What are you listening to at the moment?

[Dog Moon]

Listening to the opening song of the first Ghost in the Shell series.

One of the best openings IMO.

 

[Starman]

Epica's Consign to Oblivion album. A must hear.

 

[Harmon]

My daughter woke up two hours ago. After a bottle she drifted back to sleep in my arms so I put her back in her crib, took a shower and am sitting here in my din listening to a helicopter a couple miles away as it flies back and forth over a field.

Ahh- near silence, almost as good as utter silence.

 

[johnsemlak]

Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel. I've rediscovered this piece just recently.

 

[Mycanid]

Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel. I've rediscovered this piece just recently.

Da dorogoi moi - Bach ni plokha, eh? Ochen krasievui!

 

[johnsemlak]

Da dorogoi moi - Bach ni plokha, eh? Ochen krasievui!

Well I was wondering if there was something Slavic about your love of mushroom-hunting .

 

[Mycanid]

lol ... well John I must admit that I have not a drop of slavic blood in me. All northern Britian and southern France ... possibly the latter is where the mushroom hunting stuff comes from.

I don't really know the Russian language all that well either. I have been around Russians for years though and have picked up the alphabet and a few phrases, that's all. I have been waiting to unleash them on some unsuspecting victim and you served nicely - for which I thank you for not laughing at my poor Russian, by the way. But of course you are right. Whenever I got a Russian visitor and mushrooms come up the torrent of enthusiasm is endless.

Anyway - back to the topic, eh?

Today I have been listening to Lionheart's album Palestrina: The Soul of Rome. Beautiful stuff.

 

[johnsemlak]

lol ... well John I must admit that I have not a drop of slavic blood in me. All northern Britian and southern France ... possibly the latter is where the mushroom hunting stuff comes from.

I don't really know the Russian language all that well either. I have been around Russians for years though and have picked up the alphabet and a few phrases, that's all. I have been waiting to unleash them on some unsuspecting victim and you served nicely - for which I thank you for not laughing at my poor Russian, by the way. But of course you are right. Whenever I got a Russian visitor and mushrooms come up the torrent of enthusiasm is endless.

Anyway - back to the topic, eh?

Today I have been listening to Lionheart's album Palestrina: The Soul of Rome. Beautiful stuff.

The irony of this little exchange is that Pachelbel's Canon isn't that well known in Russia. It appears it became a well-known tune in the West in the 1970s after being relatively obscure earlier. The USSR being quite cut off from the West as far as entertainment goes at that time, Pachelbel's Canon isn't that familiar here as a result.

 

[reanjr]

Just before my computer crashed someone referred me to a service (legal) that is based in Russia, has a decent selection, and is a heckuva lot cheaper than iTunes. I don't recall the site though.

http://www.allofmp3.com/

Fantastic service. Beats iTunes in every imaginable way except for selection. I mainly have trouble finding newer releases and certain types of release that were probably never released in Russia (like soundtracks for movies that never made it to Russia).

 

[Marchen]

I've spent a lot of time in record stores over the past few days to get some new releases/necessary essentials I was missing. So the follow albums are in rotation at the moment:

mewithoutYou - "Brother, Sister"
The Decemberists - "Crane Wife"
Tilly and The Wall - "Bottoms of Barrels"
The Submarines - "Declare a New State!"
Joanna Newsom - "Milk-Eyed Mender"
Joanna Newsom - "Ys" (it's a leak...I can't wait until November!)
Midlake - "The Trials of Van Occupanther"

And they're all awesome, amazing, gorgeous works of music.