Night After Night

Bath Time Lessoning: Kacey Musgraves.

The Girl's continuing journey through music, with The Dad taking notes.

Kacey Musgraves
Pageant Material
(Mercury Nashville; 2015)

If visceral responses at times convey as much as verbal cues, and sometimes more, then tonight's soak, by turns rowdy and mellow, provides further confirmation that Kacey Musgraves is the real thing.

Transcribed Observed Nov. 27, 2015.

Bath Time Lessoning: Yes.

The Girl's continuing journey through music, with The Dad taking notes.

Yes
Relayer
(Atlantic; 1974)

The Girl has basked to Berg, cavorted to Cecil Taylor, and washed to Willie Nelson. So tonight, we went deep.

One-word verdict on Relayer by Yes: "Happy."

Transcribed Nov. 25, 2015.

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The above text was the first post in a series I've been sharing on Facebook for the last year and a half: an ongoing observation of my daughter's responses to music played for her at bath time. At the time, the designated listener was one year and nine months old. (I'm explaining this on August 7, 2017, but I'm also back-dating this post to its proper place in the timeline. Confusing!)

As The Girl's reactions have grown more detailed, sophisticated, and entertaining since this first notice, numerous friends have urged me to compile, preserve, and share these posts. So, here's where it began.

Playlist.

Fórn - Weltschmerz (Gilead Media < Bandcamp; due Dec. 11)

Alessio Bax - Bach, Transcribed (Signum)
> Johann Sebastian Bach - Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor (BWV 1001; arr. Godowsky); "Sheep may safely graze" (from BWV 208; arr. Kempff); Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D - Air (from BWV 1068; arr. Siloti); Violin Partita No. 1 in B minor - Gavotte (from BWV 1002; arr. Saint-Saëns); Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor - Andante (from BWV 1003; arr. Siloti); Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord in E-flat - Siciliano (from BWV 1038; arr. Siloti); "Zion hört die Wächter singen" (from BWV 140; arr. Kempff); "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (from BWV 140; arr. Kempff); Keyboard Concerto in F minor - Largo-Arioso (from BWV 1056; arr. Bax); Cello Suite No. 3 in C - Bourée (from BWV 1009; arr. Godowsky); Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor - Chaconne (from BWV 1004; arr. Busoni)

Gilles Vonsattel - Gilles Vonsattel (Honens)
> Maurice Ravel - Sonatine; Claude Debussy - Images, Books 1 & 2; Heinz Holliger - Elis: Drei Nachtstücke für Klavier; Arthur Honegger - Hommage à Ravel; Maurice Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit

Igor Stravinsky - Pétrouchka; Johannes Brahms - 16 Waltzes (Op. 39); Astor Piazzolla (arr. Bax & Chung) - Tango II; Milonga del Angel; Lo que vendra; Libertango - Bax & Chung Piano Duo (Signum)

Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata in C minor (D. 958); Piano Sonata in A (D. 959); Impromptu in G-flat (D. 899, No. 3) - Inon Barnatan (Avie)

Tim Berne - Snakeoil (ECM)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor (K. 491); Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat (K. 595); Eight Solo Variations on Sarti's "Come un Agnello" (K. 460) - Alessio Bax, Southbank Sinfonia/Simon Over (Signum)

Benjamin Hochman - Variations (Avie)
> Oliver Knussen - Variations (Op. 24); Luciano Berio - Cinque Variazioni; George Benjamin - Meditation on Haydn's Name; Peter Lieberson - Piano Variations; Johannes Brahms - Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel (Op. 24)

Renée Fleming - Poèmes (Decca)
> Maurice Ravel - Shéhérazade; Olivier Messiaen - Poèmes pour Mi; Henri Dutilleux - Deux Sonnets de Jean Cassoux -  Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Alan Gilbert; Henri Dutilleux - Le Temps l'horloge -  Orchestre National de France/Seiji Ozawa

Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Shadow Man (ECM)

