Music?

[christa08]

I am always very interested in fresh artists in music and I thought I'd make a thread where we could all post our current favorites and oldies but goodies.

I'll start.

Right now...I'm in LOVE with this song "Soon We'll Be Found" by an artist called Sia.

I'm very interested to see what everyone is into right now!

[Matt Algren]

Ben Shive rocks my socks.

[sjbouza]

I have been really into this group for a while now. They are a German band called Tokio Hotel. I first heard this song "Rette Mich" (English version "Rescue Me") a while ago and just loved the hauntingly romantic sounds of it. Started looking around for some more of their music and just fell in love with it.

Check em out. The English version of the video is the German video overdubbed with the English lyrics. They did release their first album in English about a year and a half ago.

Peace,
Scott

[Alecto]

I just got to see Hawksley Workman in concert here, which was very exciting. He gets no radio play in the States, so people just kind of find out about him and follow shows appearantly: we were talking to people in line, and there were more people from out of state than there were locals.

[BenL]

My personal favorite is Coyote Grace.

http://www.myspace.com/coyotegrace

http://music.glee.com/coyotegrace

[scrupulous_stoic]

Los Campesinos!'s You!Me!Dancing! is right now one of my favorite songs, but my taste for music is so varied that I couldn't begin to list my favorite bands and songs.

[Jennifer5]

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endID=42401093

"I make windows" is my favorite...

[tdogg]

Christa, if you like fresh new artists, try my second cousins:

www.karmina.com

They write their own music and lyrics and I've been able to see them in concert. They are quite good, and I love their music. We used The Kiss in our wedding, it's about 'forbidden love'.

[christa08]

Originally Posted by tdogg

Christa, if you like fresh new artists, try my second cousins:

www.karmina.com

They write their own music and lyrics and I've been able to see them in concert. They are quite good, and I love their music. We used The Kiss in our wedding, it's about 'forbidden love'.

Awwww! that song is so cute and I love the video! They're very good.

Speaking of forbidden love, I saw Madonna in concert in November for my birthday. She was divine

[Petrese]

Mandy Perkins, and her song: "Acid Rain"

It means a lot to me for a relationship that has gone bad, a part of a life wasted on anticipation that someone will eventually see what's right yet they never do and to myself the worse for wares.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...iendID=2196831

[Matt Algren]

Thread resurrection time!

Discovered Matt Alber, a singer from California (by way of Kansas), last night. His first album, Hide Nothing, is fantastic. Oh, and he's gay.

The video for End of the World was released a few weeks ago. It's fantastic.

Or if that's not your style, take a look at this one. Matt performed Handel's "The Messiah" last year as the alto soloist with the world renown baroque orchestra Musica Angelica in Los Angeles, directed by Chunguk Lee. Here is But Who May Abide.

[andrewlittle]

... and wow and wow.

Not normally the kind of music I like, but this man has an incredible voice. The video is beautiful. Hope you don't mind, but I stole it for my blog.

[Daniel]

Originally Posted by Matt Algren

Discovered Matt Alber, a singer from California (by way of Kansas), last night. His first album, Hide Nothing, is fantastic. Oh, and he's gay.

The video for End of the World was released a few weeks ago. It's fantastic.

Matt- thanks for posting this! Love End of the World, Matt's blog and his tale about going to a party for Gus Van Sant.

It's unusual for a singer to bridge vocal styles so successfuly, but Mr. Alber does, with aplomb. And you know what? I may live, teach and breath classcial singing, but I like Matt's contemporary stuff more. Maybe it's because his personality and creativity (he writes his own material) shines through so much brighter. His voice almost keens it's way into your heart. Great stuff.

[WorldsApart]

Alright I'm going to give you a huge homework assignment. Based on the fact that you like Sia I'm going to suggest listening to any of the following artists you haven't heard yet:

Stars, The TingTings, Missy Higgings, Over the Rhine, Broken Social Scene, Mindy Smith, Tegan and Sara, and Adele (Grammy-winner!).

As for what I'm listening to... that past week I've been obesessed with: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Phil Wickham, Kings of Leon, and Sara Groves. They're all FAB-U-LOUS!

Sorry I just geeked out a little. I can't help it... I love new discovering new music & sharing the love.

[christa08]

Originally Posted by WorldsApart

Alright I'm going to give you a huge homework assignment. Based on the fact that you like Sia I'm going to suggest listening to any of the following artists you haven't heard yet:

Stars, The TingTings, Missy Higgings, Over the Rhine, Broken Social Scene, Mindy Smith, Tegan and Sara, and Adele (Grammy-winner!).

