music that transfixes you
- dubhlinn
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Some years back, a friend of mine was trawling through my CDs and asked to borrow Steely Dans "Can't buy a thrill".
"Take it ..it's brilliant" sez I.
A few weeks later he brought it back and said he liked it but they were much better when they had that Bird singing with them.
"What Bird?" sez I.
"Y' know...the one that sang All around me Hat " Sez He.
I hadn't got the heart to correct him so I just changed the subject.
I kid you not :roll:
Slan,
D.
"Take it ..it's brilliant" sez I.
A few weeks later he brought it back and said he liked it but they were much better when they had that Bird singing with them.
"What Bird?" sez I.
"Y' know...the one that sang All around me Hat " Sez He.
I hadn't got the heart to correct him so I just changed the subject.
I kid you not :roll:
Slan,
D.
And many a poor man that has roved,
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
W.B.Yeats
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
W.B.Yeats
- SteveShaw
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It was just one track that got me into ITM. Raggle Taggle Gypsy/Give Me Your Hand by you-know-who.BrassBlower wrote:It was stuff like Span, Clannad, and Fairport that got me into British Isles trad (and I've read that Altan would agree).
Steve
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
- SteveShaw
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Spem in Allium? Wonderful.MarkB wrote:Anything by the Tallis Scholars or the Anonymous 4.
MarkB
Steve
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
- Black Mage
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There is one song that always makes me just stop and listen, "Wilderness Love" by Samppa Saarinen. You can download it here for free (and it's 100% legal).
He's also uses tinwhistles in some of his songs too.
He's also uses tinwhistles in some of his songs too.
"Playing the whistle is nothing impressive. All one has to do is cover the right holes at the right time, and the instrument plays itself."
- SteveShaw
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Hey, I checked this spelling before posting!! There are loads of Google double-Ls, but you're right - I've just checked in the Penguin CD guide. That's a fiver I owe you (I always challenge my family to catch me out on spellings, the reward being £5. I've never had to pay up!). You have to collect in person though. What a brilliant piece though, one L or two!MarkB wrote:Steve wrote:
I agree, it stops me every time and I just can't let it be background music! One "L" in Alium.Spem in Allium? Wonderful.
If you are a Hawaiian then it is Spam in Aluminum
MarkB
Come to think of it, Allium's garlic isn't it?
...oh, and it's "aluminium" this end. Touché!
Cheers
Steve
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
- feadogin
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It's been a while since I felt "transfixed" by recorded music, but I remember feeling that way back in the day listening to my first Bothy Band album.
I feel that way more often when I am in a session. Session music leaves me transfixed on a regular basis, sitting bemused and sometimes (if it's really good) feeling an ache in my heart like being in love.
Justine
I feel that way more often when I am in a session. Session music leaves me transfixed on a regular basis, sitting bemused and sometimes (if it's really good) feeling an ache in my heart like being in love.
Justine
- cowtime
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dubhlinn wrote:Some years back, a friend of mine was trawling through my CDs and asked to borrow Steely Dans "Can't buy a thrill".
"Take it ..it's brilliant" sez I.
A few weeks later he brought it back and said he liked it but they were much better when they had that Bird singing with them.
"What Bird?" sez I.
"Y' know...the one that sang All around me Hat " Sez He.
I hadn't got the heart to correct him so I just changed the subject.
I kid you not :roll:
Slan,
D.
That's a good one!!!! I really did have to laugh out loud, and with my recent surgery, it can be a bit painful Maddy Prior and Steely Dan........oh, no, here it comes again
"Let low-country intruder approach a cove
And eyes as gray as icicle fangs measure stranger
For size, honesty, and intent."
John Foster West
And eyes as gray as icicle fangs measure stranger
For size, honesty, and intent."
John Foster West
- BrassBlower
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Are you reeling in the years?
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I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo
I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo
- burnsbyrne
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Wombat,Wombat wrote: Carmen Linares — La Luna en el Rio
Camaran de la Isla — Soy Gitano
It's nice to discover another Flamenco-lover out there. My favorite Flamenco disc, if I had to name one, is one by Fernanda and Bernarda de Urtrera with Juan Maya Marote accompaning. Number two would be the live album Camaron Nuestro. Just Camaron and Tomatito. That one gives me goose bumps.
Other musical selections that do the same are:
Va Pensiero, an aria from Verdi's Nabucco
E Scende le Stelle, from ......I'm blanking - it's old age
An arrangement of Debussy's Claire de Lune for two guitars played by Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya
and lastly, from an album called Baroque and on the Street in which lots of Vivaldi, Bach and other things are played very tastefully on guitar, banjo, harmonica and soprano sax, which is my favorite cut, played exquisitely by Jane Ira Bloom.
Mike
- dubhlinn
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Sorry to put a strain on your stitches Cowtime but what is even funnier - in my twisted mind anyway - is that very few English Folkies know that "All around my Hat" is an Irish rebel song written by the man who wrote the Irish National anthem and he was also Brendan Behans uncle.cowtime wrote:dubhlinn wrote:Some years back, a friend of mine was trawling through my CDs and asked to borrow Steely Dans "Can't buy a thrill".
"Take it ..it's brilliant" sez I.
A few weeks later he brought it back and said he liked it but they were much better when they had that Bird singing with them.
"What Bird?" sez I.
"Y' know...the one that sang All around me Hat " Sez He.
I hadn't got the heart to correct him so I just changed the subject.
I kid you not :roll:
Slan,
D.
That's a good one!!!! I really did have to laugh out loud, and with my recent surgery, it can be a bit painful Maddy Prior and Steely Dan........oh, no, here it comes again
I take great delight in pointing this out when the occasion arises and the usual response I get is "Are you sure about that".
I'm very sure, to be sure to be sure
Slan,
D.
And many a poor man that has roved,
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
W.B.Yeats
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
W.B.Yeats
- brewerpaul
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I wouldn't exactly call myself a Flamenco fan as such, but the NY Capital District is blessed with an absolutely phenomenal Flamenco/Classical guitarist named Maria Zemantauski. She is an exciting performer, and a really great woman on top of that. Check out her site: http://mariazemantauski.com/ , and listen to some of the sound clips.burnsbyrne wrote:Wombat wrote: Wombat,
It's nice to discover another Flamenco-lover out there. ...
I don't say it lightly that I think she's one of the best instrumentalists that I've ever heard, any time, any instrument. Much of what she has recorded is original, and all of it is first rate.
- jbarter
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I quite like the version Wjindbag sings from time to timedubhlinn wrote:"All around my Hat"
All around my hat I shall wear the green willow
All around my hat for a twelvemonth and a day
And if anyone should ask me the reason why I'm wearing it
That's my bloody business 'cause it's my bloody hat.
Another good short song he does is
Oh hangman stay your guurrrk
May the joy of music be ever thine.
(BTW, my name is John)
(BTW, my name is John)