Music that moves

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What must it have been like when mind rather than paper or machines stored all of cultural knowledge, and song was the means of continuity. One song became the song of all rather than the song of just one voice. What we feel now is a paleolithic echo of those times, probably a bit jumbled when taken out of tradition, jumbled from shared ownership of the song to identifying with, and owning the voice, regardless of the source, the dynamic just under the surface of appreciative applause, that urge to personally own the singing voice as the voice of all. I read that when she was a kid and in the hospital with polio, Joni Mitchell sang songs all the time in a loud voice, convinced that this would keep her alive. She was right! Kept her very much alive and created an entity in which many now share with a sense of ownership.

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An elegant spin, Cahoot, and appropriately nostalgic, for music and song are the soundtrack to capital culture now; I think you cite a signature difference in the mythotic past, the mass-mind dreaming of song, story; the meaning of ownership then and now. The fractal pseudo-individualism, and the speed of turnover for music (and celebrity) is the perfect accompaniment and stimulus for the movement of money, the present content of culture itself; a sound that goes along with possession qua possession itself.

I wouldn't touch a Joni Mitchell tune with gloves on. I found her untouchable; didn't even bother . . . .
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Pye,

I like to take a 20k bike ride and listen to this on an Ipod.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWwBh0dzgi4

sublime.
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This recording immediately became the definitive performance of Nessun Dorma, for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATmgtmR5o4

How amazing that Puccini can reach through time and space to so intimately touch a shared sensibility with conceptual notations, scribbles on paper that communicate non-conceptual sounds.
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You guys are killing me softly . . . . but this ol' bohemian still finds Pavarotti at his tingly best in this old hack of an aria:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N2ck_wgr9Y

With Pavarotti, I've always thought, there's nothing left of any note in reserve. He "cracks" each of them as far as they can go; his voice cracks them all open, nothing left.

Dennis, I used to plug in music whilst hiking, biking, too. Am of a completely different mind now:
ambient sound . . . . (better to locate the presence and company of hidden birds . . . :)
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How amazing that Puccini can reach through time and space to so intimately touch a shared sensibility with conceptual notations, scribbles on paper that communicate non-conceptual sounds.
Puccini nailed it.
Pav nails Puccini.
Moving.
It gladdens me Cahoot that you are of the nature 'attuned to such a fine sensibility'.

In that clip I referred,
a mobile phone salesman, out of nowhere, giving nessun dorma his best shot, and it really was a great shot.

the response of the audience,
immediate, unmediated direct experience,
authentic,
Spirit.



Dennis, I used to plug in music whilst hiking, biking, too. Am of a completely different mind now:
ambient sound . . . . (better to locate the presence and company of hidden birds . . . :)
Gotya,
except the context of my bike ride has me in city streets,
concrete, bitumen, swooping traffic,
people, en masse, dressed in dark suits, clutching briefcases, as tho' going to a funeral.
'scienceworld'
a bitter harvest in many respects.

'The Lark Ascending', in that context,
alive in the headphones,
a possibility seemingly forgotten.
The darling buds of May.
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These two aboriginal songs induce Nessun Dorma like feelings within me, although completely different music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXDJneVbEC8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaqLw1CvPMk

and one of the best early pop songs ever (providing one ignores the soppy topic)
Russell Morris - Sweet Sweet Love. I rediscovered this only recently – can’t stop going back to it. I must love indulgent reminiscing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMpZSxhuSH0
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FROM THE BEGINNING - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtGjJVcrKQU
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Booker T and the M.G.s - "Gotta Serve Somebody"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roGcPxEvYAw
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Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_LN3XEcnw

David Byrne - Make Believe Mambo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3xeJBXfFt0

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Santana - Novus (Featuring Placido Domingo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fYKlHFn5Rs
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Jimmy Cliff - We all are one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLcrAv24izY
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Little Sister - Somebody's Watching You [a Sly Stone production]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCRkjcQ0KVM
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The Tango - Scent of a Woman (4/8) Movie CLIP (1992) HD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2zTd_YwTvo

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Pye wrote:I wouldn't touch a Joni Mitchell tune with gloves on. I found her untouchable; didn't even bother . . . .
A couple of these guys collaborated with Mitchell.

Weather Report - Birdland
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This is also sublime.
Caution: Ohrwurm material (but in an expansive way).

Chinatown - Soundtrack
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^Yeah, nice.

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