‘Angel’ - Sarah McLachlan and Josh Groban, live duet
Absolutely beautiful! This lovely song about being held with love in the arms of angels gave me chills and brought tears. I love Sarah and Josh separately, but together, here, now… Wow!
Live duet by Sarah McLachlan and Josh Groban at Live8 in Philadelphia, PA singing Sarah McLachlan’s [...]
Through the Eyes of an Angel performed by Miten
Beautiful song filled with love and appreciation. Listening to this lovely song I feel the love emanating, swirling around me and filling every ounce of my being. Ummm, nice! The video with Miten, Deva Premal and Manose reflects the song’s essence… softness, peace and the power of [...]
Mermaid Song music video by Manose
Mermaid Song is an original composition performed on solo bamboo flute. Filmed on California’s Sonoma Coast.
Manose touches me to the core of my being. Makes me sway, wakes me up and calms me all at the same time. I love to watch and listen to him play. He is masterful. [...]
Stolen Child performed live by Loreena McKennitt
Loreena has a hauntingly beautiful voice. I love her music. I got chills as I listened to this wonderful Irish Celtic song about the Faery. Album: ELEMENTAL; Song: Stolen Child. Words by W.B.Yeats - Music by Loreena McKennitt (1985, Elemental was recorded by Loreena in a barn in Southern [...]
"New Soul’ performed by Yael Naim and David Donatien
A fun song about a new soul learning how to live in this strange world. I always sing along. The video is so creative, it seems like it’s about recreating our world… from a new and different perspective. Very cool. I love them both! Yael & David [...]
Hello all,
Sorry I’ve been away for awhile. I’ve been licking my wounds and starting new projects. Of the many artists I am writing for, I’d like to introduce two of them. Both are based in San Francisco. One is a fantastic young photographer named Paula Poortinga. Her work can be seen at www.paulapoortinga.com. Another is [...]
Brahma Nandam preformed by Deva Premal and Miten
Deva Premal has one of the most beautiful voices I’ve ever heard. Clear and perfect, like and angel. You can feel Spirit moving through her as she sings. I got chills as I was listening, as I often do when she sings. Song - Brahma Nandam, album - [...]
Om Mani Padme Hung sung by Yungchen Lhamo.
Yungchen Lhamo’s voice is sweet, haunting and quieting. It fills the air with Spirit as she sings the mantra Om Mani Padma Hum to Chenrezig. She is considered by many to be the voice of Tibet.
Happiness is… is a Real World Production. Produced and directed by: Michael Coulson. [...]
Kitaro is an inspired musician, he plays for spirit. Here he is live, playing his song Dance of Sarasvati; album Mandala (released 1994, Nominated for Grammy Award).
Sarasvati (pronounced as sə.rəs.ʋə.ti) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music and the arts and the consort of Brahma. Sarasvati literally translated means: the knowledge of self [...]
Interested in talking shop about the wonders of classical music? Check out this forum, then!
- Rudy Carrera.
By Rossitza Ohridska-Olson
From Saturday till September 10th, the Bulgarian and foreign artists will gather for the 24th issue of Apollonia Art Festival. The most charming part of it are the jazz concerts and the surroundings of the ancient city of Sozopol (Apollonia – the city of Apollo, the patron of arts). During the communist times [...]
Being a fan of classic rock but not being too into placing too much effort into searching out good headlines, obituaries or what have you, I decided to subscribe to the RockofAges Yahoo! Mailing List. It’s a very active mailing list, so be prepared to be bombarded with news daily, but it makes for a [...]
Inspiring! Wintley Phipps tells the history of the song Amazing Grace, its roots in slavery. His rendition of the song gave me chills and brought tears. Hope you enjoy it too.
~Bonnee
(Pinas is a slang we often use to refer to the Philippines…)
Hi everyone. I am new here and I am trying this one out. My name is Charity (please call me Cha) and I am from the Philippines. I am an educator and this year is my tenth year of professional teaching in Sciences, [...]
“Putting a banjo tuning on the guitar was a very easy, good thing to do. Another tremendously good idea was playing against the tuning key — if you’re in open G, play in the key of D. You get these inverted chords. And rhythm mandolin was a pretty good idea — if there’s three guitar [...]
How cool is that? From Yahoo!:
Friar Cesare Bonizzi, also known as Fratello Metallo (Metal Friar) (C), poses with his band after a rehearsal session in downtown Milan July 10, 2008. Dressed in his traditional robe, sandals and twirling the rope around his waist, 62-year old Bonizzi is no ordinary heavy metal rocker. But as guitarists [...]
I love a good cover — an inspired interpretation that reaches across music styles, breathes new life into a familiar song.
Consequently, I got a big kick out of “Another Brick in the Wall”, as covered by Luther Wright and the Wrongs — a hard-driving Country and Western take on the Pink Floyd classic. [...]
Lindsay Mac performs an outstanding solo cover of “Use Me”.
Link to YouTube video. Dig that funky cello!
“In order to stand while singing on stage, Mac harnesses the cello with a shoulder strap and does not use a bow. She plucks the strings in a manner similar to the traditional pizzicato technique, but largely employs a [...]
