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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 06-Mar-2026 09:24:24 JST
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♪ Steve Earle, "Ellis Unit One" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tc700Yi8KQ
His other classical song against the death penalty. Again, by slowing down the tempo he increases the tension. Usually one hears the version with The Fairfield Four from the movie "Dead Man Walking", but I like this version way more.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 06-Mar-2026 09:18:52 JST
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♪ Steve Earle, "Billy Austin" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBtQcZx9gAo
To me one of his best performances of a song that seems rather overlooked in his oeuvre.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 05-Mar-2026 08:12:08 JST
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♪ Bob Dylan "Bromberg Sessions" (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0XNshzGjMk
Can anyone corroborate whether the mandolin on the first track ("Polly Vaughan") is played by David Grisman? The play very much sounds like him.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 10:31:27 JST
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♪ Steve Earle, "Fort Worth Blues" (live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uttn9az2gGU
One of my favourite songs of his, from his album "El Corazón" (1997).
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 02-Mar-2026 13:46:36 JST
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♪ Blaze Foley, "You'll Get Yours Aplenty" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci6G8b-mdtI
Blaze Foley's songs breath calmness and through that an unpretentious vastness.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 02-Mar-2026 13:45:22 JST
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♪ Blaze Foley, "Election Day" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY51WuggR4E
Blaze Foley was a close friend of Townes Van Zandt. He was, like Dolly Parton (if you excuse the comparison), a master of the "small form": songs of 2 to 3 minutes length, perfect in their lyricism and musical "shape".
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 12:24:34 JST
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♪ Pizzicato Five, "Peace Music" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bGBPCG0-eg
Honestly, I don't believe Pizzicato Five were human musicians at all. I think they were the first publicly performing AI, and they did so with such finesse. Bringing smiles and joy was their perfidious masterplan to take over the world.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 12:13:55 JST
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♪ United Future Organisation, "The Planet Plan" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wppruJvMuAU
There are two Japanese bands I've been fond of since the late 1990s: Pizzicato Five and United Future Organisation. This song is taken from UFO's album "3rd Perspective" (1996).
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 12:06:46 JST
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♪ Dissidenten with Lem Chaheb, "Inshallah" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvqJ92IrlJc
This song, 10 years earlier than Natacha Atlas, from 1984. It's pulse and beat still unbeaten today.
(The Dissidenten, engl. "dissidents", were a spin-off of the German world music / jazz / experimnetal group Embryo)
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 12:02:36 JST
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♪ Natacha Atlas, "Yalla Chant" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=favGoTiJE-s
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 12:02:21 JST
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♪ Natacha Atlas, "Yalla Chant" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=favGoTiJE-s
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 12:01:09 JST
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♪ Natacha Atlas, "Diaspora" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5BGLTg_wXI
1995 was a magical year, with so many wonderful albums published. This is the title song of Natacha Atlas' album "Diaspora" from the same year. Sound floating in the air...
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 11:44:31 JST
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♪ 3 Mustaphas 3, "Yogurt Koydum Dolaba / Televizyon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtUk6vkBlaI
The right tune to dance to at 3:42 am in your flat ...
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 14:27:24 JST
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♪ Georges I. Gurdjieff & Thomas de Hartmann, "Chant et danse sayyd" (piano: Danilo Lorenzini) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PUaHzPSv6U
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 14:13:27 JST
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♪ Makmed the Miller, "A Sleepy Morning in Dragontown" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAiy8SiwkIE
This is just lovely. It tugs me nicely in my bed. Sleep well, you howling ghosts ...
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 13:46:15 JST
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♪ Taraf De Haïdouks, "Rînd De Hore" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecK1fDFc9FA
From Romania. By one of the finest traditional Romani bands. One of my favourite songs.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 13:37:05 JST
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♪ Mariam Elieshvili, "ჩვენ ახლა ერთურთს / Chven Axla Erturts" ("We Are Together Now") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSYLUfmR8rU
Mariam Elieshvili is a pop singer in Georgia. Perhaps it was this performance at young age that brought her into the spotlight. Lovely.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 13:36:06 JST
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♪ Mariam Elieshvili, "ჩვენ ახლა ერთურთს / Chven Axla Erturts" ("We Are Together Now") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSYLUfmR8rU
Mariam Elieshvili is a pop singer in Georgia. Perhaps it was this performance of her at young age that brought her in to the spotlight.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 13:24:26 JST
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♪ The 50th psalm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=961ihcx4PoQ
The psalm is sung in Aramaic by the choir of the Church of the 13 Assyrian Holy Fathers in Kanda, a little to the northwest of Georgia's capital Tbilisi. (https://georgia.to/en/places-to-go/mtskheta-mtianeti/kanda-monastery/)
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 13:08:13 JST
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♪ Hamlet Gonashvili, "Daigvianes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLS8eFQo8nM
The rich polyphonic vocal tradition of Georgian peasant songs had its master vocalist in Hamlet Gonashvili. Bitter-sweet in the truest sense of the word.
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