Morning raga Bhairavi, beautifully sung by Keserbai Kerkar. It’s one of the recordings travelling through space with the Voyager Spacecraft, launched in 1977. I once made a two part-special for the Concertzender concerned with this idea of a musical space message. All the Voyager music was broadcasted in part 1. Part 2 featured my own musical space message: great music from all over the world, representing basic human emotions. I didn’t receive any alien response 🙂
Lady Gaga dressed up in counterpoint
Great counterpoint playing – derived from (wtf!) Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’ – that doesn’t need any assistence from sexy girls dancing in the emptiness of a glamourous pop video 🙂
A lecture of birdsong poet Olivier Messiaen
A lecture on birdsong by western music’s poet of the birds.
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Kumar Gandharva : inventive and innovative
His singing soo inventive, his style soo innovative. Amazing.
A climber’s display of great body control and mental determination / beautifully shot with the GH2
I love the climbing girl’s impressive body control and her determination of mind. Beautifully shot with the Panasonic GH2
Raga Special in World Minerals (April 29th, 2011) on The CONCERTZENDER
An hour of beautiful raga music by Ravi Shankar (sitar), Parthasarathy Desikan (vocal), Jayanthi Kumaresh (veena) and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (slide guitar/mohan veena), in Wereldmineralen, Friday April 29th. 2011, 19.00-20.00 (dutch time), a broadcast I’ve produced for The Concertzender.
Septeto Santiaguero performs ‘Esa niña qué cintura’
Esa nina me tiene loco a mi por su modo de caminar 🙂
Mooi Voetbal-promotor Wiel Coerver overleden
Wiel Coerver overleden in Kerkrade… hier een glimp van zijn wereldvermaarde voetbaltrainingsmethode.
Wonderful music of the Zoe Rahman Trio
Below four pictures I took of pianist/keyboardplayer Zoe Rahman at Roots Open Air 2009 in Amsterdam, while she was playing with the band of Natacha Atlas. Only recently I found out she’s also a very good jazz pianist, making her own music, beautiful music! She’s Irish with Bengali cultural and family roots, a mixed background which fits her nicely – I think – in Natacha Atlas’s band 🙂 Below also three YouTube-videos of the Zoe Rahman Trio, featuring in two of the clips Zoe’s brother Idris, who does the beautiful sensuous clarinet playing.
(Zoe Rahman / photo: Pieter de Rooij)
(Zoe Rahman / photo: Pieter de Rooij)
(Zoe Rahman / photo: Pieter de Rooij)
(Zoe Rahman / photo: Pieter de Rooij)
7 April 2011: Happy Birthday, Ravi Shankar !
Oceanic – Part 1, a beautiful, atmospheric track of Anoushka playing a sitar-duet with her father. Really touching. When I publish this message, it’s 7 April 2011, Ravi Shankar’s 91st birthday. Happy Birthday, Pandit ! 🙂