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Charming film “Rubato”: https://youtu.be/1D7D3_HFB3o?si=-EIGPJeAIDuoX_w0
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Award Winning “Windup”: https://youtu.be/efGqe1j3RNk?si=_1BW51fEtUHKUwGT
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In 1977 Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys (drummer) released his first and only solo album Pacific Ocean Blue, and with it included this amazingly honest hand written note to his fans. It is so real and personal, only a hand written note could express to his fans.
This is why MLTs Studio Scribble hand written lyrics are so special, it is so real and personal.
Interestingly, Dennis Wilson was always the most underrated member of the band, with Brian Wilson letting him into the band at the bequest of their mother. Decades after Dennis Wilson’s death, his album Pacific Ocean Blue was re-issued, to amazing praise from music critics around the globe, touted as a masterpiece, and even held up to Pet Sounds by some. While considered the least talented Beach Boy, it’s Dennis Wilson’s solo masterpiece album, that took over 6 years to write, that is considered the best Beach Boys album output since Brian Wilson’s decline due to substance abuse in the late 60s. He certainly rose up in the end like a bright flame for the band.
Honestly, I haven’t had goose bumps to a Beach Boys song since the 70’s, but Dennis Wilson pulled it off for me again.
https://youtu.be/fVktrPv5zW4?si=ZFOAN2iTxgDddDyG
Wikipedia:
Released in August 1977, Pacific Ocean Blue received mixed reviews upon release, but in subsequent years has been re-evaluated by critics and is now widely praised.[4] It has appeared on several “Best-of” lists[19] including Robert Dimery’s “1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die,”[20] and Mojo’s “Lost Albums You Must Own”[21] and “70 of the Greatest Albums of the 70s” lists.[22] In 2005, it was ranked No. 18 in GQ’s “The 100 Coolest Albums in the World Right Now!” list.[
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Thanks Bud, Chris, Tim!
A couple weeks ago went to visit a friend up near Kamloops BC, and there was a massive 6000 hectare wild fire about 20 KM away from my friends place. This is what it looked liked from the highway in the car as we drove along, and what a lot of British Columbia looks like in the north. Fortunately it has not moved and my friend said it started raining, and the massive wildfire in Kelowna BC that has burned many homes has subsided a little bit the last couple days.. So thankful for the Summer Rain. Certainly not out of the woods yet as there is still another month of the fire season left.
The smoke has lifted where I am in Vancouver.
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Chris that improvised piano rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Art Tatum was really enjoyable. Those piano flourishes really sounded great.
Jurgen, Eva Cassidy really provides a heart felt rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow with her guitar. There is a lot of feeling there.
Thanks guys!
There is something quite magical with this song. For me it evokes a feeling of something beautiful and special beyond our reach in this world, like the end of a rainbow.
Back in 2015 I was dealing with a lot of stress with my mom’s deteriorating condition in the care home and stress of work and many other things. I needed to get away for a bit, and I found this cheap Canadian Rocky Mountain week long guided bus tour, meals and lodging included, no thinking, just bring yourself along kind of get away seemed perfection. The tour guide played this song rendition by Aselin Debison on the bus often, and remember heading up into the mountains listening to this, took me to a beautiful imaginative place in my mind in the clouds, made me forget everything and feel how beautiful the world can be. This is a cover by Canadian artist Aselin Debison of Israel Kamikawiso’s rendition of Somewhere Over The Rainbow/It’s a Wonderful World I posted earlier. It’s another beautiful variation on the song
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David, what an All-Star cast of talent coming together to do a wonderful rendition of Let It Be. With Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr playing on it with Dolly Parton, that is quite the endorsement.
Let It Be is my favourite Beatles song, first heard it in elementary school sang by a couple of the older girls in grade 6 or 7 with an acoustic guitar. It felt like church music, from 200 years ago, so amazingly beautiful and divine. I later learned this was the Beatles. Everything good and amazing song that instantly made me love it was the Beatles. More recently when I learned how Paul McCartney was inspired through a dream to write this song, solidified my belief Paul is the greatest songwriter/composer of the 20th Century and takes his place amongst the greatest composers of al time.
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I just had to share this:
“Einstein once said that while Beethoven created his music, Mozart’s ”was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.” Einstein believed much the same of physics, that beyond observations and theory lay the music of the spheres – which, he wrote, revealed a ”pre-established harmony” exhibiting stunning symmetries. The laws of nature, such as those of relativity theory, were waiting to be plucked out of the cosmos by someone with a sympathetic ear. …
From 1902 to 1909, Einstein was working six days a week at a Swiss patent office and doing physics research – his ”mischief” – in his spare time. But he was also nourished by music, particularly Mozart. It was at the core of his creative life.
