata 'Sky color Tensor' Op.52 - Noon
2. Guitar Sonata 'Sky color Tensor' Op.52 - Twilight
3. Guitar Sonata 'Sky color Tensor' Op.52 - Night
4. Guitar Sonata 'Sky color Tensor' Op.52 - Midnight
5. Guitar Sonata 'Sky color Tensor' Op.52 - Dawn
6. Wind color Vector Op.48 - Leeward
7. Wind color Vector Op.48 - Calm
8. Wind color Vector Op.48 - Windward
9. Water color Scalar Op.57 - Prelude
10. Water color Scalar Op.57 - Intermezzo-A
11. Water color Scalar Op.57 - Dance
12. Water color Scalar Op.57 - Intermezzo-B
13. Water color Scalar Op.57 - Rondo
14. 2 Little Pieces - Canticle
15. 2 Little Pieces - Noel
16. Litmus Distance Op.10 - Bedouin in Acid
17. Litmus Distance Op.10 - Bedouin in Alkali

"Wind color Vector", "Water color Scalor", "Sky color Tensor" were composed for Kazuhito Yamashita by Takashi Yoshimatsu as a Trilogy for guitar. These 3 works combine with to make up the overall character of Wind, Sky, Water, in the context of the 5 elements of the universe in Japan, Ground-Water-Fire-Wind-Sky.

Música simplemente hermosa. Evidentemente no todos los asiáticos son pechofríos...


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