Spotify has upgraded their service to utilize social media techniques, you can find out more in the The Guardian and The Register. Here's a video explaning the changes:
Ed Parsons refers to this, silly idea, its a bit like the dutch boy putting his thumb in the dyke, to prevent a tsunami coming his way at 500mph. Bad law, it will fail. Nice video on this:
Related article by Victor Keegan, which is bang on IMHO. My suggestion - invest in MIR tools. Ride with the tsunami, don't try and stop it. You can't.
Saw the Coen Brothers 'A Serious Man' on Saturday, which features the Music of Jefferson Airplane quite heavily. Here's one of my favourite songs of theirs - White Rabbit:
Oh, as an extra treat, here's the trailer for 'A Serious Man' - I just love they way this is put together:
Caught a really good program about Fleetwood Mac on iplayer recently, so looked for "fleetwood mac dreams" on you tube. This is what I found:
Here's one with better audio:
Double treat today.
A 'pandeiro drum' music collection has just been released, so I searched on youtube and found this:
What a viruoso! Here's another, Bobby McFerrin:
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
Brilliant the way he gets the audience to make music! (h/t: David Thompson)
Here's an old favourite, "Joan Armatrading Love And Affection" - 2nd hit from youtube, Live performance version (1st hit was just the audio):
Went to a couple of concerts on Saturday, as part of a early improvisation weekend. The first concert I attend was the Orlando Consort, who did an excellent job of providing a history of polyphony from the early 10th century to the 14th, via the music and talking about it. Here's a video of them from youtube (1st hit on query 'Orlando Consort')
The second concert was delivered by Stevie Wishart, who gave a performance on medieval music using the Hurdy Gurdy and medieval violin. She also talked about the music and instruments, and was very engaging - she clearly loves her subject. Couldn't find any examples on youtube of here using those instruments, but this is interesting:
Here's a pic of Stevie playing a Hurdy Gurdy.
Here's the result of the query 'elvis costello pump it up', lots of relevant stuff on the hitlist, but sound quality on this seemed to be the best:
Here is the wonderful Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain:
Heres a longer video, with lots more goodies:
Plus a classic:
Obtained by using the band name on Google, source mostly Google video rather than youtube.
Here's Happy Mondays step on:
And a version with just the music:
Only thing of theirs I ever really liked. This is a satire of the the Madchester period.
Here's Madeleine Peyroux - Don't cry baby:
Several live versions, this has the best sound quality.
From the Album/Film 'A Hard Day's night':
Search 'the beatles Things We Said Today', 2nd hit down on youtube.
