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Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:07 am
by Diane
Apocalyptica's second album, Inquisition Symphony. Metallica tribute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSMXMv0noY4
Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 3:54 pm
by dharma
Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 3:10 am
by pe swijngedouw
something strange perhaps, to english-speaking ears :
"beaufort-wes se beautiful woorde"
by gert vlok nel, a south-african singing poet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH4pT6JWnhY
pe
Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:04 pm
by Diane
I have that excellent album, Dharma, thanks to a lady from down under who used to frequent this board. Gurrumul has an exceptionally tender and soulful voice doesn't he. The translations of the lyrics are interesting - there's a lot about connectedness to land and ancestors, and the evocative aspects of nature such as sunsets and thunder - as you'd maybe expect from an indigenous singer.
My current favourite from the album is Galiku, simply because of the use of the word "gilan", which is described as being the word for "the sound made by a mast rope against the mast and a flapping flag at the masthead". It sounds like an onomatopeaic word like "clang". I am always enchanted to hear that sound. In the song it seems to be associated with the flag of Gurrumul's people, and to allude to the way the winds (of change) are shredding the flag.
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance is here, take it
From this northerly wind, take it
On the mast the flags are playing, take it
The flags torn by the wind, take it
Gilan, gilan, gilan, gilan, gilan, gilan, gilan, gilan, fraying to pieces, take it
torn flags, mast arms,
gilan, gilan, gilan, on the masts, shredded flags
shredded by the power of wuduminy, gangayparra winds
You (flags) asked to fly dancing from the northern wind
flags dancing there at Mindharnura, Wilirnura, Muthamul
(...)
Raising a new folded flag, take it
'gilan' as it is raised up the mast, take it
Singing the country Djannala, Gapala, Barrumbarru, take it
Because this is marked for Gatinba, take it
gilan, gilan, gilan, gilan, gilan, gilan, gilan, disappears from sight
(translation)
ps tonight I am listening to the big music of The Waterboys' This is the Sea. A classic classic album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgjuCsIbBRc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk469q3-EIc
Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:39 am
by blonde madonna
Hi Diane
Had some time to lurk today and came across you and dharma enjoying 'our Geoffrey'. I saw him live not too long ago at a Footy Club do - he really is special.
Loved your take on the song.
Thanks
BM
Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 2:06 pm
by Diane
BM great to see you! It must be about a year ago we saw Leonard in Cardiff. What a fantastic weekend that was. I miss seeing your intelligent posts around this place. I imagine that you knew I'd like this album before you gave it to me, and that's just another of the reasons I like it so much:-) Very cool that you saw Geoffrey live. Catch you later.
Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 12:09 am
by basecamp
The new album of the former Green On Red member Chris Cacavas:
Chris Cacavas - Love's Been Discontinued
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euY_7FNNDlI
Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 7:28 am
by blonde madonna
The Swell Season
Strict Joy
Yey, they are coming here!
My fave song at the moment, yes maybe I was born to be a sentimental fool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkNJ5ist-d4
BM
Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 7:44 am
by blonde madonna
Noah and the Whale
The First Days of Spring
For good and bad, it makes me feel 21 again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o81gkXxNrBk
Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 6:13 pm
by dharma
Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:47 pm
by kwills
This is a great album to exercise your lungs to!
Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:55 pm
by kwills
At last Diane I've got the album!
Had a quick listen to it and I think I'm really going to enjoy it.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:34 am
by Inne
Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:00 pm
by Diane
Hello Kwills! Nice to see you. (I envy you taking Twm for a walk with those frosty mountains as your backdrop.) Yes, it's an excellent, passionate album, with great lyrics, great musicianship, and '"full of elemental ferocity" - really glad you are liking it.
I don't have the most recent studio album, Book of Lightning, but lately I heard this track from it.
You In the Sky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV0llBOVCM8
By the way, the lucky Irish have a Waterboys show setting WB Yeats' poetry to music, coming up next March. Sounds very interesting:
http://www.mikescottwaterboys.com/
Re: Music You're Listening To
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:30 pm
by kwills
Hi Diane,it looks like I will have to treat myself to that album too!
