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Galaad
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posted January 23, 2015 04:56 PM |
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Edited by Galaad at 17:01, 23 Jan 2015.
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Artu, to me Kempff is too martial, while I find Barenboim much more sensitive, especially on the development part, and his overall tempo is much more representative of Beethoven's torrent, imo.
(Just listened again both versions of Moonlight, 3rd mvt).
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posted January 23, 2015 06:59 PM |
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Galaad said:
Artu, to me Kempff is too martial
Interesting choice of word, you know how Nietzsche says "a warrior soul turns on himself under peaceful conditions." That's what I hear in Beethoven. But maybe that's because I was introduced to him through Kempff as a child, (now I know that.) Still, all the biopics of him I watched seemed to support that impression.
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posted January 28, 2015 03:22 AM |
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As I grow older I become fond of simple music, and Spiegel im Spiegel really fits the bill.
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posted February 05, 2015 11:06 PM |
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Closing a very small circle - I just read a review that finally isn't just mirroring what I feel, but is instead putting in words I didn't know I felt until I read it. Very strange kind of thing, actually. Anyway, the review is about the aforementioned album "Mezzanine" by Massive Attack which is just, well, awesome. Italics for special regard:
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Get hold of this album. Wait until about 11 in the evening. Sit in your favourite armchair in a room lit sparsely. A couple of candles, perhaps. Turn up your hi fi so the sound fills the room, but doesn't deafen. Press play. Evaporate.
This album can be seen as a logical progression from Blue Lines and Protection as the textures get more complex and the sounds more original. It's certainly my favourite of the three. With some beautiful vocals on tracks like Teardrop, and some amazing energy on tracks such as as Angel this album offers a spectrum of atmospheres to experience. Some great laid back rapping and beats to make you kneel on the floor and thank god you've got a pulse. The addition of crunching guitar in the backgorund alongside organic synths works brilliantly.
This is music you can have as background whilst doing other things, but that's missing the point. Mezzanine is music to breathe to.
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posted February 06, 2015 02:10 AM |
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JollyJoker said:
"Mezzanine" by Massive Attack which is just, well, awesome.
Yes, all of their albums are enjoyable but this one is the best.
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Galaad
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posted February 06, 2015 02:18 AM |
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Edited by Galaad at 02:34, 06 Feb 2015.
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Corribus said:
As I grow older I become fond of simple music, and Spiegel im Spiegel really fits the bill.
Ah Arvo Pärt, easily one of my favorite composers.
For those who don't know him:
Estonian compositor who lives in Berlin. He is often linked to the movement of minimalist music which formed from 1960s. Arvo Pärt enters the conservatory of Tallinn in 1957 where he studies with Heino Eller. He finds a job of engineer of sound on the Estonian radio (on 1958 in 1967).
In 1962, one of his compositions written for children's chorus and orchestra, Our Garden (1959), introduce it in all Soviet Union and allow him to carry off the First Price of the young compositors of USSR. At the beginning of 1960s, he starts to learn about the serialism composition among which are recovering his first two symphonies; it attracts him immediately important enmity since serialism music is assimilated with western bourgeois decline. Also his compositions of religious inspiration and the technology of the collage which he uses during some time restricts the radiance of his work considerably. The end of 1960s marks a serious creative crisis; Arvo Pärt abandons the serialism and more on the whole the composition itself. He studies the even - gregorian dirge and the medieval French and Flemish compositors as Josquin des Prés, Machaut, Obrecht and Ockeghem. He writes the Symphony n3 (1971). His stylistic evolution is notable in 1976 when he composes a piece for piano, Für Alina, who marks a break with his first writings and who puts down the milestones of his new style, described by himself to be style tintinnabulum: "I work with very few elements - one or two voices only. I construct from a primitive material - with perfect agreement, with specific tonality. The three notes of a perfect agreement are as bells. It is the reason for which I called it tintinnabulation". Next year, Pärt will write in this new style three of his important pieces: Fratres, Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten and Tabula Rasa. He leaves his country in 1980 where he was confronted with censure for Vienne where he acquires Austrian nationality. Next year he leaves for west Berlin where he lives ever since.
