Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery Choir is considered to be arguably Russia’s best choir. One can hear why on this folk song presented here.
Music Videos
[Music] Nurse With Wound & Stereolab – Exploding Head Movie
There’s little in this track outside of atmospherics to suggest that Nurse With Wound contributed much to this particular track, but Stereolab gives a very nice Neu!-inspired groove to this track in homage of Krautrock.
[Music] Arvo Pärt – My Heart’s In The Highlands
Arvo Pärt shows his love for Scotland.
[Music] John Fahey – Jaya Shiva Shankarah
John Fahey’s 1975 masterpiece Old Fashioned Love is in dire need of a remastering and re-release. It features some of his best and most innovative guitar work.
[Music] Current 93 & HÖH – The Dream Of A Shadow Of Smoke
This track by neofolk giants Current 93, in collaboration with composer, soundtrack musician, and now pagan head priest HÖH (Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson) was released on the album Island (Iceland) in 1991.
[Music] Christian Brendel & Zomb – Odyssée
I have a lot of friends who introduce me to music I would have never discovered on my own, and I’d like to think that I do the same for them in return. I’m indebted to my good friend Slava, who hails from Almaty, Kazakhstan, and is a fine musician himself, for learning about Christian Brendel (link is in French). Apparently, he’s an actor and poet was well as collaborator with the fusion group Zomb.
[Music] Vocal School Choir of the Novodevichy Convent – Today Christ Is Born By The Virgin In Bethlehem
We finally end the Christmas season with the Feast of the Nativity using the Julian Calendar. We wish you who celebrate today a wonderful Christmas and a very prosperous 2017!
[Music] TeHÔM – Despiritualization Of Nature (part I – IV)
One doesn’t normally mix Death In June and Croatian Catholicism and mysticism. As it turned out, Siniša Očuršćak, who studied Philosophy of Religion during the same time I was doing so, ended up attracting the attention of Douglas P. and releasing one of the unsung dark ambient albums of the 1990s. I understand that the project has been resurrected by another band member, and I look forward to exploring their current work.
[Music] Madurai Mani Iyer – Sarasa sama Dhana
2017 is as good a year as any to start learning a bit more about Carnatic music, and any help which can be provided by friends would be most welcome.
This is a track by an acknowledged master in the field, Maduri Mani Iyer, from Madurai, Tamilnadu, in India.
[Music] Joseph Tawadros – The Hour of Separation (2010)
Joseph Tawadros is an Australian oud virtuoso of Coptic heritage. This album comes from 2010, and is an instrumental masterpiece.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 