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Erik Satie — Gnossienne No1
Album: Satie: Piano Music (Frank Glazer, Piano)
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Released: 1889
Length: 3:41
Plays (last 30 days): 3
(Instrumental)
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WHO Gives this stuff a 1????
From Leftover Cuties to Bob Seger to Erik Satie.
. . . this must be RP.   ; )
fills my heart with peace - so beautiful 
RP needs a repeat button sometimes
Love all 'things' Satie, but ..............  

                                          Gymnopédie No.1 is the best  ❤️


helgigermany wrote:

To lame 


oldviolin wrote:

Ah, I see it. Crippled and lonely; he wanders the crumbling alleys paved with ancient cobbles polished by circular regeneration; the streets littered with the refuse of intolerant time, and cruel space...how is it that music can so express suffering at the whim of the eternal muse...
to lame indeed. And yet, to healing comes the listening ear and hearing heart...

This reply goes into my RP Hall of Fame replies! Well done sir!
more of this and less 
sad sack country music
This piece has been used to fantastic effect as a bridge between disparate music astonishingly well. Fantastic grasp of music provided by the best mixer of music I’ve ever encountered!
This is absolutely beautiful :)
 AhhtheMusic wrote:

Some things are just too amazing to explain...


there was a way: Emile Berliner Gramophone (patent 1887)
This is one of the only Satie pieces that I love and connect with.  It is beautiful...
Ab major? 
Now that is old music.
Very nice
Gnossiennes no.3, please! 🙂
10 for the music and 9 for the performance.  I prefer versions that have a slower tempo.


Satie never married, and his home for most of his adult life was a single small room, first in Montmartre and from 1898 to his death, in Arcueil, a suburb of Paris. He adopted various images over the years, including a period in quasi-priestly dress, another in which he always wore identically-coloured velvet suits, and is known for his last persona, in neat bourgeois costume, with bowler hat, wing collar and umbrella. He was a lifelong heavy drinker, and died of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 59.

Someone please make a movie of this guy's life
I feel like this is on once every two days... but it's not, the 30-day play count says only 5.  I know people feel that way too about songs they get tired of hearing.
 
I can't figure out what kind of bias this is.  It's like recency bias but the opposite, but no such thing appears to exist.
 
Maybe I'll call it the Ludovico Einaudi Effect, since it feels like Primavera is on every day.
 Mackmoney3000 wrote:

Listening to this gives me Frisson which makes it a 10.




That's actually my benchmark for an 8.
I could tell you what makes me give a 10, but this is a family station.
A pair of nutters (Matthias Bossi as well as Jon Evans-who worked with Tori Amos back in the day) going by "Ridiculon" do soundtracks for an independent game developer put together an interesting interpretation of this piece for the title screen of a game about the end of the world...

https://ridiculon.bandcamp.com...
Anything less than submitting a 10 for this is null and void, yes?
 Froggy_Matt wrote:

Thnks RP for this Gnossienne
As a froggy french i would prefer the interpretation of Jean-Yves Thibaudet or
Daniel Varsano.
Just sayin'. No offense, Mister Glazer
Stay relax anyway listening to RP waiting for 2020 to end.




Et Ciccolini, vieux ?
 On_The_Beach wrote:

Just the right amount of rubato.

Domo arigato, Mr. ... uh, never mind.
Merci RP, je suis Français !!!!
This is my favorite piano piece by Erik Satie.
Also, Chicken Satie is my favorite Thai cuisine appetizer.
Those who give 8 to Ludovico Einaudi should reconsider their rating after listening to Satie.
Man, Satie knows just when to drop dat bass.
 Edweirdo wrote:

Far too much rubato.


Just the right amount of rubato.
hauntingly-hypnotic-simplicity 
Good doogs.
Vive l'avant-garde!
 helgigermany wrote:

To lame...




Do you mean that he wrote this for someone named Lame? Or do you mean the song is "Too" lame, and your grammar just sucks? I think you're wrong either way.
Ironic pathos
La Touch'Française !!!!
I prefer the Pascal Roge rendition 
What was modern in 1889 is still modern.
 KalleB wrote:
The only reason for 9 only for me it's the overdone changing of speed in playing. Pushing too hard to be special. Otherwise godlike of course.
 

Indeed.  The rubato is strong in this one.
Will always remind me of feeding the fires on the river as a volunteer with WateFire Providence (waterfire.org) 
Listening to this gives me Frisson which makes it a 10.
Check out the version of Gnosienne No.1 by Helene Grimaud. She has a knack for finding and nailing the essence of the pieces she plays.
I feel a very heavy funk descending and not like Sly and the Family Stoners.

First Leeoh-nardd Cohen, now Satie ....   beautiful but hits the melancholic sweet spot so to speak ... weep
Eric gets a 10 and also the album cover. Lovely piece of art depicting how it was in more accommodating times. 
The only reason for 9 only for me it's the overdone changing of speed in playing. Pushing too hard to be special. Otherwise godlike of course.
Thnks RP for this Gnossienne
As a froggy french i would prefer the interpretation of Jean-Yves Thibaudet or
Daniel Varsano.
Just sayin'. No offense, Mister Glazer
Stay relax anyway listening to RP waiting for 2020 to end.