Creator of a purified music, profoundly religious inspiration, linked by some to postmodernist music, Arvo Pärt digs currently the furrow of his tintinnabulum style.
My personal favorites are Orient-Occident, Miserere, and Lamentate.
About Tintinnabulum style
It is characterized by the minimalist writing of Pärt, this purified music of which it was earlier a matter and that gives an impression of simplicity. That's why certain musicologists, detractors of the music of Pärt, qualified him as "simplistic" compositor. It has recourse on one hand to simple rhythms as "quarter note, half note, quarter note, half note" or "half note, quarter note, half note, quarter note" and on the other hand in tintinnabulum style. This definite writing draws inspiration therefore from the sound of the bell: any instrument articulates its game between three main notes, that of the perfect agreement of a range. This simplicity meets when he uses recurrent notes and rather stable range. Contrary to many compositors of baroque, classical and romantic epochs, Pärt therefore uses rarely modulations.
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artu
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posted February 10, 2015 06:51 PM |
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Edited by artu at 18:51, 10 Feb 2015.
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A friend just linked this in Facebook and I thought it was worth sharing, they gave Bob Dylan some life-time achievment award again and he made a very spontaneous and interesting speech:
Link
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markkur
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posted February 16, 2015 07:07 PM |
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Thanks Artu...enjoyed that.
I knew most of what he talked about minus the very early sixties...which was just a bit before my music industry knowledge began.
Because of my illness I guess, sometimes will I hear a song play in my head like "Tangled up in Blue." <L> No deep thought, just having the feeling or living a sad and too common circumstance.
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posted March 04, 2015 09:13 PM |
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I enjoy some Classic compositions, mainly those of Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Verdi, Strauss, Bach, Bizet, Bhrams, Massenet, Offenbach, Peer Grieg, Fiedler, Wagner, Suppé, Rauph V. Williams. Hm, and others I might not recall the name.
I like psytrance/fullon/electrohouse as well, the most melodic ones, such as 1.200 Micrograms, Sesto Sento, Mystical Complex.
Folk and Irish ballads - the one I most like is Loreena McKennitt's, whom I had the rare privilege of watching a concert and she came to South America for the first time, in 2013. Also enjoy Enya and other tunes people often call New Age, such as Enigma, Secret Garden, Yanni, Kitaro.
Like some rock, not heavy/death metal, but some tunes of Metallica, Iron Maiden, System of a Down. Some Brazilian old rock/pop like Engenheiros do Hawaii, Kid Abelha, Legião Urbana. Some old songs such as from A-ha, Information Society, The Doors, Simply Red, Mike and the Mechanics, you get the picture.
And many other styles.
However, I can't stand funk, that Rio like funk, and the great majority of hip-hop, Yolo-tunes or whatever you guys may know them.
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posted July 15, 2015 02:10 PM |
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@ JJ
Thought you might think this interesting. The dude gives his explanation about the difficulty of playing guitar like Jimi Hendrix versus someone like SRV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYXmQh6ZB-c
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posted July 15, 2015 07:57 PM |
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I think, he may have a point.
Since we are at it. Some time ago I read Keith's bio and his revelations about his open G guitar tuining, playing on 5 strings mostly, explaining HIS sound.
Which brought me to guitar tunings in general and their effects, which conincided with my infatuation with Sonic Youth, who, as I read have devised a ton of different guitar tunings for their songs (and play every song with a different guitar in their concerts).
I stumbled onto an easy guide for a song of them and the tuning involved, which is pretty enlightening because it sounds so cool and is actually so easy to play.
So This is the song.
And This is how to play it (and how to tune the guitar).
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markkur
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posted July 16, 2015 09:35 PM |
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Well now, that's innovation for ease no doubt but that makes me think too much of me. I'm curious if they can play normally and someone else's tune.
So you really go in for that stuff eh JJ? kinda surprises in a way.
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posted August 07, 2015 06:35 AM |
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Forget money, forget relationships, forget about most things....to be able to 'create' something that never existed before is quite possibly the most satisfying thing in the world, for me. That is why I say to myself that regardless of whether girls may come and go, whether people might screw me over or move on with their lives, the one constant that is ALWAYS going to be there is my music and the ability to make it. I may not be the richest in terms of money, but knowing all that makes me pretty damn rich in my eyes.
