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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 26, 2024 15:14:05 GMT -8
This is music to listen to on a Saturday night.
I associate this album with my early years in Singapore. I thought the guitar playing outstanding. A friend didn't agree, but I was, and am, correct. He was expecting guitar gymnastics, whereas I was looking for technical skill matched with a musical ear which was able to compose a guitar line which cooperated with the song, not some discordant frantic picking which took the attention away from the melody, and message. The poor listener encounters such displays far too often. Finding a line which fits the song perfectly is much more difficult than playing scales, and such, very quickly. Here is another one of their songs which I find very easy to listen to. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 26, 2024 16:12:23 GMT -8
Those Little River Band songs are classics. Takes me back to FM radio at the old office in the late 70's/early 80's. FM was a rich respite from what became the further degradation of music on AM. But I never owned one of their albums. I guess there are just so many groups...or were back then that were worth listening to.
A guy online said as a comment to one of Fil's presentations that he was living in a bubble of the 70's/80's. I told him my time frame was a bit earlier, but I understood the sentiment.
I know what you mean. Mr. Sinatra, for instance, would have no part of the instruments getting in the way of the vocals. Only knowing that beforehand do you see how deftly Nelson Riddle (and others) melded their orchestrations with the singing.
You know, I do love much of J.S. Bach's music. One would have to be a heathen not to. But I do think he composed a lot of his music to be as technically difficult to play as possible. I suppose there's a place for that. Mozart probably did that too. But I don't find violin or piano gymnastics to be especially pleasing to the ear.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 26, 2024 17:05:36 GMT -8
Funny, I was thinking about that yesterday after I wrote my comment about music not being an intellectual pursuit, rather it should touch one's soul. Of course, for someone like Bach, there is plenty of mathematical thinking involved. And while I enjoy the Brandenburg Concertos, not one of them can touch me like Barber's Adagio for Strings or Debussy's Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun. I could go on and on.
They can be, but such talent as to write elaborate parts and make them artistic is very rare indeed.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Nov 5, 2024 7:44:41 GMT -8
Start your day with Invention no. 13 in A Minor by J.S. Bach. It's a short presentation.
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