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What are you listening to? Part III
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Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me - from the soundtrack of the film/movie The Breakfast Club.
Listening to Phillip Glass' "Music in Twelve Parts," along with the soundtrack for Koyaanisqatsi--simply superb!! I recommend everyone listen to it (and watch the damn film!) even if you don't care for avant-garde music/film (I just happen to absolutely love the stuff!).
An album with the wonderful name "Mexican Spaghetti Western" - by Chingón, and another album, - with the terrific title "Mexico and Mariachis" on a similar theme, with several tracks from a number of splendid artists, among them, Chingón, Los Lobos, Tito Larriva, Patricia Vonne, Cruzados, Robert Rodriguez, The Iguanas, Los Leftovers, and Del Castillo.
I'm listening to Track 01! Yep, I cannot find a title, or artist for this song--it's in my local music library. It's a nice Latin kinda thing in the key of C minor, with a bridge in E flat. Actually, the tumbao bass line is wrong (doesn't always accent beat 4, which is super annoying), but close enough.
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No idea!! I have a folder called "Latin," and that's the first one. No metadata about the track title, album, or artist!
I love Latin and (modern) Mexican music.
For some stunning rock music with superb keyboards and bass (which, to my mind, is what distinguishes these two players - and thus, the signature sound and music of the two respective groups that they each played with), I (passionately) recommend The Doors (with Ray Manzarek on keyboards) and The Stranglers (where Dave Greenfield performed on - and wrote for - keyboards).
Currently listening to Bach's Magnificat, also in my local music library.
You know, I never really had a true appreciation for Bach until very recently. I mean, I played all the preludes and fugues as a kid, but never really thought much of it. Just though it was the repertoire that everyone learned. But I actually hated listening to Bach when I was younger--I just saw no point. In fact, I'd listen to everything else EXCEPT him.
Wasn't really till I got to college that one professor specifically made me realize how important his music is. First lesson he sang along to a chorale, and then sang all the inner voices of it, perfectly with no mistakes. That was the most impressed I've been in a long time, honestly--I'd never heard ANYONE do that before! Then I got back up to the dorm and did the same thing. Started with easy stuff with little melodic movement. Then of course in the spring I got that book full of Bach chorales. So yeah, now I have been completely transformed!
Actually, I was just talking to a guy (local musician, actually) who developed this computer program in the 80s that would play a MIDI version of a chorale, and the voices could be manipulated as an ear-training tool. So you could figure out which voice was flat or sharp. Wish a similar thing existed nowadays (I bet it does and I just don't know about it).
Wasn't really till I got to college that one professor specifically made me realize how important his music is. First lesson he sang along to a chorale, and then sang all the inner voices of it, perfectly with no mistakes. That was the most impressed I've been in a long time, honestly--I'd never heard ANYONE do that before! Then I got back up to the dorm and did the same thing. Started with easy stuff with little melodic movement. Then of course in the spring I got that book full of Bach chorales. So yeah, now I have been completely transformed!
Actually, I was just talking to a guy (local musician, actually) who developed this computer program in the 80s that would play a MIDI version of a chorale, and the voices could be manipulated as an ear-training tool. So you could figure out which voice was flat or sharp. Wish a similar thing existed nowadays (I bet it does and I just don't know about it).