Grateful Dead - Fare Thee Well: Soldier Field, Chicago, IL July 5, 2015 (Grateful Dead/Rhino)

Sarah Kirkland Snider - Penelope - Shara Worden, Ensemble Signal/Brad Lubman (New Amsterdam)

Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures (Blue Note)

Giya Kancheli - Nu.Mu.Zu - Seattle Symphony/Ludovic Morlot (Seattle Symphony < Soundcloud)

Various artists - I Am the Center: Private Issue New Age in America, 1950-1990 (Light in the Attic)

Tim Berne's Snakeoil - You've Been Watching Me (ECM)

Günter Schlienz - Contemplation (Preservation)

Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Spare (Screwgun)

David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir - Hearing Solar Winds Alight (Harmonic Presence)

Maria de Alvear - Asking - Eve Egoyan (Mode)

Toru Takemitsu - Asterism; Requiem for Strings; Green; The Dorian Horizon - Yuji Takahashi, Toronto Symphony Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa (RCA Red Seal/ArkivMusic)

Various artists - The New Music, Volume Two (RCA Victrola/ArkivMusic)
> Pierre Boulez - Sonatine for Flute and Piano - Severino Gazzelloni, Frederic Rzewski; Roman Haubenstock-Ramati - Interpolation "Mobile" - Severino Gazzelloni; Bruno Maderna - Concerto for Oboe No. 1 - Lothar Faber, Rome Symphony Orchestra/Bruno Maderna; Luigi Nono - Epitaffio per Federico García Lorca: No 2, Y su sangre ya viene cantando - Severino Gazzelloni, Rome Symphony Orchestra/Bruno Maderna; Luciano Berio - Serenata 1 - Severino Gazzelloni

Hans Abrahamsen - Schnee - Ensemble Recherche (Winter & Winter)

Paul A. Epstein - Drawing No. 5 (Triangles); Drawing No. 3 (Slow Title); Drawing No. 4 (Triangles, Broken Horizontal and Vertical Lines, Rectangles, and Parallelograms); Changes 6; 72: 7/11/13; Changes 3: Palindromes; Landscape with Triads; Drawing No. 6 (Horizontal and Vertical Broken Lines) - R. Andrew Lee (Irritable Hedgehog; available imminently)

Playlist.

King Crimson - Live at the Warfield & Live at Nakano Sun Plaza from Blu-ray 2 (THRAK BOX disc 16) (DGM)

King Crimson - New YorK^c THRAK (THRAK BOX discs 9/10) (DGM)

King Crimson - AzteK^c THRAK (THRAK BOX discs 11/12) (DGM)

Cecil Taylor - Conquistador (Blue Note)

Cradle of Filth - Damnation and a Day (Epic)

Linda Catlin Smith - Thought and Desire - Eve Egoyan (World Edition)
> Nocturnes and Chorales; Thought and Desire; The Underfolding

Motion Sickness 0f Time Travel - Seeping Through the Veil of the Unconscious (Digitalis)

Willie Nelson - Phases and Stages (Atlantic)

Keith Rowe/John Tilbury - enough still not to know (disc two) (Sofa)

Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace (The End)

Enslaved - Mardraum - Beyond the Within (Osmose)

Séverine Ballon - Solitude (Aeon)
> Rebecca Saunders - Solitude; Mauro Lanza - La Bataille de Caresme et de Charnage - Mark Knoop; James Dillon - Parjanya-Vata; Liza Lim - Invisibility; Thierry Blondeau - Blackbird

Yarn/Wire - Yarn/Wire/Currents 3 (Bandcamp; due imminently)
> David Bird - Mediums; Sam Pluta - Seven Systems; Mark Fell - core, self, oscillation

