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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 28-Nov-2025 09:32:38 JST
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♪ Kraftwerk, "Die Mensch Maschine" (ALFfx Visual AI Treatment) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXFSiqu7Bx8
The AI art is lovely.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 08:42:51 JST
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♪ Ashkhabad, "Bayaty" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ZxUW4SFFE
One of those songs that keep popping up in my mind from time to time.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 08:12:41 JST
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♪ Erik Satie, "Gnossienne No. 1 (Robert Ritchiesse) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gt7q70TwB4
First, the sound of the piece by this miraculous guitar.
Second, the slow pacing that gives the piece significantly more subtlety and depth. Its fraility shines in a way I didn't hear before.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 07:49:31 JST
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♪ Philip Glass, "Mishima Closing" (Multiphonic Saxophone Quartet) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkJjgDBNAu4
Originally composed for strings, this upbeat and faster version feels more "floating by precision". Perhaps it's the recording location, a colliery next to the town I lived in my youth.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 20-Nov-2025 11:00:31 JST
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♪ George Thorogood & The Destroyers, "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L4zro-2dZQ
From the debut album of 1977. This famous rendition is actually a blend of "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" by John Lee Hooker (1966) – who adapted it from the 1950s version by Rudy Toombs and Amos Milburn – and another John Lee Hooker song, "House Rent Boogie", from 1951.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 20-Nov-2025 10:47:44 JST
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♪ George Thorogood & The Destroyers, "Who Do You Love" (1978) (Bo Diddley cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJGIB9lBM8E
I love this orginal trio of George Thorogood (vocal, guitar), Billy Blough (bass guitar), and Jeff Simon (drums).
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Nov-2025 23:20:53 JST
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♪ Max Bruch, "Violin Concerto No.1 in g minor, Op.26" (violin: Ilva Eigus; conductor: Gabriel Venzago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-HjJgleDtI
Ilva Eigus' violin almost sounds like flute. In the Allegro energico she plays as forceful and precise as if she has been a pupil of Leonid Kogan. Wonderful!
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 01-Nov-2025 09:15:51 JST
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♪ Max Richter, "Invasion (main title of the TV series)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P0tyjmEVi8
Interestingly developing soundscape, its crescendo and increasing instrumentation fill the 01:16 min perfectly – and then stop. The violin theme echoes Arvo Pärt's "Fratres".
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Oct-2025 23:40:41 JST
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♪ Iva Bittová & Škampa Quartet, Janáček Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs Kyjov Moravia 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ1gZ2z1u0A
Melting, with tears coming to my eyes... Such beauty!
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Oct-2025 23:33:37 JST
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♪ Leoš Janáček, "Hajicku zeleny" (Iva Bittová & Skampa Quartet) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY0psE6EJ78
A song by Chech composer Leoš Janáček in rendition of 2004 by the wonderful Iva Bittová and the Skampa Quartet. I only knew snippets of the concert, I'm happy to finally have found the longer concert recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ1gZ2z1u0A
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Oct-2025 09:56:41 JST
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♪ Iva Bittová, "Zabili, zabili" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkH3Hw8Y_oo
A recent beautiful rendition of her 1996 song.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Oct-2025 09:55:58 JST
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♪ Iva Bittová, "Zabili, zabili" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkH3Hw8Y_oo
A recent beautiful rendition of her 1996 song.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Oct-2025 09:38:18 JST
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♪ Fátima Miranda, "Entre Salamanca y Samarkanda" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsFLcDJolq0
My most favoured Spanish vocalist and singer.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 27-Oct-2025 09:26:39 JST
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♪ 3 Mustaphas 3, "Taxi Driver" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y5r5S8kPaw
The Finns have a tradition of tango, so why shouldn't the Balkans have a tradition of salsa?
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 27-Oct-2025 08:43:56 JST
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♪ 3 Mustaphas 3, "Anapse To Tsigaro" (1989) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9JXITZeAEE
Punk and humour. In the way God intented them to be played – the Balkan style.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 27-Oct-2025 08:31:40 JST
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♪ Dissidenten & Lem Chaheb, "Fata Morgana" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vitULuQ58wE
The smash hit of 1984, inaugurating "world music" in Germany.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 27-Oct-2025 06:14:39 JST
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♪ Aretha Franklin, "Old Landmark" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF6HEYhSQ-g
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 27-Oct-2025 06:03:58 JST
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♪ Mavis Staples, "Ninety Nine and a half" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJQPKwqOenw
Again we're back nearly 60 years ago. When these war end, when the Neo-Stalinists, the Neo-Fascists, the Tech Barons have vanished, we will rebuild: Our societies, our environments, our economies, our compassion, our solidarity.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 27-Oct-2025 05:52:35 JST
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♪ The Staple Singers, "I'll Take You There" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhHBr7nMMio
I guess I'll compile a playlist of songs to which old guys like me, 60 and over, are pushed to dance. This song by the Staples Sisters should make it on it.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 27-Oct-2025 05:42:23 JST
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♪ Frazey Ford, "Done" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXRrySTujn8
She keeps me dancing every time I hear that song!
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