Peter Giger » Music http://petergiger.com Just some words along the way Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:23:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Vivaldi – Vespers of Sorrow (2004) http://petergiger.com/2009/09/17/spotify-recommendation-vivaldi-vespers-of-sorrow-2004/ http://petergiger.com/2009/09/17/spotify-recommendation-vivaldi-vespers-of-sorrow-2004/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:07:27 +0000 Peter Giger http://petergiger.wordpress.com/?p=1383 It’s hard to say what’s triggering the the extraordinary feeling of listening to “expansive” music from the baroque period. I don’t really buy the theory that it has to with the religious dimension, since I don’t have any religious background at all. It is also strange that the term expansive seems so “natural” for this music since it’s just a set of sound waves meeting experience.

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Motoboy’s album Motoboy (2008) might be characherized as something in the tradition of the brittish band Suede.

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Spotify Recommendation - Angel Voices (2005)

There is a lot of wonderful operatic voices to discover on Spotify. Angel Voices is a selection of music that might get tears rolling down your cheeks – so if you are a big strong man, and plan to listen in public, you might consider wearing shades.

http://open.spotify.com/album/0JAULmKrMtbFgPJqnvmmQB

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If you like vocal Baroque music, this recording of Händel’s Faramondo will probably do more than agree with you. The Baroque ensemble I Barocchisti with the countertenor Philippe Jaroussky makes this music heavenly. Perfect with the morning latte by the way…

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If you like singer song-writers as Josh Rouse, Jack Johnson and José González, you might like Sean Fourniers album Oh My, avalible on a creative common licence on Jamendo. I have been using Jamendo for, well probably two years now, and I’m constantly finding exiting music on the outskirt of the main stream.

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I love this album. Perhaps you will to if you like opera or classical voice based music.

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Okey, let me just say this: Antony and the Johnsons is probably my favorite artist all times. Mostly I don’t even listening to what Antony is singing about (I more or less live on a different planet that the one in their texts…). It’s the voice. It’s all about the voice. If an artistic expression could make me cry, It’s the magical voice of Antony Hegarty.

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The music industry is insane

And why? The music industry have the chance to create something so bloody great that the need for piracy might be killed. With Spotify, all artists are payed for every song people listen to. When Spotify goes mobile and mobile networks are developed in countries outside the 3G area, then the need for music piracy is killed for good. No need for most of us to handle music files on the whole.

I’m really glad I’m not a musician… With friends like the record industry, who need enemys….?

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Some quiet jazz music might be the thing that points your thoughts in unexpected directions. Love this album Tati, with Paul Motian on drums, Stefano Bollani on the Piano and Enric Rava on trumpet.

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Update: I’m extreamly sorry to say that this album either suffers from the nationalistic stupidity of the record label (ECM), or the artist choosed to remove it from Spotify.

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Wonderful Singer Songwriter-album from Norway. Thomas Dybdahl’s voice and style reminds me about a mix of the Irish singer Damien Rice and the Swedish soul bird Eric Gadd.

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Damien Rice: O -  spotify:album:0As35h853jgXpeAEyYKulf

Eric Gadd – spotify:album:175Tv9H7cOLXQNVX3OB3ti (The link is from Gadd’s latest album in English, “Eric Gadd” from 2006. Personally, I like his albums from the 90s even more, but they are not avalible on Spotify yet).

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