What music are you listening to?

Maleth said:
Perhaps this is appropriate. I wasn't a big fan of Prince music but surely he had great talent. RIP Prince, passing away at 57 how sad.

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As you say, a great musician, and especially a great guitarist, and he certainly passed too young, but his music wasn't precisely my cup of tea either. I did like some of his songs, though. No less than the great Eric Clapton himself thinks he was the greatest living guitarist.

When Doves Cry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6KpC1e2A1k

American Woman with Lenny Kravitz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC34ZcDiCag
 
Angela said:
As you say, a great musician, and especially a great guitarist, and he certainly passed too young, but his music wasn't precisely my cup of tea either. I did like some of his songs, though. No less than the great Eric Clapton himself thinks he was the greatest living guitarist.
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and coming from Eric Clapton it really means something.........
 
In honor of the day:

Bella Ciao...

One morning I awakened(This morning I got up)And I found the invaderOh partisan take me awayOh Goodbye beautiful, Goodbye beautiful, Goodbye beautiful! Bye! Bye!Oh partisan take me awayBecause I feel death approachingAnd if I die as a partisan(And if I die on the mountain)Oh Goodbye beautiful, Goodbye beautiful, Goodbye beautiful! Bye! Bye!And if I die as a partisan(And if I die on the mountain)Then you must bury meBury me up in the mountain(And you have to bury me)Oh Goodbye beautiful, Goodbye beautiful, Goodbye beautiful! Bye! Bye!Bury me up in the mountain(And you have to bury me)Under the shade of a beautiful flowerAnd the people who shall pass(And all those who shall pass)Oh Goodbye beautiful, Goodbye beautiful, Goodbye beautiful! Bye! Bye!And the people who shall pass(And all those who shall pass)Will tell me: "what a beautiful flower"(And they will say: "what a beautiful flower")This is the flower of the partisan(And this is the flower of the partisan)Oh Goodbye beautiful, Goodbye beautiful, Goodbye beautiful! Bye! Bye!This is the flower of the partisan(And this is the flower of the partisan)Who died for freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kWtBrylxG4

 
Diurpaneus, congratulations.

For me, Carpathian region from Romania to Southern Poland has been fascinating with costumes, dances, musics etc., in the picture Southern Polish dance:

 
It looks like some Eastern Roman/Byzantine paces,that's my very amateurish opinion.
The style,with its countless variations, probably implies Roman,Greek and Paleo-Balkanic features with a South-Slavic addition.
The Bulgarian dance really rocks,it is very similar to some of ours( esp.the paces);that's no sursprising since it's from a western and mountaineous region.
It's not only about the paces,it's the emotional intensity involved in these extremely fast dances that
really astonishes.


For the Greek,Albanian,Serb,Macedonian,Bulgarian,Romanian, or North-Carpathian peasant,dance was everything,
was more than everything,the hyperbolization of his life,of his community.
This looks like a line,but,it isn't;it's our ethnic DNA.


But I can reach much faster and honest to the source of true: for the Balkanians, dance is more than a drug,
not only that they constantly needed,it has to be fast,intense,improvised,and longlasting.

watch the pace:



PS


I see you're more into opera nowadays.
 
The paces look Balkanian.


The dance that starts at 14:30 is Romanian(hora).
 
Diurpaneus,Gaida(bagpipes) my favorite folklore instrument;
South-East European bagpipes.


Vlachs in Eastern Serbia
 
she was a separatim Jew,
although her name was Εσκεναζυ,
her family moved from Con/polis to Thessaloniki after the liberation from Ottoman about 1917, when most Separatim had already left Thessaloniki to New York,
her real name was Sharah Eshkenazi,
she is one of the top 10 women of that time artistic sceen in Greece
her styles combines the islands and minor Asian style,
she is dancing Aptaliko at video, a dance of Lesbos island and minor Asia coasts, Aptal means something like tramp, the one who does care what to wear or where to sleep, a kind of punk






that times was the times that Greek economy had a decline due to minor Asian destruction, and the forbit of cannabis for textile reasons,
yet the culture resist at small 'pub' called tekes after Turkish Dervish monasteries.
She was connected to that culture as you see in the bellow
song is (when you drink preza...) (smoked heroin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W16xj0_Fnpc
 
Τεττος Δημητριαδης

he was born at Con/polis but moved to USA,
he is known for he cooperate with Nathaniel Shilkert orchestra, Henri Rene and others
he is considered more light
the bellow is based upon Επτανησιακες Κανταδες και τραγουδια του κρασιου, Ionian style of singing for women, and drinking wine songs, that style is affected from Italy.


Τετος is the creator of Misirlu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6qGy3RtwY

 
Adam Levine's tribute performance of "Purple Rain". If anyone was still in doubt, he's not just a pretty face (although he's damn pretty!) Very nice guitar starting around 3:48.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w2lNpixqOc

 
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Music

Lately, I've been listening to the play Hamilton. The music in Hamilton it hip-hop and rap. That's what I've been listening to.
 
Goral dance from Balada o Vojtovej Marine:



Some paces are identical with the ones from the Albanian dance,but
something else caught my attention:the way he makes her
falling in love is typical Romanian,as it is also described
in the rural novels,the firm neutralization of the other men
,of her,using both tender and harsh metods,this combination
of extreme initiative,charm,and public"humiliation",
as one way to mark her.


https://books.google.ro/books?id=tM...AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=ivanko vlach lamb&f=false


https://books.google.ro/books?id=Lv...B#v=onepage&q=ivanko asen wife sister&f=false


@Milan

Milan,it was the for rejoice after way too many metaheses.

@Yetos

Interesting details,Yet,as usual.

EDIT:

The Romanians from Southern Poland(the Polish documents recorded at least 500 villages in 1600),
had used the Vlach Law until the end of the 18th century,I'm sure that their descendants
,the Gorals,had preserved plenty of important customs.

From Stanislaw Lukasik,"Pologne et Roumanie":

Early records:in 1390,Giurgio from Stupnica, called Voyvoda Wallachorum
bishop Kiryllo Woloszyn from Przemysl(1353)
Ladomir the Vlach founds a village under the Vlach Law in Hodle Pole(1378)

Romanian toponyms in Poland:Wlochy(vlah); Malice(mal); Czaniec ( Cenac); Katyna (catina - 1566);
Sekul ( sec - 1582); Hotar ( hotar - 1676); Magura ( magura); Turbacz ( turbat); Sipot ( sipot);
; Roztoka (rastoaca); Ratunda (rotunda); Baltagul (baltag); Sulica (sulita); Stanka (stânca);
Sekatura (secatura); Zawoja (zavoi); Syhla(sihla); Bradul(brad); Pinu( pin); Cetynia (cetina);
Czuta (ciuta); Czerbul (cerb); Capul ( tap); Bacza (de la baci); Waratyk (varatic);
Tomnatyk (tomnatic); Paszuna ( pasune); Stynawa (stâna); Tarlo (târla); Strunga ( strunga);
Staneszcze (stâniste); Koliba (coliba); Mierydzna (merinda); Urdowa (urda)



EDIT2:

Although the dance is not Romanian,but Central European(Polish,Slovak?,Hungarian?),
it incorporates certain Balkanic features,for instance the paces that start at 0:35,
in other words,we see the Goral interpretation of it.

EDIT3:

Ivanko was the ultimate Balkanic Desperado;as a Vlach,he was born to be sure.

EDIT3.1

It seems that EDIT3 wasn't clear enough(that time either).

OK, the text(from the first link) clearly indicates that he wasn't that sure;
besides,he switched sides often,from the Bulgarian to the Byzantine one.
 
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