And just as Mozart’s antics shocked his contemporaries, Einstein pursued a notably Bohemian life in his youth. His studied indifference to dress and mane of dark hair, along with his love of music and philosophy, made him seem more poet than scientist. …
In his struggles with extremely complicated mathematics that led to the general theory of relativity of 1915, Einstein often turned for inspiration to the simple beauty of Mozart’s music.
”Whenever he felt that he had come to the end of the road or into a difficult situation in his work, he would take refuge in music,” recalled his older son, Hans Albert. ”That would usually resolve all his difficulties.”
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2006/jan/genius-finds-inspiration-music-another
ucl.ac.uk
A Genius Finds Inspiration in the Music of Another
Last year, the 100th anniversary of E=mc2 inspired an outburst of symposiums, concerts, essays and merchandise featuring Albert Einstein.
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Nice JP! It must have felt so good playing along to MLT. I am envisioning in your living room, your cats seated too in the audience, indulging in you guitar work. 😜
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Here is a beautiful rendition of the Goldberg Variation on the guitar. The guitarist really captures the beauty of this piece effectively. I’ve listened to other guitar versions, but I think this is the best, so expressive and precise. He plays it in such a way he makes you feel every single note. He holds the note like an exclamation.
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Jurgen, Dave, I love this discussion. That is a great video explanation of the golden number/ratio that appears in the universe in all different guises in plants, music, structures, chemistry, physics etc…Thanks for sharing that Jurgen. I think what makes Bach great is how he expresses this order found in the universe revealing it’s beauty. Albert Einstein in his study of mathematics and the physical universe finds that beauty in the music of Mozart and Bach and claims to have found inspiration for his mathematical formulas from playing and listening to the music of Mozart and Bach.
I came across this short video that highlights the wizardry in Bach’s music and how he uses mathematics and symmetry to express amazing beauty. It get’s into the musical voices that are unison copies of each other where they play in parallel and are separated in intervals or are mirrored with the notes inverted. It also gets into how Bach takes a strict structured musical form and weaves it together with a free musical voice that together express a kind of heavenly realm and earthly realm co-existing in his music. The speaker really articulates how mathematics and the beauty of order found in the universe is used by Bach in his music better than I ever can in this video. Really intriguing. I hope you like it.
Dave Beck and Eric Clapton version of Moon River is enchanting Dave. Really easy going music I love. Thanks for posting it.
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Hi Jacki, oh yeah that is a great animated music video. I believe it is Mojo who rated this one the greatest music video of all time.
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Hey Bud, and neighbour! I had no idea you are just a couple hours south of me. I love Seattle, use to go down there on weekends all the time. Even lived there when I was little for a little bit, and a lot of fond memories as a kid as my dad took us there often when we lived in eastern Washington State in the 60s before we moved to Canada. Seattle Centre and the Space Needle are special places for me.
Eloquently said about the state of affairs in the world, and how MLT’s WHY? resonate so well with everything going on in our world and new reality. I love not only their music, but their view of the world and willingness to state things as they see it. They are my heroes in so many ways. Brilliant new music they are creating, just like the Beatles never repeating themselves. Pioneers.
Just heading out the door, but thanks for all the music links, here enjoyed them!
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Good point David! Have you seen the movie “Dead Poet’s Society” about a Poetry school teacher. When school budget is slashed all the fine arts like poetry and music are cut in the curriculum in favour of math and sciences. He makes the case to the school board, what is the point of teaching kids to learn to read, write, and count when there is nothing worth reading and writing about. It’s the imagination that drives the mathematics and sciences giving it meaning.
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Hi Jurgen
Yeah it appears perhaps the Golden Ratio appears in music and other disciplines less intentionally and more as a result of some kind of law of efficiency and beauty or something like that. Even in architecture over the ages the Golden Ratio appear. It’s mentioned in famous structures starting with the Pyramids of Giza, Greek Temples of Parthenon and Apollo, and on and on throughout the ages.
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Hi Chris
I like the way you put it, Tommy does indeed get his money’s worth out of the guitar. He squeezes every last precious drop of juice out of that guitar and then some. Talent is amazing.
Yeah taking a classic like Somewhere Over The Rainbow and adding one’s own creativity to make something remarkable is very special.
In the 90s Israel Kamikawiwo gained international fame and recognition for putting his own smile and passion into his cover of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow/It’s a Wonderful World” medley with his ukelele. I posted this in the forum before, but here is another version video.