Etienne de Lavaulx – The Sounds of Silence
An evening pause: As played on a zither.
Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
Tag: music
Itai Kriss & Telavana – Mafroum
An evening pause: Some jazz, that starts like 1950s cocktail music, and transcends into something very different.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Danil Danzheev & Ezendey Balbin – Altai throat singing
An evening pause: I think only someone who was raised speaking Russian (or some variant) could naturally be able to achieve these deep sounds.
Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
Jörg Hegemann & Stefan Ulbricht – Sixth Avenue Express
An evening pause: Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
John Arthur Martinez – The Armadillo Song
Suzy Bogguss – Someday Soon
An evening pause: Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
Bill Bailey – Duelling Sitars
An evening pause: We could also call this Hollywood vs Bollywood, the West vs the East, America vs India.
Or we could simply say it is a wonderful example of how music can transcend culture.
Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers – Jumpin Jive
An evening pause: The dancing here is as good if not better than anything you will see in an Astaire & Rogers movie.
Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
The Game Of Thrones Theme Song
An evening pause: Don’t ask me, I’ve never seen the show, but the guitar work here is fun to watch.
Hat tip Cotour.
Foster & Allen – After All These Years
An evening pause: Performed live 1995.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Movimiento 7 – Song of Sea Exile
An evening pause: I really have no idea who is performing this, as the Vimeo link provided no information. Web searches also came up dry. I couldn’t even find the lyrics.
Nonetheless, it is beautiful, and worth more than one listen.
UPDATE: I have finally located a description of this work of art. It is called The Wound in the Water,
music by Kim André Arneson (2016); libretto by Euan Tait (August 2015). This is from part 2, “The cry of the exile” and is called “Song of the Sea Exile.” The lyrics:
I, the exile,
my heart burning,
my lost life
a terrible fire,
songs of loved ones
crying all around me.
Oh endless,
endless home, the sea.
Oh my missing,
I am listening,
yet your silence
cannot answer me.
There, we left
our singing unfinished,
and our lives now
fall into the endless sea.
This the broken
gift of love:
the exile calls,
remembered names.
What you were
scorched on me,
your wounded names
sung to the endless sea.
Waves like voices
roar around you:
we’re not silenced,
but cry out like the
sea.
Your anger,fiery, living
is like love
that bleeds
like the endless sea.
Oh our exile,
torn by love,
singing words
you can no longer sing,
where’s the shores,
the harbour, the horizon,
wanderer,
calling to the endless sea
calling to the endless sea?
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Downey To Lubbock
Pomplamoose – Can’t Stop Feeling Billie Jean’s Face
An evening pause: A silly, but well played song.
Hat tip Cotour.
Leroy Troy – Ghost Chickens In The Sky
An evening pause: Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
Dylan Elise – Drum solo
An evening pause: Stay with it. The first half is good, but it is merely an appetizer for the second half.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure from Ecliptic Enterprises, who says of this clip, “This video went viral, and he’s now the drummer for the Blood, Sweat and Tears band and seeing the world.”
Anastasia Tyurina – Valenki
An evening pause: She was seven when this was performed live in Moscow on September 13, 2018.
Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
Lang Lang & Mark Guiliana – Why Bartók Rocks
An evening pause: They also do a Prokofiev piece.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Max Vandervorst & Marc Hérouet – Music for abandoned objects
An evening pause: The first is amazingly beautiful, the last especially silly.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Fly Me Off the Händel
An evening pause: It’s been awhile since this group has been an evening pause. And here they do it all, at once.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Mew & Copenhagen Philharmonic – Comforting Sounds
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae, who noted that this “represents the mindset of a large segment of contemporary youth: enervated, alienated, effete victims of Life and Everyone Else.”