Music recs
Aug. 12th, 2011 04:44 pmMore Arvo Pärt!
The entire Berliner Messe is lovely, but my favorite movement is undoubtedly the Credo. It's just...I don't even know. Joyful, but in a relatively quiet way.
Variations for the Healing of Arinushka. A simple, but terribly effective, solo piano composition. (I kind of want to make a Fringe vid to it. A really melancholy one.)
In the non-classical genre, another song by Karine Polwart: Follow the Heron.
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I got Stalking the Wild Asparagus out of the library yesterday, thinking, "Wild foods! New and interesting tastes! All for free!" Annnnnd then I realized exactly why ancient humans developed farming and modern ones came up with grocery stores, as well as why our staple foods are the ones they are. It takes hours of boiling and leeching, for example, just to get acorns to a state where you can grind them into meal, which you then bake. Apparently you have to cook everything to death to make it edible, and then you can actually prepare a dish out of it. So much easier to just bite into an apple.
The entire Berliner Messe is lovely, but my favorite movement is undoubtedly the Credo. It's just...I don't even know. Joyful, but in a relatively quiet way.
Variations for the Healing of Arinushka. A simple, but terribly effective, solo piano composition. (I kind of want to make a Fringe vid to it. A really melancholy one.)
In the non-classical genre, another song by Karine Polwart: Follow the Heron.
*
I got Stalking the Wild Asparagus out of the library yesterday, thinking, "Wild foods! New and interesting tastes! All for free!" Annnnnd then I realized exactly why ancient humans developed farming and modern ones came up with grocery stores, as well as why our staple foods are the ones they are. It takes hours of boiling and leeching, for example, just to get acorns to a state where you can grind them into meal, which you then bake. Apparently you have to cook everything to death to make it edible, and then you can actually prepare a dish out of it. So much easier to just bite into an apple.