From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V12 #52 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Saturday, May 1 2010 Volume 12 : Number 052 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Roedelius/Kraftwerk Box ["Cambra, Robert" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:55:40 -0700 From: "Cambra, Robert" Subject: [idealcopy] Roedelius/Kraftwerk Box This talk of Neu! and box sets reminds me, I do have a couple things to report from when I was in a six week Ideal Copy blackout around the turn of the year. On December third I had my second opportunity to see Hans-Joachim Roedelius and it turned out to be an unexpectedly intimate performance. He was collaborating with and supporting pianist Alessandra Celletti. The first half of the performance was Celletti on piano, playing her own pieces mostly and a few by others, including Satie. Lots of pretty arpeggiated stuff. The second half was Roedelius and Celletti changing off on piano and electronics and the set list, I later found out, was the album they had done together. This was wonderful!: delicate and precise-Roedelius often sticking to just a few keys in the middle of the piano-and spacious, intricate. The last piece was "By this River" from "Before and After Science," and Roedelius sang it this time, recited it really, with even more of a sense of loss and melancholy than I knew was in this song. (While picking up the reissue of the Harmonia and Eno album in a record store two months earlier, coincidentally, I noticed the store was selling tickets and got one. The venue was a little theatre I'd never heard of at Pier 39 [the local waterfront tourist trap]. There were only about thirty people in the audience. Seems the promoters didn't really know what they were doing, even for a five city world tour. It was an odd evening, Thursday night, bundling up, walking down the hill to the waterfront, getting to see the hugely important Roedelius in a close setting, then back up the hill in the fog.) And I'm loving the Kraftwerk box (got the German edition). It's really stunning. I listenined to the albums in order over four days. I hadn't listened to the earlier ones, which of course show show the most improvement in sound, in there entirety in years. I'd forgotten how many lesser known gems there are on "Radio-Activity." It was interesting getting to "Spacelab" and noticing: ah, here in the first time the sound appears that Georgio Moroder based his career on. Recommended, play it loud. Robert (another) ****************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This E-Mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this communication in error, please do not distribute and delete the original message. Please notify the sender by E-Mail at the address shown. Thank you for your compliance. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:13:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] P.Furs tour http://www.burneddowndays.com/furs/tour-dates ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V12 #52 *******************************