Major film(music) of Kannada cinema from 1977
(a "golden age" in my opinion). Not only does the
film feature the great Rajkumar, but the
part he plays involves the life of a shehnai artist
with the shehnai parts being played offscreen
by the legendary Ustad Bismillah Khan!
Listening to number 1 on the Ted Gioia list,
- Anyone/everyone with a Europe/UK Emusic subscription, regardless of their musical preferences, should try and "waste" 0,49 on this mindblowing album: - Emusers link.
ETA: another one from my 2014 list: - Emusers link.
Just finished: Hess/AC/Hess - "Spacelab" (a good one for the Marcin Wasilewski Trio fans)
NP: Roberto Negro - "Loving Suite Pour Birdy So" (chamber, jazz, folk, odd... seriously alluring and fun)
The second of three albums that the 22 Band did for the Syliphone label.
They're from Kankan and named after the date of the Portuguese-led attack
on Guinea in 1970 (originally they were called 22 Novembre Band). Have
loved those three albums and the fact that it's some of the most happy,
energetic, foot-shuffling music around.
Hm, that Erdmann/Rohrer isn't quite what I remembered. Wondering now if I have it confused with another album. That happens. I may be thinking of an Andy Emler release on La Buisonne. Will look into that.
In the meantime, moving on...
Masaa - "Afkar"
-Modern jazz with Lebanese vocals. Very different, yet still straight-ahead. Very cool.
@jonahpwll, I bought that Spacelab album after you said once before it was for Wasilewski fans - and I do like it, though not as much as Wasilewski. Sadly, the newest Wasilewski album is not growing on me as much as the previous ones. Can't tell how much of it is because I am exhausted these last few weeks and everything is a bit glazed over.
NP: Porya Hatami - Arrivals and Departures
Question to the world: should you put the same artist more than once in an end of year top 20 if they had more than one album you loved or is it better to give each artist one ticket? (Hatami has two, possibly even three candidates for my list out of his 8 releases this year).
Question to the world: should you put the same artist more than once in an end of year top 20 if they had more than one album you loved or is it better to give each artist one ticket? (Hatami has two, possibly even three candidates for my list out of his 8 releases this year).
I think the answer lies in your motivation for posting any such list in the first place. Advocacy and signaling are two common motivations, and they may yield different answers. (For me, advocacy would maximize artist number in the listings, while signaling would emphasize honesty/accuracy. I'd judge more social good in the former.)
Yes, if that's your real top 20, list it that way. The "pros" do it all the time with longer lists like decade lists. Or list your favorite one, and give the second one honorable mention. Or list those 2 and give the artist at 21 honorable mention.
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Major film(music) of Kannada cinema from 1977
(a "golden age" in my opinion). Not only does the
film feature the great Rajkumar, but the
part he plays involves the life of a shehnai artist
with the shehnai parts being played offscreen
by the legendary Ustad Bismillah Khan!
- Anyone/everyone with a Europe/UK Emusic subscription, regardless of their musical preferences, should try and "waste" 0,49 on this mindblowing album:
ETA: another one from my 2014 list:
I've taken your advice BN - only 42p here for 42 minutes.
- Name your price @ Bandcamp . . . Some pretty funny and wacky Beatles cover versions on this.
ETA: Ooops, its the album's anniversary, not the Orchestra.
I also took your advice, well worth 42p
followed by
The Faces- A nods as good as a Wink
The Budos Band - Burnt Offering
Mouse on Mars - 21 Again
Kit Downes Trio - Golden
Just finished: Hess/AC/Hess - "Spacelab" (a good one for the Marcin Wasilewski Trio fans)
NP: Roberto Negro - "Loving Suite Pour Birdy So" (chamber, jazz, folk, odd... seriously alluring and fun)
The second of three albums that the 22 Band did for the Syliphone label.
They're from Kankan and named after the date of the Portuguese-led attack
on Guinea in 1970 (originally they were called 22 Novembre Band). Have
loved those three albums and the fact that it's some of the most happy,
energetic, foot-shuffling music around.
Daniel Erdmann & Samuel Rohrer - "From the Inside Of A Cloud"
In the meantime, moving on...
Masaa - "Afkar"
-Modern jazz with Lebanese vocals. Very different, yet still straight-ahead. Very cool.
NP: Porya Hatami - Arrivals and Departures
Question to the world: should you put the same artist more than once in an end of year top 20 if they had more than one album you loved or is it better to give each artist one ticket? (Hatami has two, possibly even three candidates for my list out of his 8 releases this year).
Starting off today with Beatles White Album Disc 2
Yes, if that's your real top 20, list it that way. The "pros" do it all the time with longer lists like decade lists. Or list your favorite one, and give the second one honorable mention. Or list those 2 and give the artist at 21 honorable mention.
Yep, it's time.
@rostasi, I believe the full name of that album is, "Never Mind the Pan Pipes, Here's the Alpacas"
Specifically, Trouble in Tahiti - An Opera in Seven Scenes