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What are you listening to? Part III
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*Trigger alert red music follows* *Also reactionary pro-Monarchy music*
Song of the Partisans. Actually a little song with an interesting history. The melody was written for the Russian Tsarist Army during the First World War. A revolutionary text was written about the Red Army's campaign against the White forces in the Far East (Amur river region). Versions exist in Serbo-Croatian, German and French.
Russian text here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po_dolinam_i_po_vzgoriam
For comparison here is the pro-White version:
FEllow is one of the White commanders:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Drozdovsky
Thus endeth your musical history lesson today.
Edit, forgot to say the first clip is not the usual, magnificent version sung by the Red Army Choir but a more intimate sentimental version sung by a Russian group called "Piknik"
Song of the Partisans. Actually a little song with an interesting history. The melody was written for the Russian Tsarist Army during the First World War. A revolutionary text was written about the Red Army's campaign against the White forces in the Far East (Amur river region). Versions exist in Serbo-Croatian, German and French.
Russian text here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po_dolinam_i_po_vzgoriam
For comparison here is the pro-White version:
FEllow is one of the White commanders:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Drozdovsky
Thus endeth your musical history lesson today.
Edit, forgot to say the first clip is not the usual, magnificent version sung by the Red Army Choir but a more intimate sentimental version sung by a Russian group called "Piknik"
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Musical history lessons are always interesting, and thanks for sharing this fascinating material.
The post today brought some - well, two, to be exact - CDs from the "Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra".
I must say that I am looking forward to listening to them, perhaps later this evening.
I must say that I am looking forward to listening to them, perhaps later this evening.
"Selling England By The Pound" - Genesis.
Paradoxically topical....
Paradoxically topical....
It's Friday!
Time to get the party started early...
Marvin Gaye with - "Got to give it up"
Time to get the party started early...
Marvin Gaye with - "Got to give it up"
I love that track
I hadn't heard it in forever until it came on shuffle recently (I tell Siri to "play my music" and she suprises me occasionally)Currently listening to:
Now transitioning to some Friday night fights - One Day As A Lion with "Wild International"
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Can't go wrong with Jon Theodore on drums either!
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Can't go wrong with Jon Theodore on drums either!
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Gonna keep it going with -
Jean Jacques Perrey - "E.V.A."
So freakin dope - gotta put it on repeat!
This stuff is timeless...
Jean Jacques Perrey - "E.V.A."
So freakin dope - gotta put it on repeat!
This stuff is timeless...
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Listening to 'Electric Ladyland' by Jimi Hendrix.
Some Saturday night Classic Detroit techno partly inspired by Kraftwerk.
Model 500 - "Night Drive(Thru-Babylon)
Model 500 - "Night Drive(Thru-Babylon)
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Loved Kraftwerk in the 80s; and what an absolutely gorgeous album cover, (or sleeve, as those of us reared on LPs might have described it).
Wow, it reminds me so much of Pierre Henry's "Psyché Rock," which was the basis for the "Futurama" theme song and came out in 1967.
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Ah, now that is music. Real music. Great album.
And just saw somewhere else - perhaps the Guardian (or The Observer) - a reference to how the legendary composer Philip Glass is 80 years old today.
A track just came on that was one of my first iTunes purchases. I was young and impulsive, so I ended up buying the wrong song. Given that it's so obscure I can't find any lyrics (Google served up eight unhelpful results) much less a YouTube video, I have no idea how iTunes' algorithm placed it before the popular song with a similar name.
The production value was low or the artist didn't care enough, so the track is three-and-a-quarter minutes of unfiltered fricative-and-glottal-stop-ridden lyrics:
Without the handlebars
Balance seemed to come back
My world's in perspective
I'm about to come back
I've gotten all my talents
And recited all my ballots
In a single half-an-hour
You can take away my power
But now you just get sour
Your heart is un-devoured
I'm a better man now
You can't take my power
That rhyme scheme… man.
The production value was low or the artist didn't care enough, so the track is three-and-a-quarter minutes of unfiltered fricative-and-glottal-stop-ridden lyrics:
Without the handlebars
Balance seemed to come back
My world's in perspective
I'm about to come back
I've gotten all my talents
And recited all my ballots
In a single half-an-hour
You can take away my power
But now you just get sour
Your heart is un-devoured
I'm a better man now
You can't take my power
That rhyme scheme… man.