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What are you listening to? Part III
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Some Allman Brothers tonight, currently on their debut album The Allman Brothers Band. Great stuff.
A song from an album called French Café: The song is "La Mer Opale" and it is sung by Coralie Clément.
And that has been followed by a piece from an album that goes by the name of Italian Café.
This piece (which is instrumental, a lovely jazz style number) is called "Tu Vuo' Fa' L'Americano" by Quadro Nuevo.
And up next, another Italian instrumental piece, from an album called "Putumayo Presents: Italia".
The piece is "Iquique" and it comes courtesy of Rocco De Rosa.
And that has been followed by a piece from an album that goes by the name of Italian Café.
This piece (which is instrumental, a lovely jazz style number) is called "Tu Vuo' Fa' L'Americano" by Quadro Nuevo.
And up next, another Italian instrumental piece, from an album called "Putumayo Presents: Italia".
The piece is "Iquique" and it comes courtesy of Rocco De Rosa.
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Quadro Nuevo is great, they were a stitch throwing a flash mob tango gig in Munich awhile back... here's to the world's quick return to enough good health to see flashmob entertainment find its place again!
Ah, gorgeous; wonderful listening, and thanks for sharing this.
I love those quirky and quite charming compilation albums (such as 'cafe' albums, or the Putumayo series); you always make the acquaintance of new music, stuff you had never heard before, and often come across - and as a consequence, are introduced to - pieces of music (and hence, groups) that you come to not just like, but love.
And that is when you read about, and track down, and place an order for, their CDs......
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Reaching way back now! 
Carl Douglas - Kung Foo Fighting
Carl Douglas - Kung Foo Fighting
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The Hours (soundtrack and CD) - by Philip Glass: Specifically, the particular tracks Morning Passages and The Hours.
Indeed.
Now, I agree that it is a lovely, and yes - poignant - song. And that piano......
Just now, I am listening to a piece of music that goes by the name of "Tenore del passo e mezzo & La Romansch (arranged by Javier Núñez) from the album "À modo italano" - Javier Núñez.
A few more inspiring songs:
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Man, I would have relished being at that concert hall!
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One of the best love songs ever!
I just think that when the performer allows the audience to sing out loud some of the lyrics, it's just so, so awesome!
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Man, I would have relished being at that concert hall!
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One of the best love songs ever!
I just think that when the performer allows the audience to sing out loud some of the lyrics, it's just so, so awesome!
Listening to the best of Kenny Rogers in memory of him. My Mother and Grandmother were big fans of him.
J.S. Bach - Art of the Fugue and Musical Offering. Sir Neville Mariner and the players of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, with soloists Carmel Kaine, Malcom Latchem, Stephen Shingles, Kenneth Heath, John Gray, Neil Black, Tess Miller, Celia Nicklin. From a recording originally made by the ASMF crew in the 1970s but it's an old familiar one to me so I latched onto it when the CDs were issued. Some may prefer another set of older recordings, perhaps the ones with Karl Münchinger and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and there are many others, some w/ period instruments.
I don't know that very many Bach aficionados short of maybe a classical radio station presenter would elect to listen with focus to these things straight through, but I like them now and then either to hear the counterpoint (skipping around to favorite tracks) or just to have on in the background, when I tire of newer music and wish to be reminded of the art and power of contrapuntal composition.
The six-voice fugue based on 21 notes, in the 'Ricercare' of The Musical Offering, was Bach's considered riposte to Frederick the Great, then King of Prussia, who had challenged Bach to create such a thing on the fly in his presence, and even provided the theme. But Bach perhaps wisely demurred and instead invented a six-voice ad hoc fugue on a theme of his own choice for that occasion. He did though go home and over time composed what became the varied riches of The Musical Offering for the king: all of its canons, riddles, fugues and other pieces were based on the king's 21-note theme.
I don't know that very many Bach aficionados short of maybe a classical radio station presenter would elect to listen with focus to these things straight through, but I like them now and then either to hear the counterpoint (skipping around to favorite tracks) or just to have on in the background, when I tire of newer music and wish to be reminded of the art and power of contrapuntal composition.
The six-voice fugue based on 21 notes, in the 'Ricercare' of The Musical Offering, was Bach's considered riposte to Frederick the Great, then King of Prussia, who had challenged Bach to create such a thing on the fly in his presence, and even provided the theme. But Bach perhaps wisely demurred and instead invented a six-voice ad hoc fugue on a theme of his own choice for that occasion. He did though go home and over time composed what became the varied riches of The Musical Offering for the king: all of its canons, riddles, fugues and other pieces were based on the king's 21-note theme.
My wife is watching a Korean "video" on YouTube, and they played this awesome song:
