Success! I opened the original .zip in Archive Mounter instead of Archive Manager, and was able to extract the files that way. Thanks for posting the tar, though. I liked what Sang did with her first impressions, so here are mine:
1. Oh, this is fun. Yay klezmer! 2. I love banjos. I love them so much I even play one, albeit slowly and clumsily. Two banjos are better than one (if played well, and these certainly qualify), and the info that it's a married couple playing is just frosting on a really great cake. 3. I agree - it's a cock-eyed, bleary portrait, believable and very much in a Waitsian vein. 4. Wow. This is gorgeous. This will get a lot of replay. I need to seek out what else these people have done. 5. From your description, I was expecting something with really lewd lyrics, so a minute and a half of creaks and squawks was actually kind of a relief. ;) 6. Haha, very nice. I'd totally lost track of what that woman was up to, and am pleased to find it's this. Goes down easy. 7. I've only heard one other track by The Bad Plus, a cover of "Comfortably Numb" that does some really unsettling things. Brilliant, and incredibly disturbing. "Rites of Spring" seems like the obvious next step, and the matchup is as perfect as I would've guessed. 8. Vivid musical depiction of a crowded, noisy city: very well done.
Very much enjoyed this! It's been ages since anyone made me a mix of any sort. Thanks again!
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Date: 2015-01-07 05:47 am (UTC)1. Oh, this is fun. Yay klezmer!
2. I love banjos. I love them so much I even play one, albeit slowly and clumsily. Two banjos are better than one (if played well, and these certainly qualify), and the info that it's a married couple playing is just frosting on a really great cake.
3. I agree - it's a cock-eyed, bleary portrait, believable and very much in a Waitsian vein.
4. Wow. This is gorgeous. This will get a lot of replay. I need to seek out what else these people have done.
5. From your description, I was expecting something with really lewd lyrics, so a minute and a half of creaks and squawks was actually kind of a relief. ;)
6. Haha, very nice. I'd totally lost track of what that woman was up to, and am pleased to find it's this. Goes down easy.
7. I've only heard one other track by The Bad Plus, a cover of "Comfortably Numb" that does some really unsettling things. Brilliant, and incredibly disturbing. "Rites of Spring" seems like the obvious next step, and the matchup is as perfect as I would've guessed.
8. Vivid musical depiction of a crowded, noisy city: very well done.
Very much enjoyed this! It's been ages since anyone made me a mix of any sort. Thanks again!