What are you listening to? (music)

[Hemo Rusticus]

Much as I’d love to pick up a lute (though I never would), I think if I were to go for an obscurer (than guitar) string, I’d have to go for the shamisen.

 

[Adrian]

Much as I’d love to pick up a lute (though I never would), I think if I were to go for an obscurer (than guitar) string, I’d have to go for the shamisen.

I'm quite impressed with your instrument choice. Judging by your previous affection toward PIE and sanskrit, I was expecting you would go for sitar.

 

[Adrian]

 

[Hawkwood]

Love this n I keep coming back to it, but I really wish the mic didn’t pick up his breathing. It seems like he could’ve found a way round it...

There's other performances knocking about on yamtube.

 

[Matthaeus]

You really like that chaconne.

 

[Adrian]

Hawk's redux toward baroque music triggered a fond memory - one of the first guitar pieces I was taught at PMC - Bach's minuet in G

 

[Hemo Rusticus]

I'm quite impressed with your instrument choice. Judging by your previous affection toward PIE and sanskrit, I was expecting you would go for sitar.

During my student times I used to play hindu aerophones like bong and हुक़्क़ा (huqqā)

The sitar is also very beautiful. But what I love about shamisen is the percussiveness of the plectrum. It’s also very raucous, where the sitar is mellow in sound.

This song is from an anime, but it features a very real Japanese trope: the blind biwa singer, earning his bread by the recitation of folk songs. It’s also an established musical form, although I don’t remember what it’s called.

 

[Issacus Divus]

 

[Tironis]

Quite an appropriate song for 2020, dominated as it is by Covid-19 and Brexit

 

[Adrian]

 

[Adrian]

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Op.43, Variation 18

 

[Quintilianus]

 

[Adrian]

 

[Hemo Rusticus]

Here’s a very cool & uncharacteristically minor-bluesy chart by Fats Waller which bears a striking resemblance to the theme of Очи черныя, a very popular Russian folk song. Given that ol’ Fats was a personal friend of George Gershwin, & worked with Stravinsky on material he would later perform at Carnegie Hall, it’s probable that the resemblance is not mere chance.

 

[Dantius]

 

[Tironis]

 

[Tironis]

Here’s a very cool & uncharacteristically minor-bluesy chart by Fats Waller which bears a striking resemblance to the theme of Очи черныя, a very popular Russian folk song. Given that ol’ Fats was a personal friend of George Gershwin, & worked with Stravinsky on material he would later perform at Carnegie Hall, it’s probable that the resemblance is not mere chance.

 

[Hemo Rusticus]

Behold! The fetid, stinking tomb of 90’s music, whence crawls this banal & effortless downtempo ghoul.

 

[Bitmap]

 

[Quasus]

King Crimson - Islands [Full Album]

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