wow. just. wow.
This one is my running on the treadmill go to.
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What are you listening to? Part III
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wow. just. wow.
This one is my running on the treadmill go to.
Bill Ward was such a beast, he’s just killing that kit.
Good choice! Here's (most likely) their most famous song:
And here's another gem by them:
Hopefully you are well acquainted with the original group, Jefferson Airplane. Much better in my opinion but all music is good
Friday night = the jazz prowl. Found Jimmy Greene's very new release, While Looking Up. Three covers and seven of his own works, each with a varied set of players he's worked with before. Cannot keep a good jazzman down, even if a loss in the Sandy Hook incident will clearly have put different underpinnings into his family's life forever. This is a keeper for me, encountered via Apple Music but then ordered the CD.
Jimmy Greene - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet
Reuben Rogers - bass
Kendrick Scott - drums
Aaron Goldberg - piano, Fender Rhodes
Lage Lund - guitar
Stefon Harris - marimba, vibraphone
Jimmy Greene - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet
Reuben Rogers - bass
Kendrick Scott - drums
Aaron Goldberg - piano, Fender Rhodes
Lage Lund - guitar
Stefon Harris - marimba, vibraphone
Vals Venezolano 2 and 3
Ana Vidovic plays Vals Venezolano No. 2 by Antonio Lauro
Ana Vidovic plays Vals Venezolano No. 3 by Antonio Lauro
here is an older version of her playing strait through both pieces - Ana Vidovic: Valses Venezolanos 2 y 3
Not as good video quality but a beautiful performance 💕
Ana Vidovic plays Vals Venezolano No. 2 by Antonio Lauro
Ana Vidovic plays Vals Venezolano No. 3 by Antonio Lauro
here is an older version of her playing strait through both pieces - Ana Vidovic: Valses Venezolanos 2 y 3
Not as good video quality but a beautiful performance 💕
Sorry for the repeat, but I can listen to these 2 performances all day!
Celine Tam - My Heart Will Go On:
Jack Vidgen - I Have Nothing:
Celine Tam - My Heart Will Go On:
Jack Vidgen - I Have Nothing:
An old playlist this morning, some stuff from about the middle of the 2000-2009 decade.
Some of the works on these albums seem particularly appropriate to the time of the novel coronavirus... although that's been an afterthought, not my reason for having launched a playlist containing some tracks of these albums today.
Anyway I'm being fairly entertained as I try to focus on picking up the fabrics I'd tossed around my studio on Friday, once again proving to myself it's better to put them away while I still know what racks and bins I got them out of. The playlist selections may be a bit chaotic but nothin' like what I've been lookin' at here this morning.
Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
White Stripes - Elephant
Yo La Tengo - I am Not Afraid of You and I will Beat Your A**
Some of the works on these albums seem particularly appropriate to the time of the novel coronavirus... although that's been an afterthought, not my reason for having launched a playlist containing some tracks of these albums today.
Anyway I'm being fairly entertained as I try to focus on picking up the fabrics I'd tossed around my studio on Friday, once again proving to myself it's better to put them away while I still know what racks and bins I got them out of. The playlist selections may be a bit chaotic but nothin' like what I've been lookin' at here this morning.
Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
White Stripes - Elephant
Yo La Tengo - I am Not Afraid of You and I will Beat Your A**
Queen whilst I mowed.
Hammer to fall
Innuendo
One vision
Bohemian rhapsody
among others.
Hammer to fall
Innuendo
One vision
Bohemian rhapsody
among others.
Regina Spektor's Russian cover of The Prayer of François Villon (Molitva, by Bulat Okudzhava). The track is from her 2012 album What We Saw from the Cheap Seats.
There are a number of videos of Spektor's cover of this work; some are studio and some live performances. That one has some photos of Bulat Okudzhava in it, and also has English subtitles of the Molitva lyrics.
Okudzhava, of Georgian-Armenian ancestry, was one of those Russian-Soviet bards and other artists of the 1960s who managed to thread the needle between hopes for communism with a small c and disdain along with fear of oppressive Soviet-era governance. He wrote primarily in a folk vein, often humorously and so somewhat sardonically about life as it unfurled after Stalin. Unlike some who became overtly political when it was life endangering to do so, he lingered in the margins of independent artistry, and so was neither executed for offenses against the State nor openly praised by the upper echelons of Soviet times even as his popularity grew. Today the bards of that era are celebrated as a part of Russian culture: there are statues of Okudzhava in Moscow and his ancestral home is a museum... although some of his kin had not fared so well in the times after the Russian revolution and the roiled politics of Georgia, enduring imprisonment and then finally rehabilitation in the post-Stalin era.
