{"id":262,"date":"2006-11-12T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T23:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/?p=262"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:14:36","slug":"pop-music-that-i-loved-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/262","title":{"rendered":"Pop (?) music that I loved (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/4\/45\/HenryCow_AlbumCover_InPraiseOfLearning.jpg\/200px-HenryCow_AlbumCover_InPraiseOfLearning.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Cow\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"10\" \/>Ogni tanto qualcuno mi domanda se ci sia qualche gruppo pop che mi piace.<br \/>\nFra quelli attuali, non saprei (faccio un po&#8217; fatica a seguirli), ma una volta ne ascoltavo molti.<br \/>\nEcco un esempio: 1975 &#8211; Henry Cow &#8211; L&#8217;album \u00e8 In Praise of Learning.<br \/>\nQui c&#8217;\u00e8 una cantante tedesca con una voce da Brecht, una melodia armonizzata in modo non convenzionale, ma soprattutto c&#8217;\u00e8 uno sviluppo. Il pezzo non si ferma al solito schema ritornello &#8211; inciso.<br \/>\nMa, al di la degli apprezzamenti formali, resta il fatto che questa musica per me \u00e8 emozionante.<br \/>\nDa quell&#8217;album, ecco 2 pezzi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sometimes someone ask me if there is some pop band that I like.<br \/>\nWell, the current scene is just a little hard to follow for me, but when I was young I liked many.<br \/>\nHere is an example: 1975 &#8211; Henry Cow &#8211; The album is In Praise of Learning.<br \/>\nHere is a german singer with a voice that remind me Brecht, a sort of atonal melody and harmony, but the thing I like the more is the fact that the piece is developing. Not the usual chorus &#8211; bridge scheme.<br \/>\nListen to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/hc04.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beautiful as the Moon &#8211; Terrible as an Army with Banners<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/hc02.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Living in the Heart of the Beast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Personnel<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>Tim Hodgkinson \u2013 Organ, clarinet, piano<\/li>\n<li>Fred Frith \u2013 Guitar, violin, xylophone, piano<\/li>\n<li>John Greaves \u2013 Bass guitar, piano<\/li>\n<li>Chris Cutler \u2013 Drums, radio<\/li>\n<li>Dagmar Krause \u2013 Voice<\/li>\n<li>Peter Blegvad \u2013 Guitar, voice, clarinet<\/li>\n<li>Anthony Moore \u2013 Piano, electronics and tapework<\/li>\n<li>Lindsay Cooper \u2013 Bassoon, oboe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Guests<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li>Geoff Leigh \u2013 Soprano saxophone<\/li>\n<li>Mongezi Feza \u2013 Trumpet<\/li>\n<li>Phil Becque \u2013 Oscillator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"related-posts\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ogni tanto qualcuno mi domanda se ci sia qualche gruppo pop che mi piace. Fra quelli attuali, non saprei (faccio un po&#8217; fatica a seguirli), ma una volta ne ascoltavo molti. Ecco un esempio: 1975 &#8211; Henry Cow &#8211; L&#8217;album &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/262\">Continua a leggere<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,13],"tags":[718],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mus","category-storia","tag-henry_cow"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18753,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/18753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}