Charlemagne Palestine
 

Great website and you can listen to some of his beautiful music too on there:
http://www.charlemagnepalestine.org/intro1.swf

Oh, I so love you too much. He's my favourite of that little circle of 'minimalists'. La Monte Young is too difficult to get hold of, Terry Riley is a bit... meh... Reich and Glass are patchy (18 and Einstein are great though) and anyone who counts Part is an idiot (Part deserves some kind of God-hood). I've yet to hear anything I didn't like of Palestine.

I saw him last year doing this two piano thing... in all of my life I have never seen a more consumate performer - he did this little ad-hoc speech at the beginning, and he had all his little toys with him. Hilarious. And then did this most beautiful two steinway grand peice that was un-be-fucking-lievable.

I wasn't familiar with him. Thanks.

Thanks for this. He's been on my ever growing list of 'must-listen-to' for a while now.

awesome!! been meaning to check him out for a while.

sounds really good.
i remember reading an article about him a few years ago and he sounded interesting, but never got round to him.
any recommendations for a first album to get?

Music for Big Ears is a lovely place to start. Or at least it's where I started.

Anyone have any idea how to pronounce his first name? I go for Shar-lee-man-ye, but I've no idea if this is right.

I have always said "Shar-Le-Main," myself.

That's how I would say it (Glice's way).

Weird really that you don't think about pronunciation until you have to say a word. My girlfriend said "What's that racket?" and that was the first time I had to actually say his name out loud.

Yeah, I changed my mind about this pronunciation for no decent reason a year or so ago.

My favourite one was pronouncing 'Unwound' [Un-wow-nd] as Un-woo-nd (like a cut). I still call Shostokovich Shos-toko-vich (rather than Shost-o-ko-vich)

Haha. I WIN! GET ME! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

But then i think it might have to do with different accents too,dunno.

thank you, i have also been meaning to listen to his music someday...

i pronounce Charlemagne in the same way i pronounce Charlemagne when i want to talk about Carolus Magnus in French (does not happen that often, i'm afraid)... and i will probably always pronounce it that way, no matter what.

I would pronounce it this way as well. That must be the right way, despite what the man himself says. He didn't invent the name you know!

Oh yeah, this guy rules.

ive got two of his records, i really like "three compositions for machines". im still a la monte guy in the minimalism canon though.