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Another longtime member on my writing sites twigged me to Jana Mashonee yesterday. Jana is a Native American (to use US parlance) singer-songwriter with a marvelous voice. This video was directed by her partner.


Jana took a neat approach on her Christmas album, singing 11 classic Christmas song each translated into a different Native American language. So here she sings "What Child Is This?" in Cherokee.


Jana's own lineage is a mix of Lumbee and Tuscarora.
 
You know, you would think a pair of singers whose backgrounds were in metal would hew closer to Disturbed than Simon & Garfunkel in covering The Sound of Silence. But here, Finns Marko Hietala and Tuomas Wainola with Dutch Anneke van Giersbergen give a very S&G reading of the song. Marko and Anneke's recent acoustic tour of Latin America has yielded a string of great performances and I almost hope to see them collaborating more in the future.

 
I've already raved a lot about Laufey. Here is an interesting collaboration, featuring Laufey and a Filipino singer by the stage name beebadoobee. Lovely bossa nova-style song and the dancing in the video is fantastic. Looks like a scene from an early colour musical or something.

 
It has been sixteen years since Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin has sung the band's massive hit Stairway To Heaven. Apparently he is actually not all that fond of the song. However, he was lured into revisiting it by a big donation to a cancer awareness charity. The backup band features guitarist Andy Taylor of Duran Duran, who has stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer.

 
And if you haven't heard this already

The Islamic Call to Prayer

Sublime


Read below the video for an English transliteration of what is being said
 
I fricking adore Robert Plant. Please don't burst my bubble. His collaborations with Alison Krauss have been magical. Raising Sand is a classic, to my mind.
 
BetteTheRed said:
I fricking adore Robert Plant. Please don't burst my bubble. His collaborations with Alison Krauss have been magical. Raising Sand is a classic, to my mind.
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Oh, he's amazing. One of the best male rock vocalists ever. That's what made Zepp so magical. Everyone in that band was top of line at their position. John Bonham (RIP) on drums, John Paul Jones on bass, Jimmy Page on guitar (still one of the best out there), and Plant. And he does a bang-up job in that performance I posted, too, given it's a song he rarely sings anymore and doesn't even especially like. Which shows that he is also a consumate professional.

But, yeah, when I first heard that Robert Plant was teaming with Alison Krauss, I was kind of, "now that's a odd couple." They really work well together, though. And, of course, it's not Plant's first foray into unlikely musical territory. Back in the eighties, there was his one-off album The Honeydrippers which basically had him doing doo-wop.
 
So I am looking at changing my music streaming service. I have been using Amazon Music for a couple years now but they recently pissed me off a couple times. Most notably, the debut EP by indie Finnish band EGRES vanished. I actually know the original lead singer's sister online and she's started promo'ing new material from them so losing them did not make me happy. More weirdly, four tracks from the latest album from German symphonic metal band Xandria became unavailable (but mysteriously returned later).

So, I'm looking once again at Spotify, the 500 lb gorilla of streamers. There's some other features (e.g. prebuilt "This Is" playlists for many artists, including a certain Dutch singer) that appeal to me as well. I can get a one month trial by using a different email address and credit card so that gives me the next few weeks to test out their app, their online streaming, their podcast service (already found my two regular ones on Spotify, so that's covered), their compatibility with my smart speaker and the car's Android Auto, and so on before I have to decide which service to keep.

Anyone else use music streaming services? Have a favourite to recommend?
 
i like this guy

he does these vids on some band or song giving neat background and such

here on one of.my formative artists

 
Delightful Life said:
i like this guy

he does these vids on some band or song giving neat background and such

here on one of.my formative artists

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Yeah, Professor of Rock is cool. Between him and Rick Beato, you could pretty much put together a course on the history and music theory of modern popular music.
 
Music is a theory ... or a science or a dark art? Thus musing theologians that are not cognizant of their frequencies? Hummers ... some ah'rs too placing too many ah's when they hesitate in transmission ... in a rush they might become R'cis ... and still not know they're following ... powers behind the mules in house!

Imagine a house of donkeys jousting ... these may be more common than John's ... homiletics? These may pass for hated lessons! Authorities do not like to hear any more ... thus they diminish quickly ... there are 2 primary choices ... and an interim! That's like a medium spot ...
 
Tis the Season of Christ's birth, Hope, Joy, and all that wonderful fuzzy stuff

My dad gave me a link to Trans Siberian Orchestra's the Lost Christmas Eve

W O W

Christmas Rock Opera!!!
 
Does fuzzy stuff raise query? Not in those uninterested in the great stretch ... heaven's attempt? If extended eternally is there nothing?

Is that shallow?
 
Delightful Life said:
Tis the Season of Christ's birth, Hope, Joy, and all that wonderful fuzzy stuff

My dad gave me a link to Trans Siberian Orchestra's the Lost Christmas Eve

W O W

Christmas Rock Opera!!!
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TSO is quite the amazing group. They've been going for quite a while, too. Two Steps From Hell is a similar group that leans more into metal (and less into Christmas :giggle:) . TSO is more proggy.

I am listening a lot to Steven Wilson these days. He's a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, and all-round musical genius who has both a solo career and has appeared with several bands, most notably as a founder of the experimental/prog group Porcupine Tree. He dances around styles a bit, but is basically modern prog. He even worked on a remix of an album by seventies prog group Gentle Giant. One of my favourite Wilson tracks right now is "12 Things I Forgot" from his 2021 solo album The Future Bites (should have been 2020 but we all know what happened in 2020).

 
Delightful Life said:
wow
that steven wilson song made me think of George Harrison for some reason :3
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I am sure The Beatles show up in his influences somewhere. He has so many. :giggle: But, yeah, that does actually sound like late solo career Harrison now that you mention it. Maybe that's why I like it. George is/was my favourite Beatle.
 
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