"There's a time in life for Hoagy Carmichael. There's a time in life for Claude Debussy. There's a time in life for Jerry Lee Lewis. There's a time in life for Destiny's Child. All these things have their moment." ~Elvis Costello
03 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: acts of man, midlake
Midlake: “Acts Of Man” (2010)
A somberific soundtrack to winter hibernation, with its deep drums, flute and dolorous vocal. Add a mellotron solo and a little sitar in the edges and you’d have something that belongs on a 1968 Moody Blues album. And that’s meant as the highest praise.
03 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: asa branca, david byrne, forro, forro in the dark
Forro In The Dark with David Byrne: “Asa Branca” (2006)
Forro (pronounced “fo-ho”) is a style of very percussion-based Brazilian dance music. Forro In The Dark, a New York-based group of Brazilian ex-pats who were playing a weekly gig at a club called Nublu, came to the attention of fellow New Yorker David Byrne, who then collaborated with them on their 2006 album. Here he sings the vocals in English of Brazilian standard “Asa Brance”.
02 Mar 2012 2 Comments
Another example of the camera capturing more than the eye. Caught with an iPhone.
02 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
A cymbal hit, recorded at a thousand frames per second, looks like a seismic event. A Keith Moon solo would probably look like the end of the world.
02 Mar 2012 1 Comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: blow wind blow, dzintars, latvian women's choir
Dzintars: The Latvian Women’s Choir: “Blow, Wind, Blow” (1983)
Here’s a palette cleanser. From an album entitled Songs of Amber, another of Mickey Hart’s World Music projects (“Dzintars” is the Latvian word for “amber”, which is richly symbolic in Latvian culture). This collection of traditional and modern Latvian, Yiddish and Russian songs was recorded during the Dzintar choir’s 1989 US tour, when they were an opening act for AC/DC (kidding).
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2013/03/02/songs-you-may-have-missed-349/
