Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium

I've finally managed to (mostly) exhaust all the Bach two hand keyboard works, the concertos, the unaccompanied solo violin, cello and lute works, Kunst der Fuge, and I'm not ready yet for the cantatas, motets or other sacred vocal works, so it's onto the secular organ works.

Mrs. Geiginni isn't greatly thrilled, but I'm really enjoying well-recorded Renaissance-thru-Classical era pipe organ. The first great additive synthesizers. Still far better than a goddamn DX-7, amirite?

Geiginni wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:50 am I've finally managed to (mostly) exhaust all the Bach two hand keyboard works, the concertos, the unaccompanied solo violin, cello and lute works, Kunst der Fuge, and I'm not ready yet for the cantatas, motets or other sacred vocal works, so it's onto the secular organ works.

Congrats! My brother is going through a similar exercise and, wow does it seem like a lot of work!

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Magma - MDK.

So late to Magma. Amazing.

Adam_I_III wrote: Magma - MDK.

So late to Magma. Amazing.

Have you explored later John Coltrane yet? Coltrane is a major influence on Christian Vander/Magma.

MDK reminds me a lot of Orff's Trionfi cantatas, although Vander claims he was not even familiar with, let alone influenced by Orff.

Leeplusplus wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 12:40 pm

Geiginni wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:50 am I've finally managed to (mostly) exhaust all the Bach two hand keyboard works, the concertos, the unaccompanied solo violin, cello and lute works, Kunst der Fuge, and I'm not ready yet for the cantatas, motets or other sacred vocal works, so it's onto the secular organ works.

Congrats! My brother is going through a similar exercise and, wow does it seem like a lot of work!

Something this enjoyable is pretty far from feeling like "work", but it does take a bit of concentration sometimes to really pick out the voices and follow each within the fugal development sections and not just let it all blur into background sounds.

Geiginni wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 1:57 pm

Adam_I_III wrote: Magma - MDK.

So late to Magma. Amazing.

Have you explored later John Coltrane yet? Coltrane is a major influence on Christian Vander/Magma.

MDK reminds me a lot of Orff's Trionfi cantatas, although Vander claims he was not even familiar with, let alone influenced by Orff.

Fabulous! I will investigate; thanks so much!

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Adam_I_III wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 4:10 pm

Geiginni wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 1:57 pm

Adam_I_III wrote: Magma - MDK.

So late to Magma. Amazing.

Have you explored later John Coltrane yet? Coltrane is a major influence on Christian Vander/Magma.

MDK reminds me a lot of Orff's Trionfi cantatas, although Vander claims he was not even familiar with, let alone influenced by Orff.

Fabulous! I will investigate; thanks so much!

You're welcome.
I'd start with "A Love Supreme" and also the "Africa/Brass" and "Ascension". Vander was really into that hyper-spiritual stuff Coltrane was doing, and it shows in some of the other Magma stuff from earlier and later than MDK - tracks like Malaria on Kobaia and Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré.

Carmina Burana is, of course, the go-to for Orff. It's great stuff, especially once you get past the O Fortuna, Hollywood mega-drama track everyone's heard too many times. The combination of song-structure repetition, the medieval texts sung in latin and middle-high German, and the huge 20th century instrumentation and orchestration in the style of post-Ravel grandiosity that was popular in fascist lands during that period (such as Respighi in Italy) makes for some powerful listening. Once you've heard it you'll wonder how Vander could NOT have based the style of MDK on it.

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