What are you listening to now ?

Ok. Let's try something totally different. Brazilian Choro music, played by Caraivana, and you guys will really enjoy the production values in this. Much better than the usual stuff on Youtube. Apparently shot in film and tele-cined into this high quality clip, according to the guy who shot it.

Modern Brazilian music at it's best. The guy playing the mandolin like instrument is Dudu Maia, and it is a 10 string Brazilian mandolin, called a bandolim.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rutYYuRS6c&feature=related
 
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-Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye...
Pretty relaxing music. Got that pulsating rhythm to it.
Kind of like Pinl Flyod in a slight way but different also.
A good relaxing song. Something I'd listen to after smoking a dube and going to bed and letting the mind get into it.
Cool song.


-White Town - Your Woman
Didn't quite work for me. In 2 songs so far I'm hearing a German influence.Just a gut feeling.

-Spoon - I Summon You
Nice vocals and rhythm in the music and vocals. Reminds me of the Beatles a bit.
Good song though.

-Ian Brown - Set My Baby Free
Again, first impression in the first 20 seconds-German influence. Then rapping?
Different. I like the synth pattern running in the background. Beats steady.
Another doobie song I think. Slow groove melodic type of thing. It's alright.

-Lady Delay
Loving the intro. Synths. cool. Okay percussion. Nice picture, haha.
Yeah, I like those complex percission patterns. reminds me of Steve Reich, I was into around 25 years ago.
Multiple pianos, Tubular Bells-Mike Olfield, King Krimson although I CANT find the album I used to love around 84.
Anyways,getting back...
Also some early Genesis had some percission/ryhtms like that,during the 80's.
Cool stuff.

-Little People- Start Shootin'
Very cool intro. Something I'd hear over a video animation/cvompilation on Vimeo.
Very artistic sounding. Would work well with photographic image sequences/videos as I mentioned above.
Cool man.

-Robert Miles - Children [High Quality]
Not really my thing. I'm rushing a bit trying to get through them all though.
Long list man, hehe.

-Paul Van Dyk - Never Forget
Not much happening there. More of a beat track.

-Ulrich Schnauss - Monday Paracetamol
Ooooh. Right off the bat my PC Desktop wallpaper is a Nasa photo of the planet almost identical to this opening shot,
although mine is better and more detailed ofcourse haha. Pretty close though.

Nice percussion and bass patterns.Pretty intersing actually. Lots to listen to there.
That's what I like. Yeah, that's a good one.

-Fatboy Slim - Right here, Right now
Nice Bass and bass drum groove.1/Thump,2/dada-3/thump-thump 4/.It's in the rhythm.
That's not actually the pattern, but that's the feel I'm getting.
Cool.

-Dutch Force - Deadline (Moonwatcher's Dead Calm Remix)
Again, another doobie bed time song I think.
I', not really into this stuff but I can appreaciate it.
Good stuff to chill out to.

Thanks all I can crit tonight.
That's a big order man, haha. :)
Cheers dude.
 
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8String: I like Mexican music, I think. I met the Miriachis in '77. They played the , shi*, what's that song about the lost trumpet player? They had 2 trumpet players playing/leading the song. (They had an accoustic bass player. First time I ever saw one.). The lost one began playing outside of the theater and slowly approached and joined as the song continued. It was about the lost trumpet finding it's way home. Pretty cool guys and the performance got a standing ovation.

Outside of that and when I see them on T'V, I can't say I really know any Mexican Music. Although in general I like it. I haven't been exposed to too much of it so pipe it out there man. It took me 3 years to understand Punjab music. 3 poopoo years man, before I got it. Now I like it, haha.

Yeah man, post that stuff. That's the only way. I wanna here some more of that shi*. :beer:

Brazillian. Huh. Yeah, post more if you have it.
-Thanks.
 
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Army of Anyone, self titled and only album. Creamy rifs (DeLeo brothers from Stone Temple Pilots), stylish drumming, and the vocals of Filter's Richard Patrick (brother of actor Robert Patrick)
 
ATL Media Group said:
I'd rather have my teeth drilled without Novocain that listen to 3+ minutes of ANY guitar solo and I've played Guitar since I was 13 (43 now!).

Ack....
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Yeah, I think I know what you mean. I played full time for 8 years, keyboards, (30 years in total) and when I left I couldn't/wouldn't listen to music for at least 5 years solid. Then slowly, over about 3 more years, I began to be able to listen to music again like other people do. I guess the same thing applies to people in the film biz. It's nice to be back though. Although the ear is never really totally untrained I guess, haha :)

//edit: Actually, it was 9 yrs starting to listen to music again and enjoying it, and now at 10 years I think I'm back enjoying music again. Huh. Strange huh?

