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Post by cenydd on Aug 15, 2013 20:06:54 GMT
'Folk' is an interesting term musically, because by definition in means different things in different places.
Often traditional new traditional folk music is written all of the time. At one time Woody Guthery was "contemporary" but now many of his songs today are considered traditional. Yeah, but that's just because the USA doesn't have much history! Sorry - couldn't resist that!  |
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 15, 2013 21:20:00 GMT
Let's put it this way, when it comes to folk music Americans prefer quality over quantity when addressing historically significant events. <pay back> LOL
Moving on sometimes it is the invention of a new instrument that leads to the development of new music like the creation of the solid body electric guitar by Les Paul (who's greatest contribution to music was multi-track recording) transformed music in creating rock and roll.
In the Caribbean a new instrument was invented from the trash of civilization... the steel (pan) drum that was created from old oil and gasoline drums being hammered into shape to produce the melodic sound of the Caribbean that we know today.
This music literally screams " Caribbean Tropics" at us.
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 15, 2013 23:39:49 GMT
Sibelius's Valse triste
Doesn't sound too interesting but this was selected because it was a part of the music in the movie Allegro Non Troppo that was an Italian parody of Disney's Fantasia. An outstanding movie where there are at least three different versions and I recommend the original, in Italian, with English subtitles.
This video is from the movie where Sibelius's Valse triste is the music as a cat wanders in the ruins of a large house. The cat remembers the life that used to fill the house when it was occupied. Eventually all of these images fade away, as does the cat, just before the ruins are demolished.
I highly recommend watching this video as it will provide just a glimpse of the feeling of the animation from the movie. The live scenes are the heartwarming love between enslaved conductor and a young cleaning lady. The orchestra members were described as "recently deceased" in reviews of the movie. While not necessarily a box office success it is a cult classic that I believe it surpassed Fantasia in many regards. Here's a link to the Wiki on Allegro Non Troppo.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegro_non_troppo
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Post by Makedde on Aug 17, 2013 4:43:30 GMT
I like music you lot haven't heard of.
Besides the ones you have, like Bon Jovi, Alanis Morissette, The Corrs and a few others, I love metal - especially Symphonic Metal. Originated in Holland, so the Dutch Symphonic Metal bands are the best - Within Temptation, Delain, Nemesea, and Epica.
The genre borrows elements from other music genres - mainly classical, and they usually have a female lead, soprano/operatic singer whatever.
Tristania is symphonic metal but they are from Norway. Not as good as Within Temptation and Delain, who are my faves, though.
Gothic metal is also one of my faves - Lacuna Coil (Italian) are awesome.
So yeah. Most of the music I listen to is Symphonic metal, or some kind of metal.
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Post by cenydd on Aug 17, 2013 8:26:32 GMT
I've heard of them all. I've seen Bon Jovi (twice - Slippery When Wet tour and New Jersey tour), Within Temptation Twice (2007 and 2008) and Lacuna Coil once (2009). I also have a Tristania album (World of Glass). I also saw Nightwish in 2012:
Shame about Anette Olzen leaving. I preferred her to Tarja, to be honest, and Imaginaerum is just such an incredible album. This song especially, and it wouldn't work without her vocal versatility (which was something Tarja never had - she did what she did great, but that was all she did):
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Post by cenydd on Aug 17, 2013 8:28:00 GMT
I'm going to have to post this song too, just because it's one I can never get out of my head!
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Post by cenydd on Aug 17, 2013 8:34:06 GMT
In a similar-ish vein, how about this one - Christopher Lee:
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Post by cenydd on Aug 17, 2013 9:28:36 GMT
Here's another one for you, Mak - one of my favourites. It's the first part of a double album - long, obviously, but well worth a listen:
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Post by Makedde on Aug 18, 2013 4:16:14 GMT
I am so jealous that you saw WT! I would love to see them! Love Nightwish, but I do prefer Tarja, and follow her solo career now. I think Amaranth is one of the catchiest songs I have heard in years. Whenever I hear it I can never get it out of my head! I have heard of Aryeon before, haven't heard much of them though. Will have to give it a listen. |
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 18, 2013 19:27:51 GMT
I once made a playlist with just one song from the rock groups that I could remember I'd seen live and when I went to burn it onto cd's to take to work it was over 3 cd's long. Much of this was from the early 1970's when I did some work with Joint Productions that produced rock concerts on the West Coast.
But I'm avoiding all of my rock-n-roll past for the most part in this thread focusing on other music I enjoy. These next two selections are from a family friend of my mother's that was best know for his songwriting and performances in numerous Hollywood movies.
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Post by Makedde on Aug 19, 2013 9:54:01 GMT
Tarja Turunen's 'Victim Of Ritual' from her new album, out this month. Its a long song, but I do love it, can't wait to get my hands on that album!
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 23, 2013 20:01:57 GMT
As a former member of a rock-n-roll band in the '60's I appreciate new artists that are working hard at success. It's not an easy road and most fail but there are exceptions. On a recent Guitar Center Session they introduced Meiko to me. She's a small town Georgia girl that moved to LA with a deep desire to be a singer/songwriter. She worked the "open mikes" at LA clubs while working as a waitress until she was finally asked to work a whole set. She self-produced here first album in 2007 and started touring. She is a long ways from being a major person in the music industry and I enjoy the freshness of her work and wish her all the success in the world.
Here's one of the songs she wrote and sang on the Guitar Center Session.
The girl has heart and she's doing what she really wanted to do. I would recommend checking Youtube for other songs by Meiko. Below is the Wikipedia story about her.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiko_%28American_singer%29
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 23, 2013 20:34:40 GMT
Speaking of relatively unknown artists a couple of year ago I met Cathy Richardson who was performing with Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) when he did an acoustic tour through Seattle. It was at a very small intimate night club and Cathy performed the female part of prior Paul Kantner/Grace Slick duets. While similar to Grace Slick she brought her own originality to the stage.
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 24, 2013 9:08:03 GMT
On any thread about music I'm compelled to address an American icon from the 1960's that modestly referred to himself as a "song and dance man" but he was much more than that. He presented commentaries on social change, love, and injustice and his lyrics were commonly used by many groups of the time. Here are just three of his original recording and two covers of his songs by others.
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 24, 2013 10:08:06 GMT
Music has always been an important part of my life and as I've mentioned I was in a band between 1966-1968 (when I was drafted) that had good local success even though we never recorded professionally. We covered many songs of groups at that time for our stage shows while also writing and arranging our own material. We covered groups like the Yardbirds, Byrds, Rolling Stones and others but the one group that was most influential was a local LA group that had limited success, more so in England than the US with only two songs making the charts here. I would like to share that group with two songs we didn't cover and one, the last one, that we did.
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