As for what I'm listening to... that past week I've been obesessed with: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Phil Wickham, Kings of Leon, and Sara Groves. They're all FAB-U-LOUS!

Sorry I just geeked out a little. I can't help it... I love new discovering new music & sharing the love.

Ooh! I binged on the Sia album for about a month. Now I'm really liking Imogen Heap.

I've recently listened to the TingTings a bit but I need to listen to their full album. I do like Adele I will definitely check out the others you've listed! I love new music

[Daniel]

Deller was a countertenor who- perhaps- more than anyone, made it possible for those like Matt Algren to have a career. His blazed the trail brilliantly, creating an interest in forgotten music.

Here he is singing Purcell's Music for a while

[andrewlittle]

Originally Posted by Daniel

Deller was a countertenor who- perhaps- more than anyone, made it possible for those like Matt Algren to have a career. His blazed the trail brilliantly, creating an interest in forgotten music.

Here he is singing Purcell's Music for a while

Very interesting. In the Handl piece, the qualities of Matt's voice are nearly identical to Alfred's, at least to my untrained ears. In the other song, however, Matt's voice is quite different. So, a question for the unititiated:

Does "countertenor" refer to the fact that they sing higher than a tenor, or does iot refer to their range? It seems Matt has quite a range.

[Emproph]

Originally Posted by tdogg

Christa, if you like fresh new artists, try my second cousins:

www.karmina.com

They write their own music and lyrics and I've been able to see them in concert. They are quite good, and I love their music. We used The Kiss in our wedding, it's about 'forbidden love'.

~~~

I found this artist, Rachelle, after watching a movie I didn't particularly care for. The song "Everything I Know" played over the credits, and I found I liked the rest of her music too.

As I said on my blog: "She sounds like Nina Person from the Cartigans...just a melty drippy dreamy voice that makes you want to soak into everything around you..."

The picture is a link to her myspace page with a few of her other songs.

~~~

And one of my absolute favorites...



Delicious Surprise (I Believe It)
Jo Dee Messina

(You may want to turn up the volume on that one (seriously, it starts out kinda low )

[christa08]

Originally Posted by Daniel

Deller was a countertenor who- perhaps- more than anyone, made it possible for those like Matt Algren to have a career. His blazed the trail brilliantly, creating an interest in forgotten music.

Here he is singing Purcell's Music for a while

This music is definitely not forgotten (at least not by me. ) It reminds me so much of my days in A Capella choir. I miss it! Thanks for this post.

[Daniel]

Originally Posted by andrewlittle

Does "countertenor" refer to the fact that they sing higher than a tenor, or does iot refer to their range? It seems Matt has quite a range.

From Wikipedia, which seems a fit funky to this reader.

A countertenor is a male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of a contralto, mezzo-soprano or (less frequently) a soprano, usually through use of falsetto, or more rarely the normal or modal voice. A pre-pubescent male who has this ability is called a treble. This term is used exclusively in the context of the classical vocal tradition, although numerous popular music artists also prefer employing falsetto. The term first came into use in England during the mid 17th century and was in wide use by the late 17th century. During the Romantic period, the popularity of the countertenor voice waned and few compositions were written with that voice type in mind. In the second half of the 20th century, the countertenor voice went through a massive resurgence in popularity, partly due to pioneers such as Alfred Deller, by the increased popularity of Baroque opera and the need of male singers to replace the castrati roles in such works. Although the voice has been considered largely an early music phenomenon, there is a growing modern repertoire.

The entry doesn't mention that this voice type is an imitation of the Castrato voice. And that was a very different voice! Men with the unchanged voices and the bodies of men.

Countertenor's primarily sang church music in men and boy's choirs. Veddy English.

Counter also means against. And PDQ Bach (a classical music humorist) went so far as to call the voice "bargain basement countertenor'.

What's really going on it that to be a countertenor means that a man is singing in a highly developed falsetto. It is higher that a tenor's voice. An octave, actually.

What is falsetto? It is when the vocal folds are approximating in length, but not depth.

Matt has more of an soprano sounding voice. He sings notes that are higher than Deller's. Lower too. One hears him go into his tenor sounding voice -chestvoice- at the very bottom of his range. He does it artfully though, making it still sound 'heady'. He displays a wider range.