Category: Music
mainly influences and very limited previews of my own stuff
Ophelia
I love this video and the way this was filmed. The costumes give me vibes from the 1920’s era, though some of the styling, hair and make-up is a shoutout to 60’s aesthetics and Liza Minelli. The song is also very good. It starts like Lana del Rey but it evolves from there. I don’t understand why people are complaining. I actually want to see more of this style. It suits the era we’re living in.
Sunset, Pont Pierre Laporte
Correcting an initial mistake in the title: the bridge is not Jacques Cartier, but Pierre Laporte. It is quite obvious, Jacques Cartier Bridge doesn’t give you that much river view and unobstructed sun to look at. It is more urban and unimpressive to be fair. Pierre Laporte connects the Quebec City north and south shore.
I was listening to this trans set/track on the VIA train and it was very appropriate for the view – never seen the Sun so bright and the River so shallow, pre-apocalyptic but still beautiful
Roma Wedding, Пей, сърце
I woke up to this song from 2016 playing in my head, so I put up some chalga playlists. Roma people are very close to my heart. They really know how to party and the food is great. I never stopped myself from going into the so called mahala..It takes a bit of effort to be accepted, but song and dance work wonders to break divisions. If you can belt out a chalga song, you’re in. This video is clearly filmed on location in the mahalà.
This video also feels authentic. It is something I have seen a lot in real life. People sitting around tables, dancing kyuchek, and paper-money flying in all directions. It is customary to bribe musicians to play your favorite song or to reward them because you enjoy their style. It is also normal as a guest to be invited to sing a song and the musicians will pick it up as you go… even western songs easily get kyuchek-ified.
Bollywood Fusion Cover of Shape of You
How It’s Done, Kpop Demon Hunters
Heaven Kills Me, Let it Be for Love
a brave widow inspired me to pray, so let’s pray…
Music can be torture indeed
While watching the MTV awards, some of the sound felt like torture and made me intuitively think about Joseph Mangele and concentration camps, so I asked AI if Mangele was into music and choreography. Dance was absolutely not confirmed, but lo and behold Mangele was very much into music, played the violin for children before experimenting on them, and forced prisoners to play in orchestras, sending dogs to attack them if they hit the wrong notes. Among many other things…
I am just going to leave this here. Will keep digging on the dancing, but so far I’m relieved it is not mentioned. If you haven’t noticed, we landed in hell. Not sure how, but maybe
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mp/9460447.0010.103/–how-can-music-be-torturous-music-in-nazi-concentration?rgn=main;view=fulltext
here is a citation:
“Primo Levi, in what is one of the most prominent written accounts of life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, recounted an incident he witnessed in the infirmary there:
The beating of the big drums and the cymbals reach us continuously and monotonously, but in this weft the musical phrases weave a pattern only intermittently, according to the caprices of the wind. The tunes are few, a dozen, and the same ones every day, morning and evening: marches and popular songs dear to every German. They lie engraven on our minds and will be the last thing in the Lager that we shall forget: they are the voice of the Lager, the perceptible expression of its geometrical madness, of the resolution of others to annihilate us first as men in order to kill us more slowly afterwards.[1]“
Chaos Surfing, Purpose None, a Machine’s Spinoff of Data Peasant
AI made me a new song interpolating from another song of mine (the very dark Data Peasant song) from the Calling Bear album. It is not just interpolation, it is a rearrangement of the lyrics in cloud-rap style. You can guess by the sound which artificial intelligence worked on it. If I ever use this derivative, they will be getting 50%. But we all know that the law will never favour humans, so I only post music fleetingly.
filmed last week in Oka, Mont-Royal Mountain, Downtown Montreal skyline (from skyscraper rooftop), Phillips Square dance event, and on the road in Via Rail.
UK slays at Eurovision with What The Hell Just Happened
this song is really well written (like listening to Queen but more current) and the performance is out of this world. This is definitely my most favorite song from the entire Eurovision. I am going to listen to it on repeat for a little while. I was also impressed by Sweden (Bara Bada Bastu, total vibe) and Switzerland (Voyage, cinematic emotional). Now I have a playlist of 6.