Someone told me about the Wellington International Ukelele Orchestra and that is them above. Ukulele is like the banjo, you can’t take sad lyrics seriously.
Well, I bought a Uke and brought to Kuwait for mostly everyone else to play.
Category: Music
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Chinese Bluegrass
The performers are Mei Han’s Red Chamber with John Reischman and the Jaybirds. The instruments include an iluqin, mandolin, bass, pipa, guitar, sanxian, banjo, and ruan. The song is “Katy Hill.”
Link from Boing Boing
Great music. Now all they need is a Shamisen
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Shamisen vs. Shamisen
From bookofjoe
And if you really want some fun check out more Youtube videos or the group God of Shamisen from California. You can listen to their music on their site, look in the to right of the page.
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Yma Sumac an interesting singer
bookofjoe: Yma Sumac is dead
More videos on this page. She had quite a voice.
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Hildegard von Bingen
She’s was an amazing artist and personality. I have listened to her music mostly by the Anonymous 4 for some time and my wife previously while singing with the Calgary Renaissance Singers learned some of her music.
Here is a recording on YouTube by a Czech artist Hana Blochová of KVINTERNA
And here is where you can buy a DVD of her play Opus Arte. Note you can click on the button on the screen there to play a sample or watch the YouTube version below!
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Grails – Take Refuge
What do you think? I find this track very interesting. Note the version in the video is different than the one on the album which you can also listen to on their pages. It is a fusion of many types of music. More on them at:Wait there’s more!
I’ve been listening to The National also. Their lead singer has a very interesting voice.
- The National on Wikipedia
- www.americanmary.com – Official band website
- www.myspace.com/thenational – Official band MySpace.com page
- www.brassland.org – Brooklyn, NY based record label started by The National’s Aaron & Bryce Dessner and writer Alec Hanley Bemis.
- Listen to Live Recordings of the National
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p>And how did I find out about these bands. Well, I download and sometimes listen to NPR All Songs Considered podcast and heard the Grails on the July 14, Vikings Choice podcast so went to Emusic where I have an account to download music and got the Grails and then started poking around and found The National.