Category: Music
Thursday, May 10, 2007
I Has Me a New Toy to Play With!
I'm feeling very tuneful tonight. And bored. And geeky. This is the result.Sorry, you can't see the dancing though ...
Buy the CDs at Amazon!
Jem - Finally Woken
The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
Gomez - How We Operate
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Eisley - Room Noises
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Streaming Christmas CDs
What a cool treat! I don't necessarily take back all the nasty things I have muttered about AOL over the years, but this is a definite Good Thing. They are streaming music from 19 Christmas CDs by popular music artists at their AOL XM Radio site through the holidays. Awesome!Featured artists include:
Sarah McLachlan
James Taylor
Bette Midler
Enya
Wynonna
George Straight
Clay Aiken
Chris Botti
TranSiberian Orchestra!
Check it out! Enjoy!
Friday, December 15, 2006
TSO Play Along Contest
This is incredible. Transiberian Orchestra is having a contest ... play along with Wizards of Winter on keyboard, guitar, bass or drums. They provide a special track of the song to play along with, and the music. Entrants video record their effort and upload to YouTube to enter. This entry is from Riley. He's 13 years old.Wow.
I could only wish I could play that well! Way to go, Riley!
Saturday, December 09, 2006
More Christmas House Lights
Last year, a video made the rounds of the intarwebs that featured a house done up with Christmas lights synchronized to music by Transiberian Orchestra, "Wizards in Winter" ... it was truly amazing. But there is a new one this year. Jeff and Bridgette Trykoski of Frisco, Texas have put together an incredible display of lights and music.Frisco Christmas
Wow. Thanks Jeff and Bridgette!
Friday, December 08, 2006
Some Christmas Treats
Back on Nov 7, my daughter and I went to see TransSiberian Orchestra in concert. What. A. Treat.Wow. I still get goose-pimply remembering ... awesome stuff. It was truly a night of magic.
I just discovered that they are posting videos from their concerts at YouTube. Over the next couple of weeks, I will post some of them here, starting with our favorite ... Christmas Canon Rock.
Get the magic for yourself!
The Christmas Attic
Christmas Eve and Other Stories
The Lost Christmas Eve
Christmas Trilogy
Saturday, October 14, 2006
We are SO there!
Thanks to the heads up from Rob at VOLuntarily Conservative, my daughter and I will be seeing TransSiberian Orchestra in concert!If you saw the incredible Christmas lights last year ...
... You've heard TSO. You can also hear clips and order CDs through their site.
I adore this kind of music. It invokes a passion and physical reaction in me, taking my breath away and bringing me nearly to tears. That's what music is supposed to do. Last year, I found the three-CD plus DVD set on sale somewhere online ... best CD purchase ever! And I have longed to see them in concert, and lo! They will be in Knoxville on November 7! We are SO there!
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Room Noises
It is not often that I come across music that makes me gasp as chills run up my spine ... I am quite particular about what I consider "good music" and you can surmise quite correctly that rap and punk have no place in my listening repetoire. But my darling daughter popped a new CD of hers into the player in the car one day, and I was immediately enthralled, enchanted and almost giddy with the pleasure the music gave me. The CD: Room Noises, the band: EisleyEisley is comprised of three sisters, their brother and their best friend, still in their teens, from Tyler, TX. The sisters provide the main vocals with sweet, clear voices that blend and harmonize as only siblings can. The instrumental is imaginative, complete and enhances the lyrics, which could be drawn from a dream journal or a stream of consciousness ...
Its happening all the time
When I open my eyes
I'm still taken by suprise
I hold sunlight and swallow fireflies
And it makes me want to cry
-Brightly Wound
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And in the corner chair
soft and soap-scented
my darling cries apologies
We foresee the mercy
That's been shown my young limbs
Will not go unthanked or unseen
Wake up in the morning I shall
Wake up and so shall you
And I wake up, the sun is beautiful
And it is warming you and I
Fragile as we lie
-One Day I Slowly Floated Away
When I open my eyes
I'm still taken by suprise
I hold sunlight and swallow fireflies
And it makes me want to cry
-Brightly Wound
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And in the corner chair
soft and soap-scented
my darling cries apologies
We foresee the mercy
That's been shown my young limbs
Will not go unthanked or unseen
Wake up in the morning I shall
Wake up and so shall you
And I wake up, the sun is beautiful
And it is warming you and I
Fragile as we lie
-One Day I Slowly Floated Away
I visualize music. There is some special name for that, but I forget right at the moment. This music is bright pastels and primary colors, smooth and rolling, swirling. There are no blank spots, no white space. It is full, complete and clear. Days and hours after the CD stops playing, the music continues to flow through my head. It is the most pleasant ear worm I have ever had, so much so that when it begins to fade, I seek out the CD to play it again to get it back into my head.
I play music to match my mood, to either relieve it or enhance it ... when I am angry, Paula Cole. When my heart aches, Alanis. When I am mellow, Dan Fogelberg. When I'm jazzed and cool, Seal. Eisley has the magical ability to match whatever mood I am in, and does what I need ... to enhance or relieve. These kids have truly produced some magic. Go to the Amazon link above and play some of the clips. Or if you have MusicMatch Jukebox, you can play all their songs on the Radio there. See if you aren't just as enchanted with these kids as I am ...
Ooooh ... and I see that they are performing next month in Nashville ... oooohhhh. And just about the right time for darling daughter's sweet 16. I wonder how I could make that happen.
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