I am doing some packing, which means I'm finally ripping some CDs my mom picked up in a bargain bin and thought I might like and--what the hell is coming out of my speakers? The CD jacket showed an Indian dancer, so my mom assumed it was Indian dance music, and it is a twee little folk song about Italian coffee shop workers.

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I do not normally do pimping posts, but a former coworker of mine, one who sang in my choir for a while, just released an album: The Never ContentShe's been promising an album for years. In fact, I first asked her when her album would be out six years ago (I just looked that up--jeez, that's a long time) when I went to her band's show in one of the ( Read more... )

I saw Carmina Burana at the Phil last night. I went to the pre-concert talk cause why not, but don't think I will again. If you closed your eyes, the lecture was delivered very well, but the speaker was quite physically awkward. He had his eyes rolled up to the cieling the whole time and kept taking one step forward, then one step back, and he was ( Read more... )

As I hinted in my previous post, I spent last night recording bits for Radiolab ( Read more... )

I just had one of the more bizarre experiences of my life.

Turns out if you get eighty choral singers from 20 different choirs together in a room, and ask them to sing the "Hallelujah Chorus" with no music and just a D major chord to start, they can do it. Even if you randomly swap some of the words for "mantis shrimp."

Just got back from a Dar Williams concert. Dar has always been one for random banter. This time, there was this gem: "It's like being vindictive about death. Or time. Like, eternity. So this isn't vindictive or triumphant. It's a hydrangea. ...Or a peony ( Read more... )

Just went to a Red Molly concert with jethrien. Imagine if Eliza Dushku was a folk singer--that is the newest member of the group, Molly Venter.

I loved Carolann, but I bought Molly's CD, I confess.

I just got Johnny Cash's album The Man Comes Around. "Hurt" is really the most emo song ever written. (Yes, I know it's Trent Reznor.) From now on, if someone asks me what emo is, I will play this song. I love it so.

This will probably mean nothing to anyone who reads my lj, but I am listening to the James Gang. Wow, they are so much better with Joe Walsh. Without him, they're kind of a generic classic rock band. With him--well, his guitar riffs are genius.

Internets help me! I am listening to Dougie MacLean, in particular his songs Turning Away and Marching Mystery. Both of them seem to be based on a legend or story of some sort, but I have utterly failed to find out what. He is too obscure to have more than a stub in wikipedia. But as I've run across many fic using his lyrics as titles, I'm ( Read more... )