I think maybe the album / DVD to which you're referring here is called "Shadows & Light...." ??
Further research suggests that indeed it is!
Shadows and Light (Joni Mitchell album) - Wikipedia
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What are you listening to? Part III
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OMG!!!!!!!!! This is truly wonderful! I have no other words, other than I absolutely LOVED it.
Delighted that you loved it.
Brilliant, spell-binding, spine-tingling, isn't it?
And - as I mentioned - hearing it live (in a superb production) one Christmas Day was.......awesome. And unforgettable.
Actually, that entire album is superb; the Agnes Dei is astonishing.
Six Views of the Blues - which although it was recorded in 1958, wasn't released until 1999 by Blue Note. It's truly an underrated record! Jimmy Smith, Cecil Payne, Kenny Burrell, Art Blakey, and Donald Bailey.
"Entomologists" by Ghost and Pals. A classmate recently played it for me. It's weird, but it's a good song! I have no idea what genre it is. It's electronic music though. Like, there's some actual classical influence in it and a lot of music theory stuff behind it.
He does a great job! I wonder where that is that he's performing it...
@Scepticalscribe might like this, I certainly do!! Also, they throw in the forbidden seven notes at 2:22. I don't like all the tracks off this record, but this one's great!
EDIT: It's a cool tune, and I absolutely love it, but it sorta sounds like those demo songs off cheap Casio keyboards from the 2000s.
EDIT: It's a cool tune, and I absolutely love it, but it sorta sounds like those demo songs off cheap Casio keyboards from the 2000s.
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Actually, I don't know whether I have mentioned the (superb) legendary Brazilian group Azymuth (whom I had the rare privilege and pleasure of hearing live, at a live concert (a very small concert, in a pub, astonishingly) on a rare European tour over twenty years ago; even before that concert, I had (still have) most of their albums as CDs and couldn't believe my luck when they turned up in person; absolute legends.
Anyway, I strongly - passionately - recommend Azymuth; to my mind (ear?) their tracks Jazz Carnival and Last Summer in Rio are especially good.
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@rm5: Along with Azymuth (whose music I love), I also recommend the music of the Cuban artist/composer Israel Cachao Lopez - who performed under the name Cachao.
I first came across a CD of his music in a backstreet in central Zagreb (where I was observing elections), over twenty years ago; lovely stuff.
Unfortunately, - unlike Azymuth - I never had the privilege of hearing him play live, but I loved (and love) his music.
I first came across a CD of his music in a backstreet in central Zagreb (where I was observing elections), over twenty years ago; lovely stuff.
Unfortunately, - unlike Azymuth - I never had the privilege of hearing him play live, but I loved (and love) his music.
There are some songs that are so good, that they set the bar so high for if they should or should not be covered, because of how let down someone may feel about a song compared to its original. For example: the let down people had in the 90s by techno versions of Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart, or Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time. Really good ballads made techno for the sake of techno on a dance floor didn't do the song much justice.
That said, when a song is so good, one has the choice of taking the song in a different direction, such as Floor Jansen taking Rolf Sanchez's Que Se Siente and transforming it from a salsa song to a latin power ballad with great impact, or Disturbed taking Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence in the direction they took and now completely own the song (Paul Simon's words)..
Or they have the choice of leaving it as is and just making it sound as good as the original and even fuller than what the original initially did. Well, the latter is what we have here, with yet another good one from the Youtube cover band, The Hindley Street Country Club. This time, they took the Alan Parsons Project's Eye in the Sky, and .. well.. just enjoy.
BL.
That said, when a song is so good, one has the choice of taking the song in a different direction, such as Floor Jansen taking Rolf Sanchez's Que Se Siente and transforming it from a salsa song to a latin power ballad with great impact, or Disturbed taking Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence in the direction they took and now completely own the song (Paul Simon's words)..
Or they have the choice of leaving it as is and just making it sound as good as the original and even fuller than what the original initially did. Well, the latter is what we have here, with yet another good one from the Youtube cover band, The Hindley Street Country Club. This time, they took the Alan Parsons Project's Eye in the Sky, and .. well.. just enjoy.
BL.
Man, I've never given this one a good listen until today... wow!
I love it!
Not my favorite of theirs but still really good!
Man, I've never given this one a good listen until today... wow!
I love it!
Been going back through the 'Dark Side of the Moog' series of electronica by Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze (with Bill Laswell) ... currently on volume 4, here is the second part of that...