I enjoy them! Now I hadn't heard of Os Mutantes, but I will check them out.
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What are you listening to? Part III
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I enjoy them! Now I hadn't heard of Os Mutantes, but I will check them out.
They are (or were) closely linked with the 'Tropicália' movement of the late 60s in Brazilian music, and were also closely allied (politically and artistically) with luminaries such as Caetano Velosa and Gilberto Gil.
One of my brothers recommended them some years ago to me, and got me some of their music as a Christmas gift - and I must say I really like some of their stuff. It is really refreshing music, and quite unlike anything else that ever came out of Brazil.
Ah, yes. Thought you might really like them, and, delighted that you are enjoying them.
Currently rocking/moshing to this absolutely killer cover of John Cage's 4'33" by this metal band called Dead Territory.
Never heard of them until today, when NPR covered it, so I had to have a listen. Amazingly, this is absolutely brilliant.
So I wanted to find the real version of this, and couldn't get past this one, performed by one of the stars of the Acro-Cats and the Rock Cats:
And the moment I say that, this one popped up, with a solo that would send Kirk Hammett, Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch, Jimi Hendrix, and Richie Blackmore running back to their music books to learn and re-learn new material.
Believe me when I say that you will have this stuck in your head ALL DAY.
BL.
Never heard of them until today, when NPR covered it, so I had to have a listen. Amazingly, this is absolutely brilliant.
So I wanted to find the real version of this, and couldn't get past this one, performed by one of the stars of the Acro-Cats and the Rock Cats:
And the moment I say that, this one popped up, with a solo that would send Kirk Hammett, Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch, Jimi Hendrix, and Richie Blackmore running back to their music books to learn and re-learn new material.
Believe me when I say that you will have this stuck in your head ALL DAY.
BL.
Listening to the album (on my computer's music library) 'The Art Of The Recorder' - by the David Munrow Recorder Consort.
[doublepost=1461961595][/doublepost]Friday night listening (still part of the David Munrow Recorder Consort album 'The Art of the Recorder Vol 1) has moved from the 13th century (the first tracks) to the wonderful J. S. Bach.
Thus, I give you the beautiful, exquisitely haunting, piece from J S Bach, the 'Schafe Können Sicher Weiden' from Cantata No. 208…….
For anyone who likes medieval, or Renaissance (and early Baroque), David Munrow is well worth seeking out.
A brilliant Oxford student in the 1960s, he pioneered the idea of playing medieval music on the original instruments - and tracking down original scores, although much of that tradition had been orally transmitted, - and much of it was improvisational - rather than having been committed to paper, and he also did a lot of research into folk traditions (in places such as South America), and folk instruments, before this sort of stuff had become well known, and fashionable.
A superb musician himself, he formed a group (David Munrow Early Consort Music of London) and was responsible for the excellent soundtrack of the BBC TV series 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII', and the subsequent movie "Henry VIII and His Six Wives" (which covered some of the same material with a broadly similar cast). Anyway, he seems to have been responsible for introducing modern audiences to much of this sort of music, such as medieval, Baroque, and Renaissance.
[doublepost=1461961595][/doublepost]Friday night listening (still part of the David Munrow Recorder Consort album 'The Art of the Recorder Vol 1) has moved from the 13th century (the first tracks) to the wonderful J. S. Bach.
Thus, I give you the beautiful, exquisitely haunting, piece from J S Bach, the 'Schafe Können Sicher Weiden' from Cantata No. 208…….
For anyone who likes medieval, or Renaissance (and early Baroque), David Munrow is well worth seeking out.
A brilliant Oxford student in the 1960s, he pioneered the idea of playing medieval music on the original instruments - and tracking down original scores, although much of that tradition had been orally transmitted, - and much of it was improvisational - rather than having been committed to paper, and he also did a lot of research into folk traditions (in places such as South America), and folk instruments, before this sort of stuff had become well known, and fashionable.
A superb musician himself, he formed a group (David Munrow Early Consort Music of London) and was responsible for the excellent soundtrack of the BBC TV series 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII', and the subsequent movie "Henry VIII and His Six Wives" (which covered some of the same material with a broadly similar cast). Anyway, he seems to have been responsible for introducing modern audiences to much of this sort of music, such as medieval, Baroque, and Renaissance.
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More David Munrow: This time it is David Munrow - Early Consort Music of London. (And the soundtrack to 'Henry VIII And His Six Wives').
One album is David Munrow Early Consort Music of London: 'Renaissance Tänze - (Praetorius).
Another is "Two Renaissance Dance Bands (Susato 'The Danserye')".
One album is David Munrow Early Consort Music of London: 'Renaissance Tänze - (Praetorius).
