The cover of my future Finnish doom metal album.

The cover of my future Finnish doom metal album.

The traditional Sami singing of the joik was important in his music, as well as in his painting and in written works.

The traditional Sami singing of the joik was important in his music, as well as in his painting and in written works. He was first recognised as an artist for his joik during the 1960s, with his first recording Joikuja from 1968, which contained modernised joik. Valkeapeää wrote the music to the motion picture Ofelaš, internationally known as The Pathfinder in 1987, which was directed by Nils Gaup.

As a writer, he mainly wrote in Sami with his work translated into other languages and eventually published eight collections of poems. One of his best known is Beaivi áhčážan which has been translated to English, titled The Sun, My Father.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-Aslak_Valkeap%C3%A4%C3%A4?wprov=sfla1

Holy crap that's awesome.

Originally shared by blanche nonken

Holy crap that's awesome. I'm also pinging Phoebe Gleeson who I suspect will love this. You need good speakers for this one.
http://www.isobel-music.bandcamp.com/releases?fbclid=IwAR27NwqxEyOzqDS6CpwW7oLsH0n7V-G301jLRNrALLsqm0j5h3o692SfMhQ

Even more robotic than the original!

Even more robotic than the original!
https://play.google.com/music/m/T5lo7s5shsp64mlg2euf4l5xyr4?t=Human_-_Robert_Glasper_Experiment

Is this the greatest Rock performance of all time?

Is this the greatest Rock performance of all time? That's what the internet thinks. I'm impressed by Freddie Mercury's operatics, stage moves and sheer stamina, but on what basis can this be considered "the greatest" vs countless others by Queen and other bands of that era? Is it because the world was watching?
https://youtu.be/A22oy8dFjqc

A treat to watch later.

A treat to watch later.
http://www.jmonae.com/

In February 2010 Larrikin Music Publishing won a case against Hay and Strykert, their record label (Sony BMG Music...

In February 2010 Larrikin Music Publishing won a case against Hay and Strykert, their record label (Sony BMG Music Entertainment) and music publishing company (EMI Songs Australia) arising from the uncredited appropriation of "Kookaburra", originally written in 1932 by Marion Sinclair and for which Larrikin owned the publishing rights, as the flute line in the Men at Work song, "Down Under".Back in early 2009 the Australian music-themed TV quiz, Spicks and Specks, had posed a question which suggested that "Down Under" contained elements of "Kookaburra".

Larrikin, headed by Norman Lurie (now retired), then filed suit after Larrikin was sold to another company and had demanded between 40% and 60% of the previous six years of earnings from the song. In February 2010 the judge ruled that "Down Under" did contain a flute riff based on "Kookaburra" but stipulated that neither was it necessarily the hook nor a substantial part of the hit song (Hay and Strykert had written the track years before the flute riff was added by Ham). In July 2010 a judge ruled that Larrikin should be paid 5% of past (since 2002) and future profits. Ham took the verdict particularly hard, feeling responsible for having performed the flute riff at the center of the lawsuit and worried that he would only be remembered for copying someone else's music, resulting in depression and anxiety. Ham's body was found in his Carlton North home on April 19, 2012 after he suffered a fatal heart attack at age 58.

#questioncopyright
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_at_Work?wprov=sfla1

This is not new but it is still good. Go ahead, take the quiz!

This is not new but it is still good. Go ahead, take the quiz!
http://ikeaordeath.com/

Mix - Flanders and Swann:

Mix - Flanders and Swann:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVHbF0jAzMw&list=RDEMx1YG4sP6tqOsRgcu55BHeg

Schmocki's Earworm Oasis.... isn't this where Khan gets his Ceti eel larvae?

Schmocki's Earworm Oasis.... isn't this where Khan gets his Ceti eel larvae?

This hits all the right notes for me --- Switzerland, Old Jewish Ladies, Death Metal.

This hits all the right notes for me --- Switzerland, Old Jewish Ladies, Death Metal.

https://nyti.ms/2Lq6Rze

In Stockholm: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k-4kgp_Gcb8e61rvIrjwcl5rkj6wLsisw

In Stockholm: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k-4kgp_Gcb8e61rvIrjwcl5rkj6wLsisw
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k-4kgp_Gcb8e61rvIrjwcl5rkj6wLsisw

Song of Injured Love - Gabor Szabo

https://play.google.com/music/m/Tkmx5qyfk2yam6sks6u2w44iroi?t=Song_of_Injured_Love_-_Gabor_Szabo

Pentangle!

Pentangle!

Https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=QG0NGxOzN6k

Old school funk, Booker T style!

Old school funk, Booker T style!

Originally shared by John Wehrle

This morning's music.

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

In Stockholm: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k-4kgp_Gcb8e61rvIrjwcl5rkj6wLsisw

In Stockholm: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k-4kgp_Gcb8e61rvIrjwcl5rkj6wLsisw
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k-4kgp_Gcb8e61rvIrjwcl5rkj6wLsisw

I was very lucky today to hear Suzanne Holland, a blind street musician from South Africa.

I was very lucky today to hear Suzanne Holland, a blind street musician from South Africa. Her "Let It Be" caught my ear from afar. Here she is performing Leonard Cohen's "Sisters of Mercy."

I was very lucky to catch street singer Suzanne Holland at the farmer's market in Walnut Creek today.

I was very lucky to catch street singer Suzanne Holland at the farmer's market in Walnut Creek today. She hails from South Africa, is blind, and has a strong, seasoned voice reminiscent of Shirley Collins and June Tabor. Here is a partial recording of her rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Sisters of Mercy."

