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Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet - One Dance Alone
2008-04-11 14:59:00 Track: A Walk in the RainExtract from IODA:In their second release, Horvitz's superb chamber ensemble again improvises wonderfully on his haunting compositions, plus an Elliot Smith cover ("A Fond Farewell"). Horvitz makes albums the old-fashioned way.Personal opinion:Enjoyable jazz track performed in a "original" way. More info about Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet are HERE.Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet "A Walk in the Rain" (mp3) from "One Dance Alone" (Songlines Recordings) More On This Album
By: 60 Were Enough
Gravitas
2008-01-29 23:07:00 I believe Earth came close to some pretty serious devastation this morning. Breakfast tv, usually not very stetching on the old intellect, furnished me with the news that an asteroid as big as a house had just missed our lovely planet by a couple of hundred thousand miles. Oh yes, just um, fifteen minutes ago. While I showered doom lurked not very far away. In the grand scheme of things a couple of hundred thousand miles is close, too close, and though house size asteroids may not sound like much planetarily speaking, I know given its speed etc. that impact would not have been pretty. Not quite dinosaur extinction scale, but a nasty bump for some country or other nonetheless. As the show's guest pointed out a few hours earlier and things might have been different. Then to keep things relatively serious they had a plug for the Horizon documentary on tonight (I'm missing it right now!!!!) about Gravity (with a big 'G'). I don't know about you, but the whole...
Panjat Dinding, ?Tarian Energik? Antigravitasi
2008-01-16 22:11:00 Ketinggian selalu berhasil menarik manusia untuk mencicipinya. Sampai kini, tak ada yang bisa memastikan kenapa posisi tinggi selalu jadi perhatian. Boleh jadi, posisi tinggi memungkinkan manusia untuk melihat kejauhan, untuk melihat lebih luas, atau paling tidak sudut pandang yang berbeda jika berada di atas. Mungkin saja karena kita berasal dari bayi yang merangkak dan perlahan berdiri, menyebabkan kita tetap ingin naik lebih tinggi.Dari merasakan nikmatnya berada di ketinggian itu, manusia merasa ada tantangan dan sensasi yang menyelemuti diri. Rasa penasaran untuk melepas energi ketika berusaha mencapai ketinggian itulah yang selalu dicari. Bermodal keberanian dan usaha yang tak kenal lelah, manusia mencoba melawan gravitasi untuk merasakan kenikmatan ketinggian.Pandangan itu tak perlu jawaban. Itu sudah cukup menjelaskan ketika orang awam berbondong-bondong mencicipi kegiatan panjat dinding, salah satu cabang mendaki gunung. Seni merayapi dinding itu datang menawarkan kenikmata... |
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