Music

[Altfish]

Latest post of the previous page:

Off to see Public Service Broadcasting at The Ritz in Manchester tonight

[animist]

Led Zeppelin like you've never heard it before!

Alan, please could you enlighten me on what this was so I can listen to the original?

[Alan H]

Not sure what you mean, but it is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYuOZnAqQCY

[Tetenterre]

I think what Animist means/needs might be:

[stevenw888]

Alan, please could you enlighten me on what this was so I can listen to the original?

Animist, the first part is the song "Kashmir", from the Zeppelin double album "Physical Graffiti". Allegedly Robert Plant's favourite Zeppelin track.

[Lord Muck oGentry]

Primrose Hill from John and Beverley Martyn's The Road to Ruin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQjPHGoSsF0

( with apologies for the rather silly video, which has more to do with any old primrose hill than with Primrose Hill proper).

Youthful thoughtless happiness. And the joys of domesticity. And some of the most gorgeous saxophone playing in pop music.

[Tetenterre]

A couple of weeks ago we "did" our local music (etc.) festival at the Larmer Tree. Some of the acts we really enjoyed:

Rodrigo y Gabriela: stunning versatile guitarists.



Bellowhead: splitting up next year, so good to see them one more time.



Show of Hands: local-ish so see lots of them. I really like Steve Knightley's songwriting.



Hunter and the Bear: still my favourite new band.

[Nick]

Currently at Broadstairs Folkweek. One happy (if tired) camper.

[Nick]

Wow!! Just wow!!

[animist]

bow-wow to you too, Nick. My better half got me a 4-CD set of Albert Roussel's music, and he really is sensational; for the last couple of months I have not listened to much else. This is the second symphony - at least give it a try! The first movement is quite sombre, but if you do not like it, start with the very hummable second movement around 17.40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHTXGePpP7A

[animist]

bow-wow to you too, Nick. My better half got me a 4-CD set of Albert (call me Bert) Roussel's music, and he really is sensational; for the last couple of months I have not listened to much else. This is the second symphony - at least give it a try! The first movement is quite sombre, but if you do not like it, start with the very hummable second movement around 17.40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHTXGePpP7A

feeling a bit like Doctor Faustus, in the Marlowe play, who realised that time did not stop as a result of his wishes. Not quite in this hellish state, but I feel that every post deserves a meaningful response. It is now time for Alan H to point out that I did not respond to his post expressing his adoration for Emmerson Lake Palmer's work - now, what was it?

[animist]

I am begin to posit a link between humanism and folk music. Well, the gravelly but brilliant Louis Armstrong opined, when asked, that all music was folk music since he'd never heard a horse sing. And human=folk - obvious, animist

[animist]

is anyone a Startrek fan? If so, know ye that that its theme tune is based on the chords of the jazz standard "Out of Nowhere". Not really apropos this, but I sometimes ponder advertising as a piano teacher; on the ad I would say that I am a Beatles specialist, but not elucidate that the only reason for this is that Beatles tunes are the easiest to play!

[lewist]

Music is good for the spirit, my friend Tina says. Her house has been a ceilidh house since ever she can remember and on Friday we are recording a house ceilidh there for our 'Out and About with Speysound' series. I'm looking forward to it.

Music is also frighteningly evocative. I just came into the room to hear Buddy Holly's song, Heartbeat, and it had me almost instantly in tears of poignant memory and loss. Generally I'm fine, and then something like that happens.

[Nick]

I know what you mean, Lewis. And I think you'll have a blast at Tina's! I'm glad her health is good enough for such a proposition. Say hi for me, please!

[lewist]

I know what you mean, Lewis. And I think you'll have a blast at Tina's! I'm glad her health is good enough for such a proposition. Say hi for me, please!

It went well, Nick. Tina played her keyboard and sang. We had some of the Newtonmore Waulking Group who sang, played Jew's Harp and moothie, Tina's South African friend Roxanne sang us an Africaans folk song, I played, sang and recited. We had Ally with his button key box. It was really good.

The recording engineer (me) managed, though we will learn from experience and do these things better in future.

Best of all was how it all affected Tina. She is in better form than she has been for a long time and it is the music that has made the difference. I think it suggests that music is good not only for the spirit but for the body as well.

[Compassionist]

I know what you mean, Lewis. And I think you'll have a blast at Tina's! I'm glad her health is good enough for such a proposition. Say hi for me, please!

It went well, Nick. Tina played her keyboard and sang. We had some of the Newtonmore Waulking Group who sang, played Jew's Harp and moothie, Tina's South African friend Roxanne sang us an Africaans folk song, I played, sang and recited. We had Ally with his button key box. It was really good.

The recording engineer (me) managed, though we will learn from experience and do these things better in future.

Best of all was how it all affected Tina. She is in better form than she has been for a long time and it is the music that has made the difference. I think it suggests that music is good not only for the spirit but for the body as well.

That is wonderful!

[Caring Guy]

I like Country and Classical music.
My friends and family tell me I'm too old headed for my own good but clearly they can't see the beauty of it.
I think the musical trends have dipped a little in modern music; a lot of modern music has the same or similar beat whoch is making them sound the same. I listen to Radio 1 when I'm driving and I have listened to some of the song lyrics and all I can say is 'WOW'.

[Dave B]

Just listened to interview with Ralph McTell.

Seems it was 50 years ago that he wrote and first sung "Streets of London"

Blimey, seems like only . . .

Still relevant.

[Alan H]

Goodness...

[lewist]

Goodness...

Indeed... but he's just a young fresh faced guy...