This 'un is a trip--take it, wiki:Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul is a 2005 film/documentary directed by Fatih Akın. The film is a journey through the music scene in modern Istanbul, Turkey as well as portraying its cultural life. It was screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.It features German musician Alexander Hacke (member of Einstürzende Neubauten) as the narrator.[2] Hacke and Akın travelled around Istanbul with a mobile recording studio and a microphone, assembling an inspired portrait of Turkish music — from arabesque to indie rock and rap. All of which they make their own thing---I mostly just knew a few vintage vanguard smokin' Turks , like Erkin Koray, who's in here---but dammn. Especially impressed by those who perform music usually assumed to depend on studio or stage wizardry, but here (in streets, vacant lots, etc.) sure seems to be in the moment (however much rehearsal or previous performance may have already transpired). Blanking on her name, but a case in point would be one particularly awesome balladeer, deep folk-pop, RIYL Natacha Atlas or Kate Bush for that matter, but killing it right there in the sun and dust and mobile mic.
― dow, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
I'm interested in your final doc compilation, please.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
wiki's on a roll:Latcho Drom ("safe journey") is a 1993 French film directed and written by Tony Gatlif. The movie is about the Romani people's journey from north-west India to Spain, consisting primarily of music. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.[1]...The film contains very little dialogue and captions; only what is required to grasp the essential meaning of a song or conversation is translated. The film begins in the Thar Desert in Northern India and ends in Spain, passing through Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and France. All of the Romani portrayed are actual members of the Romani community.This is one of the very few music docs I've ever seen that conveys the best of thee festival experience: no copters, cops or runners, no seizures or fistfights or dogbreath, just a series of pellucid dreams, strongest bubbles, leaving my senses refreshed as by the kind of sauna I can rarely afford.
― dow, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
No talk in Jazz On A Summer Day:Jazz on a Summer's Day is a concert film set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival [1] in Rhode Island, directed by commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern and Aram Avakian[2], who also edited the film. The Columbia Records jazz producer, George Avakian, was the musical director of the film.
The film mixes images of water and the city with the performers and audience at the festival. It also features scenes of the 1958 America's Cup yacht races. The film is largely without dialog or narration (except for periodic announcements by emcee Willis Conover).
The film features performances by Jimmy Giuffre; Thelonious Monk; Sonny Stitt; Anita O'Day; Dinah Washington; Gerry Mulligan; Chuck Berry; Chico Hamilton, with Eric Dolphy; and Louis Armstrong, with Jack Teagarden. Also appearing are Buck Clayton, Jo Jones, Armando Peraza, and Eli's Chosen Six, the Yale College student ensemble that included trombonist Roswell Rudd, shown driving around Newport in a convertible jalopy, playing Dixieland.[3]
As was scheduled in advance and announced in the program, the last performer Saturday night was Mahalia Jackson, who sang a one-hour program beginning at midnight, thus ushering in Sunday morning. The film concluded with her performance of The Lord's Prayer. But not too much of that or anything else: editing is deft, although some jazz fans then considered it too damn quirky, as I think Gary Giddens mentioned. Seems like an influence on Monterey Pop and Woodstock, in its cooler way. Does have a cusp-of-the-Sixties vibe at tymes, esp. Chico Hamilton's group.
― dow, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
Also Jimmy Giuffre.
― dow, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
Chuck Berry rocks the Count Basie Orchestra, Anita O'Day is nonchalant badass etc
― dow, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
Zaire 74https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jogVNf1x_Xwhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaire_74
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
and thanks for that amazing highwomen live version of the chain, that's amazing!
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
I like this Talking Heads Rome show - less happening visually than Stop Making Sense, but lots of Adrian Belew:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOirHv4wOv4
― aphoristical, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 23:50 (four years ago) link
here is the list i gave to my students -- please keep in mind it was made for them, not you! it's not exhaustive. but it will provide many hours of quality musical entertainment. i might even watch the Bieber one if i get bored enough ---> shorturl.at/moNRZ
i am also going to add things as i stumble on them + my pitiful "other resources" tab needs help. didn't want to drown my students in choices though. it's a small menu but everything is good!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
Oh shit wattstax is on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdAkEwq0Af8
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
oh lol you already have it on there
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
You don't have the TAMI show tho:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OODJDdIbkF4
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
TAMI Show comes and goes from youtube -- I'll add it if it's the complete thing. the old youtube was super high quality too because of that weird format they used to shoot it. last time I looked for it, it was gone but one semester we watched it in class and my students LOVED the lesley gore part
they didn't know there was an original version of "you don't own me" and they clapped!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link
necessary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFgzzWT3zX4
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 March 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
Ok here's a question -- what are some good examples of "listening guides" or "how to get into ______"/an introduction to ________ guides?
