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I'm back at the outdoor concert again. It's a rock festival. Went to do a couple of things - didn't know it would be going on - now passing back through.

These guys - don't know who they are - are awesome - bass guitar and drums are thumping through my chest.
 
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I'm back at the outdoor concert again. It's a rock festival. Went to do a couple of things - didn't know it would be going on - now passing back through.

These guys - don't know who they are - are awesome - bass guitar and drums are thumping through my chest.
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Holy s**t
And yer on WC2?

Sheesh...;3
 
WC2 ... water closet deuce ... brings tears to my eyes to listen to all the violence and hostility I have to observe in the Light of Jesus observation from down under ... a subtle cognizance? Could be the human cesspool ...

Would it be best to make light ... tinkles on the water creating Pi Seas ... just for the ire onite as the shadows fall on GEO Gaia ... next thing þ elvis jumping about on stage to impress us with He Lives ... and the passions to dye fore ... creating technicolor coats ... cover-up for those in dippy thongs ... they do cause dissonance bi half the observers ...
 
And the Cat came back ... almost 50 years later.

So last night, I was checking Hoopla for something to listen to on my walk and discovered that Cat Stevens (now recording as Yusuf/Cat Stevens) has a new album out. And it sounds like ... vintage Cat Stevens. From reading an article in LA Times today, I see why. Half the songs are ones he wrote in the 60s but never recorded before and he reteamed with some of his old band for them. The remainder are new ones. There is some religious material but very little that is specifically Muslim to my ears. All in all, a classic Stevens album and I quite like it.

The first song on the album, Blackness of the Night, is possibly my favorite of the bunch. Classic Stevens sound and great lyrics.

 
So, Emily Haines is not exactly a household name, being best known as the lead singer of the band Metric as well as a regular part of Broken Social Scene. While I do like Metric and BSS, I had not realized she had also done some solo work under the stage moniker Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton. The release of the latest Soft Skeleton album has rectified that. It's a very different sound from the two bands she is normally associated with. The music is very lean and spare, often just Emily on keyboards, sometimes with some rhythm or strings (which could still be her using loops on a computer or synth) in the background. They also tend to be rather dark, melancholy albums, esp. compared with the fairly bright, uptempo pop-rock of Metric. One effect of this is to really highlight Emily's voice, a high, girlish soprano that I quite love. She's one of those artists who could sing her grocery list and I'd probably listen.

From "Knives Don't Have Your Back", the first soft skeleton album:


And the First Play Live she did for CBC Music for Choir of the Mind, the new album. It's a bit different from the usual FPL. Normally, these are just the artist/band playing in the round to a small audience. This one is performance art, with her seemingly playing a character (maybe herself).

 
Choir in mind ... a dark place like bottom line sol?

Does it have a silver lining when you get through it ... penetrating a pool 've thought?

Comes with Pix and Celts ... and the mean of thought medium which ecce ... all there is to resonate? Di pipes is there ...

Omi they can howl ... squaw m' ish squiggles ... swatted there on the medium ... a' nodes?
 
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So following on from the above, I've been listening to early Metric. Since I primarily know stuff from their fourth album, Fantasies (2009), and later, thought I'd like to hear what they sounded like at the beginning. It'a rawer, rougher sound than on later hits like Gimme Sympathy but it is definitely Metric. Today, I've been listening to Live It Up, their second album from 2006, which netted them the first of two entries on the Polaris short list (the other was Fantasies, no wins yet, though) and a Juno nomination for Alternative Album of the Year.
 
As I've been saying for a couple of months...this musician, Josh Garrels, is really impressing me. And he has quite a bit of work out there...so I'm still discovering it. This is a cool song, artistically...and I'm wondering if @GeoFee and @monk might like it.

 
@Mendalla The link is gone for the Yusef/ Stevens vid...but that song, apparently, was recorded in the early 70s. It sounds classic, because it is. ;) I only know that because I couldn't get the vid You posted above to play, so I googled it to find it elsewhere. I couldn't get any of the versions to play on YouTube tonight, unfortunately. I just tried for 10 minutes but the technology is being finicky. Either or both a problem with YouTube, and because wifi is intermittently slow tonight.
 
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I am myst if i'd by Lenard's "You Want It Darker!" Thus it was in the deck ...

By rules of Jacquard .. you must weave it into reality ...
 
So...I took a little musical YouTube tour from Josh Garrels, to G.Love (a sound of Garrels' reminded me of G.Love who I used to listen to quite a bit in the early 00's)..then to Jack Johnson who I forgot I also really like...to this guy, Donavon Frankenreiter. He's friends/ colleagues with G.Love and Jack Johnson. I have heard one of his songs before...I really thought it was a 70's song. He's got the J.J. Cale retro thing down. You'd it was 1973.. it's nostalgiac, puts me in a good mood. Music starts at 2:06, after some shakey cam irrelevant backstage chitchat.

 
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Allman Brothers, Doobie Brothers, Clapton, and John Martin also come to mind...he really looks and sounds like a blast from the past. What my parents used to listen to. And I like it.
 
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Right now it is Song of Durin by Clamavi De Profundis (Accapella arrangement).

I use it as a lullabye for Qball when I put him down for naps.

 
Inspired by the recent passing of Dolores O'Riordan, in the car right now is Everyone Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, the first full album by The Cranberries (from 1993).
 
For the last couple days, I've been listening to Are You Listening?, Dolores O'Riordan's first solo album, which was released in 2007 while the Cranberries were on hiatus (2003-2009). Some material which would have been quite at home on a Cranberries album, some that seems to be her exploring other directions a bit. One song reminded me a bit of Evanesence, which got me to thinking that if there is going to be an O'Riordan/Cranberries tribute at some point, Amy Lee belting out Zombie or Linger could/should be a part of it.

Canadian content note: Some of the tracks were recorded at Metalworks Studio in Mississauga, Ontario, the studio founded by Gil Moore, drummer for Canadian rock band Triumph.
 
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