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Category: Music

  • Beethoven’s 14th sonata “Quasi una fantasia”

    Beethoven’s 14th sonata “Quasi una fantasia”

    “Quasi una fantasia” is Beethoven’s words for sonata no. 14, it means almost a fantasy. It’s popularly called the moonlight sonata after a well known music critic in those days (around mid 18hundreds) Ludwig Rellstab compared it to a moonlit night reflecting on the Lake Lucerne. These fantasies and moonlights are what these guys saw when they heard it. What do you feel when you hear it?

    The 1st movement of this sonata is the most popular among Beethoven’s works. So popular that even Beethoven himself, got tired of it’s popularity and started saying “Surely, I’ve written better things”. 🙂

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6YCSeeMN4I]

  • Possibly the most expensive musical instrument there is.

    Possibly the most expensive musical instrument there is.

    Hello folks! This is the Vitthala temple in a town called Hampi in Karnataka state of India.

    No, there isn’t any mistake with the topic of this post. You see, the temple itself is a musical instrument. Yep!

    One of the most notable and interesting features of this Temple is the musical pillars. Each of the pillars that support the roof of the main temple represents a musical instrument, and is constructed as 7 minor pillars arranged around a main pillar. These 7 pillars, when struck, emanate the 7 notes from the representative instrument, varying in sound quality based on whether it represents a wind, string or percussion instrument.

    There are around 56 main pillars in this temple and I can’t help but imagine this temple in it’s hay days, in it’s full glory with 56 musicians playing ‘one instrument’, the Vitthala temple.

  • Rock Music (Literally)! Music created by rocks.

    Rock Music (Literally)! Music created by rocks.

    Popularly known as the musical stones of Skiddaw as these musical stones were found in the town of Skiddaw, North Cumbria, Great Britain by Joseph Richardson in the year 1790. Woah! that’s a long time back. Geologically these stones are known as Hornfels.

    He made a Lithophone or a xylophone out of these stones, a playable instrument. Boy would I like to hear someone perform on this. Joseph and his 3 sons did perform on it and had considerable success with their performance in Great Britain at that time, going on to be a toast of Europe with their exhilarating performances for the local crowd, the well to do as well as the royals. They were all set to tour America as well but Robert, the youngest son and the most talented of them all fell ill and died of pneumonia. The tour was abandoned and the band was not the same anymore. Subsequently the instrument was given to the Keswick museum and is still there for all to see and play.

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inWKcmVEwvs]

     

    Hey! I did come across 3 percussionists performing on the rocks! 🙂

    Check this out:

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0QtUNwixgY]

  • R.E.S.P.E.C.T to Rodrigo y Gabriela

    R.E.S.P.E.C.T to Rodrigo y Gabriela

    Enjoy this official music video of one of the tracks “Hanuman” from their new album 11:11.

    Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero are Guitarists from Mexico who were in a Trash Metal band called Tierra Ácida. They were doing okay or maybe a little less than okay as they chose to throw away their electrics and embraced the acoustic nylon guitar and set off for Ireland in search of greener pastures, and to fulfill their dream of touring Europe. They have met with considerable acclaim there, topping the charts of Ireland where they now reside in it’s capital Dublin.

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENBX_v1Po1Y]

    Rodrigo plays lead and performs powerful shreds and the tunes that he creates, has the flavors of his homeland.

    Gabriela plays the rhythm and percussion on her guitar. The zeal in her percussive playing is so powerful that your heart starts to depend on the rhythm of her playing.

    Both have different styles of playing. Rodrigo uses the plectrum for his leads and Gabriela uses finger style. Rodrigo can’t play the continuous strumming with chords that Gabriela plays along with percussion. Gabriela can’t shred like Rodrigo. But together they make a marvelous team. Kudos Rodrigo y Gabriela! Baila baila!

  • Hans Zimmer, I love your orchestrator!

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT8Zd_dySLA]This track shows the musical genius of the composer. The transition to rock is just beautiful. I loved the tabla in between as well, puts a little essence of home in the track :). Again Rodrigo and Gabriela have won my heart with their prowess with guitars. This is by far the best track in the POTC4 soundtrack. now enough of POTC I shall venture to other musical works of inspiration as well. 🙂

  • Another one of POTC4’s masterpieces (Angelica) 🙂

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63e-0PmhvLE]I love spanish music or atleast the spanishness in this particular piece of music. It totally encapsulates Angelica’s character. (Spanish, Bold, Charismatic, Adventurous, Dangerous). Perfect match for Jack. Come to think of it, a perfect match for me too 😉 {No offence Jack}

  • Pirates of the Carribean official soundtrack with a spanish touch

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F4RmDUCo5I]The official music video of POTC 4 (Titled – The Pirate that should not be) performed by Rodrigo and Gabriela, a truly mindblowing, face melting performance. I’m not going to forget to remember this performance in a hurry. 🙂