"Blue" Gene Tyranny/ Lovely Music, Ltd

[holyzombiejesus]

I've listened to my Townes Van Zandt compilation now and have moved on to another hot new release, Out of The Blue by "B"GT. I really like 3/4 of it and utterly despise 'David Kopay (Portrait)' (a piece of music which might well be the most foul thing in my entire record collection). It's worth having it just because the other 3 tracks are so good though, especially Leading A Double Life. I only bought the album because LADL was playing in my local after our last Labour CLP meeting and it sounded so great. Makes me imagine what Josephine Foster would be like if she sang in a church. Anyway, any thoughts on this man or the other artists on the label? Wiki only has sketchy details about the man and it classes his music as experimental, which doesn;t really match up with what I'm listening to.

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Leading A Double Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAadzyFS6go

[chveik]

a piece of music which might well be the most foul thing in my entire record collection

yeah this one's quite bad but I'm sure we can find worse. give us a list of your entire record collection please

it's a good label, I'd recommend Robert Ashley's Private Parts (Blue Gene plays on this one), two great spoken word monologues accompanied by a low-key ambient instrumentation with tablas and Blue Gene playing piano & synths. there's also Pauline Oliveiros' first recording, Accordion & Voice, two lovely drone pieces.

[pupshaw]

The Robert Ashley connection, specifically the Perfect Lives opera is what introduced me to his music.
He's in it and you can see him play.

Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xza2GCF74lo
Part 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa74fkg4Adc

I love all of it but if you want some concentrated Blue, skip to here or here

[jobotic]

Never heard of him, thank you. The first track is a great song (but lose the sax solo).

Annea Lockwood's field recordings are really good.

I was going to recommend Lucier's Orchestral Works. The first piece gives the I'm Sitting in a Room treatment to an orchestra playing fragments of Beethoven and I think it works brilliantly.

It's not on Lovely though.

https://youtu.be/foQaPpXBliY

[Sin Agog]

I don't mind David Kopay...

Mentioned Blue Gene a few times before.  Last was me moistening my knickers over the side-long track at the end of Out of the Blue.

"My favourite is this track by a modern classical composer called Blue Gene Tyranny from the '70s: it sounds like a lovely, rheumy, over-ambitious early '90s indie movie turned into music via a weird melange of synths, adult pop, apallachia and field recordings.  It features a lass reading a letter that gets progressively more metaphysical, until it cracks open the very seams of reality.  Before I nailed this meditation business, I'd play this to clear the detritus from my brain, and it mostly worked. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Z-Se_K6Ek"