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Gyuri Nov 26 2013 at 8:27 AM |
That’s an unusal and fascinating cover. What can it suggest? United in diversity? Or one yet wide apart? |
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blisterfree Jan 02 2014 at 12:19 PM |
It’s available on iTunes: Robert Elms
BBC London, Dec 13 program (Len
Goodman / Mark Cavendish / Pat
Metheny). Full disclosure that the
featured Kin clip has been scrubbed
from the podcast. I was only quoting
Pat about the techno vibe thing.
Apparently the show first aired with it
a bit prematurely, per the way Pat
and the label normally work. Pat
alludes to this during the interview.
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naut Jan 02 2014 at 1:05 AM |
Got a link to that interview, blisterfree?
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blisterfree Jan 01 2014 at 10:47 PM |
How about a bit of a techno vibe, but
with some interesting chords? Recent
BBC London interview with Pat. Just a
taste of maybe what to expect, says
Pat, at least on one track, whichever
one it might be.
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naut Dec 21 2013 at 4:48 PM |
"Kqu" - Great Scrabble word, when the tiles are running low. ;)
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blisterfree Dec 20 2013 at 11:52 PM |
Anyone else notice the track listing for Kin is up on the Nonesuch website: http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/kin Looks like the album starts off with a 15 minute epic "On Day One." Well over an hour of music all told. Waiting patiently for samples... Meanwhile, anyone care to hazard a guess at the meaning of "Kqu"?
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thesearch1212 Dec 19 2013 at 4:49 PM |
wow, there is an animation of that cover on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aWWcpuLcyI
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bluepno Nov 30 2013 at 12:38 PM |
For me it references two great artists...the wonderful romare beardon and duke ellingtons’ afro eurasian suite.
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naut Nov 28 2013 at 7:15 PM |
I think you both got it right. It’s also one of those signature Metheny patchwork covers, but this time creating a whole image of its own. It would be super-cool if the CD artwork had a moving .gif, but I don’t see that happening any time soon. At least you can save the image on the puter (or whatever kind of device you may use). "Kin" also has etymological roots in "kind" & "generations," for what it’s worth. The suffice -nik denotes "a person associated with a specified state, belief, or quality," which is kind of cool. Metheniks. hehe....
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blisterfree Nov 27 2013 at 12:45 AM |
I see it as a pictorial representation of the whole being more than the sum of its parts, particularly with respect to the musical interaction of this quartet, now a quintet. Though I’m not sure if it’s to be seen as a literal morphing of the five members themselves. The animated GIF version of the cover art is equally cryptic in this regard. P-MUGS or not P-MUGS?
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HAMBONE Nov 26 2013 at 11:48 AM |
I see it as all of mankind has morphed into one race through the generations of multi-nationalities leaving us now as all being related, being from the same kin. Once divided, now united.
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