Please give us more such great classic pieces. All good musicians coming after these guys have some roots there.
Far too much rubato.
 oldviolin wrote:

Ah, I see it. Crippled and lonely; he wanders the crumbling alleys paved with ancient cobbles polished by circular regeneration; the streets littered with the refuse of intolerant time, and cruel space...how is it that music can so express suffering at the whim of the eternal muse...
to lame indeed. And yet, to healing comes the listening ear and hearing heart...
 
Damn, you're good!  I hope you have a desire to write full time.  I'd love to read more.
A little too much feeling in my book. Tempos and dynamics sliding all around. A matter of taste, I know, but I prefer these pieces a little straighter. They're so evocative on their own, they don't need all that emoting. Still lovely to hear, though. 
 Laptopdog wrote:
This reminds me of the piano soundtrack in the movie Being There. Not sure if it's the same person, but a similar hauntingly beautiful melody.
 
Good ear....while I really enjoyed the film, thinking back I couldn't remember the music....and Wiki confirms this (sorta)

Incidental music is used very sparingly. What little original music is used was composed by Johnny Mandel, and primarily features two recurrent piano themes based on "Gnossiennes" No. 4 and No. 5 by Erik Satie. The other major piece of music used is the Eumir Deodato jazz/funk arrangement of the opening fanfare from Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss.[14]

Long Live RP!!
Always love hearing this....it never gets old.
Just finished getting the garden ready to plant - this was a perfect piece to end with! Now I feel like I have a Rocky Spine...
 Proclivities wrote:


You never know; it's been said that Erik Satie had magic powers and could manipulate time and space.
 
Whenever I hear this song, I associate it with this masterful work of manipulating time and space, drawing the reader back to the Hotel Del Coronado in 1896. It's a great read. 
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/581126.Somewhere_In_Time
We need to hear more of this kind of thing here on RP. The genre is underrepresented, IMO...
İliklerinize kadar hissedeceğiniz bir şaheser. 11/10
Envoûtant
Godlike of course-10x10x10
"The works are for the most part in free time
(lacking time signatures or bar divisions) and highly experimental with
form, rhythm and chordal structure. The form as well as the term was
invented by Satie." - Wikipedia
What a nice break from the chitter chatter in my mind
If Satie is not a reason to learn how to play the piano, I don't know of one. This must be my first 10 on Radio Paradise.

 Karima wrote:
Also listen to France Clidat playing Satie. And Reinbert de Leeuw!

This was just what I was going to write. Although I'd name de Leeuw first – I still cannot believe how beautiful Satie's music gets by playing it so slowly that it almost stops. It must have taken such a lot of courage to play it that way!
This reminds me of the piano soundtrack in the movie Being There. Not sure if it's the same person, but a similar hauntingly beautiful melody.
 Proclivities wrote:

Enter "Erik Satie" as the search criteria on IMDB and you should retrieve a list of films which feature his music.
 
and I heard he never once objected to using his music in films.
I wonder if he released it online..........

 
AhhtheMusic wrote:

Some things are just too amazing to explain...
 

 rharvey658 wrote:
 cosmiclint wrote:
Album: Satie: Piano Music (Frank Glazer, Piano)
Released: 1889
Last play: Apr 8, 2018
Plays in last 30 days: 3
There is no way this album was released in 1889. Just saying ...
 
Marty McFly had it in the DeLorean when he went back in time to 1885. It must have been taken out of the car before he returned to 1985, and someone found it 4 years later.

 

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (French: [eʁik sati]; 17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. Satie was an influential artist in the late 19th- and early 20th-century Parisian avant-garde. His work was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd.

Well then!  Having your name used as a precursor to both repetitive music AND the Theatre of the Absurd....how cool is that!  It's still a 9, though Satie is an interesting character from back in the late 1800s....Long Live RP!!
 cosmiclint wrote:
Album: Satie: Piano Music (Frank Glazer, Piano)
Released: 1889
Last play: Apr 8, 2018
Plays in last 30 days: 3
There is no way this album was released in 1889. Just saying ...
 
Marty McFly had it in the DeLorean when he went back in time to 1885. It must have been taken out of the car before he returned to 1985, and someone found it 4 years later.

NINE
 cosmiclint wrote:
Album: Satie: Piano Music (Frank Glazer, Piano)
Released: 1889
Last play: Apr 8, 2018
Plays in last 30 days: 3


There is no way this album was released in 1889. Just saying ...
 

You never know; it's been said that Erik Satie had magic powers and could manipulate time and space.
Tout à fait
More classical please!
Hemelse muziek; elke keer weer magisch om te horen
 cosmiclint wrote:
Album: Satie: Piano Music (Frank Glazer, Piano)
Released: 1889
Last play: Apr 8, 2018
Plays in last 30 days: 3
There is no way this album was released in 1889. Just saying ...
 
Some things are just too amazing to explain...
 jenakle wrote:
patreezia wrote:
This gorgeous delicate piece features in 100's of films, check Internet Movie Database!
I know the site, but how do you search the soundtracks?
 
