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Post by Riene on Feb 29, 2020 22:47:32 GMT -5
Hope the weather wasn't bad for the concert... Oh, it's a long story. In short, the music was good, the venue was not. Glad I went, but will never go there again.
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Post by Carl on May 10, 2020 3:12:42 GMT -5
It's so nice to explore other peoples music taste. Thanks everyone for sharing. π€ I love Loreena McKennitt and Alanis Morissette, amongst others. But, apart from Enya, I listen to film music the most. Some beautiful pieces that might be worth checking out: - The Danish Girl (From " The Danish Girl") by Alexandre Desplat - Opening (from " Carol") by Carter Burwell - The Wife (from "The Wife") by Jocelyn Pook- George's Waltz [II] (from " A Single Man") by Shigeru Umebayashi - Stillness Of The Mind (from " A Single Man") by Abel Korzeniowski - A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics (from " A Beautiful Mind") by James Horner - The Gravel Road (from " The Village") by James Newton Howard - Noah Visits (from " The Village") by James Newton Howard - A Commuters Trip (From " The Commuter") by Roque BaΓ±os - The Green Mile (From " The Green Mile") by Thomas Newman
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Post by Isabel on Jun 16, 2020 17:23:32 GMT -5
On Youtube posted on 10 June 2020 featuring a lot of Irish musicians including Moya Brennan with a harp www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOazQ9xTOqsMAY THE ROAD RISE β A NEW DAWN Irish American collaboration featuring Nathan Carter with Celtic Thunder, Crystal Gayle, Moya Brennan, The High Kings, Altan, Cherish The Ladies, Larry Gatlin, John Carter Cash & Chloe Agnew Audio Engineer: Peter Maher, Middlewalk Studios, Nenagh, Tipperary Video Producer: Mick Bracken Video Editor: Mark Bennett Executive producer : John Farry
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Post by Riene on Jul 12, 2020 13:04:38 GMT -5
I find myself listening to a lot of music from an earlier period in my life lately. Perhaps it's stress--god knows my hair is turning grey and I'm not sleeping lately, largely due to family stresses and the pandemic, friends who are worried about returning to work. Perhaps it's nostalgia...I've been wallowing in missing older days lately. Anyway...this music is all from an earlier time, college years, early marriage and work. To some extent life was more simple--i didn't have the same worries.
Mannheim Steamroller--Fresh Aire 1, 2, 3, 4
George Winston's solo piano albums--December, Winter Into Spring, Summer, Autumn, Forest, Plains, Montana
Chip Davis' Day Parts I and II (piano/orchestra) Enya--Watermark, Shepherd Moons, The Memory of Trees, A Day Without Rain
These albums are all soothing to me.
What do you listen to when you are stressed?
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Post by alrik on Jul 19, 2020 12:15:44 GMT -5
Still - Genesis - Mike Oldfield - Loreena McKennitt - OMD (Orchestral Manueuvres In The Dark) Well, in recent times I've been adding The Beatles again. It was like "everybody knows them, but what did they actually DO ?" So I began buying their albums. I'm almost through it, but I noticed that they were able to do rather dull songs, too ! I had thought for decades that "Progressive Rock was dead", but 4 years ago I noticed a magazine - it is called "Prog Magazine", it is very much british based, but it did show me that Prog is NOT dead ! And has never been ... Since them I'm kind of scouting for new sounds, looking for something I might like. An album which you should really look after is "Secret Life" by the band Lorena McKennitt had with their last tour. It's so much celtic music .. plus very interesting bits of so-called world music ... www.amazon.com/-/de/Secret-Sky/dp/B01L0HGQLI/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&ie=UTF8&keywords=secret%20sky&language=en_US&qid=1595178822&rnid=2941120011&s=music&sr=1-1In my personal opinion, their 5 stars are fully deserved. Oops, I just need to put that into my CD player right now ... Edit : Cannot find it. How embarrassing ... What I also like is "Belerion" by Les Penning. Not exactly celtic music, but it's warming me to learn that there can still be done so fine (instrumental) music pieces with flutes and redcorders ! (Les Penning once collaborated with a much younger Mike Oldfield.) Tubular Bells by Tubular Bras has become one of my favourite albums these days. It's like Tubular Bells being played by an orchestra - brass based, of course. Tiny Magnetic Pets (TMP) is a small electronica group that was playing before OMD in their last concert. Not grand, but not bad, either. More experimental, might not meet everyone's taste, but they also have some rhythm. The Corrs have been releasing two albums in the recent years : White Light and Jupiter Calling, of which I like the second one more, because it is more celtic music oriented. And then there's that really impressing soundtrack of the movie "How to train your dragon", the first one of the trilogy. When I listened to it ten years ago, it kind of blew me away. It has lots of diversity in it, has very strong movements, but the piece "Forbidden Friendship" is definitively something one should listen to in complete darkness. Seriously. It's the only piece of that kind on the OST album, though.