Whenever the going gets tough for me, I just sit down and really concentrate on making something. For me, a satisfying thing to be able to do is to make it sound 'emotional' with just instrumentation. With vocals it's a lot easier to tell a story regardless of whether it's happy or sad as you are following their story and are able to interpret it in your own way. For me, I love to be able to make music based on how I am feeling at the time and being able to convey that in the music. For a listener, if I can get it spot on so that they know that I was in a good place at the time or in a really dark place, that is satisfying in itself and I am doing something right.
It's always a really good experience being able to make music. Sometimes I might not make anything for hours but I'm just tinkering with different sounds, different chords that I may not have used before or trying new drums out and seeing how they go. It's a very very satisfying experience and a very healthy distracting to what might be going on in my personal life. With everything not having gone well for me lately, it's certainly been a very good healing process for me to be able to convey my emotions through the instrumentation in my tracks. I've felt that throughout this entire experience and rollercoaster ride of a few months, that it's helped me get back my inspiration and creativity for making music. As bad as things got, it had its upside to it. Not that I wish it to happen again even though that might be inevitable, but for me to have created something that never even existed before is a very good feeling and something I will forever cherish. At last, after about 11 years of making music, I can look back on it and think about what a healthy thing it is for me in my life.
Many times I've thought about quitting music because of frustration when I am feeling creative but nothing is working or when I want to distract myself and it still doesn't work. Those are usually the times when I look back and think about everything I have said above and decide to keep doing it. It is my dream to be able to do something with this music that I do make. Whether that dream becomes a reality or not is yet to be seen. Regardless of whether it does or does not happen, I will forever be thankful for the hard work that I put in and the people that actually make the time to listen to it and give me feedback.
The biggest thing, going away from the personal life of myself and the troubles I was going through, was being able to see Tangerine Dream life just before Edgar Froese died. That was one thing to tick off of my bucket list. My jaw was on the ground pretty much the entire time and I didn't say a word or looked away once throughout the performance. It was mesmerising to say the very least and something I will forever be thankful for. It certainly had a profound impact on me because it sparked a creative side in me which I hadn't had up to that point.
Music really is a magical thing.
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artu
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posted August 25, 2015 08:28 PM |
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Edited by artu at 20:40, 25 Aug 2015.
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Here's a site dedicated to sample every music genre in the world. Although, I guess, they are not even half way there yet.
Everynoise.com
If you click the >> next to the genre, you can listen to many more samples of it.
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posted August 25, 2015 08:33 PM |
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I like how it starts all green and classical then it turns toward red the more creaking noises come in.
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artu
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posted August 25, 2015 11:50 PM |
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How about the fact that something called Technical Brutal Death Metal is pink!
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Salamandre
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posted August 25, 2015 11:52 PM |
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Well, the whole page has the level of knowledge of musical genres of a mongoloid. Deep classical, classical flute, orchestral, this is like little gorilla, big gorilla, gorilla with big ear, gorilla with deep ass, here we have 4 species of gorilla.
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artu
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posted August 26, 2015 12:01 AM |
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Edited by artu at 00:05, 26 Aug 2015.
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Yep, I noticed the same thing after digging in a little more. They label Turkish folk-pop as Turkish Classical, Texas Blues has some gospel music etc. I guess, that's what happens when you directly trust the labeling system of Spotify.
Still, I checked Nowergian Jazz, it didn't sound exactly jazzy but I discovered someone called Steinar Raknes, downloaded a few songs... The site might come in handy as a means of exploration.
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posted August 26, 2015 12:05 AM |
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Piano Deep classical has Beethoven, piano classical has Liszt, classical flute has Pahud (composer 2002), orchestral is not a genre, all is messed or reinvented.
Mexican traditional is correct, though 
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markkur
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posted October 23, 2015 12:46 PM |
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Truly a 15 minutes of fame story
Could you imagine going to a concert to see your favorite band and before the night was over you were on the stage playing the drums for them?
Hopefully these will both play for you.
Watch the vid then listen to the interview
http://keithmoonmovie.com/the-horse-tranquilizer-incident/
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=5223059&m=5223060
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