The Swiss Band Organ is 19th century circus music played by mechanical automata.

The Swiss Band Organ is 19th century circus music played by mechanical automata. Pretty rockin' stuff for clockwork music!
https://play.google.com/music/m/Bvxuc6nsrjcruvc4cy3u73x5kvm?t=Folk_Songs_Of_The_Alps_Digitally_Remastered_-_The_Swiss_Band_Organ

You'll dig

Originally shared by Lev Osherovich

You'll dig
http://livbaxter.bandcamp.com/album/peaks-of-montreal-red-rocking-chair

This will be the cover of my 80's synth pop album, VitraWerk

This will be the cover of my 80's synth pop album, VitraWerk

An excellent Quebecoise hunting song.

An excellent Quebecoise hunting song.
https://play.google.com/music/m/Tyi2xxmswdx6w6jdxqeloelwk6u?t=La_Chasse_-_Genticorum

La Mantovana or "Il Ballo di Mantova" (Mantua Dance) is a popular sixteenth-century song attributed to the...

La Mantovana or "Il Ballo di Mantova" (Mantua Dance) is a popular sixteenth-century song attributed to the Italian tenor Giuseppe Cenci, also known as Giuseppino del Biado, (d. 1616) to the text "Fuggi, fuggi, fuggi da questo cielo". Its earliest known appearance in print is in Biado's collection of madrigals of the year 1600. The melody, later also known as "Ballo di Mantova and "Aria di Mantova", gained a wide popularity in Renaissance Europe, being recorded variously as the Flemish "Ik zag Cecilia komen", the Polish "Pod Krakowem", the Romanian "Carul cu boi", the Scottish "My mistress is prettie", the Spanish "Virgen de la Cueva" and the Ukrainian "Kateryna Kucheryava". It is best known as the melody of Bedřich Smetana's Vltava and of the Israeli national anthem "Hatikvah".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mantovana?wprov=sfla1

"Between 1769 and 1771, Austrian composer Johann Georg Albrechtsberger wrote at least seven concerti for Jew’s harp...

Originally shared by Allen Varney

"Between 1769 and 1771, Austrian composer Johann Georg Albrechtsberger wrote at least seven concerti for Jew’s harp and strings. He went on to teach Beethoven." (Futility Closet - https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/04/14/something-different/ ):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L48oOAA8FoY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L48oOAA8FoY

I love the Silly Sisters album --- the two greatest voices of British Folk Rock, together.

I love the Silly Sisters album --- the two greatest voices of British Folk Rock, together. Edward Morbius and I share similar Anglophilic leanings.

Originally shared by Edward Morbius

Maddy Prior & June Tabor

BBC Concert Hall, Lancashire
14-07-1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYxbQ1SXBuI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYxbQ1SXBuI

The artists who are usually the easiest to record are those who report to the studio with a thought-through and...

The artists who are usually the easiest to record are those who report to the studio with a thought-through and fully prepared performance. All they need to do is repeat it for the microphones. This may explain why Arthur Rubinstein, who simply loved playing the piano for people, also felt at home in a recording studio. Over his long career, Rubinstein matured as an artist and altered his thinking about many of the works he played. But in the moment of making a recording, from all reports, he was content simply to lay down his current concept of a piece. That was that.

That was not Gould. As Mr. Scott explains in that 2004 interview, Gould “changed a lot as he recorded because he wanted to try different tempos, different accents, different phrasings, because that’s why he loved recording so much.” His restless, searching mind is part of what made his playing so engrossing and original.


https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/arts/music/glenn-gould-bach-goldberg-variations.html?referer=https://www.google.com/

In decades past, it was fashionable for self-styled serious music types to look down on Williams, but the “Star...

In decades past, it was fashionable for self-styled serious music types to look down on Williams, but the “Star Wars” corpus has increasingly attracted scholarly scrutiny: Lehman’s catalogue will be published in “John Williams: Music for Films, Television, and the Concert Stage,” a volume forthcoming from the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini. This attention has come about not only because of the mythic weight that George Lucas’s space operas have acquired in the contemporary imagination; the music is also superbly crafted and rewards close analysis. Williams’s latest score is one the most compelling in his forty-year “Star Wars” career: Rian Johnson’s film complicates and enriches the familiar template, and Williams responds with intricate, ambiguous variations on his canon of themes.

Originally shared by Allen Varney

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-field-guide-to-the-musical-leitmotifs-of-star-wars
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-field-guide-to-the-musical-leitmotifs-of-star-wars

Traditionally, joiks have short lyrics or no lyrics at all.[citation needed] However, there are other forms of joik...

Traditionally, joiks have short lyrics or no lyrics at all.[citation needed] However, there are other forms of joik (in the expanded sense of the word) that have a more epic type of lyrics. Joik is traditionally chanted a cappella, but in modern times may be accompanied by a drum (though not a Sami drum, which is used for ceremonial purposes only) or other musical instruments. The tonality of joik is mostly pentatonic, but joikers are at liberty to use any tones they please.

In northern Sami areas, most joiks are personal, that is, tied to a specific person. A joik is often made for a person at the time he or she is born. British actress Joanna Lumley experienced several joiks during her travel program Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern Lights, joining a northern Sami elder. Lumley learned that there appeared not to be a joik of the Northern Lights, and that the Sami do not talk much about them.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joik?wprov=sfla1