DG’s zero-rated release
OrchestrasAnd that’s just the press release:
The Dutch composer and pianist Joep Beving, whose music, streamed many hundreds of millions of times, releases the ZERO EP. It offers four brand-new remixes of Hanging D – taken from his second album, 2017’s Prehension – by Max Cooper, Polynation, Afrodeutsche and Alva Noto. For the occasion Cooper has teamed up with Polish artist Ksawery Komputery to provide a video to accompany his interpretation. In addition, each track is accompanied by artwork by award-winning Australian artist and designer Jonathan Zawada, who has consolidated the four images for the main EP cover.
Don’t shoot us. We’re just the messenger.
Shoot the messenger for what?!? . . . I didn’t understand any of that. They may as well been talking about what pipe fittings and plumbing fixtures they had in stock, somewhere in the back of the warehouse.
I first thought the “messenger” was referring to the premiere of John Williams’ Violin Concerto No. 2 at Tanglewood.
‘Beving’ means: a trembling.
No wonder it has to be touched-up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m184G_5Mj4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghIiUJviN6w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg0RyjaKXo0
What fresh hell is this?
I checked the DG site to see what’s that thing. My impession is that it is just a Phil Glass wannabe. But I made an interesting observation – a set of re-issues annonced as ‘Commemorating Herbert von Karajan 32 years after his passing’. The desperation is evident. RIP DG.
I’d rather listen to Tenacious D.