Musical Discoveries of August

  1. Retrospective: She Belongs to Me (2024). This October Brian Ferry is going to release a 5CD compilation of his work, featuring 81 tracks. Among them is a cover to Bob Dylan’s “She Belongs To Me” which is already available on EP.

  2. I didn’t know until now that most of the songs from Tom Waits’ Blood Money (2000) 💾 were written for Robert Wilson’s opera Woyzeck, based on the play of the same name by Georg Buchner (1837) – one of the most influential and most performed German plays.The opera was premiered at the Betty Nansen Theatre in København, Denmark, in late 2000. It tells the story of a simple man named Woyzeck and how his lover, a colonel, and others conspire to torture and destroy everything that makes sense in his world. Twenty years after I first heard Blood Money, it turned out to be a conceptual album with a narrative that gave me a new perspective on it.

  3. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme is a play composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully in between 1670-1674. Honestly, I don’t remember how exactly I got into researching late baroque music. Most probably I was looking for something more ‘classical’ and less ‘modern’ than Schnittke. This record of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme is perfromed by Le Concert Des Nations in 1999 under direction of Jordi Savall.

  4. I’m convinced that a truly masterpiece soundtrack is one that sounds good on its own, even without reference to the work it’s written for. DOOM Eternal O.S.T. (2016) 💾 by Mick Gordon is one of those kind.

  5. Flight b741 (2024) is the 26th (!) studio album by the one and only King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard – the greatest psychedelic rock band of modern times, if you ask me. In essence, 43 minutes of power blues and high-voltage boogie rock. Listening to each new King Gizzard’s album is a unique experience. Many years from now it will allow you to proudly tell grandchildren and journalists who interview seniors about those good old days when music was great. Hail to the King!

💾 – pieces that I have heard before, but recently rediscovered.

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