What are you listening to right now?

[American Dream]

[Laodicean]

So this life is sacrificed

to a stranger's bottom line

[Laodicean]

Thanks for this, Allegro (via ninakat). Bellissima.

[American Dream]

[undead]

If you like Anouar Brahem, you will definitely like:

[Laodicean]

Thanks!

[Allegro]

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A couple of favored videos of Arabic sounds of music.

• Naseer Shamma
  
  
  
  Two Fifty Three Kelvin
  
  ^ music | Hovern' engan, Songs From a World Apart, 2006
  • • composers | Armand Amar, Lévon Minassian

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Debussy and Ravel were contemporaries of Eric Satie. There are certain similarities among those composers’ piano and orchestral pieces, although Satie set himself apart from the musical elite of the day both in his criticisms of the elite and their compositions; so does Aphex Twin, according to his Wiki page.

• Reverie | Claude Debussy
  — pianist, Aldo Ciccolini
  
  
  
  Jeux d’eau | Maurice Ravel
  — pianist, Michie Koyama
  
  

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I found this vid posted at Occupy Austria, and an online translator was used to provide a rather rough understanding of Reinhard Mey’s message, which, in part ecological, is sung not so subtly to the leaders of nations.

• May Rain | Reinhard Mey

• LYRICS.
  Rain runs in small brooks over my face,
  Are soaked up to the skin, but I do not resist.
  When I was a child, I was too small
  And gladly a small bit wanted to be larger.
  The garden with its rain in May wished
  For my daily desire fulfillment and growth.
  Thus it came for days in spring
  Before the entry door I stood and the clouds besang:
  
  To May rains let me grow,
  May rains make for me courage
  To May rains let me believe,
  Everything becomes good.
  
  Some childlike faith never leaves you in life.
  Finally I am more largely for Berlusconi, than Sarkozy.
  Therefore it is shown, you lead at every step and turn
  A small rain cloud with you also,
  Because in life it comes sometimes thickly burdensome
  And you believe, you have the choice only between ball and cord.
  If the last sparklet of hope leaves you,
  You hold on to a small Kinder rhyme:
  
  To May rains let me grow,
  May rains make for me courage
  To May rains let me believe,
  Everything becomes good.
  
  I was nearly always good in life,
  Always the good little hand gave,
  I was the child, who never cries.
  I at table always sat,
  Good to my plates empty ate,
  So that for all the sun shines.
  Now I do not know, what I am with so much sun,
  As much blue sky accustomed I am not,
  Oh nevertheless my plate was again full
  And the rain would fall on my face!
  
  May rains come and rain,
  Rain into my heart,
  Rain mean grief away,
  Alleviate mean pain.
  
  To May rains let me grow,
  May rains make for me courage,
  To May rains let me believe,
  Everything becomes again good.

[crikkett]

The World of Noise 3rd Anniversary show is playing Right Now,
http://flashbackalternatives.com
(rock/alternative)

The theme is "Music of the Solar System"

[Jeff]

Because we have some St George's Hills happening right now.

[gnosticheresy_2]

[AhabsOtherLeg]

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• Preaching Revolution | Julian Cope
  
  

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