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Lovely stuff! Thank you! I've got plenty to get my teeth into now exploring these amazing, new (to me) bands, Altin Gün and Imarhan. Need to get to know Mdou Moctar and Tamikrest better too.
KEXP get some cracking bands in, don't they? As well as Altin Gün on there, I'm also enjoying the great, aforementioned Tinariwen:
and Mdou Moctar:
@the conscience: Thank you! That's good stuff! They are really tight, great groove, love the synth solo and she is great! Singers like that put their western equivalents to shame (if you don't include Lisa Gerrard, Sandy Denny and one or two others). I want to hear more!
@Melanzani – Imarhan are new to me. Wow! That really sizzles at the 2 minute mark. I'm seriously going to be exploring further! Thank you!
Mdou Moctar, Tinariwen, Tamikrest, Songhoy Blues – all great stuff too, with the guitar and the vibe I'm looking for! BCUC are quite interesting too.
These are refreshing developments!
Agreed on Songhoy Blues. I have their album, 'Music in Exile'.
Better give a link to Tinariwen. Just love that guitar!
Thanks Mark and Bernie!
@knoot – I was already very grateful to you for this and all the other gems you uploaded so this is an opportunity to tell you so. Did you film this one? If not, then thanks must also go to the guy who captured this gig.
I think the duplication was always going to be a possibility with this stash. Better two copies than none!
To my ears the Vimeo version sounds a tiny bit better but that might simply be down to Vimeo having better sound than YouTube.
Again, though, massive respect to anyone who goes to the trouble of selflessly and freely sharing what they have rather than hoarding or trading.
Reckon the OpenAI Jukebox must have needed a lie down in a darkened virtual room after this:
Thanks Ratmaus. Now that cover of Lacuna/Sunrise was a version well worth doing. It brings out the fragile beauty and occasional majestic grandeur of the original and complements it rather than attempting to replace it. I should have known I would like it as I discovered, part way through listening, of the involvement of Nicklas Barker from Anekdoten. I was not aware of this project, Kosmogon, and certainly anything inspired by Manuel Göttsching is going to get my attention anyway.
What I'm hearing of their album I really like. As the Motorpsycho Tribute Bandcamp page doesn't seem to link to their Bandcamp page, here it is:
Can't say I'm loving this, but anyway:
And as for 'Sir' Tony Blair…? Well, maybe it's best said with a Gibson ES-295…
A lady out walking her dog makes a comment about how stupid the New Normal is … police goon squad surrounds her, roughs her up, and finally arrests her. Welcome to New Normal Germany … and thanks to everyone who is still pretending this is about a virus! https://t.co/D2okelzRqD pic.twitter.com/5N4ZPBXUGn
— Consent Factory (@consent_factory) January 4, 2022
How are things in the state of Denial, guys?
@TraktorBass: Yes! I thought Reine too! Mind you, Reine is positively hyperactive compared to this guy!
I agree these reaction videos can be a bit underwhelming and there's no doubt the best music takes time to be fully appreciated. However, I still think it's worth linking to them – partly just to document them, but as much for the comments below as anything. Also, as Johnny says, they might be doing a job.
Many thanks, though, for linking to the brother listening to 'Close the Edge' – that was a great watch! Over 400k views! He is very entertaining and I loved watching him being blown away! It's difficult to get your head around the fact that he is listening to music made half a century ago – and it still hasn't been surpassed! Well, except maybe by…
(Ever seen a drummer more keen to get to the end of a song?)
Just another reaction video – The United Debased accompanied by some of the most understated air guitar you'll ever see.
7:08 "What does this remind me of suddenly?"
Erm, I think it might be 'Crazy Horses'?
To return to the theme of the thread – what happens with the likes of Spotify and EMI, diversifications, mergers, big fish eats little fish, the questionable morality behind the actions of the big corporations and how easily we are all caught up in this web – I present some relevant and, I hope, interesting viewing.
First, a quick 2 minutes on BlackRock:
Now, a deeper dive – a 1 hour film called 'Monopoly – Who Owns the World?' What follows is someone else's summary.
A handful of mega corporations — private investment companies — dominate every
aspect of our lives; everything we eat, drink, wear or use in one way or another. These
investment firms are so enormous, they control the money flow worldwide
While there appear to be hundreds of competing brands on the market, like Russian
nesting dolls, larger parent companies own multiple smaller brands. In reality, all
packaged food brands, for example, are owned by a dozen or so larger parent companies
These parent companies, in turn, are owned by shareholders, and the largest
shareholders are the same in all of them: Vanguard and Blackrock
No matter what industry you look at, the top shareholders, and therefore decision
makers, are the same: Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street and/or Berkshire Hathaway. In
virtually every major company, you find these names among the top 10 institutional
investors
These major investment firms are in turn owned by their own set of shareholders. One of
the most amazing things about this scheme is that the institutional investors also own
each other. They’re all shareholders in each other’s companies. At the very top are
Vanguard and Blackrock. Blackrock’s largest shareholder is Vanguard, which does not
disclose the identity of its shareholders due to its unique structure
Here's the link:
