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Two shorts and three longs (music)
Feb. 19th, 2020 10:06 amNo, this isn't the Morse code for the number 2 or IO, it's an attempt to hang together some totally unrelated music tracks that I want to talk about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB_S2qFh5lU
I expect you'll hear this one a lot if you're not already familiar with it. It's Billie Eilish's theme song for "No Time to Die" - the latest Bond film. It has a great deal in common with other Bond themes, particularly in the orchestration and phrase structure. But Eilish takes her vocals in an unusual direction for Bond music. Rather than belting them out as Shirley Bassey did and many others followed, Eilish goes soft, singing close to the mic, a technique she used to great effect here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKmqtaxIS3Y - in her cover of "Yesterday" for the 2020 Oscars memoriam. It works well here, too.
Fun factoid: Billie Eilish's legal third name is "Pirate" and why she doesn't use that more I have no idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1pui3EyzkM&list=PL_0eRJbQmueCZ2M9tH9Kwi3q6dqYiRnJh&index=2&t=0s
Requires actual watching and you can search "dragonfly tribe" or "Tiana Frolkin" on YT and elsewhere to see more examples. She's got some pretty amazing muscle isolation going on. Unfortunately, most of the vids I was able to find are amateur quality so the resulting lighting and sound leaves something to be desired.
The term "tribal" is falling out of favor among the (small set of) US-based bellydancers I know. It's considered appropriative and carries on the misunderstanding of the art form that white men brought back from their earliest encounters with (likely) Berber people in Africa. A polite way to look at it is (I'm told) as the "fantasy form" of bellydance. That said, the term is still in wide use online and searches for it will likely turn up results.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB-cK_Dzntw
Miss Monique (Alesia Arkusha) is a Ukrainian DJ whose techno and prog house mixes I've been enjoying for a bit now, though sadly the "weekly" podcast seems not to have appeared for several months. While she's clearly having fun and enjoying what she's doing I tend to set these things to play in the background while I'm getting work done. The mixes are generally smooth and upbeat with good energy. If you don't want to listen to the whole thing, check out the bit leading up to the transition at 5:10 (like +/- 30 seconds) to get a sense for what her style is like.
https://soundcloud.com/desertdwellers/sets/breath-reimagined-vol-1
Desert Dwellers is another of the things I found through links from Beats Antique and I think you can tell why pretty quickly, as they share some of the same influences. the tracks have echoes of psy trance and a lot of ambient influences as well as deep dub and liquid bits. Much of this falls into what I call "night music" - those things you play after dark when you want to glide between the widely separated pools of light. Or maybe that's just me.
https://soundcloud.com/father-funk/fresh-prince-of-new-year
And to bring it all home, here's a "lost" funk mix from Father Funk. As explained in the liner notes, this was intended to be a funky New Year's Eve throwback set, featuring lots of 90s (and earlier) tracks and samples. However, due to a last-minute laptop failure the set wasn't played before now, which is a real shame. But at least you can bop along to it, now if you're a child of the late 20th century. I *KNOW* that's not just me. I like this set because it contains a lot of Father Funk's own remixes; usually we only get a couple of his tracks mixed in with the rest of his set list, so this is a real treat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB_S2qFh5lU
I expect you'll hear this one a lot if you're not already familiar with it. It's Billie Eilish's theme song for "No Time to Die" - the latest Bond film. It has a great deal in common with other Bond themes, particularly in the orchestration and phrase structure. But Eilish takes her vocals in an unusual direction for Bond music. Rather than belting them out as Shirley Bassey did and many others followed, Eilish goes soft, singing close to the mic, a technique she used to great effect here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKmqtaxIS3Y - in her cover of "Yesterday" for the 2020 Oscars memoriam. It works well here, too.
Fun factoid: Billie Eilish's legal third name is "Pirate" and why she doesn't use that more I have no idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1pui3EyzkM&list=PL_0eRJbQmueCZ2M9tH9Kwi3q6dqYiRnJh&index=2&t=0s
Requires actual watching and you can search "dragonfly tribe" or "Tiana Frolkin" on YT and elsewhere to see more examples. She's got some pretty amazing muscle isolation going on. Unfortunately, most of the vids I was able to find are amateur quality so the resulting lighting and sound leaves something to be desired.
The term "tribal" is falling out of favor among the (small set of) US-based bellydancers I know. It's considered appropriative and carries on the misunderstanding of the art form that white men brought back from their earliest encounters with (likely) Berber people in Africa. A polite way to look at it is (I'm told) as the "fantasy form" of bellydance. That said, the term is still in wide use online and searches for it will likely turn up results.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB-cK_Dzntw
Miss Monique (Alesia Arkusha) is a Ukrainian DJ whose techno and prog house mixes I've been enjoying for a bit now, though sadly the "weekly" podcast seems not to have appeared for several months. While she's clearly having fun and enjoying what she's doing I tend to set these things to play in the background while I'm getting work done. The mixes are generally smooth and upbeat with good energy. If you don't want to listen to the whole thing, check out the bit leading up to the transition at 5:10 (like +/- 30 seconds) to get a sense for what her style is like.
https://soundcloud.com/desertdwellers/sets/breath-reimagined-vol-1
Desert Dwellers is another of the things I found through links from Beats Antique and I think you can tell why pretty quickly, as they share some of the same influences. the tracks have echoes of psy trance and a lot of ambient influences as well as deep dub and liquid bits. Much of this falls into what I call "night music" - those things you play after dark when you want to glide between the widely separated pools of light. Or maybe that's just me.
https://soundcloud.com/father-funk/fresh-prince-of-new-year
And to bring it all home, here's a "lost" funk mix from Father Funk. As explained in the liner notes, this was intended to be a funky New Year's Eve throwback set, featuring lots of 90s (and earlier) tracks and samples. However, due to a last-minute laptop failure the set wasn't played before now, which is a real shame. But at least you can bop along to it, now if you're a child of the late 20th century. I *KNOW* that's not just me. I like this set because it contains a lot of Father Funk's own remixes; usually we only get a couple of his tracks mixed in with the rest of his set list, so this is a real treat.
