Just Some Nice Music Thread Here...Post it Here...

[mc2fool]

Joyous rendition of an oldie (depending on what you consider an oldie!). Bet not many of you can watch this without smiling.....

Celebration (Kool and The Gang) | Playing For Change | Song Around The World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lu41LulQos

There are some really great PFC Songs Around The World, which put together a virtual band of musicians, occasionally some famous, more often unknown locals and sometimes just street musicians, and often a mix of the above, physically situated around the world to play a song together. The production challenges must be, well, challenging!

I first discovered Playing For Change when last summer I was grabbed by a great rendition of an ever older (and much covered anyway) classic coming out of my neighbour's window, and had to ask him who it was. I do reckon this is probably one of the best versions of La Bamba, ever...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5dkwQY-_tk

[DiamondEcho]

The tv series 'The 100' brought me to this excellent cover of 'into the black' by Chromatics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSycSBYHitc BoE

There are songs that can credibly be covered, and others that arguably shouldn't or can't - *IMHO*. That's a Neil Young+Crazy Horse song with deep lyrics, of a time, of a generation. Haha... sounding like an oldster, but some things are best left as hallowed ground and not disturbed by those who weren't there to see.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hey Hey, My My ( Into the Black ) live 1991 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_hoW6q ... nofederico

For the same reason, say, a contemporary cover of the Stones 'Sympathy for the Devil' simply cannot hope to get out of the blocks, at least for anyone for whom the original, was for most of their lives the original. I hark back to when song-writing was biographical (vs nonsense), generational and often referencing events of it's time and hence ones own life.
'Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil (Live Altamont, 1969)'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqK-J9S ... ones50yrs5

[DiamondEcho]

Naim hi-fi are like the Bentley of British hi-fi. In fact these days they manufacture the 'stereos' found in Bentleys. Prior and today they also manufacture very high-end hi-fi, somewhere down Swindon or Bristol way.

The owner of the small campany is of course a complete muso. So, with concluding that CDs were not recorded to a sufficiently high quality to match the quality of his hi-fi, he set up his own record lable. 20 years ago he was pioneeting doing HD 24[?]-bit sampling and so on. The Long/short was the output was phenomenal, breath-taking, if often highly professional but relatively unknown performers to the wider market.

This is from an early Naim lable album I was given and it's still breath-taking. I struggle to name the genre, ... [I shan't], but you'd need to be quite jaundiced to not find pleasure in it, IMHO.

That nimble voice, the effortless range ... Oh heavens it's lovely. Even through my laptop the quality of the recording just dazzles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18lUQua ... ione-Topic

[Redmires]

Naim hi-fi are like the Bentley of British hi-fi. In fact these days they manufacture the 'stereos' found in Bentleys. Prior and today they also manufacture very high-end hi-fi, somewhere down Swindon or Bristol way.

Salisbury

Naim run three HD radio stations (Radio, Classical & Jazz) that Naim equipment users can stream direct that feature a selection of Naim Records artists. Non Naim users can access the stations here, but only in Flac or 320k AAC. Still sounds good though.

https://naim.freshdesk.com/en/support/s ... 3000212917

[servodude]

This is from an early Naim lable album I was given and it's still breath-taking. I struggle to name the genre, ... [I shan't], but you'd need to be quite jaundiced to not find pleasure in it, IMHO.

Forcione is a really cool dude. I saw him a couple of times in Edinburgh playing with Boothby Graffoe at the kind of 4 men and a dog venues they'd pop up for the fringe. Even though (or because?) it was a comedy event he got to do some of the more flashy "wait what the hell did you just do" moves on his guitar; and when you ask him about it after the show he just kind of shrugs in a cool way.

