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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2009 21:43:40 GMT
Have to leave the house now. More later -- other people can add, too!
Will leave you with some Professor Longhair:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2009 22:40:42 GMT
On one of my trips to Bangkok, this was the absolute world hit song, and I had a non air-con room right next to one of the 24-hour Khao San cafés. While trying to sleep, I was awakened by this music through my open window at least 15 times from midnight to 5 a.m., when silence finally settled over Khao San Road.
Rather than becoming annoyed, I loved hearing this song night after night, and in my heart it has become my absolute theme song for a trip to Bangkok.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2009 5:24:22 GMT
I can see how that song could get in your blood!
Okay, I can only offer New Orleans mardi gras music, so here's some more:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2009 13:00:00 GMT
I should like #1 introduced here, I'm so sick of the standards I could barf. I love a good trombone.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 19, 2009 4:43:19 GMT
Eh? I didn't understand your post. You do sound like my child, SonofBix, who claims working at The Boot turned him off Mardi Gras standards forever.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2009 13:21:44 GMT
With all the great Carnival music available it seems that there are only 3 or 4 that are played repeatedly over and over... they are Mardi Gras Mambo (at one time a fav,hell,I had a dog named Mambo),Carnival Time and Hay Pockey Way. I can see how sonofBix got burned out by them.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 19, 2009 17:13:17 GMT
That's precisely why I included those here -- for the unfortunates who will never have the chance to get burned out on them. You have to admit they give the flavor of what's heard all over the place in New Orleans this time of year.
And can't get much more typical than this:
My question is ~~ where are the Aussies? They need to tell about Sydney's Mardi Gras.
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 21, 2009 18:02:06 GMT
here's a different type of Carnival in the town of Basel in Switzerland (protestant carnival is two weeks later than the catholic carnival - which is happening these days)
Basel has a wonderful Carnival tradition. The first day of the carnival at 04:00AM, all the public lights in the historic centre are turned off totally and teh carnival begins. Then later that same day, there will be another procession and another two days later. Then, during lent, every sunday there is a small procession going through town. (mostly costumed musicians).
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 21, 2009 18:07:14 GMT
And a rural tradition in canton Wallis/Valais, Switzerland
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 21, 2009 18:10:10 GMT
You can also search youtube for "guggenmusik" or "Tschagatta" .
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2009 12:48:23 GMT
Thank you Auntie. The Carnival celebration in other countries is always fascinating. For years my husband was fixated on a scene in the movie version of Vonnegut's Slaughter House Five where very briefly you see some children en masque running about the streets of Dresden. He researched it (before internet) and found out that the bombing of Dresden was indeed on Mardi Gras that year,2/13/45. I believe it's known as Fasching/Fasctnacht
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