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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 09:35:39 JST simsa03 ♪ Richard Thompson, "Word Unspoken, Sight Unseen" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPxy0HJFZHE
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 11:39:29 JST simsa03 ♪ Almudena Rubio, "Txoria txori" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8HzzK7LSYo
The song is written by the famous Basque singer Mikel Laboa. Almudena Rubio is accompanied by the master guitarist Isabelle Laudenbach.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 11:33:29 JST simsa03 ♪ Almudena Rubio, "La Llorona" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2fH1H6FP2s
Rubio's voice is so... what tension! (Neske Baerwaldt on violin.)
("La Lorona" is a famous song in Latin America about the ghost of a woman who is said to have been betrayed and threatened by her husband, killed her children and now mourns their death.)
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 08:04:04 JST simsa03 ♪ Tatran, "Mind Bubbles" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_o7ZPmMCLc
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 07:34:45 JST simsa03 Here are two versions of the same Georgian peasant song:
♪ Hamlet Gonashvili, "Orovela" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExkXJcx7RZ4
which is tender, almost floating in the air, and
♪ Ciuri Mchedlidze, "Orovela" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nT1iivP6Ms
which is far more dramatic and poignant.
Georgian folk music is famous for its elaborate polyphony but one shouldn't underrate the richness of interpretation that is essential in the performance and lends texture and complexity to the song.
(Hamlet Gonashvili was my first encounter with Georgian folk music. His style has a mesmerizing effect on me.)
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 06:21:01 JST simsa03 ♪ Sonny Landreth, "Shooting For The Moon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKPCf26-UJs
The album is from 1995. To me it was this song that introduced the open cadence in a call-response fashion (here to the slide guitar) to rock music. (I'm most probably wrong in this attritbution of origin.) Anyway, this specific sound sequence is echoed often later, e.g., in
♪ Gary Clark Jr., "Bright Lights" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZeDn-hHGE (e.g., at 1:30)
and in various other songs.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 11:16:37 JST simsa03 ♪ Tatran, "Lemon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIfRdCRSJ20
Funny how the lead guitar sounds a bit like Sonny Landreth... in a wholly different musical setting.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 12:29:39 JST simsa03 ♪ Noga Erez, "No News on TV" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdJMwubahVo
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 12:27:55 JST simsa03 ♪ Noga Erez, "You So Done" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn813NKlhzI
The blend of music and images is perfect.
(CW: The details are brutal at times, be warned.)
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 10:05:50 JST simsa03 ♪ Noga Erez, "Come Back Home" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSoc5HToY5s
This.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 10:56:40 JST simsa03 ♪ Talking Heads, "Life During Wartime" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0DpBnUznd0
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 10:17:32 JST simsa03 ♪ Violent Femmes, "Add it Up" (live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHapDS2fcFE
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 10:36:12 JST simsa03 ♪ Paco de Lucia, "Entre dos aguas" (1976) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oyhlad64-s
Flawless ease.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 10:08:26 JST simsa03 ♪ Orange, "Pankobabaunka" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_0cUBpcuBo
Just a wonderful track.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 09:54:28 JST simsa03 ♪ Rough Island Band, "You Can Call Me Al" (Paul Simon cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skFoX8GaCRM
And then The Little Unsaid teamed up with a few friends, formed the Rough Island Band, and covered Paul Simon's hit, somewhere under chilly weather on an island off the coast of the United Kingdom... and it shows all the warmth that is missing in today's thunderstorms.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 09:32:23 JST simsa03 ♪ The Little Unsaid, "To My Lordless Sons" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwm_U8c-HT4
My favourite song of his. Unreserved innocence.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 10:15:18 JST simsa03 ♪ Tatran, "Shvat" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3d1y9nDSD4
Pure passion.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 10:05:37 JST simsa03 ♪ Tatran, "Demian" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5KUJJHXskA
YES.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 11:55:48 JST simsa03 ♪ Bob Dylan, "Early Mornin' Rain" (Gordon Lightfood cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yXgy8Oai84
To me the best version of Gordon Lightfoot's song. Can you even imagine Bob Dylan playing a song you wish to dance to?
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 11:50:15 JST simsa03 ♪ Mari Boine, "Goaskinviellja" ("Eagle Brother") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vnlAQ1n_ns
"Gula Gula" was the song that first brought Mari Boine to my attention, but her "Goaskinviellja" hooked me.
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