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Interesting.. provocative...
(The Great Gate at Kiev theme (early-on) comes out more reminiscent of mid-Eastern bazaar/bizarre?)
Unlike say, Switched-On Bach from Moog days, this is cross-pollination of ... of .. [I know-not the comparo.]
I sorry, but.. the near-uniform sound-level eliminates the composer's (or transliterator's == Ravel) crucial nuance--that of dynamic range.
And I do not get any add-Value via the words applied, given the original's so-very-Russian musical storytelling.
ie being stoned mght make me, initially (until the random squeals) a tad more tolerant, but overall the experience -for me- is more akin to the time..
I had to sit part-of-the-way through that endless-piano-noodler guy, Chick Corea [sp?]
(For me: he was far more guilty of that iconic too-many-Notes! quip by the Regent, in Amadeus.
Actually: Too fucking!-Many meaningless notes == 'bar pianist noodlings' writ Large.)
Anger.. is not a viable 'accompaniment' to a musical experience, ever!
My style: once, with some decent rotgut + blue-flake, was listening with a friend to a Bach Invention.
He turned to me at end of a slow progression through numerous key-changes, ^always ascending^ / never Resolved! ... said,
Says, ..y'know, I think this is JS's definition of Infinity!
And.. It Was.
Guess I just can't mix Groucho-zany with M u s i c.
(And may have become terminally innoculated-against any pleasure from what a transistorized guitar can be made to 'sound-like'. Y'know?)
I try to Live here, but refuse to be assimilated.. into chaos-kultur.