Monthly Archive for May, 2010

Tiny Dancer

Tiny Dancer is a 1971  song by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin. It appears Madman Across the Water and was released as a single in 1972.

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Sounds of Seals

Music seals make.

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Parnassus

Benjamin Skepper, a Australian composer and musician performs works from his new album Parnassus. He uses a loop machine, and combines this with harpsichord, cello, toy piano, music boxes and even sounds from ordinary household instruments like a sewing machine.

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Nigel Ficke dances

Promo for the Electric Daisy Carnival, a dance event in North America.
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World Cup Music

Trio Madjesi in 1973 playing a classic Congolese rumba with a World Cup twist. They’re wearing Soccer uniforms to celebrate Zaire’s 1974 appearance in the World Cup, the first one by a sub-Saharan African team.
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Dead & Gone

Dege Legg (aka Brother Dege), Cajun born and Louisiana raised is a musician and writer. He plays a slide guitar blues, post-Americana style of Delta Blues filtered through punk rock, Sabbath, and a bunch of cool books.

Listen to Dead & Gone

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Watch the drummer

Great moves.

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Rude Boy

A classical version of Rihanna’s Rude Boy by Aston.

The six members of Aston, aged between 21 and 23, have come straight out of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the most distinguished music school in Australia. The play  modern classics and covers of contemporary hits and classics and re-arrange them into classical form. On their website you can decide which song Aston covers next by voting for a song. But first listen to Rude Boy.

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Craftsman music

Listen to the sounds of Craftsman tools mixed and edited by Kutiman. No musical instruments were used.

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Wolves making music

This wolf song was created automatically by LaDiDa, using only real wolf howls as audio input, from the actual video clips shown here.

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