Beck / Record Club

Yanni “Reflections Of Passion”

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Yanni “Swept Away”

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Yanni “Nostalgia”

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Thurston and Beck team up again with a crew of heavyweight studio musicians to tackle an apparently unreadable score for another song from Yanni’s Live At The Acropolis, with Thurston adding lyrics.

Yanni “Within Attraction”

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The latest Record Club installment with Tortoise and Thurston from Sonic Youth.

Yanni “One Man’s Dream”

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Yanni “Acroyali/Standing In Motion”

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Yanni “The Rain Must Fall”

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Yanni “Until The Last Moment”

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Yanni “Keys To Imagination”

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Yanni “Santorini”

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This installment of the Record Club takes on ‘Yanni Live At The Acropolis’. The original album featured Yanni with a full orchestra at the Athenian Acropolis. A TV special of the concert was played repeatedly on PBS through the mid 90′s. To flesh out the complex arrangements, several studio musicians were brought in to read a heavily doctored score with interpolations of everything from Stravinsky to Bobby Brown (and others). Beck and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth provided auxiliary music and noise, with Thurston improvising lyrics over the previously instrumental track ‘Santorini.’ Tortoise show up later on a few other tracks. Look for the complete rerecording of this musical monolith, originally captured at the bedrock of Western Culture, done here at Sunset Sound Studios on June 13th, 2010. We’ll have the songs up here sequentially, one every week.