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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on June 30, 2007, 8:31 am
>
>> RicodJour wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.yellowdoorchoir.com/mp3samples.html
>>>
>>>The last link is...ummm, well...different! I was expecting bad, but
>>>it's really unbelievably, testicle-shriveling bad.
>>>
>>>R
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I sing in a buncha languages in DC, play guitar, banjo, keyboards, piano,
>> various kinds of ethnic drums and things to blow on. Last couple of
>> years have been giving away musical instruments to sons - sitar to one,
>> gave up my gaida (bagpipe from Macedonia), thinking of popping the bucks
>> to buy new ones.
>
> Bagpipes! I'll never get used to them. Something about the raspiness makes
> me want to hit someone with a sword. You must be popular with the
> neighbors ; )
>
> Typical of the Balkans, every link I followed on the gaida referred to
> *Bulgaria*.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=gaida+music >>
> http://www.rootsworld.com/bagpipes/ >>
> http://www.rootsworld.com/reviews/thracian.html :
>
> "The set starts off with two of the big names in Bulgarian music,
> clarinetist Ivo Papazov and singer Yildiz Ibrahimova. But expect the
> unexpected here. The two present duets for reed and voice alone, in an
> eerie, post-modern style that is as much Meredith Monk as Balkan
> celebration. The pair squeak, squawk and shout a freeform music that is
> sometimes sweet and beautiful, and sometimes way on the outside. "
>
> *Meredith Monk*? I thought I *dreamed* her 30 years ago. Turns out she
> has a website and looks like she's still pretty active. (I love big
> cities. She'd starve in this 5M burg.) Turns out she's even playing the
> Catskills in a couple of weeks.... http://www.mro.org/zmm/index.php.
>
> Sounds like an alt.arch road trip!
' been listening to this since visiting the site:
http://www.meredithmonk.org/MonkAudio.html
This stuff is dope!
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