Weather Report - Milky Way (unofficial)

Some old school-photographs married with a Weather Report song.
Artist: Weather Report
Album: Weather Report
Song: Milky Way

Pictures edited by Macubert.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• weather
• report
• milky
• way
• 1971
• macubert

[macudt]

Διαφήμιση στο δίσκο ήθελα να κάνω... Βρείτε το και ακούστε το τώρα...

[1plus1equals2]

@plb525 My guess is that he used elaborate arrangements of mutes in precise points on certain strings to create the desired spectrum/wave/pattern, and thus achiving a primitive form of sound synthesis. :P

Also this track is perfect for sampling (trollface)

[plb525]

Very interesting: according from the original liner notes, the synth-like sounds for this piece were actually created from an accoustic piano with various pedals being used. Despite this explaination, I still don't know how Joe could have done it.

[IJahILuv]

@Hitmanfan91 I know right.... whoever thought of doing this is one creative motherfucker

[Hitmanfan91]

@IJahILuv Nah mate this is different to background noise. The little clicks and noises I'm fine with, that gives it character....but hearing Shorter playing what sounds like a completely different song in the background, thats what spoils it slightly. And I'm amazed as to how they get that sound from a Sax and piano strings, because the chords don't sound like either of the two instruments being used to create the chords.

[IJahILuv]

@Hitmanfan91 recordings were not perfect in that time of age and should not be nowdays, its what gives it character................ so i dont understand why the background clatter is a problem to you.

[Hitmanfan91]

@cda107 Really? Well that explains the saxophone or whatever the instrument is in the background. It doesn't sound like a piano though. Although interesting, I don't know what they were trying to achieve by making it so difficult, Zawinul could've just played these amazing chords on a synth and there would be none of the background noise, it spoils it slightly for me. Nonetheless fascinating way to make a musical sound...

[cda107]

Just fyi, this was not played on a synth. It was done like this: Zawinul held down (silently) the keys for the chord, then Shorter played the arpeggiated chord loudly over the strings of the piano to get them going, then the recorder was switched on for each chord.

If you listen, you can hear a bit of the workings of the piano, plus that odd sax note where the machine was switched on a little too early.

Funky stuff.

[Hitmanfan91]

This has to be the first true ambient song ever recorded and words can't describe how amazing it is. Depending on whether Joe's first album "Zawinul" was released in '70 or '71, but this is from 1971 I think.

Don't know if you listen to much ambient but the ambient stuff being recorded today is good but mind-boggling, dark ambient, deep ambient etc etc etc. Joe just sits at a synth and plays these incredible chords.

Never understood tha random trumpet near the end, spoils it a bit.

[TrevorsaurusRex]

im gonna have nightmares now

[LucyOLastic]

This is so far ahead of its time. No tonal centre, but each chord takes you somewhere amazing. Brian Eno took this idea forward several stages through his career. Perhaps jazz too would reach a destination like this in experiments with aleatoric harmony. I could listen to this for hours.