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Kimmio Laughterlove said:
I’m trying to think who…maybe Regina Spektor. Actually even someone between then and today like Tory Amos. I could hear them doing it and it wouldn’t sound out of place. I could even imagine Rufus Wainright singing it and sounding great.
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Yeah, I would happily listen to any of those covering it. Maybe a slight lean to Rufus just because it would be interesting to hear in a male falsetto instead of a female voice.
 
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
This is his tribute to the Beastie Boys
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And wow, does he ever channel the Beasties there, eh. They are (well, were now that Adam Yauch has passed on leading them to breakup in 2012) one of the few rap groups I consistently like and Ren nailed the sound nicely.
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
(*warning, some bad language)
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Sigh. I got chided over a track I posted in the music thread on Stories Space (by a band that I owe a post or two here). Yes, the f-bomb was an integral part of the song's chorus, but the person is supposed to be a metal fan so surely has heard it before.
 
So, the band I mentioned above is Cannons. They are a dance-pop trio with some heavy seventies and eighties influences, even sixties at times. Lead singer Michelle Joy has a soft, breath-y voice that reminds me a bit of Dido. The band was founded by friends Ryan Clapham (guitar) and Paul Davis (bass and keys) who then found Michelle through an ad she posted looked to join a band.

"Loving You" is their latest, just released earlier this month.


"Fire for You" is from their 2020 album Shadows and became their biggest hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart. It also helped them land a deal with Columbia after being indie for their first two albums.


And "Tunnel of You" is from their first album with Columbia, Fever Dream. Good album. I have it in my library on Amazon Music and have played it through a couple times.

 
Oh, and the song that caused the upset is "Ruthless", which I quite like, f-bombs notwithstanding. It is also from "Fever Dream".

 
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
Oh! I’ve heard Brand New Key before! I like that. It feels like something a quirky indie folk-pop star could do today and it would sound current! I’m trying to think who…maybe Regina Spektor. Actually even someone between then and today like Tory Amos. I could hear them doing it and it wouldn’t sound out of place. I could even imagine Rufus Wainright singing it and sounding great. I didn’t know who sang it. I can’t say I’ve heard it a lot but I have, of course, heard it. I guess that speaks to a timeless quality Melanie has.
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I agree, I think there oculd be some great covers. I went looking.
This one made me laugh:
The Wiggles:

funk cover ft. Therese Curatolo​



EDITTED: Had inadvertently copied "how to move a snapping turtle" .
 
Yay, Scary Pockets! I got into them a bit obliquely. The bearded guy on keys is Jack Conte who also co-founded Pomplamoose, a band I love, with his wife. Somehow, he also finds time to be CEO and co-founder of crowdfunding site Patreon.
 
I am listening to Simon de Voil. (Simon has wonderful community on Patron. He has been my church when no other place felt like it fit)

He is doing a meditation using Carolyn McDade's Rising Green


I have always loved Carolyn McDade's music.
It could be because I am an alto and her music fits easily for me. @Northwind not sure if you feel the same way.

Many years ago, the chorus that i was in Woman to Woman were able to participate in a concert by Carolyn McDade at Guelphs River Run Centre.
This piece was a piece that we sang.
I did a solo in the piece. I dont' feel that I did a great job, I was so nervous, but, damn, I love this song.
 
JayneWonders said:
I am listening to Simon de Voil. (Simon has wonderful community on Patron. He has been my church when no other place felt like it fit)

He is doing a meditation using Carolyn McDade's Rising Green


I have always loved Carolyn McDade's music.
It could be because I am an alto and her music fits easily for me. @Northwind not sure if you feel the same way.

Many years ago, the chorus that i was in Woman to Woman were able to participate in a concert by Carolyn McDade at Guelphs River Run Centre.
This piece was a piece that we sang.
I did a solo in the piece. I dont' feel that I did a great job, I was so nervous, but, damn, I love this song.
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This reminded me, for some reason, of an Irish group I came across by accident the other day (before I went down the Ren rabbit hole and got obsessed with him I was thinking this duo was pretty great lol.) I had to wrack my brain to kind it again. I thought I’d remember the band name - LANKUM - or the singer’s name, Radie Peat. But nope. I remembered a few words in the song and eventually found it though lol. She has an interesting voice.

