{"id":1499,"date":"2025-12-31T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:05:37","slug":"acquired-music-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/acquired-music-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Acquired Music 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hans Zimmer, <strong>Dune Part 2<\/strong> (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Laurie Anderson, <strong>Amelia<\/strong> (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mogwai, <strong>The Bad Fire<\/strong> (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jean Michel Jarre, <strong>Rendez-vous<\/strong> (1986)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Michael Riesman, <strong>Powaqqatsi<\/strong> (1988)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elbow, <strong>Audio Vertigo<\/strong> (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ottmar Liebert &amp; Luna Negra, <strong>Borrasca<\/strong> (1991)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ottmar Liebert &amp; Luna Negra, <strong>The Hours Between Night+ Day<\/strong> (1993)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ottmar Liebert &amp; Luna Negra, <strong>Euphoria<\/strong> (1995)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ottmar Liebert &amp; Luna Negra, <strong>Opium<\/strong> (1996)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vangelis, <strong>Chariots of Fire<\/strong> (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yo-Yo Ma, <strong>Japanese Melodies<\/strong> (1984)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Dune<\/strong> soundtrack is a perfectly fine extension of the <strong>Part 1<\/strong> soundtrack. <strong>Amelia<\/strong> is an album-length presentation of the acts around the last flight of Amelia Earhart. It&#8217;s interesting but maybe not &#8220;entertaining&#8221;. <strong>The Bad Fire<\/strong> is very interesting because it came with a bonus CD of the demo versions of each of the tracks on the album. These demos are much more raw and a lot closer to the less &#8220;produced&#8221; sound of Mogwai&#8217;s earlier albums, and I think I actually like them better than the final versions. I found the <strong>Rendez-vous<\/strong> and <strong>Powaqqatsi<\/strong> in a discount bin someplace and could not pass them up. Michael Riesman is the conductor for the performance, but of course Philip Glass composed all of the music. <strong>Audio Vertigo<\/strong> is a heavy-hitting album, and an excellent showing from Elbow. I was leafing through the bin at the Goodwill, and found this whole stack of Ottmar Liebert albums. These are all great, and if you have not heard Ottmar Liebert&#8217;s German take on Spanish guitar music, you should look him up. I spent like $10 for five hours of music. We already had a copy of <strong>Chariots of Fire<\/strong>, but who knows if I&#8217;ll ever see another one. The Yo-Yo Ma album was a gift from Sweetie, and it&#8217;s a fascinating take on these traditional tunes. A Chinese guy playing Japanese music on a European instrument is a great expression of cosmopolitan art and performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peer into the past: <a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/acquired-music-2024\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1254\">2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/music-post-2023\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1131\">2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/music-post-2022\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"973\">2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/playlist-2021\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"851\">2021<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/playlist-2020\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"689\">2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/music-of-2019\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"308\">2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dune soundtrack is a perfectly fine extension of the Part 1 soundtrack. Amelia is an album-length presentation of the acts around the last flight of Amelia Earhart. It&#8217;s interesting but maybe not &#8220;entertaining&#8221;. The Bad Fire is very interesting because it came with a bonus CD of the demo versions of each of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,47,25,80,1],"tags":[755,86,81,871],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-oversharing","category-personal","category-recordings","category-uncategorized","tag-755","tag-cds","tag-music","tag-retrospective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}