Something about gentle, easy country - especially deep voiced, and especially with that nice twang - says fall to me. Warm and comfortable, like pulling on your favorite sweatshirt.
(4 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)
Loading... Fall songs have a sense of security, of having achieved something, of satisfaction, of having looked back at the work you've done. And this song - despite all the "when we arrive" looking towards the future part - strikes me as taking satisfaction at what has been accomplished - "Making this cold harbor now home"
And darn it those final repeated lines just make you feel good.
(4 votes, average: 8.25 out of 10)Loading... Welcome to Philosopher week. I'm going to try this week for songs that sound like Autumn to me. It's a weird season to try to score, I think. There's a fullness, right? Contemplative, but not sparse like winter. Not necessarily the sing-along songs of summer or the hopeful, happy songs of spring.
So I'm gonna give it a shot, and see what I come up with.
First, one of my favorite songs of the past 20 years, and one with the tempo switch that just seems to pick up the steam and energy of fall, instead of the quiet reflectiveness of winter.
(6 votes, average: 8.83 out of 10)Loading... Whatever the definition of rock star is, Marissa Paternoster is more than that.
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(3 votes, average: 8.33 out of 10)Loading... The guitar solo in "Water" also makes me love Ohmme just that much more. Musicians should do weird stuff. (at 12:43 in the video below)
(2 votes, average: 7.00 out of 10)Loading... Anna Thorvaldsdottir might be my current favorite composer. This piece is amazing, I think it's how the foundational note stays present through the entire piece. It's not a drone so much, but just a bedrock that holds throughout. Then so much of everything else that's going on feels like fragmentation. And then the last three minutes have the foundation tone in the cello, the gorgeous melody passing back and forth and the falling, descending ethereal gestures as well... It's so good.
Spektral Quartet just released a recording of her piece "Enigma" and it's really great.
(5 votes, average: 8.60 out of 10)Loading... One of my favorite finds of the last year or so. Loud and melodic, plenty of sustains and plenty of rhythm. Just like I like it.
(4 votes, average: 7.75 out of 10)Loading... The staggered rhythm really gets me in this piece. The cello is gorgeous (cellos always are), but putting it over the rhythmic voices and the just a little bit not steady beat makes this a piece I always instantly recognize and am excited to hear again.
Notes from the composer, Nathalie Joachim:
Dam mwen yo in Haitian Creole simply translates to “they are my ladies.” In Haiti, the cultural image of women is one of strength. They are pillars of their homes and communities, and are both fearless and loving, all while carrying the weight of their families and children on their backs. As a first generation Haitian-American, these women—my mother, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, cousins—were central to my upbringing and my understanding of what it means to be a woman. In Dantan, Haiti-Sud, where my family is from, it is rare to walk down the countryside roads without hearing the voices of women—in the fields, cooking for their loved ones, gathering water at the wells with their babies. This piece and the voices within it are representative of these ladies—my ladies. And the cello sings their song—one of strength, beauty, pain and simplicity in a familiar landscape.
(5 votes, average: 8.40 out of 10)Loading... These are excerpts from an hour-long piece, it's a really cool experience of rhythm.
JACK quartet always finds interesting projects. I enjoy some of them, some are pretty out there.
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