There's a direct line from this (written in 1888) to the sort of thing Bill Evans was playing in the 1960s and even on to, as I was thinking when I played it last night, 'Nightporter' by Japan which only goes to show that like the man said, 'It's all just music' (and it's all just lovely).
Reinbert De Leeuw - Erik Satie: 'Gnossiennes - No 1 (Lent)' (1995)
I think you can pull that line through Talk Talk's beautiful Laughing Stock album and on through people like Sigur Ros as well. Dreamy!
ReplyDeleteHeh, work's firewall isn't blocking the behind the scenes of Blogger anymore!! Another way to kill time until hometime returned!
ReplyDeletei'm very keen on magpies as it goes. and crows. i throw cheese out of our skylight onto next doors roof for them and they clatter about like they've got bovver boots on. very clever they are and all apparently. i wasn't allowed to like japan though cos they were my sisters favourites.
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Satie was a cool name to drop in the early 80s and a gift to keyboard players of the time who only had to string together a few spaced out chords and call it Satiesque. This sort of thing cropped up a lot on b-sides.
ReplyDelete*sigh* Isn't it time you went out into a blizzard for 'more wine'?
ReplyDeleteOo-er - I think my comment read more cynical than it was written
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ReplyDeleteThe big boys made me do it.
ReplyDeleteI jumped on the Satie bandwagon earlier than most because Bill Nelson's heroes were Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau. Another name to drop. You've seen La Belle et La Bete, of course.
ReplyDeleteYes, but the beer is cheaper in The Rose, I find.
ReplyDelete*sigh* Isn't it time you went out into a blizzard for 'cheap beer'?
ReplyDeleteI love it when things go full circle.
Very Satie-esque, the rondo.
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