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What are you listening to? Part III
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Well, I have been on Amazon.
Nostalgia notwithstanding, I do miss those old style record shops staffed by young (or youngish, or - sometimes a bit older) music enthusiasts - who knew artists, composers, recordings - and had strong views on the lot - you didn't have to take this on board! - where you could argue and discuss music to your heart's content and order music as a result of a conversation.
Amazon - yes, it is okay - most of the time - but, well, the personal touch is, sadly, lacking.
Anyway, I have been re-acquainting myself with some of the more obscure recordings made by the wonderful Roberto Rodriguez.
[doublepost=1477609762][/doublepost]Okay, the track I am listening to just this minute comes from that world - mariachi meets spaghetti western filtered through a modern sensibility:
The CD is the splendid "Mexico and Mariachis" and the quite lovely track I am currently enjoying is "Por Mi Camino".
Do tell me, @jkcerda, if this is what passes for Mexican music.....because I must say that I have become quite partial to it...murderous guitars and all, lapsed liberal though I am....
Nostalgia notwithstanding, I do miss those old style record shops staffed by young (or youngish, or - sometimes a bit older) music enthusiasts - who knew artists, composers, recordings - and had strong views on the lot - you didn't have to take this on board! - where you could argue and discuss music to your heart's content and order music as a result of a conversation.
Amazon - yes, it is okay - most of the time - but, well, the personal touch is, sadly, lacking.
Anyway, I have been re-acquainting myself with some of the more obscure recordings made by the wonderful Roberto Rodriguez.
[doublepost=1477609762][/doublepost]Okay, the track I am listening to just this minute comes from that world - mariachi meets spaghetti western filtered through a modern sensibility:
The CD is the splendid "Mexico and Mariachis" and the quite lovely track I am currently enjoying is "Por Mi Camino".
Do tell me, @jkcerda, if this is what passes for Mexican music.....because I must say that I have become quite partial to it...murderous guitars and all, lapsed liberal though I am....
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it's a neat mix SS . thanks for that.
Well, to my mind, it is a brilliant CD - and is one I am listening to just now.
Any other recommendations are more than welcome.
there are very few that I know old school. but this one I love
how is your Spanish? sometimes the lyrics have a much deeper meaning than just the song.
thanks, going to go cry a bit
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My brother put me in touch with the superb music of Los Panchos some years ago; I love them.
Alas, my Spanish is non-existent - I can express myself half decently in French, and Russian, and can strangle my way through basic German, along with sub-basic Italian (not least because I have three years of Latin from school), but, Spanish, alas.....
Okay: Please rank those links - what must I hear, and what ought I listen to?
Alas, my Spanish is non-existent - I can express myself half decently in French, and Russian, and can strangle my way through basic German, along with sub-basic Italian (not least because I have three years of Latin from school), but, Spanish, alas.....
Okay: Please rank those links - what must I hear, and what ought I listen to?
the Lyrics make the song great
gema
http://lyricstranslate.com/en/gema-gemstone.html
mi Linda Esposa.
http://lyricstranslate.com/en/mi-linda-esposa-my-beautiful-wife.html
mi querido viejo
http://lyricstranslate.com/en/mi-viejo-my-old-man.html
translation does not always "work".
Los Dandy's were old school IIRC.
I prefer the deep meaning behind the songs of Vicente Fernandez.
trios are always good.
http://translatedlyrics.blogspot.com/2005/03/tumba-falsa.html
All I can say is awesome!
I've heard most if not all these songs growing up, and these bring back a lot of memories - good and bad but would not change any of them.
My family followed the crops and worked the fields and would have us out there too at like 4-5 yrs old picking oranges and grapes and these songs were always playing in the background.
Teaches you a lot about being humble and appreciative of the things you do have...
I always liked these guys too -
Los Cadetes De Linares
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Hope you enjoy it.
I don't know if you use Spotify at all, but there are some on there to give you a general idea of the other albums. Not all of them are winners, to my ears.
Of course then there is also Calexico, Green Car Motel etc. And before you know it you may be veering off towards Labradford, Explosions in the Sky, God Speed You! Black Emperor…
But right now I'm listening to Poème Harmonique - Il Fásolo.
