Music- What are you listening to?

**canuck** · May-13-13, 10:12 PM

This singer songwriter and composer from southern France was one of the very greatest at conjugating text and music. His popular music was based in the jazz idiom and increasingly by african music. He sadly died of cancer several years ago. This is one of his classics and if you know french, the poetry here goes to the heart rather than the brain real fast;

**canuck** · May-13-13, 10:42 PM

Another one by the same guy is called «Un été»; "One Summer". It's about him meeting a little spanish girl from the neighborhood at fourteen, and is a tragic- comic description of fumbling and fear. He runs away from her beauty and the music is totally magical and melancholy, no comic accents at all, very subtly put together.

**Jimaz** · May-17-13, 09:49 PM

To repair some link rot up in Page 29, here's the whole album instead:

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire FULL ALBUM HD

Recorded 1972. All compositions by John McLaughlin, except "Miles Beyond", by Miles Davis.

Birds of Fire - 00:00
Miles Beyond - 5:58
Celestial Terrestrial Commuters - 10:36
Saphire Bullets of Pure Love - 13:30
Thousand Island Park - 13:54
Hope - 17:19
One Word - 19:18
Sanctuary - 29:16
Open Country Joy - 34:18
Resolution - 38:14

The Mahavishnu Orchestra:
John McLaughlin - Guitar
Rick Laird - Bass
Billy Cobham - Drums, Percussion
Jerry Goodman - Violin
Jan Hammer - Keyboards, Moog

REVELATION

No more my heart shall sob or grieve.
My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light.
Above the toil of life my soul
Is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.

I have known the One and His secret Play;
And passed beyond the sea of Ignorance-Dream,
In tune with Him, I sport and sing,
I own the golden Eye of the Supreme.

Drunk deep of Immortality,
I am the root and boughs of a teeming vast.
My form I have known, and realised,
The Supreme and I are one-all we outlast.

- Sri Chinmoy

**Wingnatic** · May-18-13, 05:40 PM

**canuck** · May-18-13, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by Jimaz

To repair some link rot up in Page 29, here's the whole album instead:

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire FULL ALBUM HD

Great album, and great musicians. One of my first bought records. That and John McLaughlin Electric Guitarist.

**Zacha341** · May-21-13, 11:30 PM

A bit of a respite from 'smooth' jazz I'm - listening to - rediscovering Freddie Hubbard, specifically his gem "Red Clay":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1ZelIbUfI

**rb336** · May-22-13, 09:57 AM

I was having a Nazareth fit last night

**Pam** · May-31-13, 10:24 AM

Does anyone here actually go the Hoedown? I just found out it's this weekend. I'm a fan of crusty old country but I don't get these current artists. Here's a couple of oldies by Jimmy Dickens and Anita Carter:

http://youtu.be/18ztMfB8b-8

**rb336** · May-31-13, 12:09 PM

current country music, with a few exceptions, is virtually indistinguishable from pop music in terms of arrangements, production, etc. those that ARE almost sound like parodies of old-style country. I saw Little Jimmy Dickens at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum when I was 10, with Stonewall Jackson, Roy Acuff and a couple of others

**rb336** · June-08-13, 09:50 PM

no Gerry Cott or Johnnie Fingers though

sveta · June-10-13, 07:15 PM

somewhere angels cry, "Goodbye"

**Jimaz** · June-13-13, 06:57 PM

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Estas Tonne - The Song of the Golden Dragon - Stadtspektakel Landshut 2011

The Performance of Russian guitarist Estas Tonne at the Buskers Festival Stadtspektakel in Landshut in September 2011 in the Old Town with "The Song of the Golden Dragon."

That guitar must be structurally reinforced. If you close your eyes, it sounds like multiple guitarists.

www.estastonne.com

**Wingnatic** · June-18-13, 06:44 PM

**canuck** · June-23-13, 06:28 PM

**rb336** · July-04-13, 02:56 PM

For lovers of the absurd

**Wingnatic** · July-04-13, 02:57 PM

**Zacha341** · July-04-13, 03:23 PM

Simply wonderful song... if Ray Charles could sing this, then I can attempt believe it, even with all of our problems.

**gazhekwe** · July-15-13, 02:40 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=EQKxgFbhpjo

**black gold man** · July-15-13, 07:10 PM

**gazhekwe** · July-15-13, 09:13 PM

Aaah, that was perfect for a rainy sultry summer night!

**rb336** · July-20-13, 02:21 PM

This guy will be at the ark October 1 [[I think)

**rb336** · July-23-13, 12:38 PM

Some SoM

**rb336** · July-28-13, 11:15 AM

**Downriviera** · July-28-13, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by rb336

This guy will be at the ark October 1 [[I think)

I'm hoping to make this show at the Ark. I saw Nick Lowe and Rockpile at the Royal Oak Music Theater eons ago with Elvis Costello and the Attractions and Mink DeVille.