Headbutler Jesse Kornbluth makes an exceptional job of finding artists, current or past, that never achieved worldwide fame, but should have. Nick Drake, who killed himself at the age of 26, is another of my discoveries through Headbutler. If the guitar makes you gently weep, listen to Day is Done, & Time of No Reply, & ‘Cello Song & Pink Moon (made famous in the Volkswagen commercial)
Tag: Music
The Sachal Studios Orchestra – Everybody Hurts [Music Video]
The Sachal Studios Orchestra, based in Lahore, Pakistan, perform their version of REM’s Everybody Hurts. Music is universal in its language. The flute is ‘Beautiful’.
The Houdini Loop [Video]
A teenager created this tune by looping the sounds around the house.
How many people can play the piano at once? [Video]
CDZA, featuring Damian Sim, Erika Dohi, Michael Thurber, Allan Mednard, and Mark Johnson conceived, rehearsed & performed this Daft Punk cover on the piano in under one hour.
The Piano Guys play the piano differently!
Then watch this incredible duet on the guitar, performed at the Brazilian Music Institute, team playing at its exceptional best. Gets even better with this next quartet.
I went overboard there, didn’t I?
Ambient noise for productivity [Article]
I like to have some music on when doing any work. Right now, for example, I have Cesaria Evora playing. This research says that the right balance of ambient noise can actually help increase productivity. Also a few links thrown in there.
Cesaria Evora: Cape Verde’s voice of hope [Music]
Listen to Sodade first. Then make up your mind if you want to listen to more (I promise you will!). A HeadButler share (he interviewed her about 10 years ago)
It wasn’t until her 50s that she became the darling of the world-music crowd. She still performed shoeless, to express her solidarity with her impoverished countrymen. She still stopped singing in mid-concert to sit at a small table and smoke a cigarette. And she never veered from the music she’d made for decades; the last thing on her mind, it seemed, was mass success
Iris Dement: Our Town [Video]
Jazz in Marciac Live – Yaron Herman Trio [Video]
Yaron Herman is a Jazz pianist, also performing at the TED Global event. Watch his 3 piece band perform – Jazz in Marciac 2010
Viene De Mi – La Yegros [Video]
I wish I understood what these Spanish lyrics meant, but the soundtrack in catchy nonetheless. La Yegros’ Viene De Mi
Sabicas – the master of the flamenco [Video]
If you’ve never heard of Sabicas, you’re (I am) not alone. But your favorite musicians (especially if you like flamenco) are probably hugely influenced by this man . Watch the legendary master of flamenco guitar perform live at Fantasia in 1990, shortly before his death.