And if Naim are the Bentley - what does that make Linn? There's something very special when you put them together

[DiamondEcho]

Salisbury
Naim run three HD radio stations (Radio, Classical & Jazz) that Naim equipment users can stream direct that feature a selection of Naim Records artists. Non Naim users can access the stations here, but only in Flac or 320k AAC. Still sounds good though.
https://naim.freshdesk.com/en/support/s ... 3000212917

Thanks for that, I hadn't heard of it. My core system is c25 years old - better for the age, it warms in over the years - 'a NAIM thing' But my system is non-tuner and offline, old-school. It's been in cartons for months post a move, but we should be getting it out this w/e, rigging it all up and giving it a day to warm up before gently starting to put it through it's paces again. [I had my speaker cone paper elements replaced quite recently so am going to take it really slowly, and know a system like this really gets so much brighter if it has about a day to warm after being off for a while]. ps. Yes it is time I added a tuner into the rack... I'll look into that in due course, thx for the tip-off.

[DiamondEcho]

We saw Orbital this week, wow they're on form.
Been a fan since c1994, first time I got to see them and in a small (sub 1000) venue. Wow. Really interesting, some heavy 'downers' inter-leaved with some incredible joyful lifters. For want of a better word.
They played this one which is really interesting. A collab with a band called Sleaford Mods from Nottingham.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FM7Xea ... el=Orbital
'Orbital & Sleaford Mods - Dirty Rat (Official Video)'

Can't decide on the end genre, like ambient electronica, but the Sleaford Mods bring a gritty almost Prodigy like edge into it. Different, I like it.

[doolally]

We saw Orbital this week, wow they're on form.
Been a fan since c1994, first time I got to see them and in a small (sub 1000) venue. Wow. Really interesting, some heavy 'downers' inter-leaved with some incredible joyful lifters. For want of a better word.
They played this one which is really interesting. A collab with a band called Sleaford Mods from Nottingham.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FM7Xea ... el=Orbital
'Orbital & Sleaford Mods - Dirty Rat (Official Video)'

Can't decide on the end genre, like ambient electronica, but the Sleaford Mods bring a gritty almost Prodigy like edge into it. Different, I like it.

Hmmmm, In this household, the genre is known as "Garbage"
Each to his own.
doolally

[bungeejumper]

Forcione is a really cool dude. I saw him a couple of times in Edinburgh playing with Boothby Graffoe at the kind of 4 men and a dog venues they'd pop up for the fringe. Even though (or because?) it was a comedy event he got to do some of the more flashy "wait what the hell did you just do" moves on his guitar; and when you ask him about it after the show he just kind of shrugs in a cool way.

Good god, I can't believe it's been 25 years since I bought Forcione's debut album Talking Hands, with Neil Stacey. (Known at the time as Acoustic Mania.) Quite staggeringly good. (And released by Naim, obviously.) Properly tasty. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Acoustic-Mania ... B00Y3Z5GR0.

As for comic stunts, it isn't every day that you see two guys playing the same guitar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE06JJ1VUas

BJ

[Sussexlad]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU4erHhgNvg

Love this young guy's voice and think it suits this great Eric Bogle anti-war song so well. I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to walk by. A shame about the street cleaner !

Sussexlad

[DiamondEcho]

Hmmmm, In this household, the genre is known as "Garbage" Each to his own. doolally

Headlining a festival with attendance of 300,000 and your bald contribution is to say it's garbage. Quite bold there sir!

[Redmires]

As for comic stunts, it isn't every day that you see two guys playing the same guitar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE06JJ1VUas

BJ

'That' reminded me of 'this'. 5 people on a guitar. "Somebody That I Used to Know"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g9bBO1lfu8

[ReformedCharacter]

I've never been much of a Bowie fan but came across this version of 'Under Pressure' recently. Made all the better for being played in a small venue with an excellent bass player\vocalist:

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

RC

[terminal7]

Dad, I want to leave school and join a rock & roll band and meet P.P Arnold

Son, believe me an accountancy qualification will be more important in getting a mortgage

But Dad. I want to be like Steve Marriott of the Small Faces

Son, there's no future in such music

Just watch and pine for a different life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWTtx_PxPo

T7

[Leothebear]

Thanks for posting that! This had slipped past me somehow! Small Faces and PP Arnold! Oh yes!

