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SHOOTER'S DREAM

On and on, fantasy murders your lullaby. © David Kong 2004-2006

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Friday, September 29, 2006

SMF

Twelve CDs for the midnight arousals
Tested to be working...

OST-Mysterious Skin
Manual-Bajamar
Budd/Eno-Ambient2
Thibaudet- Conversations with Bill Evans
Coltrane/Hartman
Krall-Love Scenes
Cocteau Twins-Victorialand
Ono-Dans Mon Ile
The Marsalis-Loved Ones
Budd-Avalon Sutra
Fripp/Eno- The Equatorial Stars
Veloso- A Foreign Sound


12 intimacies


and...just a bit of a treat to complete the SMF cycle:

上汤排骨面

Thursday, September 21, 2006

夏日尽,转眼秋

寂寞

Saturday, September 16, 2006

入夜

点亮了 枝蔓傀儡
烛心
像城堡矗立海涯
而身 如诺言般
苍老
守着一湖 不可逆转的泪

风一阵阵
无心的吹
无心的体谅
无心的将我肢解 麻醉
梦半 无息
叹只划过夜空
却让海涯泪的躯壳
激烬
成灰

————于子夜近二时,激烬而作

Friday, September 15, 2006

陈小霞+李子恒


终于等到
我一直认为的
流行音乐
两位旋律大师
同 台


曲 目
李子恆

一個人
我是個很容易掏心的人

情難枕



紅蜻蜓


叫你一聲MY LOVE


蝴蝶飛呀!





秋蟬


細說往事


星星知我心




風雨無阻

蕃薯情

有空來坐坐


張弘毅

  



隨風而逝
愛上別離


從來不肯對你說
希望之鴿
玫瑰人生


   陳小霞





誰的眼淚在飛
你看你看月亮的臉
白天的星星




十年
斷線
回來
約定


不告而別


魁儡尪仔
祝我幸福
暗舞
十三歲半
溫柔的慈悲
有一天我會(組曲)






终曲

最後的溫柔




牽手


Thursday, September 14, 2006

for a film, any film

train of thoughts, written/piano-DK.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

TRACK 2

FEEL SO DIFFERENT
(written by Sinead O'Connor)

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change
Courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference


I am not like I was before
I thought that nothing would change me
I was not listening anymore
Still you continued to affect me

I was not thinking anymore
Although I said I still was
I'd said "I don't want anymore"
Because of bad experience

But now I feel so different
I feel so different
I feel so different

I have not seen freedom before
And I did not expect to
Don't let me forget now I'm here
Help me to help you to behold you

I started off with many friends
And we spent a long time talking
I thought they meant every word they said
But like everyone else they were stalling

And now they seem so different
They seem so different
They seem so different

I should have hatred for you
But I do not have any
And I have always loved you
Oh you have taught me plenty

The whole time I'd never seen
All you had spread before me
The whole time I'd never seen
All I'd need was inside me

Now I feel so different
I feel so different
I feel so different

I feel so different
I feel so different

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

TWO QUOTES ABOUT "Mythologies"

Patricia Barber offers a song-by-song description of the album:

• “The Moon” actually predates my getting the Guggenheim Fellowship [the song opens Barber’s 2002 release Verse]. “I am fascinated with the moon, how writers have written about the moon, and how poets have been moonstruck. I started reading everything I could get my hands on about the moon. I asked colleagues of my partner, who is a professor at the University of Chicago, to send me moon poetry. I thought perhaps I had a new angle on the subject, but wanted to make sure. The Moon, as character here, is a performer, broken-hearted, but she still has to dress up and step onto the universal stage every night. If she doesn’t, it stays dark down here and all Chaos will ensue. This is her dilemma.”

• “Morpheus” is very dear to me because I have sleep issues, bad insomnia. It’s a prayer to the God of Sleep to send his son, Morpheus, the God of Dreams. It is one of my favorite songs of the entire song cycle.

• “Pygmalion” is very much in a classic American song form, written in that 32-bar style. There are a few harmonic variations and of course, what a wonderful story, how he waits for this cold piece of rock, this statue of a woman to come to life. That was easy for me to generalize to the universal question: “Can I will you to love me? Can I will the fantasy to life?”

• “Hunger” is one of Ovid’s fun characters. When I was reading about Hunger I was just dying imagining all the possibilities. She’s such an ugly character, thin and voracious and mean with greenish skin. In our society it’s chic to be thin so I had the idea to simply turn the story on its head and I made Hunger chic and glamorous and mean. It’s dark but it’s funny. It has one of my favorite lines of the entire song cycle: “Now the Hunter is prey and the Hungry are meat...”

