Title: My biggest CD-purchase mistake this year
Product review: I heard the group Thirteenth Blackbird on the radio, and liked them very much. But I was very disappointed by their CD, "Round Nut Tool". The musicianship is excellent, but almost all the selections are seemingly endless repetitions of discordant and arhythmic sounds, rendering the music unlistenable. Music is melody, harmony, rhythm--yes?--all of which are virtually absent here.The ensemble's most dynamic work, I think, is 13 compositions around the Stevens poem "thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird". Only three of the 13 pieces are included here, and only one of these is anything like what I think of as music. So I spent fifteen dollars on a CD I could barely listen to once--waste of money.
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