THIS is how you start a new year! Hüsker Dü at their finest. May we all enjoy a wonderful 2015!
Music Videos
[Video] Aleksandar Pejovski – Black Raindrops Upon The Flower Blossoms [live]
The final post of the year, and it’s a sublime cut. Aleksandar Pejovski is a pianist from Skopje, Macedonia who records for local label PMG Recordings. I thank my friend Biljana Vasileva for this treasure. A good way to wind down the year.
Have a Happy 2015!
[Video] Frank Zappa – Titties & Beer
Frank Zappa loved to annoy. I grew up watching him battle the Parent Music Resource Center (PMRC), among whose more famous founding members was Tipper Gore, ex-wife of then Senator (and complete douchebag to this day) Al Gore. Though he was, and is, a sleazy huckster, his wife ended up making friends with Frank’s widow, Gail.
As lyrically inane as it was, Frank was one of the best musicians of his day. I miss him, as I’m sure millions still do.
[Video] Ray Stephen Oche & His Matumbo – Ikwunmonko Okoitiho
A killer work from Ray Stephen Oche, thanks to my online friend PBK, whose own music is rather tasteful. For more on this trumpeter, check out this entry at OKAfrica.com.
[Video] Johann Sebastian Bach – Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Spending today with wonderful classical music which sets a great mood for Christmas. Johann Sebastian Bach should forever be required listening for those who love music.
[Video] Aled Jones – O Come, O Come Emmanuel
As we enter Christmas Eve, we start posting a few Christmas tunes. This one, ‘O Come, O Come Emmanuel‘, is done superbly by Welsh singer Aled Jones.
[Video] Kyoto Jazz Massive – The Brightness Of These Days
Something a bit funky from Kyoto Jazz Massive, whose name popped into my mind while completing Christmas shopping. Don’t ask.
[Video] Ocadium – Hydroelectricity
Many thanks to my good friend, Qualo Infinity, who records this track under one of his many pseudonyms. He is a master craftsman of experimental music.
[Video] Colosseum – The Valentyne Suite
During a good part of the 1990s, I had the pleasure of working at one of the best record stores in America (I mean that literally – maybe two or three were greater, and that’s it). Aron’s Records was, for me, a finishing school for musical knowledge, a place where I was able to really broaden my taste in music (I have old friends Dana Madore and Ted Plank to thank for most of that, though so many contributed mightily to hipping me to new music).
Dana, in particular, as well as my clients, were fans of Colosseum and solo projects which sprang from its loins. ‘The Valentyne Suite’ is a particularly meaty piece of Hammond-based prog.
[Video] Venetian Snares – Ultraviolent Junglist
I can’t say I follow much IDM anymore (or EDM, Breakcore, or whatever the name the genre passes itself off as this week), but I’m really enjoying Venetian Snares tearing up the computer speakers right now.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 