Tag: music
Luciano Pavarotti and Queen – Too much love will kill you
David Garrett – November Rain
Yasuto Tanaka – The Swan
The Beatles – A Day In The Life
An evening pause: A wonderful song, but the images, most of which were taken during the recording session, will give you a taste of the wild, crazy, irreverent, and often foolish 1960s. Today, a half century later, we still are reaping the whirlwind of that decade, for good and ill.
Weird Planet fractals
Kseniya Simonova – sand art
An evening pause: From Ukraine’s Got Talent, an amazing performance by Kseniya Simonova, telling the story of World War II from the Ukrainian perspective, all with sand. From the youtube webpage:
What she depicts is love and the chaos of war, it is set amidst the turmoil of the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa (Nazi invasion of USSR during World War II) and the impact it had on a Ukrainian couple, the husband is drafted into the Soviet military and never came back home, years later his wife grows old and visits a war memorial to mourn him. The last picture is her younger self and her baby saying farewell to him… with the quote, “You are always with us.”
There’s a Light – We Choose to go to the Moon
An evening pause: A song by a band called There’s a Light, from their 2012 album Khartoum, expressing nicely in words, music, and images the human insistence on doing great things.
Hand shadow performance
An evening pause: An incredible hand shadow performance set to Louis Armstrong singing “What a wonderful world.”
Joe Hisaishi – Asia Dream Song
Buddy Rich – Impossible Drum Solo
Andre Rieu – Annie’s Song
Gorillaz – Melancholy Hill
Dizzi – River Flow
Speed Flying down from Mont Blanc
Let’s dance
An evening pause: Of the movies from which these dance sequences come, how many can you name? All of them are worth watching, over and over again.
Peter, Paul and Mary – Puff The Magic Dragon
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Proud Mary
Coeur de Pirate – Wood & Wires Session
An evening pause: Beatrice Martin, aka Coeur de Pirate, performs two songs, “Place de la Republique” and “Adieu” live in Toronto’s the Great Hall. That the songs are in French makes no difference.
Lisa Gerrard – Sanvean
Shao Rong – A song of lilies
An evening pause: New Music by Chinese lute player Shao Rong, from her second album, Orchid II.
Flying over America
Cyndi Lauper – Girls just wanna have fun
Flight Of The Conchords – Jenny
Bob Dylan – Just like a woman
An evening pause: Bob Dylan, singing “Just Like a Woman,” with George Harrison and Leon Russell providing vocal and guitar support, at the 1971 live concert for Bangladesh.
Genki Sudo [World Order] – Aquarius
Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds live
Adele – Rolling In The Deep
Band of Horses – The Funeral
Alvino Rey – St. Louis Blues
An evening pause: From the youtube webpage:
Alvino Rey is as important to the development of the electric guitar as Les Paul was, but has been criminally uncredited for it–until now. More and more photos, recordings and film clips like these are coming out of the woodwork to show what a genius Alvino was.
This film clip is from 1944 and shows Alvino demonstrating not only his amazing work on the steel guitar, but also his “singing guitar” effect, similar to the Sonovox, manifested in the persona of “Stringy” the talking guitar puppet! Enjoy this and whatever you do, DO NOT TAKE ACID BEFORE VIEWING….we warned you….