2 earworms
Feb. 17th, 2013 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ibidbroasceleThe sun came out today and made me feel happy :)
I might be losing an annoying kid I have been teaching but as her mum is a friend of my boss I am a little anxious.
The weekend I have been rediscovering my first musical loves, namely anything to do with the human voice en masse. Instruments are fun but there is something about vocal music which has a raw simultaneous power and delicacy.
From the North I have heard this delightful arrangement of a Finnish song
Rich, liquid rhythms which make me think of the melting of the snow in the beautiful ice air of the Finnish proto spring, voices like birch trees and clear as early spring birds.
From the south, the pure strength of African singing. I have been reading a collection or Rian Malan's journalism about South Africa and read with some interest about the proto 'Lion Sleeps tonight' and there is something eerie about hearing the melodyfrom this old recording which sounds removed and almost restrained, and yet there is the hint of pure energy and anarchy there.
I might be losing an annoying kid I have been teaching but as her mum is a friend of my boss I am a little anxious.
The weekend I have been rediscovering my first musical loves, namely anything to do with the human voice en masse. Instruments are fun but there is something about vocal music which has a raw simultaneous power and delicacy.
From the North I have heard this delightful arrangement of a Finnish song
Rich, liquid rhythms which make me think of the melting of the snow in the beautiful ice air of the Finnish proto spring, voices like birch trees and clear as early spring birds.
From the south, the pure strength of African singing. I have been reading a collection or Rian Malan's journalism about South Africa and read with some interest about the proto 'Lion Sleeps tonight' and there is something eerie about hearing the melodyfrom this old recording which sounds removed and almost restrained, and yet there is the hint of pure energy and anarchy there.
