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Post by gertie on Apr 8, 2010 0:49:42 GMT
Sorry, friend just sent me this link. Not sure if I shouldn't also put it in odd vids hehe ;D The quality of a painting it switches back and forth from I find really transfixing.
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Post by Jazz on Apr 22, 2010 21:37:27 GMT
This video really doesn't have a category. hmmm....'pleasant light pop'? uh, no. It is definitely worth a look and if you're not one of the 27 million viewers to date (9 million within the first 3 days of its release), here is the 'official clean version' of the Lady Gaga-Beyonce video....MTV refused to air even the clean version. I like it.
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Post by gertie on Apr 26, 2010 2:30:20 GMT
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Post by imec on Apr 28, 2010 16:35:31 GMT
Just heard this guy do this song live in the studio of the popular Canadian radio show, Q - it BLEW ME AWAY!!!
ALL the sounds on the song (beside his voice) are produced on an acoustic guitar! He has a series of samplers and pedals with which he captures each sound (drum sound are made by tapping or pounding the instrument) and actually builds the song in layers as he plays it - sensational!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 28, 2010 18:50:10 GMT
Wow -- sensational, indeed!
Even though you just told us, my mind was saying, "HOW does he do that?!" What is so cool is that he took an old technique (the tapping, etc.) and amped it up with available technology. What skill it must take to be able to create that sound live!
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Post by imec on May 9, 2010 18:49:53 GMT
First video from TNP's new album released last week - best album they've done in a while IMO - possibly their best yet.
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Post by imec on May 15, 2010 16:44:07 GMT
Wow -- sensational, indeed! Even though you just told us, my mind was saying, "HOW does he do that?!" What is so cool is that he took an old technique (the tapping, etc.) and amped it up with available technology. What skill it must take to be able to create that sound live! This may give you me idea as to how this works. As he performs live in the Q studio, you can see him creating/capturing the samples and building the song as he goes.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2010 2:55:05 GMT
The Cowboy Junkies just came out with a new CD,Remnin Park, their first in quite some time. I have always really loved this band,and this is one of their best efforts in a while, IMHO. Largely influenced by a some time spent in China recently,adopting a baby,it has some strong political overtones. Here's a particularly beautiful cut from it.(it is the title cut)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2010 14:18:11 GMT
As an addendum to this,on a lark I checked the Cowboy Junkies website out of curiosity to see tour dates. I am totally devastated,beyond belief,because it lists them as having played here in NOLA on June 10th at a club only about two miles from my house.!!!!!! How I could have missed this is beyond my comprehension. It must have been a misprint...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2010 11:01:46 GMT
Being released today. I'm real excited about. My friend Luke did some of the inside art work for this CD and I couldn't be more proud!!! The music is great too!!! this is an interview with the good Dr. regarding:
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Post by imec on Aug 11, 2010 0:32:28 GMT
Montreal's Arcade Fire with the title track from their stunning new record The Suburbs:
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 11, 2010 3:17:52 GMT
LOVE his voice and the layered music. That thing the strings do towards the end, right before the 5:00 mark is brilliant. Were you already a fan of Arcade Fire before this record was released?
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Post by imec on Aug 11, 2010 3:20:25 GMT
Yes - have all 3 albums.
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Post by imec on Aug 11, 2010 4:37:14 GMT
Sorry, have to add this... not new bur from the same show at MSG last week. Their mega-hit from their first album, the epic, Wake Up...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2010 4:57:06 GMT
The choral versions of Radiohead's Creep are all strangely upsetting, which is why one is being used in the trailer for the new David Fincher movie, but they have been circulating through Europe for the last three years. Still gives me chills.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 15, 2010 5:13:47 GMT
Not really new, but new to me. Just watched the movie, Garden State, which has great music. It won the Grammy in the category of "Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television or Media" for 2004. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_State_%28soundtrack%29
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2010 6:02:51 GMT
Not all that new, but I am liking it more and more.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 16, 2010 17:51:05 GMT
Thanks for posting that. I don't know the artist nor the song, but like it very much. It reminds me a little of Bruce Springsteen's Fire, although this one is a deeper song.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2010 18:55:07 GMT
Robert Francis seems to me to be a cross between Springsteen and Jackson Browne. The album that that song is on has about 10 songs that I like out of 12, an EXTREMELY rare ratio for me.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 17, 2010 20:44:49 GMT
Imec, you had Florence and the Machine - Listen to the rest of it - Lungs.
Brilliant stuff.
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Post by imec on Aug 17, 2010 21:58:21 GMT
Imec, you had Florence and the Machine - Listen to the rest of it - Lungs. Brilliant stuff. Indeed! Got it as soon as I heard them. Amazing record!
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 18, 2010 7:57:01 GMT
I must admit here that I only heard it 2 days ago and that was because my daughter and I have swopped cars this week and it was in her CD player...........
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Post by imec on Aug 21, 2010 16:56:35 GMT
Alejandro Escovedo on Letterman performing the opening track, "Anchor" from his fantastic new album, (produced by the great Tony Visconti - T Rex, Bowie etc.) "Street Songs of Love"...
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 21, 2010 18:32:15 GMT
To be honest, I think the instrumental music and the production in #52 are fantastic and the bits of the female voice(s) that come through are amazing, but ............. I found the vocal solos pretty pedestrian. I missed Imec's posting of Florence & the Machine, so seeing the bit of dialogue between Mick & Imec on this page made me go look it up. WOW! (listening to "You've Got the Love" as I type)
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 24, 2010 9:36:09 GMT
To be honest, I think the instrumental music and the production in #52 are fantastic and the bits of the female voice(s) that come through are amazing, but ............. I found the vocal solos pretty pedestrian. I missed Imec's posting of Florence & the Machine, so seeing the bit of dialogue between Mick & Imec on this page made me go look it up. WOW! (listening to "You've Got the Love" as I type) Good i'nnit!
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 12, 2010 3:02:02 GMT
I just started watching "The Big C" and am totally charmed by the theme song. Also, gotta love the band's name!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2010 18:34:18 GMT
Now that Robert Francis is spending time in Paris, he is making videos that probably can't be shown in all countries, mild as they are.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 6, 2010 23:36:52 GMT
I have to put "new" in quotes here, as this is not new music, but new again for me.
Years ago, in the early 70s, I heard this woman sing one single song, a cappella, on tv. I never knew her name and didn't know how to search for her. A couple of days ago, by sheer dumb luck, I fell across her videos on youtube.
It appears her voice was used in the cartoon movie, The Prince of Egypt.
Ofra Haza:
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2010 7:40:54 GMT
Romanian anti-Sarkozy rap, with all of the exuberance that Romanian music has always had.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Nov 15, 2010 17:07:35 GMT
'Creep' is one of my favourite Radiohead tracks...it works as a choral piece tho doesn't it!?
Newton Faulkner is a favourite atm in our house...I think both musicians I've put in this post are using 'open' tuning on these particular tracks...not just bashing randomly at the strings. ;D
Andy McKee...Drifting
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