I have a great CD of Bach's Goldberg Variations being played by two cimbaloms, great stuff too.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Monday, 26 January 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
!!! would love to hear that. I also haven't heard any Ruth Welcome LPs aside from Zither Magic--recommendations?
― ian, Monday, 26 January 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm first in line for that bootleg of 'Hi-Fi Zither'
She takes a different approach for her Spanish-themed albums, so I wouldn't call those representative. I'm on the search for all the others, though.
― Milton Parker, Monday, 26 January 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qo9ZaUAZL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
Are we counting African and Asian species of zither here? If so, ^^^ this guy Rakotozafy is pretty great. He's quite a mysterious and revered figure who's been described by some as sort of the Robert Johnson of Madagascar. He was obviously hugely gifted, but only cut about 20 tracks in the 60s before totally disappearing and drinking himself to an early death. The vahila is basically a big bamboo pipe strung with bike cables and has this really lovely bright warm tone to it. There was actually a really good TV documentary about him that came out ten years or so ago called Like A God When He Plays. It's basically Paddy Bush (Kate's brother) searching for trace of him and his kin in remote parts of the island. Sadly there's only a frustratingly small bit of it up on YouTube:
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Monday, 26 January 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
More about the documentary here.
In Madagascar death is celebrated, not mourned. When a family has enough money they dig up the corpse, douse it in rum and have a party before wrapping it up in a new shroud and burying it again. In "Like a God When He Plays" musician PADDY BUSH is invited to Madagascar to follow the 'famadihana' or re-burial of Madagascar's most famous musician Rakotozafy, who died 25 years ago.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Monday, 26 January 2009 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2009/12/museum-of-obsolete-intruments-zither.html
so the world's still waiting on that bootleg edition of 'hi-fi zither'
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 25 March 2010 09:14 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inw_U2jNHfgotr again
― bamcquern, Thursday, 28 April 2011 06:26 (thirteen years ago) link
got for $1 at record swap yesterday:
Ruth Welcome: Zither in 3/4 Time & Continental Zither
― sarahel, Sunday, 10 July 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/sep/04/101-strangest-spotify-ruth-welcome
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
Zither? I hardly knew her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 1 November 2020 04:14 (three years ago) link
How is Laraaji not mentioned in this thread?
― octobeard, Sunday, 1 November 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
I cant remember! Looking....
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 12:03 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q3HG5VC5Uc
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5W147PiYuc
― houdini said, Thursday, 20 October 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link