Music and stuff

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:47 -0400

I got a DVD a couple weeks ago of Alexander Markov performing the Paganini 24 caprices for solo violin. I saw this years ago on a bootleg VHS when I was at Peabody, and I blogged about it on Advogato. Apparently there were a number of people who wanted to see it, because I had four or five different people email me since that time asking me how to get the video. Some offered to pay me to make them a copy of the bootleg of the video, but it wasn't mine.

I watched the whole thing, and it's the same one that I saw back then. It's sort of cheesily done, and it looks like the director/editor got some video editing software and wanted to try all the goofy effects out. It's like when you open GIMP for the first time and you think it's a good idea to try to use all the pre-built effects or something. So, the DVD is pretty funny to watch because it's so bad. But Markov's playing is very good, and it's nice to see (when you can actually see.. there's a whole section where they thought it would be a good idea to just shoot his shadow) and hear.

I got my Aluminium CD in the mail. It's sort of an orchestral arrangement (supposedly avant garde, not not really in my opinion) of White Stripes music, which sounds sort of dumb but ended up working pretty well. At least, better than any other orchestral version of rock music I've ever heard. I think they tend to have more tunes than the bands that I have previously heard orchestral arrangements of.

I also ordered a set of CDs of live concerts of The Raconteurs from their UK shows, and I was really looking forward to getting those. Well, it turns out that the package was really poorly sealed or something because it opened up during transit and all the CDs spilled out of it and an empty package was delivered to me. I'm really sort of pissed about that. I contacted the company that sent it, hoping they'll send me another set. I feel like it is sort of their fault for not packaging it very well. I'm not really sure how else to deal with this right now, but I noticed that the shipment was insured.. although not for as much as I paid for it, so that is a little worrying.

Cody Russell - Straight from the GEGL's mouth : music/23

Music and stuff