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sheafrotherdon has tagged me to remark on seven songs currently on my mind. And they would be:
1.) Michael Sokolowski and Tim Reynolds, "Taking Refuge" (Common Margins). A beautiful piano and guitar piece, slow, meditative, and complex. I wrote the last bits of "Qualities of Silk" to it... There's something about Sokolowski's piano that helps me write, the way it orders my thoughts when I can't do it myself. It makes me think of days when everything slows down and asks to be thought about for a while.
2.) Béla Fleck, "The Over Grown Waltz" (The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, vol 2). This has stuck in my mind since I heard it for the first time last year--I even wrote fic to it. Like a lot of Béla's work, it's one of those songs that has a light, happy veil placed over much darker, more complicated wonderings. Or not dark, exactly, but something that slows the waltz down into a happiness that's slower, or more full, which is how I like my happiness.
3.) Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars, "Spem in alium" (The Tallis Scholars Sing Thomas Tallis). Thomas Tallis managed to do what very few people did: he wrote sacred music (in Latin and English) for Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I and didn't anger any of them, and with "Spem in alium" you can understand why they kept him around. Tallis wrote the motet for forty voices, and the vocal parts are stunningly flexible; they sometimes call and answer each other or sing alone or are silent, but when they sing together... Wow. The first time I heard this it was half-asleep, trying to ignore my alarm clock (which was set to the local public radio station), and I lay there, listening to it and felt like I was flying.
4.) Eric Clapton and The Band, "Further On Down the Road" (The Last Waltz). Three words: ERIC'S GUITAR SOLO. Even though I look like an idiot and should never be allowed to do so under any circumstances whatsoever, I have to play air guitar whenever I listen to this. Walking across campus? In the car? Doing dishes? It matters not. It's one of those songs that makes you a bit cooler just by listening to it.
5.) Iron & Wine, "The Trapeze Singer" (The Trapeze Swinger, single). This ended up lying under a lot of "Qualities of Silk," and has kind of subliminally infected me, I think. It's a run-on song, which I like because it's how I write--a string of phrases and memories that tie and flow into one another, with themes developing into and out of each other, and there's something about "The pearly gates have some eloquent graffiti/Like We'll meet again and fuck the man/and tell my mother not to worry" that kills me dead in the best way.
6.) Big Brother & the Holding Company, "Ball and Chain" (Cheap Thrills). Janis Joplin's on the vocals, and I love her voice--smoky, even rougher than the guitars backing her. Seriously hot, and you know she's gonna take care of Janis.
7.) Dr. John, "Such a Night" (All By Hisself). I'm trying to build up my collection of blues piano--I have a ton of guitar, but the piano, not so much. This is because one of the many fic projects is theanotheratlantis "Rodney slumming at the sorta-skeezy bar with John bugging him to play Cash on the piano" AU, and something about Rodney playing the blues kind of... yesh.
Now, I shall tag:stewardess, lavvyan, flyakate, smilla02, mardia, let_fate_decide, and dogeared, who has already been tagged but I really want to hear what she listens to :>
In other news: Not much. Working, or trying to *dry look*
Anyway, my art for
anotheratlantis, he is finished!My art. Come and see it.
Next:
sheafrotherdon has tagged me to remark on seven songs currently on my mind. And they would be:1.) Michael Sokolowski and Tim Reynolds, "Taking Refuge" (Common Margins). A beautiful piano and guitar piece, slow, meditative, and complex. I wrote the last bits of "Qualities of Silk" to it... There's something about Sokolowski's piano that helps me write, the way it orders my thoughts when I can't do it myself. It makes me think of days when everything slows down and asks to be thought about for a while.
2.) Béla Fleck, "The Over Grown Waltz" (The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, vol 2). This has stuck in my mind since I heard it for the first time last year--I even wrote fic to it. Like a lot of Béla's work, it's one of those songs that has a light, happy veil placed over much darker, more complicated wonderings. Or not dark, exactly, but something that slows the waltz down into a happiness that's slower, or more full, which is how I like my happiness.
3.) Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars, "Spem in alium" (The Tallis Scholars Sing Thomas Tallis). Thomas Tallis managed to do what very few people did: he wrote sacred music (in Latin and English) for Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I and didn't anger any of them, and with "Spem in alium" you can understand why they kept him around. Tallis wrote the motet for forty voices, and the vocal parts are stunningly flexible; they sometimes call and answer each other or sing alone or are silent, but when they sing together... Wow. The first time I heard this it was half-asleep, trying to ignore my alarm clock (which was set to the local public radio station), and I lay there, listening to it and felt like I was flying.
4.) Eric Clapton and The Band, "Further On Down the Road" (The Last Waltz). Three words: ERIC'S GUITAR SOLO. Even though I look like an idiot and should never be allowed to do so under any circumstances whatsoever, I have to play air guitar whenever I listen to this. Walking across campus? In the car? Doing dishes? It matters not. It's one of those songs that makes you a bit cooler just by listening to it.
5.) Iron & Wine, "The Trapeze Singer" (The Trapeze Swinger, single). This ended up lying under a lot of "Qualities of Silk," and has kind of subliminally infected me, I think. It's a run-on song, which I like because it's how I write--a string of phrases and memories that tie and flow into one another, with themes developing into and out of each other, and there's something about "The pearly gates have some eloquent graffiti/Like We'll meet again and fuck the man/and tell my mother not to worry" that kills me dead in the best way.
6.) Big Brother & the Holding Company, "Ball and Chain" (Cheap Thrills). Janis Joplin's on the vocals, and I love her voice--smoky, even rougher than the guitars backing her. Seriously hot, and you know she's gonna take care of Janis.
7.) Dr. John, "Such a Night" (All By Hisself). I'm trying to build up my collection of blues piano--I have a ton of guitar, but the piano, not so much. This is because one of the many fic projects is the
anotheratlantis "Rodney slumming at the sorta-skeezy bar with John bugging him to play Cash on the piano" AU, and something about Rodney playing the blues kind of... yesh.Now, I shall tag:
stewardess, lavvyan, flyakate, smilla02, mardia, let_fate_decide, and dogeared, who has already been tagged but I really want to hear what she listens to :>In other news: Not much. Working, or trying to *dry look*