Another is "Two Renaissance Dance Bands (Susato 'The Danserye')".
I'm currently listening to Lemon Demon's "Reaganomics." It's a fantastically odd song and guaranteed to be the only you'll hear with the chorus, "Deregulating BABY!" or your money back.
Friday night, jazz night for me! So tonight it’s bits of this and that from my collection of works by the multi-talented and always amazing Jenny Scheinman. Here's audio-only clip of "The Careeners" from her 2008 album Crossing the Field.
Fun to see where her next evolution takes her and her ensembles and us. It gets more and more impossible to categorize her music. Calling it jazz or experimental becomes less appropriate, perhaps. I love things from her earlier albums The Rabbi’s Lover and Crossing the Field, with the 2012 Mischief and Mayhem almost a tie for second.
Haven’t actually bought any tracks of her latest album yet (The Littlest Prisoner), which for the second time features her singing as well as her violin skills. These tracks are very different from the work I’m more used to hearing from Scheinman, not sure I am as fond of these.
Meanwhile Scheinman always puts together an ensemble more than capable of showcasing her work, so I’ve found myself listening to The Littlest Prisoner more than I had thought I would the first time around. In The Rabbi’s Lover the music was distinctly rooted in Jewish wedding fare. In Crossing the Field there were some tracks that seemed almost a cross of Bartok (or even Berg) and Copeland. These latest offerings are much more to the Americana side.
I like it that Apple Music lets me follow Jenny Scheinman without buying every album, and yet she benefits from my streaming or downloading her work, and Apple’s certainly seeming to do well on its streaming platform so far. Win, win, win...
Fun to see where her next evolution takes her and her ensembles and us. It gets more and more impossible to categorize her music. Calling it jazz or experimental becomes less appropriate, perhaps. I love things from her earlier albums The Rabbi’s Lover and Crossing the Field, with the 2012 Mischief and Mayhem almost a tie for second.
Haven’t actually bought any tracks of her latest album yet (The Littlest Prisoner), which for the second time features her singing as well as her violin skills. These tracks are very different from the work I’m more used to hearing from Scheinman, not sure I am as fond of these.
Meanwhile Scheinman always puts together an ensemble more than capable of showcasing her work, so I’ve found myself listening to The Littlest Prisoner more than I had thought I would the first time around. In The Rabbi’s Lover the music was distinctly rooted in Jewish wedding fare. In Crossing the Field there were some tracks that seemed almost a cross of Bartok (or even Berg) and Copeland. These latest offerings are much more to the Americana side.
I like it that Apple Music lets me follow Jenny Scheinman without buying every album, and yet she benefits from my streaming or downloading her work, and Apple’s certainly seeming to do well on its streaming platform so far. Win, win, win...
Me too. I realized I hadn't listened to it in a while, so I queued it up.
BTW, nice you see you around again.
Me too. I realized I hadn't listened to it in a while, so I queued it up.
BTW, nice you see you around again.
Thanks my friend. BTW, my favorite song in the album is Stuck Inside A Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again. But then again, all the songs were great. I was at private school in 1966 (Nyack Prep School for Boys in South Hampton Long Island , NY) when this album came out. Believe or not, Johnny Carson's son Cory was my roommate at the time. He's the one who turned me on to this album.
BTW, it's my 64th birthday today. And guess what? I still feel and look young...ger
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Thanks my friend. BTW, my favorite song in the album is Stuck Inside A Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again. But then again, all the songs were great. I was at private school in 1966 (Nyack Prep School for Boys in South Hampton Long Island , NY) when this album came out. Believe or not, Johnny Carson's son Cory was my roommate at the time. He's the one who turned me on to this album.
BTW, it's my 64th birthday today. And guess what? I still feel and look young...ger
And a very happy birthday to you! Hope you have a nice day.
Stuck Inside A Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again is indeed an excellent song. Here's a nice cover:
Excellent! Thanks for posting. I've seen the Dead several times in the late 60's and early 70's. I miss those days!
And yeah, thanks for the Happy Birthday
Thanks my friend. BTW, my favorite song in the album is Stuck Inside A Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again. But then again, all the songs were great. I was at private school in 1966 (Nyack Prep School for Boys in South Hampton Long Island , NY) when this album came out. Believe or not, Johnny Carson's son Cory was my roommate at the time. He's the one who turned me on to this album.
BTW, it's my 64th birthday today. And guess what? I still feel and look young...ger
Great story, and may I take the liberty of wishing you a very happy birthday. Hope you have a lovely day.
Thank you so much. I really appreciate it
BTW, I was 14 at the time. It blows my mind how fast life goes. Glad I'm still here and healthy.
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