Music and Bonsai

at this moment and for the next hour +/-

AFROCUBISM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrocubism

Listening to it at http://www.last.fm/music/Afrocubism
I'm likin' it!

Diggin' this !!!

JAZZYTRONICA:

http://www.beatport.com/release/jazzytronica-jazzy-lounge-chill-and-electronica-vibes/1131687

session 2 is on last.fm but i cant get the link (blocked here at work)

i'm kind of late coming to this party, but PORTISHEAD has now been on heavy rotation

full concert live at the roseland NYC w/ full orchestration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFwnlCudeC0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFwnlCudeC0

If this is the music just playing on the radio I would never buy one. Very depressing music...just my 2 cents
It's far from "bonsai" for me...sorry guys

I find it reflective rather than depressing- not dark anyway. Did notice such a beautiful, clear voice, and she smokes. Hope she can break that.

Try this when you are working on your trees. JG wanted to combine saxaphone with Gregorian chanting. Very soft and tender to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMbaVenF4Ug&list=PLC709C61889DC1846

Try out Judas Priest Painkiller. Rob Halfords voice is otherworldly! K.K. Downing and Glen Tipton's guitar work is some of their best. That is if you like something to get the blood pumping.

Black Label Society. The Sword. I clicked on the link Kevin provided and my ficus started dropping leaves.

All too "NewAgey" to me. (Unless I was doing a weeping willow.)

Sinatra. Elvis.

hey david - that was pretty dang nice...

jim - (Unless I was doing a weeping willow.) that made me literally laugh out loud

frary (sorry i forget your 1st name) - i come from an old school punk background, so if my blood needs pumping it's gonna be the clash, generation x, buzzcocks... hell yeah !

lance - another LOL one
and oh yeah and there aint a damn thing with with the
his album "the memphis record" is an all time fav and a desert island disc to be sure.

Actually, I'm more for the "heavy metal" folks in the classical field -- anything from Stravinsky to Bartok, Hindemith, Adams, and Reich and even later. They make my branches wave.

Vivaldi. Mozart. Wagner. A cleric, over-sexed teen prodigy and anti-Semitic deadbeat. The blessed hands of virtuosity can fall upon some very disparate shoulders!! Of course, nine times out of ten, this same gift never included wealth at life's end.

Anyone for Raoul Malo?

Jim, stick to your CRABapples (jk).

careful david, those crab-apples can leave a nice knot when they "fall" from those waving branches !

and speaking of classical, handel's water music is one of my favorite pieces...
but i dont have that here at work, so following the nudge of this this thread,
i think i will spin schubert, tchaikovsy and good old wolfgang a.m. on this rainy, sleety wisconsin morning.

beer city snake wrote:
frary (sorry i forget your 1st name) - i come from an old school punk background, so if my blood needs pumping it's gonna be the clash, generation x, buzzcocks... hell yeah !

That mid-late 70s punk/early new wave/ska was great stuff, it's still my favorite after all these years. First concert I went to was the Specials. Have never seen another group with that much energy on stage.

right on man...

i have been fortunate enough to have seen the specials 2x, the buzzcocks 2x, the clash once (rip joe), the pistols reunion tour (rip sidney), devo 2x, the dead kennedys, pre-dookie green day, (yes i mention them in the same breath, but quantified it with the pre-dookie disclaimer), etc etc...

but my favorites were two shows in the late 70's: the dead boys (rip stiv), and the cramps (rip bryan gregory)
both at the same small club with only a 6" stage and me front and center...
unbelievably rad when you are inches away and very much part of the show...

now i just wish generation x would do a reunion tour...
they are all still alive and all still doing music

That's a great list! One of my big regrets is that I grew up on Long Island a short train ride from NYC, yet never made it to CBGB to see the Clash, Ramones, Patti Smith, etc. And it's rare to find someone that appreciates the DK's, another group I would have loved to see live.

its a shame the DKs got sort of lumped in with all the rest of the 2nd wave, west coast hard-core bands as they had so much more going for them, both lyrically and musically... (just keep your 12 year old daughters away from east bay ray )

while not exactly working on physical trees at the moment,
this gal is soothing me during my dreaded winter task of making computer files for all my trees

ladies and gentelmen,
may i present...

melanie di biasio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVHo8QOsAoU

wow, bolero !
tom waits !
i wouldnta thunk it...

my fave TW album, which is actually a compilation, is "orphans"

I use Tom Waits to jolt me back to reality after a disc or 2 of Bocelli.....I especially like Bocelli when he duets up with female singers...

My main line favs are 1960's 1970's Jazz like Joe Pass, Barney Kessel, Miles, Dizzy, Trane, Etta, Ella, Frank, Etc....

I was born raised Detroit so I know you can relate being from Milwaukee.....

"Orphans" is a good one...