What music are you listening to?

[Aupmanyav]

We have two music competitions on TV in India. Final results for one will be out today - 'Jo jeeta wo Super-Star' (One who wins is the Super-Star). It is a competition of past champions for the super-champion. The other is beginning - Indian Idol. 24 competitors from all over India would be selected by the second most famous female singers of the sub-continent, Asha Bhonsle (she is the sister of the most famous female singer of the sub-continent, Lata Mangeshkar. Lata is considered an avatara of Goddess Saraswati or specially blessed by the Goddess of speech, studies, music and poetry). The sisters have dominated the sub-continental music scene for the last 50 years. They have sung thousands of film songs (more than 50,000).

There are two things for which Indians and Pakistanis, both are mad about. One is music, the other is the game of cricket. When these things come, we forget all our disputes. The other common interests are Urdu poetry, kite flying, and kebabs.

[Aupmanyav]

Lata (left) and Asha (in their younger days), and Irfan
Lasta's voice was soulful, Asha had the zing in her voice.



This is also something where nobody minds a muslim carrying away the prize. This time the winner is Mohammad Irfan Ali. Among other things, he won a cash prize of $100,000, which is a lot of money for many people in India (certainly it is so for Irfan). I would not have liked his competitor, a hindu, to win.

[Servetus]

Hi Aupmanyav,

Lata (left) and Asha (in their younger days), and Irfan
Lasta's voice was soulful, Asha had the zing in her voice.



This is also something where nobody minds a muslim carrying away the prize. This time the winner is Mohammad Irfan Ali. Among other things, he won a cash prize of $100,000, which is a lot of money for many people in India (certainly it is so for Irfan). I would not have liked his competitor, a hindu, to win.

Speaking of Asha and of her zing, I wonder if you have heared her collaboration with Michael Stipe of R.E.M.? In this video, East meets West, if only briefly, in spite of Kipling's claim that it wouldn't happen. Anyway, thanks for the report from Asia.


Serv

[Aupmanyav]

IMHO, East does not meet West in spite of the best efforts of Pandit Ravi Shankar (Sitar), Ustad Amjad Ali Khan (Sarod), Ustad Zakir Hussain (Tabla), and Asha (Vocal). Moreover, the East-West meet came when Asha was past her prime. Let us be separate and happy.

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Life In the Fast Lane by the Eagles is playing in the background right now.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Servetus]

In this case, East sings alone, and, interestingly enough, the voice, at times (such as at 1:02), gets caught in the throat:




Serv

[NiceCupOfTea]

Lots of slide guitar

Mississippi Fred Mcdowel and Robert Johnson.

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

When the Levey Breaks by Led Zeppelin (or however the title's spelled.) Actually, I'm listening to Get the Led Out (as usual on a Saturday night.)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[seattlegal]

Metamorphosis composed by Philip Glass, performed by Uakti. Interesting images in video

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Not really music (again) but To the Best of Our Knowledge is on (last hour was about neighbors [including a man who was a friend of Jeffery Dahmer from the age of roughly 12 years old until 18, just two weeks before Dahmer killed his first victim],) and now is a program about bees (including an interesting discussion about the problems of both monoculture and commercial beekeeping.)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[seattlegal]

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Get the Led Out featuring a celebration of Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin's double album.

Gotta listen to that radio program every Saturday night.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Etu Malku]

Originally Posted by seattlegal

Metamorphosis composed by Philip Glass, performed by Uakti. Interesting images in video

Great minds think alike!
I just finished mastering a new recording "Butterflying" have a listen

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Black and White by Three Dog Night is on (although I have to call the group Two :kitty: Night around a few of my even more of an ailurophile friends (I know, "But that's impossible!")

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Another non-musical radio program On the Media is on.

Today's episode is about fact checking and the media. One of the segments is about the Jeffrey McDonald case and how two different reporters have two very different views on whether he's guilty or not of the murders he was convicted of 40 years ago, and another segment's about how an unfortunate NASA scientist is fighting against another set of doomsayers concerning the "end of the world prophesies" (to paraphrase him, it's like trying to turn away a storm surge with a sieve.)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine