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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 12:36:56 JST 
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♪ Billy Bragg, "Between the Wars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQgkF_FsO4
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 12:36:42 JST
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♪ Billy Bragg, "Between the Wars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQgkF_FsO4
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 05:05:15 JST
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♪ Mahaleo, "Hay Hay" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew585nCy2VM
From the same concert, Paris, 2027. And as the audience explodes, so does the band.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 04:53:54 JST
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♪ Mahaleo, "Vololona" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aD3twopLQw
One of my favourite songs of this Madegassy super band. It's taken from a life concert in Paris, 2007, and the audience is so in sync with the musicians. Wonderful. Great that there are subtitles now, I never knew what the song was about :-)
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 04-Dec-2025 06:22:33 JST
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♪ Almudena Rubio (voz) y Isabelle Laudenbach (guitarra), "Pajarillo verde" (Canción popular venezolana) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McAUBiOORwg&t=464s
Beautiful! Rubio's sparkling voice, in duet with the second voice of Laudenbach's articulate guitar play. Both lend light-heartedness as well as depth to the song.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 04-Dec-2025 05:15:29 JST
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♪ Almudena Rubio (voz) y Lucas Vázquez, "Historia de tres amigos" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQGhyoj1Ad8
"The story of three friends, of sweet freedom,
if they became anarchists, it was not by pure chance.
Buenaventura Durruti, Ascaso and García Oliver,
called Los solidarios who despise power
Wanted and persecuted, by the countryside and the city,
if they ended up in jail, it was not by mere chance.
Buenaventura Durruti, Ascaso and García Oliver,
three leaves of black clover, against the wind of power.
Continuing with their habit of flouting authority
if they crossed the border, it was not by chance.
Buenaventura Durruti, Ascaso and García Oliver,
the black shadow of the people against the brightness of power.
After a while they returned here,
if the bourgeois trembled, it was not by chance.
Buenaventura Durruti, Ascaso and García Oliver,
three black bullets of lead, aimed at power."
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 04-Dec-2025 05:05:18 JST
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♪ Almudena Rubio (voz) y Marcel Bagés (guitarra), "Anita, la miliciana" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4Wfhp3vU0
Anita, the militiawoman
“The winds of the people carry me,”
ruins, battles, and death,
we lost the war.
What if I never see you again?
I fight for a new world.
I joyfully raise my flag,
I am that militiawoman
who smiles in the face of war.
Between the trades of exile
in a forced expatriation,
celebration and hope
with the death of the tyrant.
My face hidden in the dust
of a long dictatorship,
resistance and memories,
our ideal endures today.
I fight for a new world.
I firmly raise my flag,
I am that militiawoman
who smiles in the face of war.
My name is Ana Garbin,
of ideas and dynamite,
and with my companions,
infinite militiawomen.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 04-Dec-2025 04:57:39 JST
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♪ Almudena Rubio (voz) & Joris Van Waesberge (guitarra), "Canción de soldados" https://youtube.com/watch?v=KMjOndkC66o
Written by Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio. Interpretation, arrangement, and rendition are splendid!
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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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