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.
On 09.17.09, In Music, by Peter Giger
I have enjoyed this wonderful album for some time now. Some nights several hours in a row. It fills me up with something that has to be good even if it does not always lead to joy and happiness. It’s simply “otherworldly”. Don’t miss it…
On 03.03.09, In Music, by Peter Giger
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
spotify:album:0JAULmKrMtbFgPJqnvmmQB
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
spotify:album:0JAULmKrMtbFgPJqnvmmQB
On 02.27.09, In Music, by Peter Giger
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…
http://open.spotify.com/album/3bLGa2D4BCKWDhgRGCDRJ0
spotify:album:3bLGa2D4BCKWDhgRGCDRJ0
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…
http://open.spotify.com/album/3bLGa2D4BCKWDhgRGCDRJ0
spotify:album:3bLGa2D4BCKWDhgRGCDRJ0
On 02.15.09, In Music, by Peter Giger
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.
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.
On 02.08.09, In Music, by Peter Giger
I love this album. Perhaps you will to if you like opera or classical voice based music.
spotify:album:2psPW0eyS5WIDDjXAihYEl
I love this album. Perhaps you will to if you like opera or classical voice based music.
spotify:album:2psPW0eyS5WIDDjXAihYEl
On 02.06.09, In Music, by Peter Giger
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 [...]
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.
spotify:album:1pC69gZrIpeghDk2pkXbn8
On 01.30.09, In Music, by Peter Giger
Normally I wouldn’t feel an urge for joining something everyone else seems to shout about for the moment, but for the latest Spotify-turn I just have to. Spotify announced today that they are forced by the record labels to create virtual nation borders in their systems. My reaction i the following:
The music industry is insane
And [...]
Normally I wouldn’t feel an urge for joining something everyone else seems to shout about for the moment, but for the latest Spotify-turn I just have to. Spotify announced today that they are forced by the record labels to create virtual nation borders in their systems. My reaction i the following:
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….?
On 01.14.09, In Music, by Peter Giger
Look what I found in Spotify! The Swedish singer Louise Hoffsten, with Lasse Englund and Esbjörn Svensson Trio, E.S.T. I have all cds by E.S.T, but never even heard about this one! This is just too good to be true. Thank you Santa! – even if it’s a few weeks late…
Look what I found in Spotify! The Swedish singer Louise Hoffsten, with Lasse Englund and Esbjörn Svensson Trio, E.S.T. I have all cds by E.S.T, but never even heard about this one! This is just too good to be true. Thank you Santa! – even if it’s a few weeks late…
On 01.09.09, In Music, by Peter Giger
Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer), is one of my favorite operas. I listen to The Flying Dutchman mainly for the male voices, as opposed to the operas by Verdi and Puccini, where the female voices creates a large portion of the experience. There are several versions in Spotify. My favorite is the [...]
Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer), is one of my favorite operas. I listen to The Flying Dutchman mainly for the male voices, as opposed to the operas by Verdi and Puccini, where the female voices creates a large portion of the experience. There are several versions in Spotify. My favorite is the EMI recording with José van Dam as “The Dutchman” and Herbert von Karajan as conductor (spotify:album:7y76R0S6NqHWedYtpAbsoO). The album covers above represents some of the versions I found in Spotify. Search on the german album title in Spotify.
On 12.25.08, In Music, by Peter Giger
I loved to see a new edition of Maia Hirasawa’s album Though, I’m Just Me on Spotify, but it made me wonder if the dear old album format is dying – or if it’s not dying but it should be. The album is a very strong socio-economic tradition in the music industry, but it’s strongly [...]
I loved to see a new edition of Maia Hirasawa’s album Though, I’m Just Me on Spotify, but it made me wonder if the dear old album format is dying – or if it’s not dying but it should be. The album is a very strong socio-economic tradition in the music industry, but it’s strongly related to products as the LP and the CD. The album was also practical in a society with simple attention mechanisms. A few music labels owning most of the industry, and relatively few but very famous artists releasing albums evenly over the year, carefully planned for maximum attention. The Internet age will probably lead to substantial changes in this distribution form.
Maia Hirasawa’s new edition is, 2008, a rule rather than an exception. Most popular music albums is released in multiple versions. The digitalization of the music industry inevitable leads to reconstructed forms of distribution. Personally I think we will end up in the “blog format”, with the artist releasing songs as they are completed. The Swedish artist Marit Bergman is probably leading the way with her subscription service:
Next to last she hints the possibility of this distribution form supersiding the album format. I like this change. In a way I like the album distribution form, but it feels kind of strained in the digital world. I would like this change even better if all artists distributed new songs immediatly into distribution forms as Spotify, and let our listening determine the artist’s “pay check”. In this scenario, Spotify would not be taxonomized by albums, but by artists and their chronological flow of songs. As a listener I should be able to subscribe to new songs by for example Marit Bergman, and for every time i listen to her music, she would get paid. I hope this is the future of Spotify and other streaming services.
It would also be nice if distribution platforms as Spotify had a paypal button on each artist page, where I could sponsor artists if I like their music. Perhaps, this would especially benifit new artists – no point of sponsoring someone I know to be a multimillionaire.