Hello dear readers, here is another list for your weekend. I hope you are enjoying life with lots of music during these dark winter days. I am curious about your choices these days, what songs do you pick to cope with winter depression? Do you believe there is a seasonality in music we listen to? Please comment below if you have any feedback...
As Leonard Bernstein once said;
"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely,
more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
And now here is our latest list;
Björk - "Bachelorette"
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - "Lead Squid"
Mighty Sam McClain - "When The Hurt Is Over"
Beck - "The New Pollution"
Manuel Valera Trio - "Mercury from the Planets"
Hope you have a great weekend.
nb. You can open the actual youtube page by clicking the name on the upper left side of each video.
Hello readers and followers, here is another list for your weekend. Don't forget that music is a powerful tool to keep you sane in this crazy world (well, depending on what you listen to 😉😉😉).
As Peter Pan says;
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing”.
Tori Amos - "Crucify"
Cande Buasso/Paulo Carrizo/Jorge Cordero - "Barro Tal Vez"
Robert Johnson - "Me and The Devil Blues"
Triosk - "Lazyboat"
John Zorn - "The Sicilian Clan"
Hope you have a great weekend.
nb. You can open the actual youtube page by clicking the name on the upper left side of each video.
Hello to you all after a snowy week and terribly cold weather. Music just hits the spot during these days with a cup of nice coffee. As the concerts and gigs are all around this time of the year, I hope you attend these events and really enjoy live music which is like no other...
As Napoléon Bonaparte once said;
“Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize”.
So here is our list for this weekend...
Sabina Sciubba & Antonio Forcione - "Take Five"
Ahmed Abdul-Malik - "El Lail"
Eddie Vedder - "Society"
Talking Heads - "Once In A Lifetime"
Funkadelic - "Maggot Brain"
Hope you have a great weekend.
nb. You can open the actual youtube page by clicking the name on the upper left side of each video.
The first book I started to read in 2019 is Howard Goodall's "Story of Music". I am merely reading the first chapters of the book therefore I will not speak about the book but something I came across in the prologue. It says that the book is based on the 2012 BBC documentary series with the same title of the book, "Story of Music". One critic has mentioned that the series were much better than the book due to the fact that it allowed viewers the opportunity to actually listen to the musical examples that Goodall was referring to. In one opinion that is obviously true but on the other hand I am sure that the book will cover the 40,000 years of musical history and evolution in a much more detailed way. Anyhow I decided to watch the series along with the book, but as you can imagine that I could not stop (just 6 episodes) before I even finished the first chapter of the book...
I strongly recommend that all music lovers should watch the series for various reasons. First of all, Goodall's explanations are so very clear that even the most musically illiterate person can follow and enjoy the documentary. Second of all, he does not speak in an encyclopedical format but makes very valid comparisons and connections within musical history. Last but last least, he enriches his ideas with well-chosen musical examples.
Here is the link for the first episode of the series called "The Age of Discovery".
The following parts are "The Age of Invention", "The Age of Elegance and Sensibility", "The Age of Tragedy", "The Age of Rebellion" and the "Popular Age".
Give it a try, you won't regret it. Even the advanced music enthusiast will grasp many new things and further enjoy listening to music.
