Music

[Meister_000]

I'll check those out and get back to you. Thanks!

Alrighty.

[Meister_000]

That ain't no stinkin Cello!

It's a Guitar!, a _bowed_ guitar, aka "Viola da Gamba". These instruments are fretted, most commonly had 6 strings, used standard Renaissance lute/guitar tuning, and have gut strings (not metal, like modern violins). They were once common-place and a well-respected standard, at (every) kings court and in private homes as well, throughout Europe and England (for about 250 years, 1500-1750).  Even Bach wrote sonatas for this instrument. Notice the bowed chords, string plucking, rhythmic capacities, and wide pitch range. A seeming one-man band and one-man quartet or orchestra!

Italian born Paolo Pandolfo here performing, solo improvisations,  played on 7-string Viola da Gamba, four pieces are here stitched back-to-back into one video, 30 mins total. The first two pieces are of French style(s) late 1600s. For my money, Paolo is THE current reining living Master of this revived ancient instrument and foundation-layer.

[The first two pieces, 13 minutes, one fast and one slow, should be enough to get the idea -- I know this is a long vid.]

Paolo Pandolfo,  7-string Viola da Gamba

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M_k_4AGkshw


[He also recorded Bach's Cello Suites on Gamba!
https://m.youtube.com/results?q=cello%20suites%20pandolfo&sm=3 ]

[Meister_000]

It's a Guitar!, a _bowed_ guitar, aka "Viola da Gamba".

[He also recorded Bach's Cello Suites on Gamba!
https://m.youtube.com/results?q=cello%20suites%20pandolfo&sm=3 ]

Here's short interview segment with Paolo Pandolfo commenting on Johann Sebastian Bach's music for the viola da gamba, and also explaining the about "the tradition" being passed from Gamba _to_Cello in the early 1700's, and Bach's concious "Paternal" role in effecting that transition and transference -- the maintaining of cultural continuity.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uHLgwW9oofg

[ONeill]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGltpPVLoL4

[Camazotz Automat]

Went for a drive earlier today and used this as the soundtrack.

I'm sure people who saw me air drumming were very impressed.

[albrecht]

So unless playing on your hi-fi doesn't it matter what compression algorithm you listen too? I know even CD can be suspect but, honestly, if one is listening from their ear-buds (or even high-end stuff) from a smartphone or computer are there any benefits of FLAC, APE, etc or is mp3 good enough- considering the processing of the smartphone and earbuds? Dynamic range, compression, etc I gotta think don't matter when listen on cheap equipment like earbuds? Just curious. Sometimes I find good stuff online but often it is FLAC and a symphony etc takes up A LOT of space.

[Laurakinch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAHULpMXKQ&list=RDVyAHULpMXKQ

[Inglorious Bitch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAHULpMXKQ&list=RDVyAHULpMXKQ

Sylvester is awesome!! I love that song. This next clip is from one of my favorite movies, Kinky Boots. It's the best part of the movie. It's the final scene where the factory owner treated his partner, a drag queen terribly. Then the owner goes to a previously scheduled fashion show in Milan on his own, since the partner is no longer talking to him. He has to walk down the runway in the boots that they are trying to produce. He literally falls on his face, humiliated, until...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_shp6h0gmRw

[Mind Flayer Monk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAHULpMXKQ&list=RDVyAHULpMXKQ

2:10 people!

[Laurakinch]

Sylvester is awesome!!

Yes, and a nicer guy you'd never know. I was lucky enough to be in his orbit circa 1980s San Francisco. Another great talent never fully appreciated during his lifetime.

[Laurakinch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1J2OkCPqk8

[Gumby, Dammit]

Yes, and a nicer guy you'd never know. I was lucky enough to be in his orbit circa 1980s San Francisco. Another great talent never fully appreciated during his lifetime.

