What are you listening to?

[QuickHitCurepon]

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

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:



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Peggy Lee "Black Coffee" from her album "Black Coffee" released on 10" in 1953 on Decca Records.

The trumpet is played by Pete Candoli who was an outstanding trumpeter:

Pete Candoli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

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.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor "Moya" from their EP "Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada" released on 12" in 1999 on Constellation/Kranky Records.

"Moya" contains a partial re-working of Henryk Górecki's "Symphony No.3, Op. 36" aka "Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs", which will be partially recognisable if you're familiar with Górecki's incredible work.

The front cover as pictured, Hebrew, in transliterated form is Tohu wa-bohu (formless and empty), used in Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23, the former describing the Earth before God separated light from dark and the latter describing the Earth after the Lord's Day.



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[Muhammed]

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

 

[Militants]

More Metallica.



Stevie Wonder.

 

[ChrisL]

 

[ChrisL]

You like Alice in Chains, Lucy Hamilton? I LOVE them! Unfortunately, the lead singer died from a drug overdose. Such a shame.

 

[ChrisL]

 

[ChrisL]

Pearl Jam is another excellent band.

 

[ChrisL]

 

[ChrisL]

 

[ChrisL]

I like Soundgarden too, but not as much as the others. Chris Cornell sometimes sounds a little "screechy" for my liking. This is an excellent tune though.

 

[ChrisL]

 

[ChrisL]

 

[ChrisL]

 

[ChrisL]

 

[ChrisL]

Nirvana is another one of my favorite grunge bands.

 

[ChrisL]