What Are You Listening To?

[Dissily Mordentroge]

^She has - but just the one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Intense

If you haven't seen 20 Feet From Stardom, you might want to watch it at some point - she's one of the heavily featured singers. 

It seems to be the performance dynamic she prefers (in a nutshell) ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Feet_from_Stardom

Apart from Leonard Bernstien, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Lisa Fischer has me totally in her spell, in other words I’m a besotted fan. Thanks for the links but I’ve obsessively chased down everything available. Many of her best performances can only be heard in crappy, amateurish Youtube videos. Drives me insane. Maybe she herself has an alergy to the recording studio or the industry has an alergy to her? Got me off my fat arse though to fly up to Sydney to one of her concerts. A mind boggling experience. 
Can’t stop myself thinking though what she’d have achieved if she’d stuck with her early training as a classical mezzo soprano. Every now and then we get some indication of what she would have accomplished.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO "shaka Zulu" cd, 1987

South African traditionists
been around since the early 1960s but didn't rise to fame
outside SA until they appeared on "Graceland".
songs have a distinct Gospel feel to them for the most part
I don't understand what the heck theyre singing about but I don't care
the sounds they make are simply beautiful
the rich tones of the voices compliment each other beautifully
Thank God Paul Simon broke the international embargo and introduced
this vocal group to the world
I LIKE THIS ALBUM

[Dissily Mordentroge]

^She has - but just the one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Intense

If you haven't seen 20 Feet From Stardom, you might want to watch it at some point - she's one of the heavily featured singers. 

It seems to be the performance dynamic she prefers (in a nutshell) ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Feet_from_Stardom

I’ve dug up just about every Youtube clip, interview etc with Lisa Fischer. I find it very, very annoying most of what we have is on amateurish Youtube clips with disgusting sound and wobbly hand held camera work. OK, maybe she wants us all to go to her concerts. I flew to one interstate in Sydney but how far do I have to chase her across the planet to keep up ?
I can only hope her recent mind boggling performance at Royal Albert Hall will be commercially released but I’m not optimistic.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

DEEP FOREST  "deep forest" cd,  1992

one of those cds I was given in a box of cds by a friend's wife last year.
French duo.
debut album.
experts label them World Music, Ambience, Electro-Dance.
sounds to me like a Moby album with non English lyrics.
a change of pace to what I would normally listen to.
album reached Platinum status in Australia, Gold status in the UK/US.
lead off single (posted below) was a top10 hit in the UK, has also been used in various
TV commercials here in  Australia over the intervening years.
neither like nor dislike this one.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

CHARLOTTE CHURCH  "voice of an angel"  cd,  1998

12years of age for this one.
debut album.
from wales, never heard a bad vocalist from there.
Soprano, vocal quality/control is years ahead of such a tender age.
mainly hymns/spiritual songs on here.
nice album

favourite track is this age old classic:

[CRAZY-HORSE]

DAVID FITZGERALD  "breath of heaven" cd, 2001

from the box of cds from my work colleague's wife.
never heard of him.
classical, instrumentals
the dude is a flautist, well wind instrumentalist in general really.
was part of a celtic folk/prog band Iona, never heard of them neither.
pleasant enough as background music 
but not my thing to actively listen to

[Ruby]

One John Williams leads to another! This is the virtuoso guitarist (Sky and various other associations). His album from 1971 Changes, or Cavatina, depending on which issue it is. A few Stanley Myers compositions or arrangements on here, specifically "Cavatina" from The Deer Hunter  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pczKjA67gc8 - all instrumental guitar and orchestra. He also gives us "Because", the Beatles, Joni's "Woodstock", a Djano Reinhardt number which is very brave! (then again, if anyone could pull it off, it would be him), and finishes it all off with "House of the Rising Sun". A guitar lover's album - brilliant technique. Other names spotted on the personnel list, Chris Spedding, Grumpy Old Rick and Danny Thompson (bass). Huh! Interesting listen. The whole thing ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHIXh_6B...9Q&index=1. I quite liked the Bach opener which bursts into joyousness at around 1.48  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHIXh_6B6jg, and this is a cool arrangement, IMHO ... 

[CRAZY-HORSE]

ROBERT GASS & ON WINGS OF SONG "om namaha shivaya/hara hara" cd, 1986

his sixth album of twenty two.
from the box i was given last year.
his Wiki:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gass

two tracks,
both Sanskrit chants, one lasts 40 plus minutes, the other almost 30 minutes.
and he and his band have added instrumentation to it to compliment it.
was listening whilst i was doing some tidying up in my Music Library.
pleasant background music.
has a soothing, calming effect on ones being (not that I need calming and soothing, im a mellow soul)

okay, so i know the vocals on this track are a bit repetitive but Ruby and Jerome might appreciate it.
MH go there for sure, but a couple of minutes is probably more than enough for you mate.

[Dissily Mordentroge]

two tracks,
both Sanskrit chants, one lasts 40 plus minutes, the other almost 30 minutes.
and he and his band have added instrumentation to it to compliment it.
was listening whilst i was doing some tidying up in my Music Library.
pleasant background music.
has a soothing, calming effect on ones being (not that I need calming and soothing, im a mellow soul)

okay, so i know the vocals on this track are a bit repetitive but Ruby and Jerome might appreciate it.
MH go there for sure, but a couple of minutes is probably more than enough for you mate.

Most of these chants are intended to accompany meditation, not to be listened to on their own account. The main focus for instance in tantric yoga meditation is on the rythm of breathing in time to the chant. So, as stand alone music without that discipline they’re more likely to send you to sleep than nirvana.

[Dissily Mordentroge]

Now a piece most will regard as ‘hard’ to understand. If you last more than 3 mins with this there’s some chance you could be converted to something more serious than bubble gum pop. Good luck kiddies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUjyMiNU...e=youtu.be