Seven 9s and 10s

merlin:

Philip Glass Ensemble - “‘Train/Spaceship’, Part 1” [1982]

from Einstein on the Beach

It’s like watching someone do their taxes. In base-2. And Esperanto. As a palindrome.

And yet? Still gives me a giant arpeggioboner.

Before it was a Counting Crows song, Einstein On The Beach was a 5-hour opera, with no intermission, written by Philip Glass.  It’s mind-blowingly awesome and contains some of the most complicated arrangements you’ll ever hear paired with fantastic spoken word poetry.  And the performances, particularly on the 1993 Nonesuch release, are out of this world; the degree of difficulty, on a scale of 1 to 10, is somewhere around HOLY SHIT ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I’ll happily share Einstein On The Beach with anyone that would like to hear it. Leave a comment.

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