I am Music

[GuiltyPleasure]

We saw these guys years ago in Ottawa.....amazing.

 

[Angeline]

We saw these guys years ago in Ottawa.....amazing.

I remember when that show was running on Broadway. I didn't see the show but was passing the theater once and a group of performers were outside it with trash can lids, playing. They had people cheering!

Now this I love. When I was a kid I used to daydream that Fred Astaire would teach me to dance. He was so suave and could be so romantic

 

[Angeline]

RIP Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, who died today at 74. I have always loved their soul/r&b/funky sound.

Devotion

 

[AlwaysHungry]

Delicious and nutritious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAQQV7tZ7mQ

 

[AlwaysHungry]

These interesting young dudes from Sweden take the cheesiest of pop songs, and transmogrify them with high-energy jazzy arrangements.

 

[AlwaysHungry]

Here's a favorite of mine -- there are few pieces of music that kick ass like the finale of this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK5295yEQMQ

I am posting these for my sweetheart, and anyone else who may think that Mozart is "too pretty", a lightweight. The "Jupiter" symphony above, and the following other late symphonies, are so virile and so brilliantly inventive, so packed with subtle ideas -- they should put to rest the image of a facile and superficial Mozart:

#38 -- "Prague"

#41 (classic performance conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler)


...and a special bonus, my favorite Mozart string quartet, the "Dissonance."

 

[Angeline]

Happy 73rd Birthday George Harrison!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-KAvPbO8JY

 

[legerdemer]

Bopping to Graceland

Angeline has me bopping and bouncing to Paul Simon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Miriam Makeba. A nice start to my day - thank you.

 

[Angeline]

Angeline has me bopping and bouncing to Paul Simon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Miriam Makeba. A nice start to my day - thank you.

You're welcome! Those live performances are amazing, aren't they? I write so much about music and listening to those sounds is like hearing how music started, rhythms from heartbeats and breath.

 

[AlwaysHungry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo1aft5wX6o

I used to play this, back in my folky days.

 

[Angeline]

I used to play this, back in my folky days.

That's a good my. Eagleyez had a beautiful 12-string and I heard him messing around with that song a few times. He was usually walking around with his guitar.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Goodbye Mr.Martin

In My Life

Eleanor Rigby

 

[pelegrino]

A lullaby by Mikis Theodorakis

Sleep my little angel

 

[Angeline]

In My Life

Eleanor Rigby

I know why you chose those two, clever girl.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

I know why you chose those two, clever girl.

Here's another and and another . He really was a visionary, wasn't he?

 

[Angeline]

Here's another and and another . He really was a visionary, wasn't he?

He had the vision to see greatness in those guys from Liverpool when no one else did! I read somewhere recently that in the early days, he did more with four tracks than most sound engineers today do with a whole studio of pro tools. Of course once the Beatles got really famous he had anything available to him, but still the ideas they worked out!

And while this isn't music, I've never forgotten that he also produced some of my all-time favorite comedy albums from the great production, Beyond the Fringe:

Down the Mine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofUZNynYXzM

Take a Pew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rZOlkMYPZo

The Aftermyth of War, Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZaBbH4bCjY

The Aftermyth of War, Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R_l9KbYpag

I love this stuff!

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

He had the vision to see greatness in those guys from Liverpool when no one else did! I read somewhere recently that in the early days, he did more with four tracks than most sound engineers today do with a whole studio of pro tools. Of course once the Beatles got really famous he had anything available to him, but still the ideas they worked out!

And while this isn't music, I've never forgotten that he also produced some of my all-time favorite comedy albums from the great production, Beyond the Fringe:

Down the Mine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofUZNynYXzM

Take a Pew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rZOlkMYPZo

The Aftermyth of War, Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZaBbH4bCjY

The Aftermyth of War, Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R_l9KbYpag

I love this stuff!

Me too! We grew up with that kind of humour in England. Monty Python grew out of BTF and there were several other spin-offs. I had such a crush on Peter Cook.

 

[pelegrino]

For those who like rhythm here is a poem of the rare ones in the 20th century about the
Pleiades

by Yannis Xenakis

 

[AlwaysHungry]

I like rhythm, but I don't like Xenakis. I'd rather listen to Elvin Jones. But...

here is a song setting of a 19th century poem that involves the Pleiades.

 

[pelegrino]

Iannis Xenakis: Pithoprakta (1955/1956)

 

[wakingDown]

Waking, here's one more good fusion band for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWgn8dpdTIk

Sorry it took a while to respond to this, I've been out (though not about, much to my consternation), and I'm just starting to settle back into my more usual routines of herding cats, pissing off my neighbors to no end, destroying (what's left of) my hearing with GWAR, Sir Elton John, Skinless, Slayer and Three Dog Night, and driving my family absolutely bonkers in any way I can (one of my oldest and most cherished hobbies).

