A description of this wonderful music by YouTube user sasayakanaru:
This electronic musical instrument is called “Matryomin“. This was developed by Japanese musician [Masami Takeuchi] ,made by the base of “Theremin” and Russian dall “Matryoshka“.The interval and the volume are controlled by holding up the hand in the antenna in the dall, and changing the [...]
I just found out from Ruby who found out from Dav that the wonderful radical hiphop groups The Coup and Mr. Lif where in a bus crash. They lost everything except their lives. Many of them are seriously injured. Thankfully no one was killed. From Boots blog:
We lost everything in that crash and fire. We [...]
A few mornings ago when I was pre-coffee the first song I heard was Elvis’s Blue Christmas. It was the studio version with the psychedelic background vocals. They sounded like fairies that enjoyed just a bit too much of their own dust. I liked the melody so much I immediately started writing this blog post [...]
Artist: John Zorn
Band: Naked City
Song: Batman
Dear God there is a lot of John Zorn stuff on YouTube!
Tonight I’m going to see John Zorn’s jazz quartet called Masada. (Thanks Martin!) They’re playing at Duke University’s Page Auditorium. It’s been a long time since I listened to some Zorn. My favorite was his Naked City stuff. But the guy has recorded TONs of albums that span the spectrum of Jazz. So its hard [...]
I’m not a religious person but, the voice and words of Johnny Cash are so powerful.
Weird Al Yankovic has a new album coming out and his new song Don’t Download this Song is hilarious. If you’ve been following the insane story of the RIAA suing grandmothers and teenagers then you’ll really appreciate the irony of the lyrics.
I know by blogging about this I’m just a witting pawn in their marketing [...]
David Byrne and Brian Eno have released the full tracks in WAV and MP3 form of two songs, Secret Life and Help Me Somebody, from their famous 1981 album My Life In the Bush of the Ghosts.
This is so cool! When I first heard this album it really turned me on to the power [...]
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On my last day of high school my art teacher asked us all what we wanted to do next. I said I wanted to grow my hair long like John Lennon. No this wasn’t the 1970’s it was 1989.
I learned about The Beatles after the [...]
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