What are you listening to?

[Quill]

Human League: Seconds:

 

[loreta]

 

[unkl brws]

To celebrate the Bard of Ayrshire, Scotland, here's Battlefield Band's take on one of Robert Burns best-loved songs.

 

[hiker]

For some reason "Amazing Grace" came into my mind, and I thought that it would be great to hear it again after a long while, so I did a search on youtube. Judy Collins's version caught my eye, where she sings with the Boys' Choir of Harlem.

Oh my goodness what a performance, such a powerful yet gentle voice! And the choir backing her! I was genuinely moved to tears

 

[Vulcan59]

Mongolian rock band Hu using throat singing for this song titled Wolf Totem. An earlier reference to them here.

 

[scotseeker]

Looking through my old albums found one that I haven’t listened to in a long time. My one indulgence is an expensive stereo system so I can listen as if I am there at a concert. This is truly a great artist, what a voice!

 

[Benjamin]

Vulcan59's post of The Hu ("The Who?" "No. The Hu." "Huh?") reminded me a bit of this group that I ran across a few months ago. Completely different styles, mind you.

From the Wiki: "Heilung is an experimental folk music band made up of members from Denmark, Norway, and Germany. Their music is based on texts and runic inscriptions from Germanic peoples of the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Viking Age. Heilung describe their music as "amplified history from early medieval northern Europe". Their music is usually about Norse deities, jǫtnar, and valkyries. "Heilung" is a German word meaning "healing" in English."

Heilung- "Krigsgaldr" (Live):

Spoiler: Lyrics

Min Warb Naseu
Wilr Made Thaim
I Bormotha Hauni

Hu War
Hu War Opkam Har a Hit Lot

Got Nafiskr Orf
Auim Suimade
Foki Afa Galande

What am I supposed to do
If I want to talk about peace and understanding
But you only understand the language of the sword
What if I want to make you understand that the path you chose leads to downfall
But you only understand the language of the sword
What if I want to tell you to leave me and my beloved ones in peace
But you only understand the language of the sword

I let the blade do the talking...
So my tongue shall become iron
And my words the mighty roar of war
Revealing my divine anger´s arrow shall strike

All action for the good of all
I see my reflection in your eyes
But my new age has just begun

The sword is soft
In the fire of the furnace
It hungers to be hit
And wants to have a hundred sisters
In the coldest state of their existence
They may dance the maddest
In the morass of the red rain

Beloved brother enemy
I sing my sword song for you
The lullaby of obliteration
So I can wake up with a smile
And bliss in my heart
And bliss in my heart
And bliss in my heart

Coexistence, Conflict, combat
Devastation, regeneration, transformation
That is the best I can do for you

I see a grey gloom on the horizon
That promises a powerful sun to rise
To melt away all moons
It will make the old fires of purification
Look like dying embers
Look like dying embers
Look like dying embers

Min Warb Naseu
Wilr Made Thaim
I Bormotha Hauni

Hu War
Hu War Opkam Har a Hit Lot

Got Nafiskr Orf
Auim Suimade
Foki Afa Galande

Hu War
Hu War Opkam Har a Hit Lot

Ylir Men Aero Their
Era Mela Os

Shoot. Just noticed that this group was already posted here. Well, I like this song anyway.

 

[Metrist]

Poets of the Fall - My Dark Disquiet

 

[gnosisxsophia]

Shoot. Just noticed that this group was already posted here. Well, I like this song anyway.

You're not an orphan Benjamin, was also surprised by how strongly the Hu song reminded me of something Nordic, as opposed to Mongolian!

Felt like it wouldn't have been out of place on the soundtrack to 'Vikings' actually

 

[XPan]

"They Do It"
VACCUM


Interesting lyrics... from a Swedish Band with the song released 2004, and Krister Linder is also in there.


They do it, they did it
They do it again
So ordinary
But just not me

I've seen through the dream-time
A world upon it's knees
Weaving a vast web of lifelines
Into a giant key

For the paper-god
And a world as thin
Little man goes blind
For the light within
Like a dragons breath
Over concrete walls
Comes the kiss of death
To the lips of all

They do it, they did it
They do it again
So ordinary
But just not me

Here we go

They do it, they did it
They do it again
So ordinary
But just not me

I'm one in a million
But everyone's the one
We're the chrome and the silver
Reflecting our sun

Some have come to shine
From the roofs and streets
Wizards of the word
Pilgrims of the beat
Some have seen the seers
Some have heard their call
Through the ether, to your speaker
It goes out to all

Tell them K

 

[XPan]

"An Ordinary Day"
by JAMES HORNER
The Life Before Her Eyes (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Extremely beautiful, ethereal/spherical flowing "distant" music. You can hear resembling tones also in the movie Titanic ("Distant Memories" and "Ocean of Memories") clearly showing the signature of brilliant James Horner. For unknown reasons, I seem to be drawn to this kind of music... as if it attracts the soul to tunes which lie beyond what meets the eye ? I don't know...

 

[XPan]

"Ocean of Memories"
by JAMES HORNER
Titanic (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

 

[zak]

In college, with this dance I won first prize in an end-of-year competition.
Every time I hear this song, the memory of my body starts to dance.

 

[Benjamin]

You're not an orphan Benjamin, was also surprised by how strongly the Hu song reminded me of something Nordic, as opposed to Mongolian!

Felt like it wouldn't have been out of place on the soundtrack to 'Vikings' actually

You actually brought up an interesting thought for me. The Hu popularize throat singing using the framework of rock music (similar to what A Tribe Called Red did with Native American music (eg: Stadium Pow Wow), but this is a bit different and not quite where I'm going. In the cases of Heilung (my post) and your post from 'Vikings', it makes me wonder if the music (the 'feeling' is what I'm getting at) really sounded that way. I understand that these examples are an interpretation obviously, but it's the interpretation that's my sticking point.

Why does "ancient music" (at least in these two cases) 'feel' this way. Do we expect this is the way it was? Is this what people want the music to sound like? I'll give an example:

Bookjunkie posted a comment on the Heilung video saying: "You know what's wrong with today's society? No one drinks out of the skulls of their enemies anymore..."



The 1 year old comment received more then 20K likes, the most I've seen any comment to get there, as well as the most replies.

For comparison, the 2nd most liked comment is at least 2 years old, receiving more then 17K likes, is from Johnathan Bravo (Johnathan Jones) saying: "Only A.D. 490's kids will remember this."



The poster 'Bookjunkie' shows his/her mind (that is, if they were being serious) about conquest and subsequently wanting to drink out of skulls of enemies believing that this will solve all of life's problems. But still, this music for that person inspires such thoughts even if the music is going in a totally different direction (did Bookjunki even understand the lyrics?). The music seems to inspire a certain version (?) of history, and I wonder if it is accurate or if "we" just want it to be. (This idea is a bit messy for me to put into words. Sorry if it's unclear.)

As a lighter footnote there are many silly comments to the Heilung video but I liked this one from AlbinoBadGuy: "I watched this one night with me cat sitting next to me. In the morning, my cat brought me 3 squirrels, 2 birds and a Deer."

 

[Benjamin]

Have you ever heard of The Long String Instrument? How long? About 90ft (27m). (Ellen Fullman website)

Ellen Fullmann performs at MOCAD (15:17 mins.):

Ellen Fullmann about how she got into the LSI (3:20):

In The Sea (23:35):