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Harry Partch playing the cloud-chamber bowls [n.d.] Designed and built by Harry Partch glass
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Harry Partch, June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974.
VA - Weird Nightmare (Meditations On Mingus)
Here is an oddity I found stumbling around Discogs a little while ago, Weird Nightmare A Tribute to Charles Mingus.
The concept is pretty simple a bunch of NYC Avant Jazz types got together to make a cover/tribute album to Charles Mingus.
Good. Great. I'm in.
Except it isn't so simple. On top of that they are going to use a bunch of homemade instruments made by avant garde composer Harry Partch many used for the first time ever by someone other than the composer himself.
Oh wow. Cool. Bit much but I bet it will yield some interesting results.
But wait! More!
Guest artist will provide vocals on certain tracks. Like who?
Chuck D, Elvis Costello, Dr. John, Keith Richards w/Charlie Watts, Henry Rollins and for the song Eclipse Diamanda Galas with Leonard Cohn.
JESUS! Stop before you mess this up!
Anyway here it is a true oddity from the 90's
Get it from my Google Drive HERE
Is it Wabi Sabi? - Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra
This is a small issue, and we'll likely never see it amended, but it feels like such a loss that we never got the music of Harry Partch in a Fallout game.
Two of his main bases of operations, Los Angeles and Oakland, can be visited in the series. Having been active from the early 40's through to the early 70's, Partch is also period-accurate. His subject matters dealt with rural, lower-class life in the US during the Great Depression, and his style of composition manages to sound alien and threatening while simultaneously being oddly hilarious (the two main sides of Fallout, the first of which is regrettably missed in recent years) .
If you listen to his voice, he absolutely sounds like he could be a talking head in a Fallout game, and having spent much of his life making bizarre musical instruments in a ranch converted into a carpentry workshop, he'd probably have at least three vault-saving MacGuffins stached away somewhere. Everything about Partch, from his time spent as a hobo to his haircut in the 50's, makes him a perfect fit for the series, but we got a 50/50 distribution of Doo-Wop and Ambient World Music instead with no room for nine minute operatic pieces about hitchhiking.
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Today is Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day. They don’t come much more uncommon than the menagerie of instruments invented by composer, theorist, and ensemble leader Harry Partch. Here are a few of the instruments developed by Partch between 1930 and the ‘70’s, primarily to play his 43-tone scale.
The Music of John Cage and Harry Partch, (Vinyl/LP), NW 214, New World Records, 1978 [midcenturyclassical. Art: © John Cage Trust, Red Hook, NY]
Harry Partch - "Daphne of the Dunes"