Ah, I love music.
Disclaimer: Not all of it, mind.
Hope you enjoy it.
I don't know if you use Spotify at all, but there are some on there to give you a general idea of the other albums. Not all of them are winners, to my ears.
Of course then there is also Calexico, Green Car Motel etc. And before you know it you may be veering off towards Labradford, Explosions in the Sky, God Speed You! Black Emperor…
But right now I'm listening to Poème Harmonique - Il Fásolo.
Ah, I love music.
Disclaimer: Not all of it, mind.
My brother used Spotify - until he found that there were (expensive) consequences for his mobile phone bill - and other consequences for the battery of his car (a nice Volvo S40).
We are a child free world, - and, as I no longer teach - the world of young people is not one I inhabit - which is one of the reasons I hang out here.
The upshot of all this is that there is a whole world of online activity that I am not terribly familiar with -actually, to be honest, not at all familiar with - and Spotify is a part of that.
So, unfortunately, you could count me completely clueless about it. I need some bright (and patient) teenager to sit down and explain it to me - which would have been easily done in my teaching days.
But agreed: I love music, too, and cannot conceive how anyone would choose to live without it.
Well this 52 year old teenager will be happy to point you in the right direction.
I find Spotify very useful. I use the free version — yes with ads that sometimes come at the most inappropriate moments — but only to listen to a couple tracks and see if something piques my fancy. With Amazon or iTunes the 30 seconds is rarely enough.
Try it!
And never before has so much music been so easily accessible. New discoveries almost every day.
Though I have fond memories of browsing, hours on end, through vinyl albums at the music shop. Or ordering by catalogue and then sometimes months later gratification!
Well this 52 year old teenager will be happy to point you in the right direction.
I find Spotify very useful. I use the free version — yes with ads that sometimes come at the most inappropriate moments — but only to listen to a couple tracks and see if something piques my fancy. With Amazon or iTunes the 30 seconds is rarely enough.
Try it!
And never before has so much music been so easily accessible. New discoveries almost every day.
Though I have fond memories of browsing, hours on end, through vinyl albums at the music shop. Or ordering by catalogue and then sometimes months later gratification!
Ah, it seems we're of a pretty similar vintage, as are my two brothers.
Yes, I seem to recall that the brother who used Spotify did mention the ads; the other brother had a tech savvy friend take him through Netflix, and seems to swear by it.
But yes, I remember - with great affection - those endless afternoons in record shops, browsing through vinyl records (and they had those alphabetical labels, sticking up, which enabled you to differentiate between records, and try to find artists whose work you liked) and then heading off into the rain to find the next record shop and repeat the exercise.
And, gosh, yes, catalogues.
I managed to get my father some quite obscure stuff form the 40s thanks to catalogues, - he was ecstatic - and, as you so rightly say, receiving what you had ordered months later.
The new Testament album dropped today - Brotherhood of the Snake and it kicks butt! Have been listening to it all morning!
Happy friday...........!
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Happy friday...........!
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Friday night... jazz night!
Tonight listening to Jonathan Finlayson's Moving Still, just released. This guy learned to play trumpet starting at age 10 in the Oakland CA public school system, now a composer, bandleader... has really hit his stride with this one.
Tonight listening to Jonathan Finlayson's Moving Still, just released. This guy learned to play trumpet starting at age 10 in the Oakland CA public school system, now a composer, bandleader... has really hit his stride with this one.
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Very nice for a rainy Sunday.
And it is pouring here today, just like the album...
Very nice for a rainy Sunday.
And it is pouring here today, just like the album...
In a mood for a bit of late Renaissance style music tonight, - a kind of Tudor ambience - filtered through a more modern sensibility: Thus, the excellent Debbie Wiseman with the gripping soundtrack to "Wolf Hall", and then the superb David Munrow with his soundtrack - dating from the late 60s but still fresh and compelling - "Henry VIII And His Six Wives".
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The wonderful "Miss Sarajevo" by Bono & Luciano Pavarotti (a track I love, not least for the fusion of pop and opera and the fact that I know Sarajevo rather well and used to teach the history of that part of the world) followed by the haunting "Fields of Coral" by Vangelis.