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What are you listening to? Part III

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Some more instrumental soundtracks, which I find motivational & inspirational...

John Adams - Opening Title - Robert Lane & Joseph Vitarelli - 2008

From The Earth to the Moon - Opening Title - Michael Kamen - 1998

Rudy - Main Theme - Jerry Goldsmith - 1993

Cheers
 
Listening to a lot of Italian composer Bruno Nicolai's stuff lately.

I love the female vocals and how the instruments just create this sense of being on something (even when you're not - like me).


and this track from a favorite giallo

 
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Some of the stuff you are listing to @mobilehaathi sounds fascinating - let me know which of those albums you like best.

For myself, something a little hypnotic yet edgy: The Last Of The Mochicans - The End Scene.
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They are all great, although the first two have been particularly good.

I didn't know this before I bought them, but Africa Express is a venture by Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz that seeks to make collaborations between African and Western musicians. In C Mali is a great performance of Terry Riley's In C by Malian musicians (this is minimalist music), Maison des Jeunes comprises of a mixture of artists recoded at a youth club in west Africa, and the Syrian Orchestra album is, well, another collaboration between Syrian musicians and western ones.
 
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In celebration of 100 days of posting a music video I was listening to, and posting the Boys. After seeing them introduce Yes at their Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame induction they were on my mind.

 
I'm listening to a fabulous artist from Australia named Dami Im. She has the best live voice I've ever heard.
 
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Pink Martini. Because......
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I first discovered them on a complication called Morning Becomes Eclectic. They did a haunting live in-studio take on Que Sera Sera. The first image in my mind upon hearing it was a band in an auditorium where the whole audience was dancing lethargically with zombie-like motion.

While I don't like this performance as much, it's fairly representative, if less haunting:

 
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IronWaffle said:
I first discovered them on a complication called Morning Becomes Eclectic. They did a haunting live in-studio take on Que Sera Sera. The first image in my mind upon hearing it was a band in an auditorium where the whole audience was dancing lethargically with zombie-like motion.

While I don't like this performance as much, it's fairly representative, if less haunting:


It's a good compilation. Another favorite is Brad Mehldau covering Radiohead's Exit Music. It's shorter and, in my estimation, better than his album version. More in-the-moment. That particular performance contains five or so transcendent seconds. That's not a low bar — it's just rare that I find a song which has "that moment" that I can feel coming even if distracted.
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I have most of Pink Martini's music, and have seen them perform live (accomplished, polished, urbane musicians) on a number of occasions.

Their first two albums (Sympathique - and I think Que Sera, Sera is on that album - and Hang On Little Tomato) are outstanding - albums that do not have a single poor track, to my mind.

Now, their subsequent albums are still excellent, or - at worst - extremely good - but don't quite reach the height of the first two superlative albums.
 
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