This is so not ok........................

From Ryko New Release Sheet:

Reed, Lou
Hudson River Wind Meditations

A Grammy winner and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Lou Reed is considered a pioneer in experimental music. This is his first album for relaxation and contemplative activity.

A practitioner of Yoga and Tai Chi for many years, Lou Reed brings his unique sensitivity and knowledge of a broad spectrum of music genres to provide a tranquil bed of soothing harmonics that open the heart and settle the mind. The pieces on this hypnotic album will wash away tension and negative energy with sparse instrumentation and subtle waves of electronic sound.

I'll get this. Of course if it said:

Reed, Lou
Who's Who, Lou Reed Composes Songs for the Phone Book
For years Lou Reed has lamented the lack of a cutting edge means of finding a good plumber. Lou, a long-time user of the Yellow Pages let's us into his mind as he searches for goods and services.

I would get it.

Metal Machine Music does this for me already.

You've got a certain point there........

It has nothing to do with this post, but I just can't resist the choco-bunny!!!

Lou made three of the greatest albums of his career with "New York', "Songs For Drella" and "Magic & Loss". All great records. This should be interesting. M.

Do we know when this is being released? I just checked at Amazon and the Ryko site and didn't find any info.

I just found samples and ordering info. No specific date.

http://store.soundstrue.com/mm01117d.html

April 24th, sorry i didn't mention that.

Thanks, Zane and Geff!

Well, I got it. I made it about halfway through the second major piece and had to turn it off.

Sorry, Lou.It doesn't work for me. It is very much like a laid back Metal Machine Music. Very loopy, very throbby. The same sounds over and over.

This sort of thing has progressed so far since George Harrison's Elecronic Sounds, but you wouldn't know it from this album.

Here 'tis ...



>> Every now and then, usually reliable iconic figures put out a project that completely perplexes even their most stalwart adherents. Lou Reed did it in 1975 with Metal Machine Music. Released as a double LP and mostly conjured from pure feedback and some guitar effects, it sounded to many like a symphony for garbage disposals and jackhammers. At the time, Reed claimed most people wouldn't like it, and he was right, although if you drilled beneath the surface, it was strangely triumphal and exultant with almost psychedelic melodies. Three decades later, he returns with the follow-up. Hudson River Wind Meditations is the yang to Metal Machine Music's turbo-distortion head-crush ying. Which isn't to say it's smooth and soothing. Hudson River's two primary tracks consist of Doppler-effect sine waves, Tibetan-singing-bowl-like sounds, and deep subharmonics that threatened to crack my speakers. They all do slow-motion, abstract barber-pole dances around each other over the course of their half-hour or so duration. Listening deeply, one can get lost in the harmonic relationships in a way that recalls LaMonte Young's Theater of Eternal Music or Alvin Lucier's Music on a Long Thin Wire. Lou Reed is a practitioner of Tai Chi, and he says this music is meant for body work and meditation, but while the Hudson River itself can be a comforting, reflective place, this sounds more like the underground groans and electronic nervous system of Manhattan. The album was originally called Inner Spaces, but I suspect for most people, it might just be boring spaces. It's music for deep listening, but the rewards are highly rarefied. <<

It contains four long tracks, which can be sampled at Amazon's listing:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000LW9Q9I/tag=imwan-20

(I still like Metal Machine Music better, personally. But then again I couldn't listen to either of these straight through more than once a decade. )

Big news for all MMM fans. From an NYT article on tribute albums:



http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/arts/ ... wanted=all


I can't wait.

I've had Hudson River Wind Meditations for a couple months now and enjoy it quite a bit. I ocasionally meditate to the two longer tracks. The tracks are fairly static and if you a) aren't at all interested in the description of the album and/or b) are not into ambient music or using music to meditate to then you should probably skip it.

That finally came out on September 11th, and is a two-disc set containing an audio CD of the concert plus a bonus DVD:



>> 2-Disc set recorded at the Berlin Opera House On March 17, 2002, German 11-piece avant garde chamber group Zeitkratzer transcribed Reed's 1975 noise opus for acoustic and performed it live with Reed on electric guitar, in addition to the CD of the performance, this set also includes a bonus DVD, best described as clangorous!! <<

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000RXYU42/?tag=imwan-20

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.a ... m=lk_imwan

Thanks Linda - this had dropped off my radar and I am really very intrigued.

I wonder if the CDU and Amazon editions are the same - priced the same (barring CDU's sale) but CDU says only one disc, Amazon two.