What music are you obsessed by at the moment?
I've been relaxing with the Feelies today. (The NJ band, in case any clarification is needed.)
The host of a guitar-related youTube channel I subscribe to has a segment where he talks about what he has been listening to lately. The latest installment mentioned a Russian band named Kauan, and discussed their last release:
Kauan, "Kaiho" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_cW7ysyAT0)
Good meditative proposal-writing music.
The young child next door believes he is singing when actually he is screaming. Or yelling. Or otherwise making lots of noise via what used to be called "vocalizing" when professional singers did it.
(I've spoken to his mother about it. She says she doesn't tell him to stop screaming because she wants to encourage his artistic sensibilities. Um-kay . . . .)
Being newly 50 and therefore a Grumpy Old Man (tm), I've started learning all about how our new smart TV accesses the Internet. Specifically, YouTube. Even more specifically, the "1812 Overture" and similarly loud classical music.
(The fidelity of the sound reproduction is just amazing, FYI. Particularly at level 40 of 45, above which various tchotchkes start vibrating.)
So these days, when the little boy next door goes from "singing" to making noises considerably outside the parameters of "music"--including temper tantrums, meltdowns, and a particularly interesting Saturday afternoon featuring much experimentation with a new kazoo--I head over to the TV, pick up the remote, and access the Internet. Specifically, YouTube. Even more specifically, the versions of the "1812 Overture" with actual cannons.
For purely educational purposes, of course.
(I do believe I have all pertinent versions bookmarked.)
My next bookmarks might be various versions of "Pictures at an Exhibition." Or "Night on Bald Mountain." I'm still deciding . . . .
Quote from: paultuttle on September 29, 2019, 05:37:13 PM
The young child next door believes he is singing when actually he is screaming. Or yelling. Or otherwise making lots of noise via what used to be called "vocalizing" when professional singers did it.
(I've spoken to his mother about it. She says she doesn't tell him to stop screaming because she wants to encourage his artistic sensibilities. Um-kay . . . .)
Being newly 50 and therefore a Grumpy Old Man (tm), I've started learning all about how our new smart TV accesses the Internet. Specifically, YouTube. Even more specifically, the "1812 Overture" and similarly loud classical music.
(The fidelity of the sound reproduction is just amazing, FYI. Particularly at level 40 of 45, above which various tchotchkes start vibrating.)
So these days, when the little boy next door goes from "singing" to making noises considerably outside the parameters of "music"--including temper tantrums, meltdowns, and a particularly interesting Saturday afternoon featuring much experimentation with a new kazoo--I head over to the TV, pick up the remote, and access the Internet. Specifically, YouTube. Even more specifically, the versions of the "1812 Overture" with actual cannons.
For purely educational purposes, of course.
(I do believe I have all pertinent versions bookmarked.)
My next bookmarks might be various versions of "Pictures at an Exhibition." Or "Night on Bald Mountain." I'm still deciding . . . .
If he's a singer, why not teach the little darlin' a song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXZQ1HCJhGc) (Most assuredly NSFW from that great Canadian duo MacLean MacLean)
I'll match your young singer with a lovely little 5one-year-old girl softly singing "The Eensey-Weensey Spider," on the bus yesterday: complete with carefully-done hand motions, and exactly on pitch.
Of course, I joined her.
One so rarely gets to play with people one's own age anymore....
M.
I'll give you a few options to explore on Youtube:
Peruvian garage rock from the 1960's
Botswana's heavy metal scene
Rhodesian / Zimbabwean rock from the 70's and 80's
pre-1975 rock music from Vietnam and Cambodia
Try The Pines of Rome, specifically the last section which features massive brass. Your windows will break.
It's getting to the time of the semester when I'm starting to listen to a bunch of post-hardcore. I realize that I never really paid attention to Drive Like Jehu back in the day, but they are great.
The Lone Bellow has a new album out, so I'm haunting Youtube to get samples of the singles. I like it so far.
Recently I'm on a kick of listening to A-WA or Sudan Archives while writing.
A-Wa's "Asad": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXpJmlIG_nk
Sudan Archives "Confessions": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgjrt12QTVQ
I got the new Silversun Pickups album ("Widow's Weeds") recently.
"Carnavas" and "Neck of the Woods" are still my favorites but this one is sinking in.
Listening to a lot of Nick Drake today.
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Brubeck. :-)
paultuttle, for some variety for your young not-exactly-singer neighbor, how about Aaron Copeland's "Fanfare for the Common Man"? Lovely parts for bass drum, cymbal, and very shrill trumpets and French horns!
I'd tell you, but I'd be showing off my taste.
Quote from: Larimar on April 20, 2020, 06:16:52 PM
paultuttle, for some variety for your young not-exactly-singer neighbor, how about Aaron Copeland's "Fanfare for the Common Man"? Lovely parts for bass drum, cymbal, and very shrill trumpets and French horns!
Interestingly, the young "singer" next door has "graduated" to mimicking a doorbell chime: a high note followed by a fall of a third (so that what he produces sounds like DING-dong).
And doing it repeatedly (!!!) outside my home-office window at approximately 4:45 p.m. daily.
I suppose the silver lining is that it's an aural reminder that the work day is almost over and I need to start the winding-down process.
(Finding my silver linings where I can . . . . [interthreaduality alert])
Quote from: paultuttle on April 22, 2020, 05:58:36 AM
Quote from: Larimar on April 20, 2020, 06:16:52 PM
paultuttle, for some variety for your young not-exactly-singer neighbor, how about Aaron Copeland's "Fanfare for the Common Man"? Lovely parts for bass drum, cymbal, and very shrill trumpets and French horns!
Interestingly, the young "singer" next door has "graduated" to mimicking a doorbell chime: a high note followed by a fall of a third (so that what he produces sounds like DING-dong).
And doing it repeatedly (!!!) outside my home-office window at approximately 4:45 p.m. daily.
I suppose the silver lining is that it's an aural reminder that the work day is almost over and I need to start the winding-down process.
(Finding my silver linings where I can . . . . [interthreaduality alert])
Yes, silver linings are always good!
I've been listening to Erik Wollo and Meg Bowles. Their albums are good for de-stressing.
Movie and TV soundtracks are helping me through working on library projects. Here are a few of 'em:
- "Harry Potter" by John Williams et al. (For the later movies, 3 other composers did the scores)
- "The Other Boleyn Girl" by Paul Cantelon (2008)
- "Victoria" by Ruth Barrett, Martin Phipps, et al
- "Anne of Green Gables" by Hagood Hardy (1985-87)
- "Mary, Queen of Scots" by Max Richter (2018)
- "Beauty and the Beast" by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, deluxe album (2017)