So many posts and links here, I’ll check them out later when I’m with better internet
I loooove different/bizarre/unusual instruments! and instrumental music as well.
I’ve been playing guitar for over 10 years now, and have composed some simple songs (all in my garden ) but I haven’t played much in a while now and I’m low on inspiration…
Oh man. I just fell in love with the Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint Marc chior. And this song they sing called Vois Sur Ton Chemin. It’s very beautifully done, and I just watched their whole concert…
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youtube.com/watch?v=FqEGrK04d0A I could have posted an album version of the song, but I think Jelonek’s songs sound way better during live performances. There was a very good live performance video of Akka, but it got taken down a while ago youtube.com/watch?v=25svy2PEPuk this is the second best video I could find.
Wow, that playlist is so helpful, thanks FiXato!
I like this rendition of Bloody Tears, from Castlevania. Sounds very nice, and actually quite different to the original. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MM_Q0nfaG0
Also, I checked out 2Cellos. Awesome.
Omg Fix! That’s 121 vids with 7 hours duration. X_x Totally gonna use that for whenever I need to study. Is it going to be kept updated, because that would be awesome? I’ll pay you in cookies. /me gives Fix a cookie
Two that I highly recommend for any synth heads out there.
First one from one of my favorite synth creators, Korg…the iKaossilator both for the iPad and iPhone…just like the iMS-20, it is a faithful reproduction of the famous Korg Kaoss Pad with lots of sexy electronica templates to create with and lots of space to create one’s own templates with as well. Beautiful sounds from the best of the best, IMHO
Second is what I’ve been dreaming of (Woo!)…something new and innovative from Moog but more user friendly (price being part of the equation ) A little blurb from the genius musical minds at Moog…
“Animoog is the first professional synthesizer designed for the iPhone 4 and 4s. Powered by Moog’s new Anisotropic Synthesis Engine, Animoog captures the vast sonic vocabulary of Moog synthesizers and applies it to the moderntouch surface paradigm, enabling any user to quickly sculpt incredibly fluid and dynamic sounds that live, breathe, and evolve as you play them.”
This I say…Animoog is no goofy little musical game app. It is a condensed Moog synthesizer right there on your iPhone, with a huge library of presets which flex the muscles, so to speak, of just what this thing can do…and anyone who knows anything about Moog and the epic/iconic sounds it’s technology has unearthed…will know the implications of this. Wonderful, wonderful musical science! I love this app
Almost forgot about this topic Since I just found a great band, I’ll share! It seems that rock IS NOT DEAD! And they’re british, like most of the good oldies . supposedly influenced by Pink Floyd, Genesis, Reinassance, and folk music.
Just because people stopped posting here. Here is a video to show just how much love can be had between one person and an instrument. /me whistles the tune
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MagykKatte: you are using the url tags wrong
You should’ve used them like:
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYpIHBqi0Ns&feature=related[/url] and their more famous cover of Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX6ksbwLnVQ&feature=related[/url]
to make them show up as:
Or, preferably, as:
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYpIHBqi0Ns]2Cellos - The Resistance (Muse Cover)[/url]
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX6ksbwLnVQ]2Cellos - Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson cover)[/url]
To make them show up as:
(Though the second video is marked as private, and thus we can’t see it (anymore))
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Also, the YouTube playlist has been updated with the videos mentioned here.
And I couldn’t resist posting this image when I saw it on DeviantArt:
Colors of Music
The string instrument played by the bloke in the middle is called a gitouki. There are probably only 3 in existnce, all made by this band. One of them was stolen years ago and never heard of since, the other 2 are still played by this band.
It started when one of their regular guitars was heavily damaged in a saw accident. Instead of throwing it away they decided to remodel what was left to the shape of a bouzouki, a traditional Irish instrument. They added a bouzouki headstock so they could put on the 4x2 strings of a bouzouki. So the gitouki was born (guitar = gitaar in Dutch)
The result is a bouzouki with a much fuller, rounder, warmer sound. Instead of the traditional GG DD aa ee tunings they tune it down to D1D GG hh ee which allows them to play a very deep bass along with normal melodies. This band plays without a bass instrument (with the ocasional exception when they use their tea-chest bass) but with the amplified gitouki there is absolutely no need for it.
Their other gitouki is simply a slightly modiefied bouzouki, and can is heard played beautifully here