Koi-iro Magic Orchestra
The album Koi-iro Magic Orchestra, Touhou arrangements Parodying the 80's group Yellow Magic Orchestra.
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What are you listening to? Part III
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DRUMS / PERCUSSION / INFECTIOUSLY UPBEAT. I've been planning on sharing the following song (among others) for the past two or three months, but I just kept putting it off. You have now given me the perfect excuse to do so. Thanks!
As some of you may know, Ferrante & Teicher became famous for their dramatic, melancholy, "easy-listening" movie soundtracks of the 1960s ("Theme from 'The Apartment'," "Exodus," "Midnight Cowboy," etc.). So imagine my great delight when, in 2009, I stumbled across their wild, silly, infectiously upbeat, percussion-heavy 1958 performance of "How High the Moon." It is completely unlike the music that made them famous. I don't understand why this wasn't released as a single.
Great song. Not much else that needs to be said. I remember "dancing"* to this with a girl in some disco in high school, haven't heard the song in ages.
* No double entendres intended here, I just very much suck at dancing.
* No double entendres intended here, I just very much suck at dancing.
Been watching the Oasis show at Wembley Stadium that was the footage for "Familiar to Millions".
I never dreamt that anyone could make "The Sounds of Silence" sound as magical and emotional as Simon & Garfunkel do in their 1966 masterpiece (one of my all-time favorites), but Korean pianist Sangha Noona did so in 2019. I still can't believe I even bothered to click on her video last July 1, 2020, since I had always been convinced that no other musician could do that song justice. However, in Sangha's often wonderfully understated solo, she has achieved something that I didn't think was possible. She has filled an already profoundly beautiful song with even more beauty. She fills even the brief silences between some of her keystrokes with an anticipation that creates goosebumps (at least for me). Watch her face at 30 seconds to see how deeply she is feeling what she is playing. I can't believe it, but for the rest of my life I may now actually think of her version first whenever this song pops into my head.
That certainly is well done but in my view, the original is the best. Paul wrote the song at 22 years of age. In October he will turn 79 and Art will join him in November. What a talented duo
I certainly don't disagree with you. I actually didn't mean to imply that hers is better than theirs, just that hers has left a huge impression on me personally. In the original version of my post, which I wrote in late July but didn't submit, I kept trying (and failing) to find an "un-clumsy" and "un-wordy" way of saying that comparing the two would be like comparing apples and oranges. I should have continued with that attempt in this post, but I didn't. Her version simply adds some additional - and unique - beauty to the already incredibly beautiful original version; but that doesn't mean hers surpasses theirs. I think they are different enough from one another that they can't be compared in that way (vocal vs. instrumental, multiple instruments vs. one instrument, male vs. female
, etc.).Unnecessary Additional Commentary: I've been in love with S & G's version since I was a little kid in the late 1960s or early 1970s, and I still am. I love their version of "Scarborough Fair" just as much, or maybe more. Both songs, when I hear them, stop me in my tracks. But now, so does Sangha Noona's version of "TSoS." For some reason, her piano version strikes a chord in me (pun not fully intended, ha); therefore, my mind now can't help but hear her version first every time I think of the song in general (songs always get stuck in my head; for example, right now Art Garfunkel's "All I Know" is stuck in my head; it gets stuck there longer than most every time I hear it). I've also long been a huge fan of instrumentals.
Finally, it's possible/probable that my having listened to S & G's version (along with all of my other favorite pop songs) one or four hundred times in roughly the past 50 years has made me become a bit too used to it (them), while her version is still fresh and new (and beautifully done).
I was hoping to but not yet. I have to give it a few more spins to see if it wins me over.