With this new online learning situation I am having to get extra creative with the final project this time. We can't do the fun things I've done in the past (put on a show, make a zine) -- I realize they COULD make a zine but it would lose a huge part of the fun. I thought maybe designing listening guides might be kind of fun? Esp for music that isn't in English, it might be fun to have an English speaker's guide to, say, bachata.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
you could do worse than the rough guide series?https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/a-rough-guide-to-the-rough-guides/Content?oid=897715https://www.librarything.com/series/Rough+Guide+Music+Guides
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
useful, thank you!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
bandcamp daily does a lot of stories like this under its lists header:
The Manic, Joyous Sound of Brazil’s Funk Cariocahttps://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/the-manic-joyous-sound-of-brazils-funk-carioca
A Guide to African Country Musichttps://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/african-country-music-list
The Fresh, Inventive Sounds of Contemporary Chinese Post-Punkhttps://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/chinese-post-punk-list
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
bump! I am going to be teaching two things next week (one week only, volunteer gig): 1) 5 one-hour drum lessons via zoom 2) workshop about concert films (based on the list I put together last spring when covid hit)
i am bumping this thread just to alert that i may need some help thinking of good songs to practice for xyz task and I was hoping to harness the power of ilx (and readers of this thread) to answer those questions more precisely/better than google can.
when i have a question, i will post and if anyone feels like answering/is able to answer, great! this thread is like my phone-a-friend <3
classes start monday
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 9 July 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
Hijacking this thread to say that if anyone has any suggestions for French/Francophone pop songs I can play in a middle school classroom - not just to read/translate lyrics, but also just to get kids moving around the room - please send them my way! I am woefully ignorant about Francophone music and want to have a lot of fun and diverse music in my classroom.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:19 (two years ago) link
"Ça plane pour moi"!
― juristic person (morrisp), Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
(I actually just posted on another thread that our French teacher played us "Je t'aime... moi non plus"; that was in high school, though, and probably on the edge even for that age group.)
― juristic person (morrisp), Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
Already played "Ça plane pour moi!" So far my students have heard a bunch of Edith Piaf and "Ça plane pour moi" and not much else.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:25 (two years ago) link
Though I'll probably use it again because when they're doing a stand/pair/share and I play music to signal that it's time to move, they're only hearing little snippets of the song.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:26 (two years ago) link
Quelqu'un m'a dit - Carla Bruni
― enochroot, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
I would play them this video to starthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwi0Fv17Vno
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
Or maybe build up to it, actually. It would be like starting an intro to rock n roll with Elvis.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalité_entre_Antoine_et_Johnny_Hallyday
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 17 September 2021 01:11 (two years ago) link
If they're at a beginner level, there's always Foux du Fafa by Flight of the Conchords - kids love that one.
― enochroot, Friday, 17 September 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link
France Gall - Poupée de cire, poupée de son
Very fun, Eurovision winner, and I don't think it suffers from the extreme sauciness of other Gainsbourg-penned songs (I could be wrong though).
― emil.y, Friday, 17 September 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link
"On dira ouf" or "Clash dans le Tempo" are favorites off Constance Amiot's _Fairytale_. The former's chorus is a fun burst of rapid French.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfXO7g5_pOo
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 17 September 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSbUJ4yi-vI
― Indexed, Friday, 17 September 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
^ played that a bunch for my kids when they were little
― Indexed, Friday, 17 September 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
As an Autour de Lucie stan, would say pretty much anything of theirs, though _Immobile_ is the album I'd take to the desert island. "Sur Tes Pas" has a bunch of hooks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeI1I2eidHk
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 17 September 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
leaving out songs that talk about sex and/or death (that's a lot of them!) and/or too grown up (i.e. boring), first things I thought of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ohX4ii4iow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W268gjCZHrs
― bespoke sausages (seandalai), Friday, 17 September 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aIgGbO8rQ0
("Banana Split" even catchier but inevitably is about sex)
― bespoke sausages (seandalai), Friday, 17 September 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
If sex and death are off limits, how about drugs?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mOdSuKjcE
Seems like it would be a fun one to translate
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 17 September 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
If you wanna freak your pupils out a little?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOfdJ8ZcLJc
― Maresn3st, Friday, 17 September 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
Ha, I was thinking about suggesting Evariste's integral calculus track but thought I probably shouldn't.
― emil.y, Friday, 17 September 2021 18:43 (two years ago) link
"laisse tomber les filles" is not too adult, and is also the greatest pop song ever, so...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWRCJhsz5t4
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link
<3 <3 Evariste
― bespoke sausages (seandalai), Friday, 17 September 2021 22:39 (two years ago) link
not so hip but also not from 30 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjLuTtUv0Ns
― bespoke sausages (seandalai), Friday, 17 September 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
I guess this one is kind of about death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj0Z_Xnjc
― bespoke sausages (seandalai), Friday, 17 September 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link
Magic System have lots of fun songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsVJ8ie2sfs
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 17 September 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
This is all great, thank you all so much and please keep them coming!
― Lily Dale, Friday, 17 September 2021 23:13 (two years ago) link
Even if I don't teach my music class anymore, I can still include musical topics as sample research topics for us to use for in-class practice. Today, among two other nonmusical topics, I presented my first year (""traditional"") college students with the question of (basically, not in these exact words) "what was going on in 2012 to produce a Billboard Hot 100 that looks like this[displays list of songs]??"
They loved it! They kept going down the list and being shocked over and over like "and this one?" etc until I saw them looking up other lists of music from 2012 and continuing to be shocked that 1) it was 10 years ago and 2) they still liked a large proportion of the songs. Wednesday they will present me with their theories. Fun topic I've been thinking about and finally implemented today.
My observations: they love CRJ, knew she had a new album out, a couple were legit fans"Someone That I Used to Know" was so beloved by one of them that she had it downloaded to her phone for anytime listeningit was enjoyable to see the passage of time sink in as they realized how different the world seems than it did in 2012overall good topic, would float again maybe with tweaks as time passes (as it does)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 31 October 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link