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Brìghde Chaimbeul featuring Colin Stetson - "Pìobaireachd Nan Eun | The Birds"​


Scottish Smallpipes: Brìghde Chaimbeul
Vocals: Brìghde Chaimbeul
Saxophone: Colin Stetson
Filmed on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, the track has two distinct melodies (singing in Gaelic) - one mimics the song of a swan that swam on Loch Chaluim Chille. The loch was drained in 1829 in an effort to reclaim arable ground.
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Brìghde Chaimbeul

Multi award-winning Skye piper Brighde Chaimbeul, on tour October 2021
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PopHistorian said:
How Bill Clinton killed rock & roll and the radio (by signing the Telecommunications Act of 1996). Evolution of the corruption of the music industry.
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Great interview! I’m always amazed at how many people believe they have a "choice" as to what they listen to. What many think is good music usually comes from what the public is subjected to, and what is promoted by the music industry… osit. Thanks PopHistorian!

This is a great story of how the industry worked back in the 80’s


Here’s the title track from the album…

 

Jethro Tull - "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" (Sight And Sound In Concert: Jethro Tull Live, 19th Feb, 1977)​

I don't often hear music like this being made these days.


Meanwhile back in the year One --- when you belonged to no-one ---
you didn't stand a chance son, if your pants were undone.
`Cause you were bred for humanity and sold to society ---
one day you'll wake up in the Present Day ---
a million generations removed from expectations
of being who you really want to be.

Skating away ---
skating away ---
skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.

So as you push off from the shore,
won't you turn your head once more --- and make your peace with everyone?
For those who choose to stay,
will live just one more day ---
to do the things they should have done.
And as you cross the wilderness, spinning in your emptiness:
you feel you have to pray.
Looking for a sign
that the Universal Mind (!) has written you into the Passion Play.

Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.

And as you cross the circle line, the ice-wall creaks behind ---
you're a rabbit on the run.
And the silver splinters fly in the corner of your eye ---
shining in the setting sun.
Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's
too damn real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like
you're the only person sitting in the audience?

Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.
 

Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening – "Quilley Reel"​

Kathryn Tickell – fiddle
Amy Thatcher – accordion
Kieran Szifris – octave mandolin
Joe Truswell – drums
www.kathryntickell.com

Home – Kathryn Tickell

Kathryn Tickell is the foremost exponent of the Northumbrian pipes, a composer, performer, educator and successful recording artist whose work is deeply rooted in the landscape and people of Northumbria.
www.kathryntickell.com www.kathryntickell.com
 
Yesterday I heard this song on someone's Instagram video and I had to listen to it. This is a good rendition:

Borodin "Polovtsian Dances":


I thought it would make for an epic metal cover, but there are only classical guitar covers. This is pretty good though:

 
Musicinventor said:
I’m always amazed at how many people believe they have a "choice" as to what they listen to.
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The recording industry has become uglier over time. The book, The Mansion on the Hill, I thought, was an excellent exposé of the evolution of music marketing. One aspect of the story is that the recording industry, in the 1980s, discovered that it was both cheaper and more profitable to promote three, four, or five hit singles on a single album by a big star than to invest in new artists. So, they became able to create global megastars of a type that could not have existed before.

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New artists eventually got just one shot at making decent sales, and if they did not, they were dropped. Contrast this with the 1970s, when artists could go on for three or four albums without sales and still receive investment. Also, artists like, for example, Robin Trower, could have four or five million-selling albums in a row without a shred of radio airplay. Having had my own limited brush with major record labels in the 1990s, I could see how unbelievably underhanded and cutthroat the industry was. It's all a good example of STS "feeding" until there is nothing left. Now, with technology, the whole thing can be circumvented if one can pair talent and appeal with knowledge, business skill, energy, and perseverance.
 
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