I've been listening to Fiona Apple's new album nonstop since it was released.  It's such a fantastic album, a very original, experimental, percussion-oriented work, which is a challenging listen since the songs have unpredictable structures (they have no typical chorus-verses) and have many sudden tempo changes. It sounds different to everything I have heard before. The more I listen to it the more and more layers open up on the album which is such a great way to discover it. Her voice alone is unique and beautiful and the lyrics are also excellent. This is a woman who changed the way female teenager songwriters were perceived when she released her debut album in the 1990s at a very young age. She has always been artistically independent since then and released only a few albums, on which she worked long years and which are all very good works. Her newest album was worth waiting for 8 years too and I am sure it'll remain one of my favourite albums in the 2020s. I can't wait for the physical copy to be released in the summer, I am a person who likes to open the album, have a look at it, smell it (LOL) and read the lyrics while I listen to it with my headphones.

 

Besides, I listened to renaissance lute music yesterday (so relaxing and beautiful) and I try to discover as much folk as possible lately, so I'm listening to some Tatar folk music currently.

Shurale has tatar-inspired music by Farid Yarullin.

Here some extracts by Mariinsky Ballet, with Renata Shakirova and Kimin Kim, on last February 20th.

 

20 minutes ago, SitTwizzle said:

Shurale has tatar-inspired music by Farid Yarullin.

Here some extracts by Mariinsky Ballet, with Renata Shakirova and Kimin Kim, on last February 20th.

 

Wow. Someone’s listening to MY music. Literally. I am Tatar. 
you made me go back and listen to one of the favourites. A mournful existential song a Capella about life resembling a dark forest and being scary and about needing a friend/loved one to make it through that forest. 
A wonderful voice too. 

 

17 minutes ago, Fay said:

Wow. Someone’s listening to MY music. Literally. I am Tatar. 
you made me go back and listen to one of the favourites. A mournful existential song a Capella about life resembling a dark forest and being scary and about needing a friend/loved one to make it through that forest. 
A wonderful voice too. 

 

 

Beautiful music! 

 

I was listening to this today. Very nice music too.

 

 

To be honest, I discovered Shurale only when Vaganova Academy had an acting skills exam with scenes of this ballet (it is no more online, unfortunately). But I love it.

Alina Zagitova is Tatar, and Kamila Valieva too.

"The voice of your mountains" sound rather like "voices of mine" (I am from Pyrenees, I think there are theories about a common origin with some Caucasian people, millenaries ago).

1 minute ago, SitTwizzle said:

To be honest, I discovered Shurale only when Vaganova Academy had an acting skills exam with scenes of this ballet (it is no more online, unfortunately). But I love it.

Alina Zagitova is Tatar, and Kamila Valieva too.

"The voice of your mountains" sound rather like "voices of mine" (I am from Pyrenees, I think there are theories about a common origin with some Caucasian people, millenaries ago).

We are the second largest ethnic group after Russians in Russia, there are many of us. Not many speak the language, though... 

 

6 minutes ago, sallycinnamon said:

 

Beautiful music! 

 

I was listening to this today. Very nice music too.

 

 

I only understand a few words.  the accent is quite strong. Might be a fairly unknown dialect too. But very nice, thank you! 

4 minutes ago, Fay said:

We are the second largest ethnic group after Russians in Russia, there are many of us. Not many speak the language, though... 

 

I only understand a few words.  the accent is quite strong. Might be a fairly unknown dialect too. But very nice, thank you! 

Well, in Western Pyreneas it is worse. Not so much on the Basque side (a rather natural tendency to a unification into a "Basque common language") though the Soule language (souletin) is really different and not necessarily really Basque, rather a parent language from the Aquitany group of languages; but languages of neighbouring regions are no more threatened by French (from end of XIXth Century to mid-XXth regional languages were persecuted), now rather by other regional languages, which are imposed there as if it was their language, while Western Pyrenean Latin languages have a very special (in fact, Aquitanian) substrate, which is being lost in the last decades.

I understand Central Asia have an extraordinary wealth of languages, some spoken only by very few people. I hope they will survive. A close relative studies some of them and is rather fascinated. (No turkic language though, I think?)

 

6 minutes ago, SitTwizzle said:

Well, in Western Pyreneas it is worse. Not so much on the Basque side (a rather natural tendency to a unification into a "Basque common language") though the Soule language (souletin) is really different and not necessarily really Basque, rather a parent language from the Aquitany group of languages; but languages of neighbouring regions are no more threatened by French (from end of XIXth Century to mid-XXth regional languages were persecuted), now rather by other regional languages, which are imposed there as if it was their language, while Western Pyrenean Latin languages have a very special (in fact, Aquitanian) substrate, which is being lost in the last decades.

I understand Central Asia have an extraordinary wealth of languages, some spoken only by very few people. I hope they will survive. A close relative studies some of them and is rather fascinated. (No turkic language though, I think?)

 

There are loads of Turkic languages here - Bashkir, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kirghiz and some smaller languages. It’s quite a large family of languages. 

Because I'm in total 2Cellos mood this week:

 

Ladies and Gentlemen: The only version of My Heart Will Go On that I except 

RIP to the Titanic band. The real heroes, who played until the very end.

 

 

Mozart's take on May : Komm lieber Mai (Come, beloved May), here sang by a Japanese soprano, Mitsuko Shirai, with her husband at the piano.

I must say, about the photo, that even in Northern Germany forsythias have ceased to bloom, so in Austria, except maybe in higher Alps...

The French version of Moscow Nights is also about May.

 

 

Very sad to hear the passing of Florian Schneider, founding member of the 1970s pioneer electronic group Kraftwerk. He was an important person in the history of popular music as he influenced so many groups that came after them...RIP.

I'm listening to the hypnotic Autobahn from them.

 

 

On 4/30/2020 at 10:31 AM, Henni147 said:

Because I'm in total 2Cellos mood this week:

 

Ladies and Gentlemen: The only version of My Heart Will Go On that I except 

RIP to the Titanic band. The real heroes, who played until the very end.

 

 

 

Rather melancholy but the cellists are both eye candy which never hurts one's popularity

 

 

Fay, Aida is Tatar as well and Dimash is Kazakh AND there is iceskating in the foreground