The RetouchPro Music Club

[Kraellin]

now, i dont know how this has never been put here before, or if it has, then why it was never stickied. but, oh well, i'm putting it here now

let's have a little discussion and intercourse on music, your favorite stuff, links to legal stuff, artists you like, anything music, and that would include things like American Idol or Britain's Got Talent or America's Got Talent and so on. it can be current or past. if you loved presley, then hey, speak up. if Bach turned you on, then yay Bach! start a sub-topic or discussion on a certain artist, instrument, song, composer, whatever. this is all things music. keep it clean; keep it legal and mostly, keep it fun

[Doug Nelson]

I'll just state here that I love New Age music so everyone can start ragging on it right away

But prior to that I was a big fan of Kansas, Pink Floyd, Renaissance, Alan Parsons Project, Camel, etc.

But I'm not immune from American Idol music.

[Vernon]

I'm with you, Doug: Artists like Amethystium, Deuter for new age/atmospheric sounds.

I also divert and inspire myself with such artists as Hungry Lucy, and off-beat mash-ups Club de Belugas' "Hey Mambo", or good electronica like Booka Shade

[lurch]

Nothing like a little Mozart to refresh the soul . . .

[Sweetlight]

So by "keep it clean" this means I can't have intercourse too?

It's so funny cause last night I was like, wonder if we could sometimes drop a link with our image to the music we were listening to at the time.

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[crazyfly1]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

now, i dont know how this has never been put here before, or if it has, then why it was never stickied. but, oh well, i'm putting it here now

let's have a little discussion and intercourse on music, your favorite stuff, links to legal stuff, artists you like, anything music, and that would include things like American Idol or Britain's Got Talent or America's Got Talent and so on. it can be current or past. if you loved presley, then hey, speak up. if Bach turned you on, then yay Bach! start a sub-topic or discussion on a certain artist, instrument, song, composer, whatever. this is all things music. keep it clean; keep it legal and mostly, keep it fun

Ha, you said intercourse.
Sorry, wierd mood.

Google connie Talbot bgt... amazing angel!

BTW, I like Brahms, Chopin, or rachmaninoff for something a bit harder.

Oh, and probably my favorite band of all time is Sonia Dada.

[crazyfly1]

Funny,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKKlhYF53w

[Kraellin]

that was hilarious, Wm. BIG HANDS! rofl.

[Kraellin]

ok, i'll put in a plug for our own natalie brown (rnbluva here on RP): http://www.natalie-brown.com/ . natalie has a very good voice, sings some very good stuff and has been kind enough over the years to post some of her songs for free to us. i havent heard from her recently here in RP, but her site is still up and i'm sure she's still singing

[lkroll]

I use to be a big fan of Mods a few years ago. Recently, I found out that my favorite player (Modplug) went open source and downloaded it. Looks like it's also a tracker now which is cool. Was very surprised too that my account at modplug (they changed their website, but my account login/password still worked) still existed. It was literally 5 years since I last visited and made a comment. It's too bad that the Amiga architecture didn't win out. Way ahead of it's time and only now is parallel processing coming of age again. I have a collection of cool mods including Bat Dance and Axcel F.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/modplug/

[Kraellin]

ah, the amiga 2000. i loved that machine. dedicated processors for everything i used to laugh when the ibm compatibles started talking about 'multi-media'... we'd had it for years

thanks for the link, lyle!

[Nasturtium]

I really like the harmonies in my niece's latest song
http://www.purevolume.com/akatereynolds/albums/Untitled

[aartist]

This is easy,

Dave Mathews - ANTS MARCHING & all his other great songs
Sarah McLachlan - HOLD ON & all her other great songs

Oh, forgot, Buble has great voice and great songs.

[cricket1961]

I'm a huge fan of the blues. any kind. BUt as long as its not acid rock or that beat-someone-up kind of music then I'll listen to it. I was a pro-musician for many many years and got to play in all kinds of different venues with artists ranging from classical to hard rock to southern rock to ...ahem.. dico'ish.

Love it all.

[Florin]

Hello guys. I think I've mentioned that my real profession is the music. I'm a Bucharest' (Romania) Conservatory cello performer, graduated in 1975. I've been playing some years in the Radio-TV Symphony there, travel whole Europe with it, then I moved to Venezuela, as a musician too, in 1981.
For me, nothing is more relaxing, desconecting and good-mood-working-time than a soft classical selection. I really can focus more and have a better workflow when I'm listening my favourite musical parts: the baroque german and italian masters, classical instrumental concerts, italian opera famous arias, piano solo and so on.
Regards

[aartist]

Yes, I like solo piano too, and cello.
The cello usually strikes my happy sadness emotional buttons.

I'm a big fan of American Idol and love watching all the singers perform.
I became a big fan of all Will Young after seeing him perform on last season's
finally. All his songs are great. Great voice.

[Florin]

This is something outstanding. It's so different the Vivaldi's usual performance. Try to look for it:
Vivaldi-The Four Seasons
Janine Jansen - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons [Hybrid SACD]
Janine Jansen Follows her First Decca Album of Violin Favorites with this High-energy Account of Vivaldi's Four Violin Concertos, Known and Loved as 'the Four Seasons'. The Dutch Violinist Leads her Specially Selected Group of Soloists in a Fresh Look at the Most Loved of all Classical Works. What Gives this Recording Its Tremendous Freshness and Sparkle is Janine's Use of Just One Player Per Part. Gone is the Heavy Orchestral Sound which is So
Familiar, this is a Four Seasons which Sparkles with New Life and Energy, Like a Freshly Cleaned Old Painting Revealed
in Its True Colors.

ALBUM
RELEASE DATE: November 8, 2005
LABEL: Decca
UPC: 02894756188
CATALOG: DSA 475 6188
ARTIST: Janine Jansen, Maarten Jansen, Stacey Watton, Jan Jansen, Elizabeth Kenny, Julian Rachlin, Candida Thompson,
Henk Rubingh
COMPOSER: Antonio Vivaldi
GENRE: Classical
# Discs: 1
# Tracks: 12
TOTAL RUNTIME: 0:38:55 hr

P.S. I have at least 4-5 Vivaldi's "4 seasons" with the best violin and orchestra performes but this is the best. It's simply great.

[Florin]

Same artist:
Janine Jansen – Tchaikovsky (Violin Concerto)
Classical | Label: DECCA, 2008 |

Album Details
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

Artists
Janine Jansen (Violin)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Harding

Tracklist
Tchaikovsky: Violin concerto op.35
1 Allegro moderato
2 Canzonetta (Andante)
3 Finale (Allegro vivacissimo)

Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d'un lieu cher
4 Meditation
5 Scherzo
6 Melodie

Jansen is delighted to record the Tchaikovsky Concerto with Daniel Harding. She has worked with him once before, and feels they have a unique musical understanding. “It is so incredibly natural to play with him. We speak the same language in music.” This is Jansen’s first collaboration with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. “Our paths had crossed before. We socialised together whenever we happened to perform in the same city. In the Netherlands I organise my own chamber music festival where my approach is similar to that of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra: intense, like a family relationship. The players are not just a unit, but above all a meeting of great musicians, of people who really want to speak through their music, who sit on the edge of their seat and communicate that to the audience. That, to me, is the essence of playing music together.”

[Florin]

This is splendid, too. Very nice to hear and relax:
Janine Jansen - Janine Jansen (2003)
Classical | 2003 | | 57:22 | Decca

Janine Jansen, violin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth, conductor

Tracklisting (single files):
01 - Tchaikovsky - Danse Russe (Swan Lake)
02 - Khachaturian - Nocturne (Suite Masquerade)
03 - Saint-Saens - Havanaise, op.83
04 - Saint-Saens - Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso, op. 28
05 - Shostakovich - Romance (The Gadfly Suite)
06 - John Williams - Schindlers List (Main Theme)
07 - Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending

[Florin]

A little surprise for all of you:

Track 02, Janine Jansen - Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 No. 1 "Spring": II. Largo.m4a:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ylj8gs89v0pdo8p

I made a small selection for you with Adobe Audition.
This .flac (los less) file must be played with Windows Media Player (or other)

Janine's CD photo and covers:

http://www.mediafire.com/i/?eh9a4c240rjczbz

Enjoy

[4personnen]

Anything but soft (that means Metal, metal industrial, a bit of punk, some new wave -the cynical part of "soft" - and electronic music, 80's-90's) and also the Who and David Bowie and a bit of 60's soul (the Temptations and the likes). The only piece of classical music that I can bear is "music for the funeral of queen Mary" from Purcell and some Wagner stuffs. I think that I've never listened to a piece of jazz that suits me. Except maybe "strange fruit" by Billie Holliday But I don't really know if it's Jazz. I have a sort of disgust for all 70's progressive rock Voila, that's it!

[Britsdad]

Hi all,

Try downloading this http://www.spotify.com/uk/new-user/ it's free and you get 20 hours a month of any music you want.
Personally I've just found Rory Gallagher again, love it.
John

[Kraellin]

i think this has been posted before on retouchpro, but i'll post it again. this is Pandora: http://www.pandora.com/ . pandora is free. it says it's internet radio and like radio you dont get to pick exactly what you want but, you do pick an artist, style, genre and so on and it then picks songs related to that entry. if you register (free) you can then save your 'station'. yes, when you pick your first item you are creating a virtual 'station'. it's that station that you are saving and which keeps track of your interests.

it's an innovative idea in music. i'm not quite sure how they make money but they must be cause they've been around for a few years now. anyways, even if you dont register you can still try it out any time you want.

have fun

[Boneappetit]

Actually I'm a trombonist that's where I get my nick from (Bone-appetit) and I became a member of RPro because I'm a Ps junkie. Of shadows and highlights I know the same as I know of architecture.... (nothing). I like any kind of music as long as is good. Bach is one of my classical favorites. My favorite is jazz, old and new. On the rock side I prefer the old school progressive bands, like: Gentle Giant, ELP, Kansas, Yes, Chicago, Jethro Tull, to name a few. More recently music from: Sting, Phill Collins and David Palmer again to name a few, is very nice.

Florin, I like the cello also, I believe it is also in bass clef like the trombone, but that nostalgic sound is so hunting, a great instrument, and you got yourself a great resume, keep it up.

Kraellin, thanx for posting this. So cool.

[amica999]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

i think this has been posted before on retouchpro, but i'll post it again. this is Pandora: http://www.pandora.com/ . pandora is free. have fun

Too bad, another constraint for non-US-people :-(

[4personnen]

I'm Using live 365, Ads if you are not paying, but they are American shops ads so I'm not tempted

[palms]

Thought i would join in this discussion
I rarely listen to music when on the pc i find it distracting,

I like all genre's except for jazz

but when doing the housework ( i do occasionally do some ) then i like it loud

my fav group of the moment is "The Killers" but i also like Kings of Leon and Elbow

when chilling out you cant beat some good soul music

then if i want too waste a hour or two then going through you tube for the all the old 70's/80's stuff

what i dont like is all the old artists doing the concert tour thing at ridiculously high ticket prices and they just dont have the voice for it anymore ( or the stamina) then you just know you are putting into their pension fund

Palms

[Kraellin]

Kraellin, thanx for posting this. So cool.

you're welcome

palms, make up some playlists of your choice on youtube and then just call one up when working on a smudge or other piece and set it on 'play all' and let it run. very relaxing

[chillin]

I enjoy to listen to Justin Aftab, a very young composer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGkPE...eature=related

[Boneappetit]

Guys, you should see this girl, great bass player, Tal Wilkenfield, she's 20 now, she is incredible... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USJ9BA05GU0