musically asiding
Feb. 2nd, 2010 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
A few posts ago I mentioned that these days I'm listening to classical music almost to the exclusion of all other forms.
This evening, on the other hand . . .
I looked to one side and there was my copy of Vienna Teng's Inland Territory. A couple of its tracks are inarguably pop/rock, but most of the rest are in that area where borderlines haze. I popped the CD onto the player, and it's now disturbing the neighbours . . . which is saying something, as the nearest neighbours are about two hundred yards away.
Yes, I was right.
This is the best new CD I've heard in the past couple of years.
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Date: 2010-02-03 05:43 pm (UTC)I had a chance to perform "Harbor" a few months back, which gave me even more appreciation than I already had for just how challenging some of Teng's music is. Though in comparison to what my poor accompanist's fingers had to do, I got off easy with the vocals!
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Date: 2010-02-03 10:19 pm (UTC)There was a cello player
Sounds like it must have been the same tour, because he was with them at the gig we went to.
just how challenging some of Teng's music is
I can imagine!
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Date: 2010-03-17 12:11 pm (UTC)Oo, and look what I've just discovered. A nicely recorded Teng concert from a few years back, streamable at http://www.folkalley.com/music/livefrom/vienna_teng/
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Date: 2010-03-17 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-17 04:10 pm (UTC)Glad to've bin of service!