Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Been thinking a lot recently about the film Latcho Drom, a "documentary" about the journey of the Romani peoples from India to Spain through Europe and North Africa, "told" entirely through music performances in real world situations in different countries. And hearing the soundtrack has whetted my appetite further. Haven't seen it since it first csame out in the early 90s.

It sounds quite interesting!

PD

[SimonNZ]

Interesting!  I wonder how they can figure out the proper pronunciations though?

PD

I believe a surprising amount can be triangulated from internal evidence within the poetry, starting with the way things like rhymes and puns etc are obliged to work.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I believe a surprising amount can be triangulated from internal evidence within the poetry, starting with the way things like rhymes and puns etc are obliged to work.

Hmmm...but how do you know how the word that you are trying to rhyme with is correctly pronounced?  And the same thing about puns?  I'd love to learn more about linguistics and how they figure things out...probably working backwards from modern languages to an extent?  Just ever curious about things. 

PD

[SimonNZ]

Hmmm...but how do you know how the word that you are trying to rhyme with is correctly pronounced?  And the same thing about puns?  I'd love to learn more about linguistics and how they figure things out...probably working backwards from modern languages to an extent?  Just ever curious about things. 

PD

You'd also be working backwards from regional dialects, which were well studied and even recorded before becoming homogenized through the 20th century. But I dont really know. The translator of the Kate Bush piece says in the first post that they are using a variant of Middle English that used phonetic spelling.

It wont be quite the same, but you might be interested in the work Ben Crystal has done in getting back to the original pronunciation of Shakespeare. there are a number of his lectures on YT.


playing:

[atardecer]

Love this performance.

Oingo Boingo - live at The Ritz 1985

[SimonNZ]

Three from Nonesuch:

^ love the Nonesuch Explorer series, and that Mbira album was one of their best

now:

Roger Waters - Dark Side Of The Moon Redux

Pleasantly surprised by this, and very glad to find it wasn't just some straightforward do-over. I liked the narrated musings the best, and would have preferred more, talking around the subjects of the songs with just the odd lyric thrown in. My favorite track was Great Gig In The Sky, with a story about the recent passing of a friend, like something from one of Laurie Anderson's spoken-word albums:

[AnotherSpin]

^ love the Nonesuch Explorer series, and that Mbira album was one of their best

now:

Roger Waters - Dark Side Of The Moon Redux

Pleasantly surprised by this, and very glad to find it wasn't just some straightforward do-over. I liked the narrated musings the best, and would have preferred more, talking around the subjects of the songs with just the odd lyric thrown in. My favorite track was Great Gig In The Sky, with a story about the recent passing of a friend, like something from one of Laurie Anderson's spoken-word albums:

As for Great Gig in the Sky, I like the female vocals in the new version much better than the original. The original one was always excessive and tedious.

I was intrigued by the reference to Yugoslavia. Here's what turned up. The Don who was diagnosed with cancer is the poet Donald Hall. The line "There is only one road in Yugoslavia" comes from his essay "One Road" about Hall's journey with his wife Kirby from Austria to Greece via Yugoslavia in 1952 by car.

[Todd]

The best French technopop album ever?  Yes, yes it is.

[drogulus]

     It's the weekend so let's all pile into Marty Dickman's Dodge Charger and head on in to the city and hassle for ticket's outside the Fillmore (2nd Ave. and 6th St.).

     So we're up in the balcony over on the left side but Jimi is on our side so it's cool.

     

[Todd]

[SimonNZ]

[SimonNZ]

Reading the recent book on the making of Srpingsteen's Nebraska album, and learning that an unlikely influence was the punk band Suicide, and especially the song "Frankie Teardrop". And apart from the electronic pulse its immediately apparent: the dark story, the echoey empty room, the screams that end "State Trooper" and the near-speaking vocal delivery:

[71 dB]

Tangerine Dream - White Eagle

[ando]

Sounds & Sweet Airs: A Shakespeare Songbook (2023, BIS)
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Roderick Williams, baritone
Joseph Middleton, piano

[ando]

Journey Escape

[71 dB]

Three albums on two discs:

Mama Cass Elliot

- Cass Elliot
- The Road Is No Place For A Lady
- "Don't Call Me Mama Anymore"

My non-classical music discovery of last summer. Who knew I'd like music like this, but I do!

[Todd]

[Henk]

Chasing the Monsoon - No Ordinary World

Nice for in this season on a rainy day.

[Henk]

This album by The Flower Kings doesn't bore me. Uplifting in these times of turmoil.

[drogulus]

     Here's my favorite post Peter Green song by Fleetwood Mac featuring Danny Kirwin.