Just one of those things, they way the brain is conditioned. Always in analysis mode. Possibly that's what your experiencing also. Maybe.
 
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I'm making my way through the rest of them now.
I guess I did the second half first.

Ulrich Schnauss - Monday ...
Yeah, I downloaded that one. Good song and nice pictures.
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Sarah Brightman - Nessun Dorma
I'm already a Sarah Brightman fan. She has an incredible voice.
Her version of Ave Maria is one of my all time bests.

I won't do the crit thing on the rest of them. I'll just have a listen to them all
and thank you for posting. Okay, I probably will post anyways, haha. Great list man.

I guess I should get back to work here pretty soon too, haha.
Manana man.
-Cheers.
 
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Herbie Hancock. In a Jazz mood. Also desperate to hear new material. Man, post it up guys.
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Ahh man. Glad to hear that. Stevie Wonder is a historical musical figure. One of the greats. :)
 
Lets try another Jazz tune. Another local. Oscar Peterson. I tried to find one that wouldn't put ya'll to sleep. :)

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Gord.T said:
Ahh man. Glad to hear that. Stevie Wonder is a historical musical figure. One of the greats. :)
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As the proud user of KURZWEIL musical instruments, there's a profound connection to Stevie Wonder... Ray Kurzweil was developing reading machines for the blind in the early 1980s.. Stevie was one of his clients. It was Stevie's idea that Ray apply his genius to making an electronic musical instrument that would effectively sound like acoustic instruments.. and Ray developed the K250 for Stevie Wonder in 1985. Bit 'o history for ya'. :)
 
Actually, I remember the Kurzweil well. I was off the road in the 80's when I first read about it in KeyBoard Magazine (?), making my monthly trips to T.O to pay bills.

He was leading edge back then. Everything was top secret. Yeah, a few of his boards are still in use. But, yeah, I'm aware of the man, for sure. :)

//edit: Glad to see that brought up. Wow, Kurzweil. He had big ideas back then. :)

///haha. More edit: Acutally I missed Oscar Peterson at Long & McQuades on Bloor by about 5 mins once and later hung out with a lady whom I can't mention who was friends with him and she sais he's a great guy. Haha, my brush with stars. What can I say. Good Times I guess. -Cheers.
 
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No doubt Ray is a genius. He's a broad spectrum thinker, with work published in science, life extention, as well as his work for the blind and development of what could arguably be the best electronic music instruments in the world.

From 2003 onward, I invested heavily in the K2500/2600/PC2 line, overhauling my studio here. I've got 1GB sampled pianos on the computer, but none play as musically and expressively as the one in the K2600. The symphony I work with has a Steinway piano, which I record fairly regularly as part of concerts. Sometimes I am finishing up an edit on such a recording and, with the Steinway's tone fresh in my mind, I go do some work transcribing something using the Steinway patch on the Kurz.. and it sounds eerily identical to the Steinway at the concert hall I work with. None of my other sampled pianos sound and express like that. When you dig through the program parameters in the K2600 to see all the ways in which the samples are modulated and controlled, it's no wonder why the instrument sounds and plays like a piano. The rest of the Kurz is darned good, too, and the synthesis capabilities are unmatched in the present day music world. The folks in Europe know how to program it and their program libraries for the Kurz are amazing.

I myself have a sample library of some pipe organs from the Netherlands, which I used to render a unique version of a French composition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9r9G0CS0BM

The Kurweil equipment is so versatile, I can make any kind of music with it, from ancient Baroque/impressionist to modern Jazz and all the genres of today. Ray left us a great legacy.
 
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I myself have a sample library of some pipe organs from the Netherlands, which I used to render a unique version of a French composition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9r9G0CS0BM

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Those samples and your playing sound great. I've never tried a Kurweil but I'll take your word for it.
I always loved the bass pedals when heard in a church. It's hard to capture that on tape. It's so much better in person.

I was speaking to an old friend recently and he was asking me if I'd used any VSTi plugins. No, so I googled around youtube for sample videos, piano mainly, and I didn't find anything I really liked. Although I have heard some music in the dvxfest entries that composers have used and they sound good. Maybe it's in the post production that makes it.

Btw, I haven't played in 10 yrs and have no intention of starting up again, but I still have an interest in it. I used a 8 bit sampler around '90 I think, an Ensonic but ditched that because of the load times. I had to use floppys to load my sounds. And at 8 bit they were crap. I switched to the Ensonic KT88 for use in bars. ehhhh. Wan't really impressed with it but for bar pay it was good enough I guess. No one in our band took any good gear on the road playing bars. It was too much wear and tear on good gear for what we got payed. The only good bar piano I used was a Wurlitzer electric piano, it's compliment being the Rhoads. Both of which I still love.

