WEEK OF 080714: RV PAINTINGS // LISZT
RV Paintings: Trinity Rivers
Back to some good space drone. This is a side-project of the Starving Weirdos, who make incredible cricket summer night hot heat drone artifacts, but RV Paintings is more full and velvety, with overt loops and tinkling and shimmer. This is really quite good, and is getting better as the week progresses. Good for sleeping or studying or walking or thinking.
Liszt: Transcendental Etudes (S.139)
These piano pieces are supposedly some of the most difficult pieces of music to play. While how it makes one feel is arguably the most important aspect of a piece of music, such radicalism seems like it might be able to offer something that cannot be found elsewhere. I've always, all my life, been in favor of esoterica and the deviation from the norm -- the jewels that are rare and irreproducible. These pieces have their moments, but they don't evoke as much as some of the Hungarian Rhapsodies had done for me. I'm sure Liszt has some other incendiary pieces, but I wouldn't say these etudes are such. I'd love to hear someone re-interpret these pieces for some other instrument. No, not transcribe, reinterpret. Or maybe flesh out with multiple instruments. They are very colorful, indeed.