{"id":444,"date":"2008-01-20T22:23:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T03:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2008\/01\/20\/roddle-and-mozart\/"},"modified":"2008-01-20T22:23:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T03:23:50","slug":"roddle-and-mozart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/roddle-and-mozart\/","title":{"rendered":"Roddle and Mozart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the charms of <strong><em>The Diary of Tortov Roddle<\/em><\/strong> is the music by Kenji Kondo. It&#8217;s hard to pigeon-hole. Sometimes it reminds me of Metamora, sometimes of Satie, sometimes of something else I can&#8217;t quite place. Here&#8217;s a sampling of the soundtrack:<\/p>\n<p><center>[mp3]http:\/\/tancos.net\/audio\/KenjiKondo.mp3[\/mp3]<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Kondo, I discovered, is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuricorder.com\/\">Kuricorder Quartet<\/a> (formerly the Kuricorder Pops Orchestra) and is one of the musicians featured on the <strong><em>Azumanga Daioh<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Yotsuba&#038;!<\/em><\/strong> albums. He also plays <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V66C0j2eyGk\">Mozart on the ukelele<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/dekku.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/kuricorder-quartet-ojiisan-no-11.html\">video with the Kuricorder Quartet<\/a>. I think Kondo is the one on the bicycle.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/kuricorder.jpg' alt='kuricorder.jpg' \/><\/center>.<\/p>\n<p>Addendum: Here&#8217;s the <a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/yotsubato2.jpg' title='yotsubato2.jpg'>picture<\/a> Author mentions in his comment. It&#8217;s from the booklet accompanying the first <strong><em>Yotsuba&#038;!<\/em><\/strong> CD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the charms of The Diary of Tortov Roddle is the music by Kenji Kondo. It&#8217;s hard to pigeon-hole. Sometimes it reminds me of Metamora, sometimes of Satie, sometimes of something else I can&#8217;t quite place. Here&#8217;s a sampling of the soundtrack: [mp3]http:\/\/tancos.net\/audio\/KenjiKondo.mp3[\/mp3] Kondo, I discovered, is part of the Kuricorder Quartet (formerly the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/roddle-and-mozart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Roddle and Mozart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[386],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-7a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}