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What are you listening to? Part III
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13, Wither.
Wish these (mostly ladies) were still around. Proof positive if you're going to play slow and that heavy, groove is the way to go.
Wish these (mostly ladies) were still around. Proof positive if you're going to play slow and that heavy, groove is the way to go.
I remember when that album came out - and yes, it was excellent.
Actually, I had bought a copy (this was before iPods) but gave it to a friend who just loved Radiohead.
In a mood for some modern electronic instrumental music - hence, I am listening to several albums by Jon & Vangelis (or, indeed, simply Vangelis). Quite marvellous.
Listening to AfroCubism; it is raining outside - that heavy silent rain of mid summer, and I thought to introduce a little sunshine - virtually speaking, or in an audio sense - into proceedings.
And now, some Balkan Brass band music, with the Boban Markovic Orchestar, another CDs, "Balkan Brass Fest" and "Go Marko Go!"
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I always say I'm going to watch the Tony Awards and I always forget to do it. Oh well, still listening to some showtunes either way:
Love Changes Everything - from Aspects of Love by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Love Changes Everything - from Aspects of Love by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Great album. Did you catch any of them at Glastonbury this past weekend?
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That takes me back. I used to listen to some compelation or other on my Walkman (the sort with tapes!) which featured Vangelis.
Still on the BBC iPlayer app if you can get it in the US.
Not in a music mood but wanted to share this for this threads Pink Martini fans:
Sound Check (on WNYC, New York's NPR): Pink Martini's Exotic Musical Journey Continues (22 minutes of audio):
Sound Check (on WNYC, New York's NPR): Pink Martini's Exotic Musical Journey Continues (22 minutes of audio):
"Portland, Oregon-based Pink Martini whisks listeners away on globetrotting musical journeys, singing in Armenian, Portuguese, Arabic, French & Xhosa, among many other languages - and that's just their latest record, Je Dis Oui!. Their founder, pianist Thomas Lauderdale, recently described the group this way: "If the United Nations had a house band in 1962, we aspire to be that band." The 'little orchestra'- some 12-members strong, takes over our studio."
Web Extra: Pink Martini plays their version of the Miriam Makeba classic "Pata Pata."
Web Extra: Pink Martini plays their version of the Miriam Makeba classic "Pata Pata."
Actually, I saw them play live on their recent European tour - my brother got me a ticket for my birthday - and they played quite a few tracks from this album (which I managed to acquire subsequently).
Currently listening to the timeless, immortal Buena Vista Social Club, from the album of the same name.
Nice! They're in my queue, but I'm already behind on my other media escapes.
I'm embarrassed that I never saw Buena Vista. Just wasn't possible when it came out. Fortunately, I was able to get a promo of the Ibrahim Ferrer CD (his first and the initial follow-up to the soundtrack). I love it. I've been tempted to buy the soundtrack itself, but the surround version is long out of print and is usually pricey so I've held off to avoid a double-dip. I did, however, recently purchase Criterion's new blu-ray and I'm saving it for just the right kind of rainy day.
Well, I have seen Pink Martini perform live twice, - this year and in 2012 on their European tour - and - bizarrely, I did manage to get to see Buena Vista Social Club perform live during a European tour in 2001.
Sublime.
I love this sort of music - when I saw that Pink Martini were on tour around the time of my birthday a suggestion was made to my brother who did the needful.
How is the bonus disc? And how is the sound quality on the reissue? Too often re-releases are "brickwalled" -- audio levels maxed out such that foreground and background elements are presented at such a similar volume level. It can ruin the balance and nuance of the original mix.
While I'm at it, this isn't the same performance, but this artist's -- Brad Mehldau -- cover of "Exit Music" was my entry point to OK Computer.
I've also enjoyed the recent Westworld Radiohead covers.
What can I say... I'm a sucker for melancholically tentative piano performances.
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When you haven't heard them - or played them, or listened to them - for a while, you tend to forget just how exceptionally good Buena Vista Social Club are.
Yesterday was a supergroup listening day.
Today was a Downunder kinda day.
Today was a Downunder kinda day.
Men At Work? Wow. That is a sound from the past.
Loved them in the 80s.......when I was a student...
Actually I think he listens to rap and that is basically Cockney rhyming slang for a pony.