 
JayneWonders said:
I am listening to Simon de Voil. (Simon has wonderful community on Patron. He has been my church when no other place felt like it fit)

He is doing a meditation using Carolyn McDade's Rising Green


I have always loved Carolyn McDade's music.
It could be because I am an alto and her music fits easily for me. @Northwind not sure if you feel the same way.

Many years ago, the chorus that i was in Woman to Woman were able to participate in a concert by Carolyn McDade at Guelphs River Run Centre.
This piece was a piece that we sang.
I did a solo in the piece. I dont' feel that I did a great job, I was so nervous, but, damn, I love this song.
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"to hear if anything shimmers or lands in your heart" - I love that line inviting comments. Simon is excellent - I too listen in from time to time.
 
Malinda's (full name Malinda Kathleen Reese, but she mostly just goes by her first name professionally) second album dropped today and I am enjoying it right now. It's a lovely album drawing on her life experience and well worth a listen.

I've mentioned Malinda before. She's an American singer-songwriter-actress with a nice voice who is strongly influenced by Irish music (I think she has Irish ancestry). She's even got a tie-in movie coming out to go with the album, something you would normally expect from a big band like maybe Metallica or U2.

A couple tracks from the album that have been released as singles. The first features another Youtuber I rave about, Mia Asano on violin. Mia has toured with Malinda so no surprising to see her popping up on a Malinda album. The second, which I might have posted before, features contributions from Malinda's fans.



And, finally, the trailer for the movie which debuts on Sunday in select US theatres. Malinda will be at the official premier at the Gramercy Theater in New York City to take questions and perform live.

 
A fun little song and video from German hurdy-gurdy player and singer Patty Gurdy. Her partner in this is The Snake Charmer, a bagpiper from India.

 
Popular in Montréal even though she's Acadian from NB.
She sings in the NB Chiac dialect -- lots of English in there -- "to do list" and "trick" for example.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Quebecois vs N Ontario French
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So I work with a Franco-Ontarian from N Ontario and the CEO of a company that he and I work closely with is Quebecois from the Ottawa Valley. Interesting to hear their rather different accents, though they don't usually use French when us non-Francophones are around.

Back to music, Tina Guo is a marvelous cellist who refuses to be bound by genre constraints. I've heard her play with Swedish power metallers Sabaton, I've heard her do videogame and movie soundtracks. And here Tina goes classical using her acoustic cello rather than the electric she uses for popular genres. A wonderful reading of Salut d'Amour by Edward Elgar.

 
One of Tina's better known contemporary numbers, the theme created by Hans Zimmer and Tina for Wonder Woman, which has appeared in 3 DC movies to date (Dawn Of Justice and the two Wonder Woman movies). She plays both acoustic and electric here, but mostly electric.


She is, by the way, a regular soloist on tours by Zimmer's orchestra.

And here is her latest foray into metal, a featured appearance with German metal band Kamelot from their latest album, which came out back in March.

 
Okay, we got one good thing out of the coronation (at least), a new choral work by Andrew Lloyd Webber. While Lloyd Webber is best known for his stage works, he has done choral music before and his father was a church organist and composer so it's definitely an area he is familiar with. And it is suitably magnificent, very much in the tradition of past coronation commissions by the likes of Georg Frederic Handel and Sir William Walton. Good job by Lloyd Webber, whatever you may think of the ceremony and King. The lyrics are an adaptation of lines from Psalm 98, chosen by Lloyd Webber apparently with the approval of King Charles.

 
Like a lot of Youtube artists, Lucy Thomas started out doing covers at a fairly young age. Now 19 and packing a strong, self-assured vocal style, Lucy is getting serious with her music career, appearing in a musical that opens next year and, here, doing the theme for an upcoming TV series.


And one of the videos of hers that went viral and helped her to where she is, Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". Now at 32 million views and half a million Likes after two and a half years.

 
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