Ooh, painful. America’s coolest record shop may be chased out of business.
See the video here.
- Rudy Carrera.
The poor lady seems to be the victim of a shady loan deal, unfortunately:
By MANUEL VALDES, Associated Press Writer Wed Jun 25, 9:01 AM ET
SEATTLE - Jazz vocalist Ernestine Anderson is facing foreclosure on her home in Seattle in yet another sign that the mortgage loan crisis is hitting traditional working-class neighborhoods hard.
Anderson, who once [...]
Before I begin, let me say thank you for the warm welcome I have received here at Babel. I appreciate the comments greatly.
There is an outdoor concert series going on all summer long here at this amazing park that is just a10-15 minute walk from my apartment. Last week we saw Isaac Hayes, and, in [...]
As a former piper, I take utter offense to this story!! However, I do have to admit a tinge of feeling for the suffering of both geezers and students…
- Rudy Carrera.
An underappreciated genre, this is actually the perfect scene for those interested in the more violently noisy and “difficult” sounds in avant-progressive rock, metal, and experimental music working within a very, very thin framework. Check out this link to The Green Dolphin’s Poll, a site out of Latvia that is dedicated to documenting this scene. [...]
Rob O’Connor of Y! Music provides a list of 25 of the most gleeful musical masturbations of all time.
Rufus Harley, A LOVE SUPREME, Washington D.C. 1987
Yes, this really is free jazz with bagpipes.
“When you get the sound right … it enters the lower brainstem, below the level of intelligence. It’s primal and subliminal.”
- Fred Newman
In a recent interview, sound effects man Fred Newman credits Mel Blanc as a major influence:
The first movie I worked on was “Gremlins,” directed by Joe Dante. And it also was the first [...]
I have to say this story left me pleasantly surprised. Perhaps the Kingdom of the Prophet (pbuh) is opening up a bit and may wish to learn about her Western neighbors. If true, this is a wonderful sign.
- Rudy Carrera.
For those of you who can read Spanish, this is an announcement from Argentine composer Maria del Carmen Aguilar regarding an upcoming festival of religious choir music in Buenos Aires:
Hola: el Estudio Coral de Buenos Aires dirigido por Carlos Lopez Puccio ofrecera un concierto con entrada libre el Domingo 4 de Mayo a las 18 [...]
Interesting developments in Motor City ….
Yo Yo Ma and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will soon submit to a robotic overlord in the form of Honda’s Asimo, which will pick up a baton to conduct the orchestra.
The robot will lead the humans in a performance of “Impossible Dream” from the musical “Man of La Mancha,” [...]
If you know weird keyboard-based music, then Bob Moog should be someone you idolize. He passed away not so long ago, but his legacy lives in this blog just launched (by some genius using Wordpress, naturally!) to live-blog the Mooged Out festival in Ashville, North Carolina.
- Rudy Carrera.
“We can now see that there is a logical structure linking many, many different musical concepts.”
Three music professors — Clifton Callender at Florida State University, Ian Quinn at Yale University and Dmitri Tymoczko at Princeton University — have devised a new way of analyzing and categorizing music that takes advantage of the deep, complex mathematics [...]
This is funny! Conservative commentator (and one of my favorite reads) James Taranto is honored in a roundabout way by Kenyon Wilson, conductor of the tuba/euphonium ensemble, who will feature a piece titled ‘Kerfuffle,’ a word Taranto is credited for integrating into political discussions. The piece is shown here in its entirety:
The University [...]
Brian Davidson, drummer of psychedelic group Gong, has passed away at the age of 66.
- Rudy Carrera.
Big Boi on combining Hip-Hop and Ballet:
“You have two different forms of art coming together to make one feature. You got distinction and the elegance and the sophistication of the ballet with the funk of me and my band …”
Continuing with his originality and trend-setting achievements, OutKast’s Big Boi spoke with American Public Media on [...]
Hello, community!
Malcolm has invited me to post here because I would like to share some news and keep you apprised of its progress.
Some years ago, now over ten years in fact, I survived and escaped a really terrible ordeal. Out of that ordeal I wrote a cycle of 15 poems (how often great art comes [...]
There are millions of people who trade live recordings of their favorite bands. If you know how to use Bit Torrent (and just ask if you don’t), you can easily download shows in a high-quality format (such as FLAC) by subscribing to Dime-A-Dozen.org. They have a cap of 100,000 members, and [...]
NPR put up a story that gave me quite a surprise today. So much so, in fact, that I had to do a double-take. Did I read this correctly? YaHoWa 13?! I used to sell their records in my former life as one of L.A.’s hipper music buyers for Aron’s Records in my misspent youth. [...]
The Guardian, a paper I normally loathe, comes up with a gem in the music department:
A song about the 13th century Albigensian heresy, sung in French by a Belgian nun, reached No 1 in the 1960s. We can learn a lot form that
Joe Queenan
Friday April 4, 2008
guardian.co.uk
When I was 13 years old, a Belgian nun [...]
Myspace is serious in providing legal downloadable content now that they’ve teamed up with Universal Music, Sony BMG Music and Warner Music.
- Rudy Carrera.
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