Here’s something my brother just sent me:
What a fat sound is what he wrote… and I have to agree 🙂
Eliška Lenhartová
I presented Eliška Lenhartová before in this post as part of the Duo Françaix – now here she is alone, some three years after that previous video:
Wonderful, isn’t she? And looking at her fingers move along that guitar I wonder if some people were just born for certain instruments…
Thanks as always for reading, and for watching. Hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I did (and for me it’s always a pleasure to see and hear good musicians)…
Unspoken by Erwan
Today, the album of the day in Wikiloops is Erwan’s ‘Unspoken’ which he published yesterday, and which even contain collaborations with me on two of his tracks. But even so, it’s a really nice one, so if you like bowed classical string instruments, have a listen:
Downloaded it already, and also wrote a review on it. I love it. Even the cover picture is awesome in my opinion.
As always, thanks for reading.
More is More!
A remix from ‘eGiL’ from Norway, who also mixed in ‘kimbo’ from Cornwall, and me as Dalek:
As always, thanks to my friends for all the fun, and thanks to you for reading and for listening.
Remembering Ian, again
I’ve written about Ian already, and today his “Album 1” is the album of the day within Wikiloops:
He published this about 2 years before I did my first one, and I so agree with him about the warm and welcoming ways of everyone within the ‘loops, especially Shi. That is exactly what I experienced as well, from my first upload onward.
So have a listen to Ian‘s Album 1, he was wonderful.
As always, thanks for reading.
Just voices
The human voice is the ultimate instrument. Not only do you have it with you wherever you go, but its expressive capabilities seem to be just endless.
This was recorded some time ago, but listen to the young women and men of this choir:
I like this one even more. Gets me each time:
“And I love the ground whereon she stands”
Wow.
Vitamin, remixed
A remix job I just did for friends of mine from Wikiloops:
Lovely track, hm? I didn’t play a single note here myself since this one had a bass in its “blue part” already, I guess that was Trilian (a sampled double bass).
As always, thanks for listening.
R.I.P. Lyle Mays (1953-2020)
Read it from some of my friends and fellow musicians at Wikiloops first, then in other media: Lyle Mays, genius keyboarder and musician as well as a genius in maths and other sciences died two days ago. See the German and English Wikipedia pages about him, and the sad news also from Pat Metheny’s site.
It’s quasi impossible to give you a short overview over his works, but this for example is from him:
Awesome, isn’t it? And what’s less well known is that he and Pat also wrote a hit like this one:
So rest in peace, Lyle, and thanks for everything.
As always, thanks to you for reading, watching, and listening.
Tom’s Diner, and “the mother of mp3”
Speaking about awards…
… which I actually don’t like that much, really – because how could you award arts? But in my last post I congratulated Esperanza Spalding, and at the moment it’s the time of the 2020 BAFTA Awards, and that in turn reminded me of a series which I’m currently watching (we’ll have season/episode 2.4 later today), namely “Keeping Faith”, starring Eve Myles (also known from Torchwood and other series).
That series won 3 BAFTA Awards, for best story, best actress, and best music, and each of these is well deserved in my opinion. Listen to Amy Wadge and to Laurence Love Greed in these ones for instance:
The series is fully packed with music of that caliber from start to finish – quite the hit factory. So here’s the honour they received for it in 2018:
I’m glad that I can watch that. Thanks to everyone.
And as always, thanks to you for reading, watching, and listening.