• “Icarus”, in my version, doesn’t crash. He just keeps flying up until you can’t see him anymore. I grafted the Nina Simone story onto the Icarus story and dedicated the song to her. It starts with Daedalus, Icarus’s father, crafting the wings. The second verse is about Nina at the Midtown club outside of Philadelphia in her chiffon dress. They both know that only by taking a big risk will you ever fly.

• “Orpheus”, as I wrote it, is an actual sonnet. It is based on one of the most beautiful stories every written. He was a musician appealing to Hades to let his love, Eurydice live again. I tried to find a contemporary angle – so my modern day Orpheus is a gardener. This is a sad, sad song.

• “Persephone” is fun, fun, fun – she’s such a wonderful character. There wasn’t quite enough in Ovid about her. She’s in Book Five – abducted by Hades and taken to the underworld and then in Book Ten as one of the judges of Orpheus’s plea. So I went back to Homer, the origin of the written story of Persephone, and I read Dante because I was curious about Hell. I seized poetic license and created a story in which Persephone ends up liking her power down there. She is the only god who can traverse the upper- and underworlds. She becomes Virgil leading an angel through hell, trying to corrupt her as she is showing signs of weakness. She will use anything at her disposal to get what she wants. It’s a song of seduction.

• “Narcissus” – I had notes written down that this would be one of my “smart” songs because of the obvious double-entendre possibilities. Then I started reading secondary literature about Narcissus and it was very interesting – it was slightly moralistic in its judgment of the danger of “Narcissistic” love as being homosexual. Being gay myself, I thought, why not embrace that idea? If homosexual love is Narcissistic, and you don’t know whether you’re making love to yourself or to the other, how much fun is that? That’s what it’s about and it turned out to be a very sweet, simple, lyrical, beautiful song, with a musical twist in that it’s in a time-signature of 10/4. It could be the gay wedding song.

• “Whiteworld” was the first song I wrote after I won the Guggenheim [the song appears on Barber’s 2004 release Live: A Fortnight In France]. It’s the only song that isn’t titled with a character – it’s about Oedipus. He was clearly a young, arrogant man who killed his father. I read the Sophocles version of the story: “I came to a juncture of two roads” – the bridge of the song is actually Sophocles verbatim. There, an old man hit him. He not only hit him back but he “had to kill them all.” Given historical and current events, the song wrote itself.

• “Phaethon” also wrote itself and is about another arrogant young man – he thinks he can drive his father’s chariot – the chariot of the Sun. But he can’t – he doesn’t have the skill or the maturity so he ends up scorching the earth until there are very few species left. At the end of the story Mother Earth pleads with Zeus to kill Phaethon before every single last species is dead, which he does. It has a lot of obvious modern-day parallels. I asked some wonderful kids from the Chicago Children’s Choir to rap a list of endangered species over the final section of the song.

• “The Hours” are two Goddesses in Ovid. They are everywhere, watching. They simply watch us as we squirm and scream out in pain and they do nothing but mark time. They never lift a finger. So the song is railing against their callousness, and it is an homage to human courage in the face of Death. I read the writing of Primo Levi, an Auschwitz survivor, to try to understand what it feels like knowing death is coming soon. I also consulted my doctor, who took me through the University of Chicago hospitals and talked to me about life and death. It gave me some purchase on the subject. I had to have my favorite choir, Choral Thunder, sing it. If this song doesn’t bring tears to your eyes, nothing will.

“The Hours” is very dear to me – it’s about time, life and death. But it’s also about life as a performance, or more accurately, a performer, writing about our life as a performance. Mythologies starts with a recording of a small tape recorded solo piano performance, the introduction to “The Moon.” It is a distancing technique; it is there to remind you that this story is being told by a performer and that we’re all performers on the universal stage. “The Hours” acts as a matching bookend to “The Moon,” and says, “this performance [is], in fact, last, and sweetly in vain, so let me entertain you one more time.”




CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Barber's `Mythologies' breaks ground

August 13, 2006
By Howard Reich

Twenty years ago she was a fledgling lounge singer, dispatching vintage tunes amid the din of conversation at the long-shuttered Gold Star Sardine Bar, on North Lake Shore Drive.

Today, she stands among the most respected singer-pianists in jazz, a blossoming composer set to release the boldest and most substantial work of her career.

When Patricia Barber's "Mythologies" (Blue Note Records) appears in stores on Tuesday, listeners will hear a piece of music with no apparent model in jazz of the 20th Century (or the 21st). For though classically tinged jazz suites date back to at least Duke Ellington's "Black, Brown and Beige" (1943) and extend to epic works such as Charles Mingus' posthumously premiered "Epitaph" (1989) and Wynton Marsalis' Pulitzer Prize-winning "Blood on the Fields" (1997), "Mythologies" stands apart from such behemoths.