Enter "Erik Satie" as the search criteria on IMDB and you should retrieve a list of films which feature his music.
 kevrey wrote:
Continuing the mood from Vienna Teng Passage, a solemn bit of music.
 
Yeah, this is an inspired bit of work from RP. Kudos!

(But, could you follow it up with something that doesn't make me want to reach for the razor blades, please? Kthxbai.) 
Slightly prefer the original by Chicha Libre
https://youtu.be/bHY2ldYdaKA


Minimal-music at its best. 
 On_The_Beach wrote:
I mean, come on, this is it.
 
I would not say it is "it", but pretty good!
Continuing the mood from Vienna Teng Passage, a solemn bit of music.
OBO

Outstanding, but overplayed....

<donning fire suit>
I mean, come on, this is it.
First heard this on a Delta playlist of all things - now every time I hear it, I sigh.

When I hear this, I think of Isabelle Huppert walking barefoot on a parquet floor.
Play this to your Cannabis plants {#Daisy}
Fantastic.
Album: Satie: Piano Music (Frank Glazer, Piano)
Released: 1889
Last play: Apr 8, 2018
Plays in last 30 days: 3


There is no way this album was released in 1889. Just saying ...
 Tomasni wrote:
To me this is strong 8- Most Excellent

 
DuranAir agrees!  Mui Bueno!
quelle ambiance !!
To me this is strong 8- Most Excellent
 stoatva wrote:
Check out Tony McManus’ guitar version of this one.  
 
https://youtu.be/MmiWlMJiq1s

(my cousin Mike made that guitar, he noted proudly)
Check out Tony McManus’ guitar version of this one.  
Not enough notes! Too short, too short!
As the first few notes sounded, I said out loud "Oohh, nice!" The whole piece makes a nice change from whatever preceeded.
Da iawn, bendegedig!
To me this is strong 8- Most Excellent
What a nice break from U2 and Zeppelin. 
Nice music.
Very black lyrics....
 nicolaluna wrote:
Does this feature in any soundtracks besides Man on Wire and Gloomy Sunday?  I know I've heard it somewhere before here, today, in association with some film....

~anyone?

  
Proclivities wrote:

I believe it's also in the film Chocolat.

 
Erik Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1 is in a fabulous film: Louis Malle's "My Dinner with Andre"  
My Dinner with Andre 1981 film theatrical release poster.jpg
 LAwolf8 wrote:
This is Paris cafe' music from that great Impressionist era turn of the century, can't you smell the absinth  ?

 
Un Ricard svp.....{#Cheers}
This is Paris cafe' music from that great Impressionist era turn of the century, can't you smell the absinth  ?
https://jtinamac.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/mid-clouds-2-altocumulus-lenticular_13960_600x450.jpg
wonderful. love to hear songs interspersed with instrumentals like this. Lovely and moody.
Exquisite music

(hey Kicks have you read Roger Shattucks "The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I (1955)"
it's super  : )


I realy love this music...!
It is strong, soft, sad and joyful!
I want this music at my funeral... ( It is still a very long time, untill I'll die... ;-) ) 
Nice segue from the Carolina Chocolate Drops 'Snowden's Jig' piece!
perfect rainy day music
I love music in so many forms....more often raucous or with good lyrics.  But something about this Satie piece and Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor knock my emotional socks off.
Another of my "Chill Set" inhabitants.
The phrasing is exquisite; the secret of great jazz... Bill Evans, MM&W, Coltrane, Miles Davis, BB King, Gilmour, and yes Frank Zappa 
Found this interesting:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-dangerous-and-evil-piano-piece 
Always been a fan of ES.
This after Feist !    Bill, you still got it !   Awesome.
 oldviolin wrote:

Ah, I see it. Crippled and lonely; he wanders the crumbling alleys paved with ancient cobbles polished by circular regeneration; the streets littered with the refuse of intolerant time, and cruel space...how is it that music can so express suffering at the whim of the eternal muse...
to lame indeed. And yet, to healing comes the listening ear and hearing heart...

 
Fu** yeah, man!
Yet another perfect segue: Carolina Chocolate Drops - Snowden's Jig to this. I wouldn't have called it but Bill nailed it. You are the master, sir!!
This is my favorite song on RP, by a long ways.

Second is Ruby Falls by Guster.

Third is anything by LZ.

Fourth is Casimir Pulaski Day. 
Above I've just read: Released in 1889. What? The note sheet?
This was in Being There
 OK, glad to hear it {#Ask}david927 wrote:
There is much beautiful, perfect music; this, though, is beautiful because it's not perfect.  It's injured and has nowhere to turn, like an orphan.  And, for that, it disarms me.

 


 thewiseking wrote:
didja know Frank Zappa was a big fan of Satie?

 
That is not surprising. And makes sense.
Nice segue....
didja know Frank Zappa was a big fan of Satie?
 buddy wrote:
I forgot how great this album is until hearing this tune again.  Had the fortune to see The Shins live in a smaller venue just when they were hitting it big in the mid-2000's.  Brilliant stuff.

 
hey buddy -      {#Arrowu}     your comment must be on the wrong song.