Oh, one last funny story, to me anyways.

In the mid and late 80's I was working at a newspaper in the mailroom. Low end machine operator stuff. I was doing a small gig that night with some friends and was waiting outside after work to get picked up. My boss was walking by as the truck was pulling up and he started asking questions about the band.

It turns out he used to play percussion with the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra. His name was Bob Thwaite (Spelling?).
He left that gig because he wasn't happy with the pay and got a managerial job at the paper. Funny world sometimes.
 
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...Prokofiev's piano concerto no. 3.
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This version, below, was incredible. Can't say I knew the song before now, but, downloaded and archived that puppy. Wow. She's not even using sheet music. This particular one was an incredible performance.
Thanks.


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Don't know how to embed on this site yet, but I got you one better - on youtube they have a 1932 recording of Prokofiev HIMSELF playing the concerto. I would love to own that recording. Concert pianist never rely on sheet music, it's by memory and techinque.

Today I listened to a bunch of Amy Grant music, yep, but the Contemporary Christian more than the pop:

This is lyrics to her song titled 1975 (yep, that's the title):

We were young,
And none of us know quite what to say,
But the feeling moved
Among us in silence anyway.
Slowly we had made
Quite a change--
Somewhere we had crossed a big line.
Down upon our knees,
We had tasted holy wine,
And no one could sway us
In a life time.

Purer than the sky,
Behind the rain.
Falling down all around us,
Calling out from a boundless love.
Love had lit a fire;
We were the flame.
Burning into the darkness,
Shining out from inside us.

Not a word.
And no one had to say we were changed.
Nothing else we lived through
Would ever be same the same,
Knowing the truth
That we had gained.

Purer than the sky,
Behind the rain.
Falling down all around us,
Calling out from a boundless love.
Love had lit a fire;
We were the flame.
Burning into the darkness,
Shining out from inside us.

Stay with me.
Make it ever new,
So time will not undo,
As the years go by,
How I need to see
That's still me.

Falling down all around us,
Calling out from a boundless love.
 
Gord.T said:
Those samples and your playing sound great. I've never tried a Kurweil but I'll take your word for it.
I always loved the bass pedals when heard in a church. It's hard to capture that on tape. It's so much better in person.

I was speaking to an old friend recently and he was asking me if I'd used any VSTi plugins. No, so I googled around youtube for sample videos, piano mainly, and I didn't find anything I really liked. Although I have heard some music in the dvxfest entries that composers have used and they sound good. Maybe it's in the post production that makes it.

Btw, I haven't played in 10 yrs and have no intention of starting up again, but I still have an interest in it. I used a 8 bit sampler around '90 I think, an Ensonic but ditched that because of the load times. I had to use floppys to load my sounds. And at 8 bit they were crap. I switched to the Ensonic KT88 for use in bars. ehhhh. Wan't really impressed with it but for bar pay it was good enough I guess. No one in our band took any good gear on the road playing bars. It was too much wear and tear on good gear for what we got payed. The only good bar piano I used was a Wurlitzer electric piano, it's compliment being the Rhoads. Both of which I still love.

Oh, one last funny story, to me anyways.

In the mid and late 80's I was working at a newspaper in the mailroom. Low end machine operator stuff. I was doing a small gig that night with some friends and was waiting outside after work to get picked up. My boss was walking by as the truck was pulling up and he started asking questions about the band.

It turns out he used to play percussion with the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra. His name was Bob Thwaite (Spelling?).
He left that gig because he wasn't happy with the pay and got a managerial job at the paper. Funny world sometimes.
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Yes, because tape has relatively poor low frequency response due to the size requirements of the iron core magnetic recording head limiting its ability to couple magnetic flux variations to the tape at low frequencies. At those low frequencies, even 0.5% THD is very audible because the harmonic overtones are well within the ear's frequency range, whilst the fundamentals are stretching the bottom of human hearing. Digital recording doesn't have that limitation. My recording rig will record a 4Hz pure tone just as easily as 100Hz.
A 32' Bourdon pedal is no particular challenge to record with today's technology. Even a 64' stop (not a resultant, but a true 64') is easy to capture. However, there are very few commercially available speaker systems that will reproduce it these tones accurately.

I mainly use the musical instruments to more fully understand the craft, to relax and for enjoyment and as a means of creating music beds for video projects without dealing with copyright issues.

Your anecdote about your boss rings familiar.. there are so many musicians who have to have day jobs to support themselves. I find it frustrating that some of the finest musicians live on pauper's wages, whilst some flash-in-the-pan pop star can vomit into a microphone with autotune and be an instant millionaire. :Drogar-BlackEye(DBG
 
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