What are you listening to?

[Mindful]

 

[the other mike]

 

[Coyote]

The Youngblood’s - Get Together
one of my all time favorites...


Some may come and some may go
We shall surely pass
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment's sunlight
Fading in the grass

 

[BothWings]

Earlier I was listening to Béla Bartók "String Quartet No. 5", on the record player.

You Tube being amazing, they have all of Bartók's String Quartet's uploaded.

The painting in the background of course, this is Wassily Kandinsky's "Composition VIII" from 1923, Kandinsky's early Bauhaus period....I love Kandinsky, one of my favourite artists.

This is the Allegro from "String Quartet No. 5":



Then I listened to Imarhan, who are Tuareg from Algeria and are on City Slang Records which is owned and run by some friends of our's in Berlin:

City Slang Records

Imarhan

The whole Imarhan album is completely astonishing.

This is Imarhan's song "Tahabort" which is amazing, incredibly intricate guitar work and in general just extraordinary noise, they're on tour throughout Europa this month and also March, we must go and watch them do their thing:



Edited to add comment.

These days I generally only listen to music barely a quarter as much as I used to... but lately I've been listening to Omar Faruk Tekbilek a bit...plus Khatia Buniatishvili, the Who, a little Pink Floyd and Genesis here and there....

I let you know what else "turns up".

Edit: Add The Doors "Texas Radio and the Big Beat" to the list for the ride home!

 

[Coyote]

Rainbow - Star Gazer

 

[Coyote]

Blackmore’s Night - Village Lanterne

Ritchie Blackmore - from Deep Purple to Rainbow to Blackmore’s Night.

 

[Coyote]

Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show - Sylvia’s Mother

 

[the other mike]

.... and Genesis

You ever hear any of the short-lived
Ray Wilson era ?

 

[Coyote]

Gordon Lightfoot - another who I was lucky enough to see in concert long ago.

Sundown

 

[Coyote]

The Band - The Weight

 

[Coyote]

Uriah Heep - Wizard
love seeing the videos of live performances but 70's clothing style really sucked



Why don't we listen to the voices in our hearts
'Cause then I know we'd find that we're not so far apart
Everybody's got to be happy, everyone should sing
For we know the joy of life, the peace that love can bring
So spoke the wizard in his mountain home
The vision of his wisdom means we'll never be alone
And I will dream of my magic night
And the million silver stars that guide me with their light

 

[Coyote]

Derek and the Dominos - Layla
original version

 

[Coyote]

Toto - Africa
...am blessing the rains that are coming now, it has been dry

 

[the other mike]

 

[Coyote]

Leonard Cohen - Everbody Knows


Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

 

[Coyote]

In the 70’s and 80’s, there was a radio show called Music Americana, with Dick Cerri hosting. I listened to it when I lived in the DC area, until, I moved away. They showcased a lot of talent, and there were live performances as well at the Cellar Door and Wolf Trap. Dick Cerri is gone now, but the music goes on.

Every year they did a top twenty. This song of the Irish Troubles, was one of them.

Paddy O’Reilly - There Were Roses



Isaac was my friend he cried
He begged them with his tears
But centuries of hatred
Have ears that do not hear
An eye for an eye
That was all that filled their minds
And another eye for another eye
Till everyone was blind

 

[Coyote]

Good song from a good movie: I See Fire....



Now I see fire, inside the mountain
I see fire, burning the trees
And I see fire, hollowing souls
And I see fire, blood in the breeze
And I hope that you'll remember me

 

[Coyote]

Loreena McKinnett - Caravanserai

 

[Coyote]

Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die

 

[Deplorable Yankee]