At 3:04 PM -0800 12/10/02, Gregoire Hamon wrote:
I don't see any Zorn stuff... definitively not Painkiller...
Curiously, depending on the stress I'm under, I can find that Painkiller and Naked City with Eye *do* help me relax. (I guess it's like, "Hey--someone understands!") I've actually been listening to NC a lot lately, although I loaned _Execution Ground_ to my drummer, so I'm kinda missing that right now. At the moment, it's the Pavement _Slanted & Enchanted_ reissue. For going the opposite way--say, relaxing with the feeling of being comforted--I'll turn to La Monte Young's _Well Tuned Piano_, Charlie Haden and Hampton Hawes's _As Long As There's Music_. A local promoter just gave me Thomas Köner's Kaamos, which is dark ambient bordering on lowercase that I find very, very relaxing. It may not be meant that way, but it does it for me. This is the first Köner I've heard, and it's really good--any other recommendations, folks? Otherwise, some Tortoise works for me, Nick Drake, the Dirty Three, Polvo...but also keep in mind that I'm the guy who relaxes to Painkiller. -- Maurice Rickard http://mauricerickard.com/