[Sussexlad]

Hi.
I expect I'm just catching up with the rest of the world but I've just discovered what's become one of my favourite performers of all time. Of course I'd heard of the Fureys but not heard that Finlay has been pursuing a solo path. I came across one of these videos recently and then sought out the others. His great voice and emotive ability just touch a chord that others do not reach. I think he's really special and thought others may have missed him too, so here's the opportunity to catch up, if you've also missed his special talent ! Enjoy, hopefully.
Sussexlad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM1_6owNybE
I Was Further Than I Thought I Was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jptPFWWfxCw
The Galway Shawl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67_-VUTUuVs
The Taxi's Waiting with Aine Furey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K-5NCGTVPc
Dan O'Hara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX3iKNxey3M
The Last Great Love Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__UugZ4s4Uo&t=42s
I Remember You Singing This Song

[servodude]

Hi.
I expect I'm just catching up with the rest of the world but I've just discovered what's become one of my favourite performers of all time. Of course I'd heard of the Fureys but not heard that Finlay has been pursuing a solo path. I came across one of these videos recently and then sought out the others. His great voice and emotive ability just touch a chord that others do not reach. I think he's really special and thought others may have missed him too, so here's the opportunity to catch up, if you've also missed his special talent ! Enjoy, hopefully.
Sussexlad

I think Finbar has run foul of your autocorrect

Absolute gent and incredible talent.
My uncle married in to his extended family and he performed at the wedding; so did Jimmy Cricket but I've tried to erase that from my mind.

For this kind of stuff I always fall back to Planxty - there's something just magical about their combination of talents: https://youtu.be/JyP407UnUWw

[Sussexlad]

[I think Finbar has run foul of your autocorrect

Can't blame the software ! Brain fade I'm afraid. Thanks for the link.

Sussexlad

[Dicky99]

I only became aware of Satie's Gnossienne no.5 quite recently but it's become one of my go to tracks playing very gently in the background, on loop, when I'm on the computer such as while typing right now.
I'm not very musical so I don't have the terminology to explain very well how it appeals because it seems to flow in a slightly unorthodox way with notes and pauses where they're not expected to be. Also that it's both slightly sombre and light at the same time... if that makes sense.

[bungeejumper]

I'm not very musical so I don't have the terminology to explain very well how it appeals because it seems to flow in a slightly unorthodox way with notes and pauses where they're not expected to be. Also that it's both slightly sombre and light at the same time... if that makes sense.

I love the gnossiennes, but I admit that I've spent most of my time listening to the ones that contain little islamic cadences that catch you by surprise and tickle your intellect by giving you something you weren't expecting at all. But those pauses are so frennnnnch - if it hadn't been for Debussy, who had been born a few years ahead of Satie, nobody would ever have been willing to risk those tantalising breaks in the flow that you're enjoying so much.

Musicians have always inserted "meaningful" hesitations into their music, but mostly it's been to make their listeners focus on how clever they were. Satie did it just for the hell of it, I think, and because he didn't want you to get too locked into the rhythm of the bar beat. We could disagree on that, but certainly, I can't think of any German composers who could have let it all hang loose and emotional like that. Although Chopin could sometimes get close.

And always, as in this gnossienne, with that strongly rhythmic left hand keeping the bass line steady. To me, this piece is a bit like a lullaby, but with Debussy-like delicate floating notes that were being deliberately interrupted by stuff you just didn't expect. Stuff from foreign cultures, maybe north African, maybe gypsy, maybe even the distant beginnings of jazz? Stuff with strange cadences that didn't quite fit the west European tradition. Satie often makes me think of Toulouse Lautrec and the Paris bars. Quite amazing.

A long, long time ago, I used to play classical guitar in a few wine bars and restaurants in Bath, and there was always a particular moment in the late evening when the patrons had had a nice evening (and a few drinks), and they didn't want to go home, and they didn't want you to stop. But you'd played your set, so you spent another hour just noodling around a few chord progressions and trying out some gently jazz effects. I have such fond memories of those evenings. If I'd been a pianist, Satie would have caught that mood absolutely.

BJ