Diversity and coherency

For starters, it's an intimate, Schubertian song-cycle based on Greek mythology, as re-examined by an ancient Roman poet (of all things). Moreover, it pushes at the outskirts of widely accepted definitions of jazz, in that it encompasses a pop sensibility at one moment, classical expression the next and passages of hip-hop verse and triumphal choral writing, to boot.

Yet these far-flung expressions cohere surprisingly well in this suite -- just as they did when Barber performed the world premiere of excerpts of the work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in January. The alluring liquidity of Barber's vocals and the chic understatement of her pianism give the music its continuity, while the high craft of her lyrics bring it focus and purpose.

But the artistic heights to which Barber aspires in "Mythologies" may make this release more endearing to serious listeners than to the vast commercial audience, which has made icons of far lesser talents, such as Norah Jones, Diana Krall and Jane Monheit. While these artists have triumphed commercially by reviving role models of the distant past -- particularly the seductive, purring chanteuse of the 1940s and '50s -- Barber has ventured into fresher territory. To her, the female singer-pianist is not necessarily an object of nostalgia and romance but a contemporary thinker with intellectual firepower to burn.

Inspired by another innovative Chicagoan, the theater director Mary Zimmerman, Barber chose as inspiration Ovid's "Metamorphoses," which was the fulcrum of Zimmerman's celebrated stage play of the same name for Lookingglass Theatre, in 1998. Because a jazz composer-pianist does not have actors, dialogue and scenic design at her disposal, Barber has come to grips with Ovid's vast retelling of Greek mythology by crafting her songs as character sketches of particular gods or goddesses.

This conceit has enabled her to bring a jazz sensibility to a remote field of literature, yet she also has managed to transcend the source material.

In "Icarus," for instance, Barber predictably captures the heroic sweep of the young man's famous flight with surging rhythms and soaring melody lines. Yet she traverses beyond the celebrated narrative, as well, singing a verse that alludes to Nina Simone's earliest days as a struggling jazz singer. In so doing, Barber reminds us that great artists, too, take perilous risks in order to fly. Like all of Barber's writing in this suite, the Simone references prove subtle and hauntingly poetic.

In "Narcissus," Barber avoids the obvious theme of self-adoration and dares to explore, instead, the mirror-image qualities of homosexual love. And in "Pygmalion," she turns the heady yearning of an artist smitten with a cold-stone creation into an exploration of unrequited love.

Insomnia to gluttony

Musically, "Mythologies" covers a vast expressive range, from the brooding, late-night blues of "Morpheus" (in which an insomniac protagonist yearns for sleep) to the wicked, snarling satire of "Hunger" (an ode to gluttony); from the dirgelike gloom of "Orpheus" (who grieves the loss of Eurydice) to the glorious, redemptive choral passages of the finale, "The Hours."

Made possible by a Guggenheim Fellowship, which afforded Barber the time to research and create the magnum opus, "Mythologies" bears few similarities to her earlier work -- except that it represents the further development of her gifts as songwriter, which came to the fore in the aptly named CD "Verse" (of 2002).

Given the nature of any jazz musician's career, which requires a great deal of performance in order to stay solvent, it may be a long time before Barber again can find the time and means to devote to a work of comparable import.

Which makes "Mythologies" all the more valuable.

Sunday, September 10, 2006

每天都有新遗憾



小林来过了。心里那个梦…………………………

9月9号,在Lake Tahoe。我七月才拜访过的地方。又是擦肩而过。
不过,白昼的演出,效果很难到达“夜色无边”的景致吧。


傍晚,突然做起怀旧事。吃了晚饭,收拾好客厅,戴上大耳机和CDplayer,走到户外,开始放久违的“雪在烧”。硕哥为我唯一特制的这张碟,有着无可挑剔的靓声,我就在无比熟悉的声音里,伴着脚下的风,想象从北京到沈阳,从未名湖到西站的种种心情。在Tracy和曹俊鸿托出的一爿画廊里,我让自己走失,忘却眼下的一切恩怨是非。

42分43秒以后,我回到家里,像是走不出电影的画面一般,怔怔的停下手里的一切,放了热水,点了蜡烛,关了灯,用比平时高过10分贝的音量播放ZP的“亡友安魂曲”,让水温把身体里的一切杂念驱除。在熹微的光亮中,在赤裸的放逐后,在给自己宗教一般的圣洁仪式里,我的夜色也漫散开来了……

