Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

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

Mahgister - I’m always impressed by how eclectic your music taste is!

 

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

 

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 Ervin Nyiregyházi playing... He litteraly melt like a glacier facing a volcano about this pianist asking Klemperer to cross Atlantic to hear him  ...

By the way what you will hear in this youtube video is a pianist who never played on a piano for 40 years without never practicing...He begun another world career at 70 again to gain money to cure his 10th wife of cancer ...Read his biography...

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 ...

 

@simao 

I don't think Mary Coughlan writes her own music. But here she's covering a standard and I could imagine her in a dark, smokey jazz dive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVMBE-fjnlE