I must say, I am digging the hell out of Slow Change. Is that the band or the song name? The guitar is smooth and clean, and when he really starts ripping at around 4:23 I was grinning and tapping my toes. That guitar solo sounds like a mix between some old Pink Floyd guitar work, some Eric Johnson, and a whole mess of straight up shredding. Suffice to say, I played it through quite a few times.
The bass player was busting out some heavy duty jams as well (hell, they all were), and I played it through a couple times with it turned up loud enough for the wife to get onto me about being able to hear the headphones over the TV because I was trying ot pick out everything the bass was doing.
The drummer, man, holy underwear; I've always liked jazz drummers, but I've always known jazz drummers from metal and rock bands until recently (this thread, for the most part. Dixieland jazz drummers play a bit differently from fusion drummers, and tend to be a bit simpler in their approach, unless they're blasting out a particularly swingin' ragtime stomp; those can get a little crazy in the best kind of way). Guys like Gar Samuelson of ]v[EGADET]-[ and such. Listening to Dennis Chambers really reminded me of early Megadeth, especially when he really started going off. His fills and rolls were harsh, aggressive, clean, and pulled no punches, all while still fitting the tone and musical space of the song entirely. That's some gifted, well built drumming right there.

I found this yesterday, and don't know how you might classify it, but I know I like it. It's like Lego and something like IKEA mashed together, with a bass guitar jammed into it as well, all mixed together and creating music that just sounds awesome in my noise-holes. Aside from the good tunes it creates, the sheer creativity of the piece makes me happy. Hope you get a smile out of it as well. Rock on \m/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

wD

 

[AlwaysHungry]

I must say, I am digging the hell out of Slow Change. Is that the band or the song name?

That's the name of the song. I believe the band is just called the Mike Stern band (he's the guitarist. He used to be in Miles Davis' band.) Dennis Chambers is an in-demand fusion drummer, but he has also toured with Santana for many, many years. The bassist, Richard Bona, is an African dude who also performs African pop music in which he sings lead in addition to playing the bass.

 

[wakingDown]

Awesome, now I've more to look up today. That bright spot of music certainly hit the spot with the crap I've been wading through lately, and having more grand and rich music to dive into will certainly be a welcome reprieve. I look forward to finding many more gems from these wonderfully talented folks. \m/

 

[wakingDown]

Oh yeah, I was going to put this in yesterday, but there was a lot going on and I missed doing a lot of stuff I wanted to get done.

You've probably heard these guys before, but in case you haven't, here's Liquid Tension Experiment; a progressive/experimental metal band. There aren't many metal bands like them, and they don't put a lot of emphasis on heavy.
I have a hard time classifying them as a form of metal at all, personally; to me, they seem more in line with an experimental/prog-rock band that incorporates some metal tones, a few classic rock tones, some classical compositional structures and frameworks, some shred metal highly-technical guitar work, and some flavors of jazz, especially in the bass and a touch in the drumming at times. Like I said, it doesn't really have a terribly metal feel to it, despite the metal community being fairly consistent about hanging the title on the two primary albums (both primary albums were named Liquid Tension Experiment, they just put a '2' at the end of the second one). It's mostly, to me, a lot of high energy, highly technical, prog-rock instrumental music that just makes me sit and grin. I listened to the two primary albums an awful lot while putting together the seemingly endless barracks reports for the Battalion while I was in; it's great stuff for keeping sane while grinding away at brain-killingly boring computer work when you'd rather be humping ammo cans through terrible terrain instead of filling out the same report, again and again and again, until Armageddon's Trumpet blows and grants you sweet release from the Purgatory of Paperwork.
Some really grooving stuff, with a penchant for reaching out to multiple stylings in their works. They have Tony Levin on the bass and Chapman Stick, Jordan Rudess on the keyboards, Mike Portnoy on drums, and John Petrucci on guitar. Here's a few songs from them for your aural pleasure. Hope you like it, and that you hear something in there that catches your fancy. They have quite a few more that span more diverse sounds, but these are some that really sparked my ear for them.

Acid Rain - From the second album (probably my favorite from the group)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmo1VW_wA_o

Paradigm Shift - From the first album (right up there with Acid Rain)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pofqHfSvy_8

Biaxident - From the second album (that tone shift at around 3:37; man oh man)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYYOtEZeQl0

Universal Mind - From the first album (another great one)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEZC0ZJ1AW8

Rock on
wD

 

[AlwaysHungry]

Liquid Tension Experiment; a progressive/experimental metal band.

It does sound like prog-rock to me, as well is what is called "minimalism", a genre which is deemed "classical" by some (not me.) It features busy monotonous textures that shift very gradually.

I have no complaints about Mike Portnoy; I have listened to him on occasion on Youtube, along with Paul Gilbert and Bill Sheehan, to observe shredders in their natural habitat.