Okudzhava's lyric in his Molitva could be taken several ways, since François Villon (a Frenchman of the 15th century) was a poet whose works have probably fared way better than he may have done in the end.
Villon was a petty thief living by his wits plus a nimble instinct for escape and perhaps also by violence, when he wasn't composing poetry for the ages. It's not certain that he perished on a gallows but it may have been what he feared for himself in the end. Villon's work Le Testament has sections that refer to the possibility, hence the brief glimpse of the cover of an edition of that work in the cited video above. Villon was in fact once sentenced to be hanged but at least in that case the sentence was changed to banishment.
Regina Spektor was born to Russian Jews in Moscow in 1980 and came with her family to the US at the age of nine, landing in the Bronx. They had emigrated here during perestroika, traveling first through Austria and Italy, with the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which saw them through the refugee admission process. She had begun study of piano in Moscow; in the USA she attended both Jewish and secular schools, then completed a four-year program in classical music and composition at SUNY Purchase in three years.
As songwriter and performer, Spektor can be a stitch. Some of her jazz-inflected works run in the same sardonic vein as that of Okudzhava despite their stylistic differences, e.g. her plaintive track Love Affair, which addresses some aspects of being the daughter of a mother who might prefer a doctor or lawyer to... sigh, an engineer?... as prospective father of her grandchildren... when perhaps as a daughter all one has in mind after college for awhile is the chance to date a few guys before settling down.
Spektor's album 11:11 (2001) should not be missed either for a couple of its other phenomenal tracks, like Back of a Truck, and 2.99 Cent Blues. The woman has a voice to be relished, a keen eye for life in NY, and a wicked wit.
There are a number of videos of Spektor's cover of this work; some are studio and some live performances. That one has some photos of Bulat Okudzhava in it, and also has English subtitles of the Molitva lyrics.
Okudzhava, of Georgian-Armenian ancestry, was one of those Russian-Soviet bards and other artists of the 1960s who managed to thread the needle between hopes for communism with a small c and disdain along with fear of oppressive Soviet-era governance. He wrote primarily in a folk vein, often humorously and so somewhat sardonically about life as it unfurled after Stalin. Unlike some who became overtly political when it was life endangering to do so, he lingered in the margins of independent artistry, and so was neither executed for offenses against the State nor openly praised by the upper echelons of Soviet times even as his popularity grew. Today the bards of that era are celebrated as a part of Russian culture: there are statues of Okudzhava in Moscow and his ancestral home is a museum... although some of his kin had not fared so well in the times after the Russian revolution and the roiled politics of Georgia, enduring imprisonment and then finally rehabilitation in the post-Stalin era.
Okudzhava's lyric in his Molitva could be taken several ways, since François Villon (a Frenchman of the 15th century) was a poet whose works have probably fared way better than he may have done in the end.
Villon was a petty thief living by his wits plus a nimble instinct for escape and perhaps also by violence, when he wasn't composing poetry for the ages. It's not certain that he perished on a gallows but it may have been what he feared for himself in the end. Villon's work Le Testament has sections that refer to the possibility, hence the brief glimpse of the cover of an edition of that work in the cited video above. Villon was in fact once sentenced to be hanged but at least in that case the sentence was changed to banishment.
Regina Spektor was born to Russian Jews in Moscow in 1980 and came with her family to the US at the age of nine, landing in the Bronx. They had emigrated here during perestroika, traveling first through Austria and Italy, with the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which saw them through the refugee admission process. She had begun study of piano in Moscow; in the USA she attended both Jewish and secular schools, then completed a four-year program in classical music and composition at SUNY Purchase in three years.
As songwriter and performer, Spektor can be a stitch. Some of her jazz-inflected works run in the same sardonic vein as that of Okudzhava despite their stylistic differences, e.g. her plaintive track Love Affair, which addresses some aspects of being the daughter of a mother who might prefer a doctor or lawyer to... sigh, an engineer?... as prospective father of her grandchildren... when perhaps as a daughter all one has in mind after college for awhile is the chance to date a few guys before settling down.
Spektor's album 11:11 (2001) should not be missed either for a couple of its other phenomenal tracks, like Back of a Truck, and 2.99 Cent Blues. The woman has a voice to be relished, a keen eye for life in NY, and a wicked wit.