I’ve decided that I want to use my blog to share music as I find it, so I’m going to be adding that type of post here and there. Eventually, I think I’ll create a separate blog entirely for this very purpose, but I’m going to keep it here for now. So, here’s the first one.
Kaki King was the musician that composed/performed the really funky, yet amazing, guitar music for the movie August Rush. Since hearing her there, I have been absolutely amazed at her facinating style. I have purchased and downloaded every bit of her music that I can find.
On my recent trip to NYC, I was listening to MP3s on a random playlist, and this song came on. I LOVE it. It is a really neat song that seems to tell a story by the way that it moves through it’s theme.
Here, have a listen!
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1 Melissa // Jul 2, 2008 at 12:24 am
There is a children’s lit scholar, Perry Nodelman, who has a book called The Pleasures of Children’s Literature. In it, he talks about two different kinds of pleasure–joussance and plasir.
Joussance is the pleasure of the unknown. It is the joy we feel through our senses (taste, touch, sound, sight, smell). I read this pleasure as being outside langauge. It is the reason we love scary movies or roller coasters, etc.
Plasir is the pleasure we get from the known–it is comfort in returning to something we feel is safe. It is hearing a story and recognzing themes and motifs from our own life. It is tradition. I read this pleasure as the kind of thing we can “name.”
We have talked about this before, but I think that what you love so much about this kind of music (lyrical?) is the unknown. There is no chorus–you don’t know what is coming next. A lot of the music you have shared with me seems to have this kind of pleasure as the goal. You also seem to enjoy this kind of pleasure in the rest of your life as well, as you reject traditional narratives for films/tv that explores a topic or showcases a talent rather than tells a story.
I really have no analysis to make from this; I just thought it was an interesting way of seeing this song.
2 Jason Keil // Jul 23, 2008 at 10:03 pm
I saw her a few years ago when she was openng for David Byrne (lead singer of the Talking Heads). She was freaking amazing and inspiring. I had no idea she was involved in August Rush. I’m happy you were able to see so much in her music.
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