Good ones!
And Duke was there...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVrgCPDDG1A

[Eddie Coyle]

   http://youtu.be/WS5AvwNm7u0

[Gumby, Dammit]

I miss the days when this was considered badass.

What is badass will always be badass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLAnBCDJlN4

[MABUSE]

Here's short interview segment with Paolo Pandolfo commenting on Johann Sebastian Bach's music for the viola da gamba, and also explaining the about "the tradition" being passed from Gamba _to_Cello in the early 1700's, and Bach's concious "Paternal" role in effecting that transition and transference -- the maintaining of cultural continuity.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uHLgwW9oofg

Not bad, but I still prefer Savall...
**M**

[Meister_000]

Not bad, but I still prefer Savall...
**M**

Hi Mabuse. I have to respect Jordi to be sure, and to prove it I just spent an hour trying to find something suitable and flateringly representative of his work. He is getting old and youtube is full of slick recent vids of him that don't do him justice (age is showing in his playing, almost embarassing, to me at least). So here then is Jordi Savall in his prime, late 1970's, recording of Marin Marais Pieces de Viole du III Livre (ie book 3, late 1600's, French master Viola da Gamba compositions with harpsichord as well (a classic pairing of intsruments].

Jordi Savall plays Marin Marais -- 7string Viola da Gamba

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XSblxlh8L_I

[Catsmile]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2INU8bV7Sy0

[Meister_000]

Jordi Savall plays Marin Marais -- 7string Viola da Gamba

Some time-line corrections for that last recording. This is in fact a 1992 recording and not a re-issue as I assumed from the line-up of accompaning players. Checking the complete discography here . . .
http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/performers/savall.html 
. . . we find a 16 year spread (1976 to 1992) for Savall to cover all 5 of Marais' Books, but/and all the while retaining the same two accompanists, Ton Koopman and Hopkinson Smith (that's what threw me).

Nevertheless this (1992) is still more in Jordi's prime zone than all those recent vids I spoke of.

Lastly, this Book-Three of Marais' is dated 1711 -- whereas I ball-parked it at late 1600's.

So now everyone can sleep better, I'm sure.

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J60LNkqsxz8

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDY9awmmWtA

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALj-VQ7gkPI

[Meister_000]

Damn-you Pate!    That Unicorn Song is an ear-worm, can't get it out of my head!
[It is cute though, haven't heard it in decades.]

[pate]

'pologies...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkCg-3nxT8E

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SterlbcjyYc

[Roswells, Art]

Were coming up on an election year


https://youtu.be/7xxgRUyzgs0

[BobGrau]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ogX3qfYzk

The above track's less exuberant, aspergian twin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkRNbjKhDVQ

[Eddie Coyle]

  I can enjoy James Taylor's music...when other people perform it.

   http://youtu.be/BMTs34bQZwQ

   http://youtu.be/VvxfYaJdVOA

[Eddie Coyle]

  http://youtu.be/2-Lb-JhsaEk

[MrHippie]

Jon Lajoie Fans Unite


Do you remember the early 2010's

The overwhelming nostalgia is understandable.

Obama was in the White House.

The Patriots had just won the Superbowl over Panama and the Falkland Islands.

The Big Bang Theory was in it's third year on TV and had massive media coverage for
some reason.

And a young upstart from Canada who had the balls to be more creative and inventive
than someone who was not from Canada became the darling of the internet.

Jon Lajoie


The Classic
F**k Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIOrQasR18

And 'Grandmas Favorite'
Radio Friendly Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Gs4xGw1Eg


The latest for the young people
Please Use This Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuQt9N4Dsok


9 million views
Michael Jackson is Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVACUjHn6yU



https://www.youtube.com/user/jonlajoie
www.jonlajoie.com/

[Roswells, Art]

  I can enjoy James Taylor's music...when other people perform it.

   http://youtu.be/BMTs34bQZwQ

   http://youtu.be/VvxfYaJdVOA

nice, i think you're getting soft on us.

PS. that cover sucks, both of them do