For the last few days, I've been listening again to the Matthew Halsall
playlist: I definitely prefer his earlier, sparser, recordings to his most
current album, 'An ever changing view1'. So I'm sitting at my desk, playing 'table percussion', when I
notice that a piece from the album 'When the world was one' is in
74 time. Whilst the track list given at
Bandcamp for the album is 60 minutes long, the mp3 at YouTube that I have plays
for 81 minutes, thus enabling me to ascertain that I am referring to the track 'Tribute to Alice Coltrane'. The youtube video adds as a bonus an alternate take of the piece at the end of the album, so more beats in 74. And now that I'm paying attention, the track that follows (presumably 'Jura', also a bonus track) is in 54 time. And to think that I considered that most of his pieces are in 3! The album "Into forever" starts with a few songs in common time - but then these songs are sung, as opposed to everything else in the Halsall oeuvre.
I think that this piece is the one to which I was referring when I wrote in the blog referred to above "here and there are lines that I might have played myself". Obviously at the time I was listening to the melody and not so much to the rhythm.
I've been trying to explain to my wife about time signatures, but not only does she appear not to understand, she also thinks that I'm weird when I walk around the house counting 1-2-3-4-5 or 1-2-3-4-5-6, etc. Thus when she sees Elizabeth Zharoff2 doing the same, or even better, a video that I saw the other day, she understands that the counting is some obscure musical ritual.
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