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Thread: Album Club, August 2015: Philip Glass – ‘Koyaanisqatsi’

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    Default Album Club, August 2015: Philip Glass – ‘Koyaanisqatsi’

    The Album Club choice for August is something a little different from the usual submissions. This because we have a ‘no show’ from the person who was scheduled to submit a title: we’re not naming names – you know who you are! So we are grateful to Barry for stepping in at the last minute with his choice: ‘Koyaanisqatsi’ by the modern composer Philip Glass.

    As always please listen to the album in its entirety before you vote.



    Philip Glass – ‘Koyaanisqatsi’



    This could well be something of a Marmite choice: you will either love it or hate it. It is quite challenging and far from being easy listening, but you may find you like it and if you don’t, you will find it boring - you might even find it frightening! Anyway, it’s what the Album Club is all about.

    So Koyaanisqatsi, pronounced: Ko-Yaa-Nis-Katsi, is a word from the Hopi language. The Hopi are a mystical native North American tribe and Koyaanisqatsi can be variously translated as: crazy life; life in turmoil; life disintegrating; life out of balance, or a state of life that calls for another way of living.

    Quoting from the sleeve notes:
    This album contains selections from the soundtrack of the motion picture Koyaansiqatsi … a film that, without dialogue or narrative structure, produces a unique and intense look at the super-structure of modern life.

    Koyaanisqatsi lets you experience the acceleration and density of modern society in a new way. It invites you to consider the benevolence of technology and the notion of progress in the world we live in. A world out of balance.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi

    There are six parts to the soundtrack:

    1 Koyaanisquatsi (3:30)
    2 Vessels (8.03)
    3 Cloudscape (4.41)
    4 Pruit Igoe (7:02)
    5 The Grid (14:50)
    6 Prophecies (8:10)

    A translation of the Hopi Prophecies sung in the film are:

    “If we dig precious things from the land we will invite disaster”

    “Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky”

    “A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the ocean”.


    Sounds a bit grim? Well maybe. Perhaps ‘prescient’ might be more accurate and ought to make you think about what we’re doing to the planet; it’s certainly meditative, if not mesmeric.

    Anyway please give it a listen - and listen to the end (however be advised, it lasts 1 hour and 13 minutes). If you last the course and like it, you might want to look at the film of the same name for which this music is the soundtrack.



    CD: Island IMCD 98 (814 042-2), 1983

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    Oh GOD please make it stop

    Its like audio torture , It goes on and on and on and on , Arrrrrr

    Thats a slice of my life gone

    Defiantly a disturbing Marmite Horror for me

    Forgive me father for I have , Arrrr
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    Are we just to listen to the first third?
    The piece makes more sense if you listen to the whole thing.

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    Amazing and mesmerising film. The music is incredible. One of the few 'classical' pieces of music I can listen to over and over again. For anyone who gives up on it, and I would of course urge you not too, go to the last section Prophecies. One of my favourite pieces of music so 10/10 for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Audio Al View Post
    Oh GOD please make it stop

    Its like audio torture , It goes on and on and on and on , Arrrrrr

    Thats a slice of my life gone

    Defiantly a disturbing Marmite Horror for me

    Forgive me father for I have , Arrrr
    Well I did say it was a 'Marmite' choice!

    So not as good a Oleta Adams? How about this: ?
    Barry

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    Oh come on . Really
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    I didn't immediately dislike it but I feld asweep!
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    Voted.
    Sign of a good music that you either love it or hate it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Album Club View Post
    The Album Club choice for August is something a little different from the usual submissions. This because we have a ‘no show’ from the person who was scheduled to submit a title: we’re not naming names – you know who you are! So we are grateful to Barry for stepping in at the last minute with his choice: ‘Koyaanisqatsi’ by the modern composer Philip Glass.

    As always please listen to the album in its entirety before you vote.



    Philip Glass – ‘Koyaanisqatsi’



    This could well be something of a Marmite choice: you will either love it or hate it. It is quite challenging and far from being easy listening, but you may find you like it and if you don’t, you will find it boring - you might even find it frightening! Anyway, it’s what the Album Club is all about.

    So Koyaanisqatsi, pronounced: Ko-Yaa-Nis-Katsi, is a word from the Hopi language. The Hopi are a mystical native North American tribe and Koyaanisqatsi can be variously translated as: crazy life; life in turmoil; life disintegrating; life out of balance, or a state of life that calls for another way of living.

    Quoting from the sleeve notes:
    This album contains selections from the soundtrack of the motion picture Koyaansiqatsi … a film that, without dialogue or narrative structure, produces a unique and intense look at the super-structure of modern life.

    Koyaanisqatsi lets you experience the acceleration and density of modern society in a new way. It invites you to consider the benevolence of technology and the notion of progress in the world we live in. A world out of balance.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi

    There are six parts to the soundtrack:

    1 Koyaanisquatsi (3:30)
    2 Vessels (8.03)
    3 Cloudscape (4.41)
    4 Pruit Igoe (7:02)
    5 The Grid (14:50)
    6 Prophecies (8:10)

    A translation of the Hopi Prophecies sung in the film are:

    “If we dig precious things from the land we will invite disaster”

    “Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky”

    “A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the ocean”.


    Sounds a bit grim? Well maybe. Perhaps ‘prescient’ might be more accurate and ought to make you think about what we’re doing to the planet; it’s certainly meditative, if not mesmeric.

    Anyway please give it a listen - and listen to the end (however be advised, it lasts 1 hour and 13 minutes). If you last the course and like it, you might want to look at the film of the same name for which this music is the soundtrack.



    CD: Island IMCD 98 (814 042-2), 1983
    If one does not own this album, where is the recommended source to purchase it from please?
    [I don't 'watch' you tube, I listen to music]

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