Snippets!
As much as Vivaldi's Four Seasons is overexposed and cliche as classical music, it really is quite beautiful.
I'm pretty sure Obama will be inagurated long before the phrase "President Elect Obama" stops sounding silly to me. I think it's because it's only one letter away from Electorama! President Elect Obama's Electorama! In retrospect, I don't know why nobody had an event called the Elect Obama Electorama before the election. Possibly because it sounds silly and dumb. Not that that's stopped anyone before.
Back to music, I find traditional acoustic (usually instrumental) music from diverse regions of the world extremely compelling and surprisingly inaccessible in this global information age. I'd love some good Spanish guitar, some good Chinese Guchin, some good Andean pipes, but the vast majority of cultural music out there on the intarwebs is "worldbeat" bullshit that dumps liberal doses of Western crap and maybe some shitty nature noises on top of solid traditional music. It's also just legitimately hard to find good stuff, even when it's sufficiently traditional. There's this amazing song at the end of "The Namesake" sung in the traditional Indian style whose name I forgot, but it isn't on the film's soundtrack and all the other traditional Indian songs of that type I've found have been less good. Similarly, the best instance of Guchin music I've heard was in Hero, but it's thoroughly bullshitified for the soundtrack. In conclusion, I hate everyone.
Happy Thanksgiving.
I'm pretty sure Obama will be inagurated long before the phrase "President Elect Obama" stops sounding silly to me. I think it's because it's only one letter away from Electorama! President Elect Obama's Electorama! In retrospect, I don't know why nobody had an event called the Elect Obama Electorama before the election. Possibly because it sounds silly and dumb. Not that that's stopped anyone before.
Back to music, I find traditional acoustic (usually instrumental) music from diverse regions of the world extremely compelling and surprisingly inaccessible in this global information age. I'd love some good Spanish guitar, some good Chinese Guchin, some good Andean pipes, but the vast majority of cultural music out there on the intarwebs is "worldbeat" bullshit that dumps liberal doses of Western crap and maybe some shitty nature noises on top of solid traditional music. It's also just legitimately hard to find good stuff, even when it's sufficiently traditional. There's this amazing song at the end of "The Namesake" sung in the traditional Indian style whose name I forgot, but it isn't on the film's soundtrack and all the other traditional Indian songs of that type I've found have been less good. Similarly, the best instance of Guchin music I've heard was in Hero, but it's thoroughly bullshitified for the soundtrack. In conclusion, I hate everyone.
Happy Thanksgiving.