DKPB

早晨刚刚听到密斯帖发来的Diana Krall,
在床上跟着Come Dance With Me翻腾的不行,
已经期待到极点了,
傍晚又看到Patricia Barber居然又默默的发了新片!
想起两年前也是不期而遇的Live专辑,
慨叹Blue Note投在宣传上的力度,
再为这样“伯乐级”的作品感到微微得意。
AMG给了4星半,Amazon上两篇衷言推荐,我的腿已经生了风,
虽然TOWER给的答复是the closest store that carries it is in San Francisco,
我还是凭借这些年对唱片行的了解程度找到了对的店,当晚拿到了新碟。

听到,真是酒一般的威力。而且,PB这次全数创作+制作,实在是牛大发了。


















去官网查,居然PB10月6,7两天在Long Beach的VAULT有现场。
中秋夜?

9月30-10月2在Downtown WDCH的马勒三
10月6-7在LB的Patricia Barber
10月11在Sunset的Porcupine Tree

……………………从古典到爵士到摇滚,最爱一个个的走马灯,
我的死结啊~~~~~
為什麼 總要到殘缺
 才懷念 相對的完全 發現愛總不對 時間

Saturday, September 09, 2006

AND SO IT GOES

And So It Goes

And So It Goes...written by Billy Joel

And So It Goes...

Thursday, September 07, 2006

从ESCAPE到今天

5years

2001年,9月7号。NW5983。ESCAPE。LAX。
起伏归零,一切蕴藉着动力前行。
继续着,脚上泥土的多寡,和脸上微笑的弧度。

Will you remember me? And will you smile?
Perhaps you'll stop a while to wonder where I am...
and if someday you'll find I'm always on your mind
I'll be right here with the love you left behind...

我和自己的对话,从踏上这块土地起,从未停止。
继续。且行且珍惜。
远方。放你在心里。

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

聽歌的人


作詞:許常德 作曲:陳小霞 

今夜風淡薄仔寒 讓我想起過去傷心的一段
吉他在我的手 輕輕在彈
歌還抹唱 心就淡薄仔痛

#恁有人喝酒 有人靜靜吃煙聽我唱
 恁有人孤單 有的一桌幾落仔朋友
 無論聽歌的人有幾個 我攏會唱出恁的夢

#今夜請恁把心情輕輕哪放 讓我的歌載恁出帆
 人生啊若大海 有啥風浪想抹完
 心情若是起風颱 目睭閉閉只是夢
 所以啊 聽歌的人 請你不倘問我 傷心是為啥人
 所以啊 聽歌的人 請你不倘問我 我所唱的敢是我的夢



今夜風淡薄仔寒 讓我想起過去傷心的一段
吉他在我的手 輕輕在彈

Sunday, September 03, 2006

从七点切到七点四十

四季豆丝皮蛋豆腐

长这么大,一直都吃母亲炒的四季豆丝
今天第一次自己做,做出汗了
一斤左右的四季豆居然让我切了四十分钟
站在案板前,开始是完全没预料要这么久的
况且切的又不匀……

等到弄好晚餐(再次强调,并没有一次吃完……)
也真是累了(这一天过的),吃的很开心,
不像以往自己做好了菜都没兴趣品尝。
电视里,头发歪一边的学友叔叔动情的唱着“她来听我的演唱会”
好温馨的叙事歌曲!让我想起零二年在南加州演出的经历
戴棒球帽唱这首歌的男孩,你还好吧?

切好了又是一盆西瓜,放上蔡琴“时间的河”,告诉自己
没有什么发生
也没有发生什么
……………………
真是吃饱了撑的

光和水

生命里的两个要素。


光

每个早晨,在阳光与百叶窗形成的平行线间,醒来。
曾经一次,误以为那是铁窗。



水

一到夏天,这种景象会出现每天至少一次。
突然想起“天边一多云”……
无独有偶,叉的锋利,也存在于平行之中。


好,我们来讨论平行线。
把这首歌完整的唱完,算是我对平行的诠释之一。
能真的让平行扭曲,让永恒骤灭的,或许只有死亡了。
真的,真的,很怕这歌词里带来的杀机。虽然也许世上只有我是如此的理解。

录完以后,数数加起来的十二轨,算算时间也超过六十分了,
突然,有种“本能I”里莎朗斯通完成她的新书时脸上的玄妙表情。
……书写完,人也该死了。
可这不是电影的结局。
可是电影的结局不是人生的结局。
可是人生不一定有结局。
人还是要死的。因为平行线注定要有交点。

平行线讨论完毕。歌在这里--TILL DEATH

Friday, September 01, 2006

凉啊凉

来点真正的色诱吧~! IMG_4263