Olé
by John Coltrane
First listened to this with SB in Iowa City at his place. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. This is one of the most magnificent pieces of music I’ve heard in my life and I hope to hear it before I leave.
thirty things tagged “music”
In Rainbows
by Radiohead (2007)
Rating: A+
It’s Wednesday
My dudes. Cached here via YouTube because it is too precious to be yanked off the internet. Via Rob G. /misc/w/wednesday.mp4 It also occurred to me that the OS in the video would be more usable, more respectful, and less full of spyware than the giant crock of shit that is Windows 11.…
Bombass Temple Drums
At the Brihadisvara Temple in Thanjavur. About as mesmerizing as percussion can get. /misc/t/thanjavur-drumming.mp4 Speaking of mesmerizing, see this performance by the great Zakir Hussain at the Berklee College of Music.…
Pushing Buttons
If you took “Buttons” by The Pussycat Dolls and deep-fried it in stale peanut oil, you would get the result below. It’s by Youtuber Dii and it’s all I’ve been humming for the past 48 hours. /misc/b/buttons-dii.mp4…
Dil Se
A most beautiful, graceful, and sublime rendition of one of my all-time favorite songs. /misc/d/dil-se.mp4 Lovely, lovely stuff 🙏❤️ (via Deepu) See also: Worlds Beyond the Stars…
The Most Country Song I’ve Seen
There isn’t much variety in the music I listen to. I stick to soundtracks, minimalist composers, some weird surprises1, and mostly to what my good friend calls “electronic windchime shit” (by which he means “ambient music.”) This means I’ve heard fewer than, say, twenty country songs in my life so f…
Super Mario Songs
Koji Kondo is a “sound designer” who composed music for Super Mario Bros. He was inspired by these songs. Music Artist Song The Main “Overworld” Theme T-Square Sister Marian (3:08) When you go down the Warp Pipes Friendship Let’s not talk about it When you get a Star Piper Summe…
Clapping Music
My favorite visualization of “Clapping Music” by Steve Reich. Here’s a video of him performing it with one other musician. /misc/c/Clapping-Music.mp4…
My Favorite Prince Thing
“You know I wrote this in… when I was looking at the mirror, right?” /misc/p/prince-cream-live.mp4 “I’m serious.”…
A Fever of Rays
A group of stringrays is called a fever (my head: “So that’s where that album name came from!”) This is what they look like: /misc/f/fever-ray.mp4…
Don’t Worry
Don’t. Just let this kid assure you that everyfing’s gonna be alright. /misc/d/dont-worry.mp4…
On Winters
Taken completely out of context, for the letter itself is a lot of bro-y “locker room talk.” My mind is dried up, exhausted. I’m disgusted to be back in this damned country where you see the sun in the sky about as often as a diamond in a pig’s asshole. Gustave Flaubert, Letter to Ernest Chevalie…
“In The Ocean”
A documentary about the avant garde music in NYC. Features Glass, Reich, Cage, Zappa, and a bunch of dissatisfied viewers in the comments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0NwiTHIhGM…
Massive Attack and “Unfinished Sympathy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owog55voMcs…
“Genre Defining” Trip Hop
From a Reddit thread on the subject. With as diverse of a sound as trip hop can have, I wanted to know what everyone here thought would be the one song they would pick if someone asked them “What’s trip hop?” User submissions: “Glory Box” by Portishead “Teardrop” by Massive Attack “Roads” by Port…
“Where are the Turks?”
Bilal Göregen (YouTube, Instagram) is the Turkish street musician in my favorite video of 2020. /misc/g/greatest-video-ever.mp4 He sounds like a very positive, gracious, and sweet human being on this KnowYourMeme interview1 which features this delightful nugget (emphasis mine): Q: How has the respo…
Coin Sound
This is lovely. More here.…
Bobby McFerrin Plays People
Just pure joy. /misc/b/bobby-mcferrin-pentatonic.mp4 Source (without annotation). See also: “Ave Maria”.…
Busker twins singing a shockingly good rendition of “Eight Days a Week”
They call themselves Blac Rabbit. Here they are on Ellen.…
The Song of Seikilos
This is the "the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world" and dates from “either from the 1st or the 2nd century AD.” It was found engraved on a tombstone and was “dedicated by Seikilos to Euterpe, who was possibly his wife.” (W…
Process and Tooling
I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make m…
Ascending
Wonderful stuff by Christopher O. Mathews. My favorite track has to be “Azimuth”.…
Bannockburn
Brilliant, beautiful.…
Teardrop
Set to “Destino” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV40xyl9bRA 💗💗💗…
Slo-Mo Bieber
This is absolutely beautiful. I’m happy there’s a way to generate music that sounds like one of my favorite tracks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QspuCt1FM9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYvHwyjUGFg…
The Equalizer(2014)
TL;DW? Denzel Washington is Liam Neeson from Taken (with a lot of that movie’s tropes.) Over on Reddit, an essential discussion of who would win a fight. Features my favorite hipster-henchman, Tait Fletcher whom I last saw in The Accountant. Loved the first half of this song: https://www.youtube.com…
Rating: B
Chittagong Chill - State of Bengal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOXULpUpR08 Heard this and was made aware of this timeless album for the first time at a very strange party at Iowa State. RIP Sam Zaman.…
Soundcloud Rappers
Vulture’s 2018 Guide to Soundcloud Rappers wherein they’re classified by name: “The Lil’s” (Lil Pump/Xan/Skies/Wop/Yachty/Uzi Vert/Peep), “The Adjectives”, “The Creative Spellers”, and “The (Almost) Full Sentences”. I’ll take this one.…