Music. Photography. Thoughts.
… a Coldplay cover for charity, and is met by the band. So sweet:
Here’s the full song. Good that they didn’t use too much autotune on her voice, it’s all done very subtle. Also good that she didn’t lose her accent which we all love (really, we’re watching the originals on ONE (German TV) just because of that):
Go to the ‘tubes, and give her a few thumbs up if you like. It’s all for charity…
As always, thanks for reading, watching, and listening.
Here’s how to start a new week. Have fun.
See their Bandcamp page for records if you like stuff like this.
So have a nice start into the week 🙂
First of course the original version from 1947, by Doris Day:
You like good bass players? Here’s a killer version, and my best guess for the bassist (the album’s Wikipedia page lists three) would be Christian McBride¹. But that piano and Diana Krall’s contralto are very nice as well:
Remember Alba Armengou? You probably should. And that band is as fantastic as always:
Lovely song, three killer performances, hm? As always, thanks for reading.
¹Edit, from November 17th: someone who actually has this album corrected my guess about the bass player – it’s not Christian McBride in this one, but John Clayton. Wow. I knew he was great, but still – hats off, sir!
Have a look / a listen:
Yep – this is our “moonchild” from the ‘loops, and my latest one with her was this one:
So please give her a few thumbs on Youtube as well, she’s trying to make a living of it.
Thank you.
Enjoy… and in case you have only time for one song, try this one…
Update, two days later today: just found this nice duo in black & white from almost 2 years ago:
Enjoy encore… 🙂
As usual, I’m late to the party – the following video is from August 2011, so more than 8 years ago. But you’ll hear one of my favourite pianists, and also one of my favourite bass players. Watch, and listen if you have about half an hour:
This was in Poland, the home of Leszek (whom I showed already with Fresco & Danielsson). And yes, Marcus can also play fretless – he was Miles’ bass player after all! Plus imagine my surprise when they played Wayne Shorter’s ‘Footprints’, a tune which I also played when I was slightly above 20 or so (together with Sven Thomsen and Christian Hecker).
And Marcus walks these (foot)prints. And yes, he slaps them, too.
Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
Here is some stuff that I found useful and/or interesting and/or inspiring. First, when Zuleikha came back from her recent trip with her class, she talked about having seen a large format camera – so I thought I’d show her how to use these, and what results to expect:
Steve scans his 8×10 negatives with an Epson flatbed scanner set to 2000dpi – which means that he’s getting an image of about 320 Megapixels. Almost overkill even for good computers, and enlargements of 60 inches on the long side shouldn’t be a problem either.
The interesting thing about Steve is that he’s also using smaller formats (like his Bronica 6×6 film camera) and even Micro Four Thirds – with almost identical results for his purposes. See here:
Yes, he puts a bit of “grain” into the images, and that makes them almost look like film. It’s not so much the camera, it’s how to use one.
Oh, and I’ve seen – and heard – iamNEETA unplugged in a Malaysian TV3 show. And yes, the girl can really sing (and the boys play). Listen to ‘Ilusi’ again, and also to ‘Sakit’ – both from the ‘Sweet Dreams’ series:
Awesome, aren’t they? No wonder that their music is used for the movies… and I wish them luck for their future careers, just like I wish for the actors and actresses of ‘Sweet Dreams’ as well.
As a last tip for now, one of our own. Martin, a friend from Wikiloops offers a new Youtube channel with tips on how to play the drums. And he also does an awesome job. Here’s his introduction, look at his channel for further lessons:
Always a pleasure and an honour to play with Martin. Enjoy.
And as always, thanks for reading / watching / listening.
This one’s funny – and it even shows a mockup poster of my employer if you look closely:
Enjoy…
Also from the Malaysian drama “Sweet Dreams” – this one starts as a calm 3/4 and develops into something like Malay (-sian waltz?) with Celtic influences… really cool, even if you have to use Google Translate for the lyrics:
Enjoy…
In my last post I wrote about the recently produced and released Malaysian drama “Sweet Dreams” – which gets so many things just right. And one of the important things in movies, films, and videos is always music, and that’s right as well. Amongst others, there’s a singer called Neeta Manishaa and her band iamNEETA who produced several songs for the mini series, and instead of showing you parts of that series again, here are three original videos (by nartvnetwork which I think is owned by Warner Malaysia, so these young people do have record contracts already). Neeta is following Jasmine Thompson, and her voice at times also reminds me a bit of Ana Torroja of Mecano – a band which featured an unknown young actress called Penélope Cruz in one of their videos (which made her famous later on).
So here are iamNEETA:
Awesome, aren’t they? And yes, they were on the “Big Stage” already, featured by Siti Nurhaliza. So it’s good to know that the Malaysian music business is alive and well…
Hope you enjoyed it – and as always, thanks for watching / reading / listening.