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Just at the moment, I'm listening to Norah Jones singing In The Dark. I plan to follow it with some Diana Krall and Nancy Wilson, specifics to be decided later. Absolutely need something soothing. I'm way over quota for dealing with assorted half-wits, morons, and massively incompetent "'professionals".
I went to see Ben Folds on Wednesday night and I've been listening to him ever since. http://www.benfolds.com/
Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa
http://www.nonesuch.com/sites/nonesu...r-silencio.jpg
Gidon Kremer: Silencio
"One searches in the outer world as well as in others' reflections of oneself — with all its insecurities, joys, convictions, evaluations. The world observes these oscillations of our feelings with a proud indifference. Here and there a person hurries by, producing a sound that resembles one's own. But it's already gone, and one is again embraced by silence. Our pain and insomnia as part of the whole. Our despair: a drop in an ocean. Death — the final bill, in which the challenge turns into a phantom. amb1tions, hopes, enchantment. All this finds its peace there in the world beyond.
...Words irritate. Gestures mislead. Emotions dissolve. Only sounds speak a language that might be understood. If one opens the heart, would there be someone receptive enough? But who is listening? Who is able to feel it? Often I do ask myself, where does a heartbeat identical to mine exist? And the attempt of an answer is: out there, on the other end of my own sound."
— Gidon Kremer, from Obertöne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_minimalism
Tabula Rasa, second movement, Silentium
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS91uQzzvGU
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqa2Fnoo9RQ
Not the best performance of the piece but an interesting staging of it.
And yes, Platypus, Parts 1 and 2 are both Arvo Pärt's.
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Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev 1803 - 1873
Silentium!
Be silent, hide yourself, keep in
Your feelings and your sacred dream –
And let them, quiet, rise and set,
Soundlessly – in your heart’s depth,
Like stars do on the nightly rut:
Admire them, but just be mute.
How could your heart express its view?
Could any other feel like you?
Will he discern your base of life?
The word, pronounced, is a lie;
While stirring springs, you’ll cloud flood:
Drink their water, but be mute.
Within yourself, keep life in hold:
Your soul is a whole world
Of thoughts of mystery and charm,
They will be sunk in daily hum,
And scattered by the sun’s rays, rude:
Hark to their song, and just be mute.
Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, October, 2000
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Silentium!
Speak not, lie hidden, and conceal
the way you dream, the things you feel.
Deep in your spirit let them rise
akin to stars in crystal skies
that set before the night is blurred:
delight in them and speak no word.
How can a heart expression find?
How should another know your mind?
Will he discern what quickens you?
A thought, once uttered, is untrue.
Dimmed is the fountainhead when stirred:
drink at the source and speak no word.
Live in your inner self alone
within your soul a world has grown,
the magic of veiled thoughts that might
be blinded by the outer light,
drowned in the noise of day, unheard...
take in their song and speak no word.
/trans. by Vladimir Nabokov/
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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
gives me the strength of ten!
On another note ( Couldn't resist that one! ) Over 760 Free MP3 downloads at Amazon!
I think I know about 4 names in that lot...but the list has expanded to 812!
Exhilarating, isn't it? And here I was complaining about not hearing enough new music!Quote:
Originally Posted by NooNoo
Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon.
Kudos to anyone who knows it w/o Googling it. :)
No clue. However I was thinking of a folk band I was introduced to a while back and I love the songs they generally did. Well all in all I can't find any of my favorite songs from The Chad Mitchell Trio to link on here. My all time favorite was The Great Historical Bum A.K.A. The Bragging Song. Good luck to you master googlers on finding any demos to listen to especially that song by them.
Chicago?? From their album No Damn Clue?Quote:
Originally Posted by Draggar
I've got 2 albums (pretty sure) of theirs on vinyl, and I bet both are even in Mono, but I doubt I've listened to them in about 40 years. Don't know the cut in question, but you can find some of their music on YouTube.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niclo Iste
Back on topic, Right Now, I'm once again listening to Texas Rebel Radio, and Janis Joplin just finished Summertime. I couldn't listen for a while, but with Win7 Build 7100 and Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, their site's audio is working fine again. HOORAY!
I have my favorite songs on a CD that my friend burned of his Chad Mitchell Trio collection. If you have a suggestion on how I can upload a clip of the Great Historical Bum so you can hear it let me know.:thumbs:Quote:
Originally Posted by slgrieb
Chicago - yes and from their album Chicago II - one of their best albums (and the first one they're Chicago).Quote:
Originally Posted by slgrieb
Now - Say Zusu "Rain on the Mountain".
I'll be shocked if anyone actually knows this one. :thumbs2:
No idea about Rain on the Mountain. Frankly, I'm very surprised I got Chicago right. I was pretty sure that I had burned out all the brain cells responsible for remembering that decade.
You can use any movie software and use the cut as a soundtrack, saving the result as an AVI file. It doesn't matter if you have just 2:30 of blank video, a title, or whatever. Once the video is done, you cant create a YouTube account and upload itQuote:
Originally Posted by Niclo Iste
Right now, I'm back on Texas Rebel Radio listening to Cory Morrow performing live. Later in the evening I'm going to listen to some of their blues program and then switch over to High Plains Public Radio for Beale Street Caravan and Friday Night Blues. I have to do taxi duty for my 14 year old daughter's social events tonight.
