Hemo Rusticus
Lounge Lizard
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
Civis Illustris
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.
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Hemo Rusticus
Lounge Lizard
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.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)
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
H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú
Quintilianus
Civis Illustris
Hemo Rusticus
Lounge Lizard
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.
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Tironis
Civis Illustris
Hemo Rusticus
Lounge Lizard
Behold! The fetid, stinking tomb of 90’s music, whence crawls this banal & effortless downtempo ghoul.
Quasus
Civis Illustris
King Crimson - Islands [Full Album]
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