I stand corrected. I pulled it out of my memory without checking..
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
This is an offshoot of the jazz thread. I and others found that we could not talk about jazz without discussing other musical genres, as well as the philosophy of music. So, this is a thread in which people can suggest good music of all genres, and spout off your feelings about music itself.
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I cannot protest against the word "eclectic" to describe my taste... It fit well what anyone could think about my choices, motivated not by style or specific culture but by what i perceived as genius in music... My second female choice is Marian Anderson... She is the greatest singer born from America not by popularity but by genius and raw talent in any style : it could had been any genre... She mastered all and dominated all ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E7zjNiz2ZI&list=RD_E7zjNiz2ZI&start_radio=1
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Another giant master of the female vocal is Abida Parveen : His voice moves mountain born from the heart ... She sing here with another singer in a duo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D4vNcK6D38&list=RD7D4vNcK6D38&start_radio=1
The same genius born from the heart is to be heard by the Goddess Amalia Rodrigues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARS7Zi-Zpkw&list=RDARS7Zi-Zpkw&start_radio=1 To stay at this genius level we can go to hear Oum Kalhsoum (Umm Kulthum): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndUg3n9C1vc&list=RDndUg3n9C1vc&start_radio=1 We must not forgot India because Abida Parveen was a sufi singer from Pakistan, But Tripti Mukherjee is an Indian female singer of the highest order : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j4brANIdE8&list=RD4j4brANIdE8&start_radio=1 i dont think i am eclectic... I like almost nothing save what i perceive spiritual genius... All the rest i forgot on the spot... I forgot to say that i have a spot for Armenia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ka7ShrDdAA&list=RD4ka7ShrDdAA&start_radio=1 And for China : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggLkHp6tdg&list=RDbggLkHp6tdg&start_radio=1
Sometimes i think i love fado so much because it sing from the heart of an Empire lost the loss of a love...I like Ana Moura : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh9YHtZzHfk&list=RDlh9YHtZzHfk&start_radio=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXIGO7gB-eU&list=RDlh9YHtZzHfk&index=2
But if you want to hear the human soul, it takes the pygmies chorus to locate it exactly at the center of the earth... nothing moves us so deep out of history in the eternal femine of Mother Earth : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSpR-dIiQxw&list=PL6hoM1XotAS7ME-PAVuiZWceHCakb3tzF But what about the way drums can speak and sing from the cosmos, neither male nor female : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYXahxuxLDY
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I dont like most popular music... But there is exception when i fall in love with a woman... Alas! i am too old for this goddess, the most erotic singer i ever listen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4jHHihEsC4&list=RDU4jHHihEsC4&start_radio=1 most of the times i listen sacred religious chorus music but there is exception... Ok i am eclectic... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tPFW88Yso&list=RDq0tPFW88Yso&start_radio=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2XUrySbdUE&list=RDi2XUrySbdUE&start_radio=1&t=37s |
To end my rant with serious talking... I understood how music is about "time" not physical measurable time but "heart time" listening a pianist genius playing with some false notes on a bad piano, the heart of Liszt music "la vallée d’Obermann" which piece nobody can play really to make felt Liszt heart...( i discovered musical heart/time also with australian didgeredoo but it is another story ) I begun to understand Liszt with this supreme pianist which only Moravec and Sofronitsky and few others rival ; by the way his biography is a stunning incredible book : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLk6vqaxU1Y&list=RDdLk6vqaxU1Y&start_radio=1 If you think i dont know what i talk about, you must read the letter of Arnold Schoenberg to the young Klemperer about
now listen when he is in another mood : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0S1KDOC8is&list=RDO0S1KDOC8is&start_radio=1 When he play Mephisto waltz of Liszt, it is Mephisto himself playing, it is not "beautiful" it is mesmerizing as Liszt certainly was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtSHsZj566Q&list=RDwtSHsZj566Q&start_radio=1 If you want to know what Rachmaninoff is about listen him playing it not merely beautifully but deeply moving us, he use musical time as a master, he dont play virtuoso and perfectly at all as all others pianists : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1rklL4qkPE&list=RDp1rklL4qkPE&start_radio=1
Music is about the way to create time anew...(Out of any measurable time ) Music is not about beautiful notes...It is about the heart becoming a volcano ...
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