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Post by Riene on Aug 4, 2020 10:09:10 GMT -5
I've recently discovered a singer named Peter Hollens. He does a multi-layered voice track similar to Enya, and also partners with other singers. I especially have enjoyed his versions of Loch Lomond, Danny Boy, Shenandoah, Hanging Tree (from Hunger Games) and Greensleeves and Misty Mountains (from LotR) with Tim Foust. www.youtube.com/user/peterhollens
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Post by bigwiglaf on Aug 16, 2020 16:26:01 GMT -5
I have a new favorite satellite radio station for the time being, a blues station begun under the auspices of the late BB King, as it plays both BB King, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, from Dallas, Texas....
EDIT: I was just reading some biographical info on Stevie Ray Vaughan, and the last European concert he played was in............get this............Oulu, Finland on 17 July 1988....
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Post by Suvi on Aug 17, 2020 3:45:53 GMT -5
I might have just been too young to take part to that concert Big, I was merely ten years old then! Yes, we have had quite big names performing here in Oulu in the past, these days they're just way too pricey methinks...
Suvi
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Post by bigwiglaf on Aug 17, 2020 7:32:02 GMT -5
I just found it very interesting he played there....and he sadly passed just over 2 years later after that concert....lost his life, along with 4 others in a helicopter crash...
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Post by alrik on Aug 29, 2020 12:09:32 GMT -5
I've got a new "earworm", as we call that in German language : A kind of soing that sticks inside your ears/mind and refuses to go out again ... The band called Tiny Magnetic Pets have made such an "earworm" with their song "Girl in a white dress" ... tinymagneticpets.bandcamp.com/track/girl-in-a-white-dress
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Post by bigwiglaf on Aug 29, 2020 18:36:56 GMT -5
Don't you just love earworms....happens to me when out of the blue I think of a song and can't get it out of my noggin...case and point, 'Where Peaceful Waters Flow' by Chris de Burgh....got to the point just now I went digging up a video on youtube for the song...
EDIT: I know this thread's for non-Enya music, but, in just now listening to One By One, it gave me goosebumps...haven't had that kind of reaction to an Enya tune in I don't remember when...
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Post by Riene on Aug 29, 2020 23:50:21 GMT -5
In the hotel tonight, Himself is listening to a special on the history of ABBA. I love ABBA's music!
However, the commentators can just stop with all of the "It's been 50 years since they met!" "Decades of enjoyment!"
Shut up, you're making me feel OLD.
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Post by πͺ·aestasπͺ· on Aug 30, 2020 0:39:26 GMT -5
In the hotel tonight, Himself is listening to a special on the history of ABBA. I love ABBA's music! However, the commentators can just stop with all of the "It's been 50 years since they met!" "Decades of enjoyment!" Shut up, you're making me feel OLD. I've never posted here and a lot of artists that I like have been mentioned but I just thought of agreeing with this one. You like Abba? Cool, me too! It's so much good music that people haven't even heard of (All they know is Waterloo etc.) and it really is good music. Shame that a lot of people don't listen to it.
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Post by Isabel on Aug 30, 2020 7:03:42 GMT -5
I am a 90s kid, so I am still young. I like exploring old music. My favourite "earworms" from various ancient bands and musicians:
* ABBA - "Chiquitita", "SOS", "One of Us", "Fernando", "Waterloo", ...everything really are earworms. * The Beach Boys - "Kokomo" & "Sloop John B" * The Seekers - "I'll Never Find Another You" & "Turn, Turn, Turn" * Kate Bush - "Wuthering Heights", "Running Up That Hill" & "Rubberband Girl" * Jay and the Americans - "Come a Little Bit Closer" * Tiffany - "I Think We're Alone Now" * Nancy Sinatra - "These Boots Are Made for Walkin" * Petula Clark - "Downtown" * Billy Joel - "Uptown Girl" * Pussycat - "Mississippi" & "Georgie" ...and the list goes on...
* I am just tired of the 'millennial whoop' in the 2010s music and today's mainstream music are even worse and forgettable. In current films and tv series they frequently play old favourites because they know: 'those were the good old days' *
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Post by πͺ·aestasπͺ· on Aug 30, 2020 7:20:05 GMT -5
Isabel, I forgot to say it (π) and meant to edit but didn't (ππ) but I know you like Abba too, you've said it before.
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