Ailish Tynan & Iain Burnside - Schubert Lieder: Nacht und Träume (Delphian)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Sonata No. 1 in D (Op. 12, No. 1); Violin Sonata No. 9 in A (Op. 47, "Kreutzer") - Arthur Grumiaux, Clara Haskil (Decca)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Sonata No. 1 in D (Op. 12, No. 1); Violin Sonata No. 9 in A (Op. 47, "Kreutzer") - David Oistrakh, Lev Oborin (Decca)

Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract (Osmose)

Enslaved - Monumension (Osmose)

VON - Satanic Blood (VON Records < YouTube)

Sunn O))) - Kannon (Southern Lord; due Dec. 4)

Tormentor - The Seventh Day of Doom (demo < YouTube)

Ramleh - Circular Time (Crucial Blast < Bandcamp)

Swans - The Gate (Young God)

Nick Storring - byland - Eve Egoyan (Soundcloud)

Gilles Vonsattel - Shadowlines (Honens)
> Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in A minor (K. 3); Sonata in A minor (K. 54); Sonata in C (K. 502); Olivier Messiaen - Quatres etudes de rythme: No. 4 Île de feu II; George Benjamin - Shadowlines: Six Canonic Preludes for Piano; Olivier Messiaen - Préludes: Les sons impalpables du rêve; Cloches d'angroisse et larmes d'adieu; Claude Debussy - Préludes, Deuxième livre: Feux d'artifice; Masques; D'un cahier d'esquisses; L'isle joyeuse

Florent Schmitt - Antoine et Cléopâtre - Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Le Palais hanté - Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos)

Marcus Fischer - Public Works (Bandcamp)

Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold - Matthias Goerne, Michelle DeYoung, Kim Begley, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra/Jaap van Zweden (Naxos)

Playlist.

King Crimson - Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 27, 1981 (DGMlive)

Dead & Company - DCU Center, Worcester, MA, Nov. 10, 2016 (Archive.org)

Morgan Evans-Weiler - Violin/Sine (Individual Lines < Bandcamp)

Abbath - Abbath (Season of Mist; due Jan. 22)

Low Estate - Blood Horizon (Bandcamp)

Spylacopa - Parallels (Rising Pulse < Bandcamp)

Enslaved - RIITIIR (Nuclear Blast)

Peter Brötzmann/John Edwards/Steve Noble - Soulfood Available (Clean Feed)

Tony Malaby's TubaCello - Scorpion Eater (Clean Feed)

King Crimson - THRAK (2015 mix) (THRAK BOX disc 5) (DGM)

King Crimson - JurassiK^c THRAK (THRAK BOX disc 1) (DGM)

King Crimson - Maximum VROOOM (THRAK BOX disc 2) (DGM)

Enslaved - In Times (Nuclear Blast)

Tangerine Dream - The Official Bootleg Series, Volume One: Reims Cathedral December 1974 & Mozartsaal, Mannheim October 1976 (Esoteric)

King Crimson - THRAK (2002 remaster) (THRAK BOX disc 3) (DGM)

King Crimson - ATTAK^cATHRAK (The Vicar's THRAK) (THRAK BOX disc 4) (DGM)

King Crimson - Byte Size THRAK (THRAK BOX disc 6) (DGM)

King Crimson - K^censington THRAK (THRAK BOX discs 7/8) (DGM)

Playlist.

Rush - R40 Live (Rounder; due Nov. 20)

Black Sabbath - 13 (Vertigo)

King Crimson - Central Park, New York, NY, July 1, 1974 (The Road to Red 20) (DGM)

Cryptopsy - The Book of Suffering - Tome 1 (Galy < Bandcamp)

High aura'd & Mike Shiflet - Awake (Type)

Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks, Vol. 16: Springfield Civic Center, Springfield, MA March 28, 1973 (Grateful Dead/Rhino)

Nate Wooley Quintet - (Dance to) The Early Music (Clean Feed)

Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes (from the Underground) (Columbia)

Spektral Quartet - Serious Business (Sono Luminus; due Jan. 29)
> Sky Macklay - Many Many Cadences; David Reminick - The Ancestral Mousetrap; Franz Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in E-flat, Op. 33, No. 2 ("The Joke"); Chris Fisher-Lochhead - Hack

Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies (Bandcamp)

Dead & Company - Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, Nov. 1, 2015 (YouTube)

Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat (Century Media)

Dead & Company - Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, Nov. 7, 2015 (YouTube)

Enslaved - Vertebrae (Nuclear Blast)

Sodom - Obsessed by Cruelty (first version) (Metal Blade < YouTube)

Ryoko Akama - senu hima (Melange Edition)
> Jürg Frey - Die meisten Sachen macht man selten; Sarah Hughes - I Love This City and its Outlying Lands (1.2); Antoine Beuger - touw (voor joop); James Saunders - overlay (with transience)

Radu Malfatti - shizuka ni furu ame - Cristián Alvear (B-Boim)

Various artists - Experimental Music Concert (slubmusic/Kenjitzu/l-e)
> Atsushi Yonemoto - Timeless piece; Hisayo Kobayashi - The music having conscious of temperature; Masayuki Takano - Triangle septet live !!; Hirohiko Yamada - snows - i; snows - ii; Mamoru Nakajyo - table 3; Rei Sasaki - scherzo no.1 poly-phony; Toshihisa Hirano - Self-correcting game; Hisayo Kobayashi - a piece for triangles

Keith Rowe/John Tilbury - enough still not to know (disc one) (Sofa)

Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini (Nuclear Blast)

Suffocation - Human Waste (Relapse)

Dead & Company - Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 5, 2015 (Archive.org)

Playlist.

Ariadne - Tsalal (Auris Apothecary < Bandcamp)

:zoviet*france: - Shouting at the Ground (Red Rhino < YouTube)

Grant Evans - Brittle (Helen Scarsdale Agency < Bandcamp)

Skomsvold & Schlienz - Blaue Stunde (SicSic < Bandcamp)

Majeure - Union of Worlds (Constellation Tatsu < Bandcamp)

Tangerine Dream - The Official Bootleg Series, Volume One: Reims Cathedral December 1974 & Mozartsaal, Mannheim October 1976 (Esoteric)

German Army - Tokodede (Tabs Out < Bandcamp)

Michael Pisaro - Mind Is Moving IX - Dennis Sorokin (Intonema < Bandcamp)

Songs - 1 & 2 (Intonema < Bandcamp)
> Rishin Singh - Six Scenes of Boredom; Three Lives

Rapoon - A Pale Blue Door (Soleilmoon)

Celer - Zurich 3/21/13 (Bandcamp)

Toshimaru Nakamura - No-Input Mixing Board (3) (Alcohol < Bandcamp)

Tetuzi Akiyama + Toshimaru Nakamura - Semi-Impressionism (Nature Bliss < Bandcamp)

Bryan Eubanks & Jason Kahn - Drums Saxophone Electronics (Intonema)

Voivod - Dimension Hatröss (Noise)

Saxon - Wheels of Steel (Parlophone)

Rush - R40 Live (Rounder; due Nov. 20)

Kurt Stenzel - Jodorowsky's Dune (Original Score) (Cinewax)

Kevin Drumm - Trouble (Editions Mego < YouTube)

Takahiro Kawaguchi/Utah Kawasaki - Amorphous Spores (Erstwhile)

Kevin Drumm/Jason Lescalleet - Busman's Holiday (Erstwhile)

David S. Ware/Apogee - Birth of a Being (AUM Fidelity; due Nov. 6)

Tetuzi Akiyama - Relator (Slub)

Toshimaru Nakamura - No-Input Mixing Board (Zero Gravity)

Tetuzi Akiyama/Jason Kahn/Utah Kawasaki - Luwa (Rossbin)

Toshimaru Nakamura/Sachiko M - Un (Meme)

Wolf Eyes - Early Vol. 1 (Hanson < Bandcamp)

Cinchel - Live October 7th 2015 (Bandcamp)