Too bad these posts always trail real time a bit. You missed Morrow talking about getting a "Best New Artist" Award for his 15th album, and telling a funny story about being arrested one night near Lubbock, and being driven to the Judge's home where he was arraigned, tried, sentenced, and frightened by an emu. All you non-Texans just don't understand what you miss.
Otherwise, I had a fit of nostalgia yesterday and I downloaded The Best of Cream and It's a Beautiful Day's Choice Quality Stuff...Anytime.
Wow! Emus get to do a lot more stuff there than here... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by slgrieb
And I'm listening to Little River Band - The Definitive Collection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TAZNEELEvk
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heh...
Check this out, Nicolo.
http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/04/23
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Its a Texas tradition that many of our judges have been, skunks, polecats, dirty rats, or lowdown snakes. We're just trying to be more cosmopolitan these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Platypus
Ha I heard about this and it's cooler to see the whole thing through. Quite an interesting talent.Quote:
Originally Posted by houseisland
Oh by the way everyone when I finally get my lazy but about I'll upload that song. Probably tomorrow before the Penguins game.
Truly interesting video, but I have to wonder what his hands were doing when they were off camera. My imagination suggests tortured and mutilated rodents, then gets worse from there. Joking aside, kid's pretty amazing.
But, this afternoon a friend dumped a big stack of Jimmy LaFave cuts on me. For the life of me, I can't find anything online that shows him at his best, but you might like this. Saw him on stage a couple of times with Eliza Gilkyson.
Finally got around to it. So here it is The Great Historical Bum and as a bonus I loaded another by them The I was not a Nazi Polka. I may be inclined to put up more later.
Oh by the way they take ages to load and I apologize for that since I'm a youtube uploader noob. Additionally if you happened to click the links within less than 10 minutes from when I posted this expect the 2nd link to not be finished being processed by youtube yet.
P.S.
These songs are from around the early 60s. The I was not a Nazi Polka is not supporting fascism. At the time a lot of people still felt negatively about the Germans from what I have been told and the song is making fun of the fact that once the war ended nobody would claim to be a Nazi. However during the war EVERYONE would say they were a Nazi. Though most likely it's safer to say they supported the tyrant in power than to vocalize their negative opinions of that leader and die for it.
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Moors Magazine
Yes, I have the cheese box edition.
Here is a sampling of Breuker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4bWa...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u60Jy...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0w7z...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6sAb...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yMOV...eature=related
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It is sad when one is forced into replying to one's own posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by houseisland
I have seen the Willem Breuker Kollektief perform several times. I am never sure where to classify them. In some respects they defy classification. Are they Jazz? Yes. Are they Classical? Yes. Are they Avant Garde? Yes. Are they European Cabaret? Yes? Are they musical or theatriical? Both. Are they serious? Yes/no. Basically they can and do do pretty much anything. In one performance there was a cabaret-like table setup, the group was playing 20s/30s style Euro Cabaret Jazz, some members were doing some improve theatre type thing, at one point someone whipped the tablecloth off and fashioned it into an Arabic headdress, and without skipping a beat, the group was off into quarter-tone-ish Arabic modal stuff, and one of the horn players, someone of ambiguous gender, fashioned a napkin into a veil and began belly dancing - the audience was in hysterics. And then in a second they can be very serious.
Their humour comes through in things like the performance with Toby Rix where they both attack and pay tribute to Haydn, like some graffiti artist with a can of spray paint acknowledging the greatness of a cultural icon while defacing it because of its stuffiness. As Bono and the Edge say when you glorify the past, the future dries up.
Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASB6h...eature=related
Then watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6sAb...eature=related
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A little Doctor Steel always makes my day.
http://www.worlddominationtoys.com/drsteel/enter.html
Or, for a different mood some Drop Kick Murphys:
http://www.dropkickmurphys.com/
Well well, look what bubbled up from the bottom of the nearest ocean! Long time!
Aye, tis been a while. I figure it is safe now from Captain Ahab and Company. :)
Some events take me longer to process than others, and I'm still thinking about this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by houseisland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4
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Wow, that's well, why can't I have that much time and that much concentration!
OK, that's too funny! Talk about a labor of love! Meanwhile I'm still thinking about Willem Breuker's music. BTW, I'm still trying to make up my mind about what I think of some of Zappa's music, so this may take a while.
House, you seem to top yerself each post! I sent the Queen song to a few friends to enjoy!
I'll see you your Bo He Man and raise you a literal videoQuote:
Originally Posted by Guts3d
Priceless, Noo! I can think of a few more videos I'd like to see that done to as well.
So after being groomsman at a wedding 2 nights ago we heard a song that made my girlfriend remember the worst love song she ever heard. I'm now watching the video because she wants me to share the experience of it being horrible. While it's still playing I decided to share with the rest of you Enjoy
Noo, Niclo, definitely a pair of groaners there!. Niclo, I hope you didn't have to suffer through The Wind Beneath My Wings at the wedding at least.
Anyway, moving along to other things, I'm listening to Derek Trucks right now. And, I brought some samples. From Amazon, a video and some clips from the album I'm playing. From YouTube, a nice video of Trucks and Susan Tedeschi (sans guitar, unfortunately) and just Trucks and the band.