Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Dead & Company }{ Summer Tour One-Offs (2017)

As I did last year, I’m tracking the set-lists for DeadCo’s summer tour with special attention to one-offs, song sandwiches, and unusual set-list positions. They made it through the first four shows with no repeats, one further than last year if memory serves. I will simply add each full set-list annotated with details on repeats, […]

Posted on June 4, 2017 at 7:52 am by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Concerts, Dead & Company, Grateful Dead, Music

To Music (in Pictures) }{ Gary James Joynes (Clinker)

To Music (in Pictures): a photo series founded upon a double-entendre. 1. An homage to music through the art of photography. 2. A series of photographs that participate in the art of musicking, following Christopher Small’s recasting of “music” from noun to verb: to music, an action set that encompasses the activities of musicians on […]

Posted on January 23, 2017 at 8:10 am by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Concerts, Inevitable Plastic, Music, Photography, Sound Installation, To Music (In Pictures)

Dead & Company }{ Summer Tour One-Offs

Need some fodder for your DeadCo show bragging rights? As of their two-night stand at Alpine Valley there are 19 songs that they have played only once on summer tour (7 played for the first time ever by DeadCo). I’ve listed them below in order of performance date. If you were at any of these […]

Posted on July 12, 2016 at 5:31 pm by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Concerts, Dead & Company, Grateful Dead, Music

My Fuzzy Warbles }{ Disc Three }{ Only Lovers Left Alive (12″ Limited EP)

“Remember that 12 inch I was telling you about? Check it out man.” “Woah.” “Triple black man.” “That’s great. 180 gram vinyl?” “180 gram man.” “Amazing.” “Yeah. No printing anywhere.” “Yeah that’s awesome. So mysterious.” It’s intermission in a small Detroit rock club. The White Hills have just finished up a set. Adam has been […]

Posted on September 27, 2015 at 9:53 am by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Film Reviews, Film Sound, Music, My Fuzzy Warbles, Phonography, Sound Technology

Fare Thee Well, Grateful Dead }{ Part 1: There is No Band

What shall we say, shall we call it by a name? The Grateful Dead? No. But then they never claimed to be, contrary to popular misconception surrounding the 50th anniversary “Fare Thee Well” shows going down this week. They’re everywhere, headlines like: “Grateful Dead’s Long, Strange Trip to End in Chicago”; or “Warren Haynes Talks […]

Posted on July 3, 2015 at 1:39 pm by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Robert C. Jordan Archive }{ Five Quiet Songs

This is a series of posts about the music of Robert Christopher Jordan, my dad. He began his musical career as a violinist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra not long after arriving in Canada from England in 1957, but he made his name as a classical guitarist in Vancouver where he remains one of the […]

Posted on June 21, 2015 at 7:26 am by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Archives, Concerts, Music, Radio, Robert C. Jordan Archive

My Fuzzy Warbles }{ Partial Coverage: An Incomplete Index

Posted on December 4, 2014 at 8:38 pm by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Music, My Fuzzy Warbles, Phonography

To Music (in Pictures) }{ Efrim Menuck (with Godspeed You! Black Emperor)

To Music (in Pictures): a photo series founded upon a double-entendre. 1. An homage to music through the art of photography. 2. A series of photographs that participate in the art of musicking, following Christopher Small’s recasting of “music” from noun to verb: to music, an action set that encompasses the activities of musicians on […]

Posted on November 25, 2014 at 7:51 am by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Concerts, Inevitable Plastic, Music, Photography, To Music (In Pictures)

City Song : A Forgotten Gem from the CBC Vancouver Archives

The UN has declared October 27th World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, intended to function “as a mechanism to raise general awareness of the need for urgent measures to be taken and to acknowledge the importance of audiovisual documents as an integral part of national identity.”  In that spirit I’m posting a short essay (see below) that […]

Posted on October 27, 2014 at 9:03 am by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Archives, Film Reviews, Film Sound, Music, Uncategorized, Vancouver on Film, Vancouver Soundscape

Interview with Laurence Dickie of Vivid Audio

  Laurence Dickie of Vivid Audio was in Montreal for the first time last month to hold a couple of demonstration workshops at local hi-fi shop Coup de Foudre. The man behind B&W ‘s famed Nautilus design in the early 90s, Dickie went on to found Vivid after a stint in pro audio designing studio […]

Posted on October 14, 2014 at 1:54 pm by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Audiophilia, Hi-Fi Audio, Interviews, loudspeakers, Music, Sound Technology