What Song Are You Listening to Now?

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Sounds a bit like gypsy music 🙂

 

Edited February 6, 2022 by Novosedoff

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On 2/6/2022 at 5:42 AM, Elisa said:

Call me blasphemous but because it is in my mother tongue and because the lyrics are so good I almost like it more than the original 😊

I think it was in a music theory lecture that I heard Italian has the ideal ratio of vowels to consonants for singing. French supposedly has vowels too often, and German and perhaps English has consonants too often.

Anyway, here are some Reich and Glass minimalist gems from my lost tape archives:

 

 

 

Edited February 9, 2022 by caesar novus

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Yeah, I remember Philip Glass for his Koyaanisqatsi 🙂  

However today, as a Russian joke goes, we'll be listening to the Iranian music just to irritate the Americans 😅 (unlike the US, Russia has good diplomatic relations with Iran)

This is in fact beautiful Iranian prog-rock stuff produced before the Islamic Revolution

 

 

 

 

 

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And in order to continue to acquaint some of the local crazy folks (incl. myself) with Russian culture here goes some Russian-made classic stuff produced the very last years before the collapse. The movie was filmed in Yalta, Crimea. The movie is sh*t, in my humble view, but it gives pretty good background coverage for a couple of music tracks

 

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And as final goes the modern Russian juzz band called the Marimba (Tatiana would often sing in English)

 

Edited February 13, 2022 by Novosedoff

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Played softly, this Reich piece makes an effective lullaby for me. Just weird enough to distract from normal thoughts and background noise, but it somehow evolves in a soothing way:

 

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Here is a music track from a popular Russian movie of the late 80s. This is the story of 4 Russian high-school children who paid a visit to their class teacher and turned her apartment upside down for a reason, which led to her suicide when she realized that the value gap was too deep for her to handle 🙂

 

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OK, I have become a Steve Reich bore! I have long had his albums collecting dust because the good tracks are buried among a lot of annoying ones. But cherry picking on youtube led me to discovering these help me get into deep sleep:

 

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe is said to be the originator of rock and roll:

 

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A couple of Soviet retro-tracks 🙂

 

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The first guy played at street fairs where I used to live. Then I hear he got a death sentence from his doctor so got serious about making hits beforehand. The second guy provides another sleep aid, which I need due to all night illegal drag racing nearby. Local gov't loves to micromanage obedient citizens over the sniffles, but couldn't care less about lawless threats to road safety and livable neighborhoods.

 

 

 

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Casual bystander's watching...

Edited February 16, 2022 by Novosedoff

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