Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol Music, Episode 6
Saturday, 18. February 2012
Sade
Sultry and classy are the two words that best describe Nigerian born Sade (Pronounced Shar-day). This British singer, songwriter’s music is a blend of smooth jazz, R&B and urban beats. In tonight’s music pick, she performs her funky The Sweetest Taboo at the Open Air Theater in San Diego. Ladies and gentlemen…a nice round of applause for Sade!
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joetoad Says:
Oh Yeaha.. ! verry sexy.
Don’t know if her music is really in my area of the favorites, it is well done, and she is so very good at what she does, but from my view, she don’t have much ”range”, she has just a few notes, and I can’t make out the words in those songs, is that too much to axe?
She ain’t much better than country western, which I don’t like. She is competent, in the music business, but hey, that is like the News business, and other mass media falderall. (the main stream news… daily propaganda stuff).
So what’s your angle here Sib, are you pimping for the music bus? If so, I don’t get whether you just like that gal, which is ok, or is there some sub text, I don’t think so, I don’t see that as much of a way to put out much of a statement, since having watched the Grammies, last week, gessus, the dancing was completely stunning! I didn’t know humans, could do those feats.
I did note, that the accomplishments of the Black people of the performers was much better than anything the poor old whites did.
That was pathetic, to juxtapose old Glenn Cambel and some other older white singers, against real gadamned good black talent.
The message was really solid: White America, you are done, your icons are pathetic, you “can’t jump”, you “can’t box”, you can’t do nuthin’, and your bosses in the government and in the suits of power, don’t care if you go down!
pj98rider Says:
Joetoad,
My pick, not Sibel’s. Why? I’ve been a fan of hers for many years and she’s a favorite of mine.
Speaking of Grammies, she and her band have garnered four. She’s also has sold over 110 million records worldwide. That’s a little more than competent.
These Saturday night music picks are just a pause to relax and listen. I try to mix it up each week but do showcase what I like. Anyway, if you have something you’d like to hear let us know.
P. Jamiol
joetoad Says:
well gewiz don’t get it wrong P.J. what I mean, and that ain’t anything to put bad on the craft of these great artists, however, I am talking about what other stuff, like… and I sure don’t want to get into that much, cause, what I am getting at, is not about the greatness or the beneficicsciounse of these performers…
I like Sade some, not saying she ain’t good,
You put me on the spot, cause, hell I don’t know who to put up there as my favorite example for music… just don’t have one at the moment, but, I am not too sure I would put one out there, if I don’t like it real good.
I like Rachmaninov, and um… oh can’t remember the names… I got the gadamned tapes here, ya know, real damned good piano stuff, killer piano shit… really that is too much. Schopann, (spelling), and Bethoven… real good. and so many
joetoad Says:
There is so much music out there… today… music is more important than much… Music, is the message
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where used to be… “media was the message” music is the message…
Did you ever hear of the tale of the Pied piper, well some like him, done could play a tune, that all the youngsters would follow him, couldn’t resist to go with the beat of the music, the call of the piper, irresistable,
and that is a thing to think about, cause we need one of those pipers, we need some like that, to put up against the crap that is.
Hope you don’t mind my style, but we need a pied piper, more now than ever.
So It will be in the form of music… so well, you are on the right tangent there PJ.
simon Says:
Jamming. I am playing with a tabla player, and a music therapist that plays banjo, clarinet, and American Indian flute. I am playing Sitar. A little music theory. Just tuning or pure tones are different from all the music, rock, jazz, bluegrass, or classical that use the equal tempered scale. What’s the big difference, harmony versus melody, overtones versus a flatter sound that transposes from one scale to the next? How does it sound? Weird to a western ear, because our ears are trained to like vanilla. If you like chocolate then quartertones and overtones are the way to go. The real test is if the plants grow better, the birds sing with you, and the wind blows. If they don’t, you just have indoor music. Another musical tidbit – Phi. This is the golden ratio, 1.618. If you divide C sharp into G based on standard frequencies, you get the value 1.618. Play this on a piano and it is called an augmented fourth. It wants to resolve into a perfect fifth – C and G. Play it in pure tones and the infinite depth of the irrational number Phi expresses in pure beauty. Why? Well, flower petals and a hundred other things in nature have a mathematical progression based upon the Fibonacci sequence, the guy that gave us our present numbering system. Divide the preceding number of the sequence into the next up and you always get closer to Phi, but never quite get there. Many famous artists use the Golden ratio. Bach uses the golden ratio in his rhythmic patterns. You get my drift? We are part of nature, and if we play with nature, she will play with us. Next try singing split tones to your quartertones, like the Tuva. You can get a camel to let down her milk, or make plants grow better. To me that’s real music.
joetoad Says:
to simon:
["A little music theory. Just tuning or pure tones are different from all the music, rock, jazz, bluegrass, or classical that use the equal tempered scale. What’s the big difference, harmony versus melody, overtones versus a flatter sound that transposes from one scale to the next? How does it sound? Weird to a western ear, because our ears are trained to like vanilla. If you like chocolate then quartertones and overtones are the way to go."]
That reminds me of the time, way long ago, when we did the drop… we didn’t know better, and that was when we got a taste of that…. realm, where the music goes into other stages, or that the quarter tones and half tones, call it that… the most notable thing was how music, as it was playing off the stereo set, started to kind of go off from the usual sounds… it started to kind of go off into another sound, in between the quarter tones and half tones, it started to meld, it was very strange.
But that was long ago… 1966, and that particular, was the least of it…. but has been remembered.
joetoad Says:
and by the way… Jose… I forgot to mention that the way out of this labryinth ( devolving to hell spiral) is music.
JUst like the movie where the space folks came down and they put on a music display, that was “ET” the movie as I remember it, but that was a very important feature. Sounds!! that is it! sounds that are more important than most of the other stuff we worry about.
Well you better take care of your Ears and youre Hearing, if that is true, cause, you want to hear the sounds that come when the sounds come, when the mesiah comes back, or wtf, you don’t want to be deef do ya…?
Xicha Says:
Deja voodoo
here comes another rioting youth
just like that movie
where all the hair popped
and squares dropped
and colors ran
from firebombs
and mowed lawns
and got fed
white bread
No chair to burn on
no dime to turn on
rode the flames to the suburbs
got swept up like the others
joetoad Says:
@ Xicha:
I like what you say there, because you make a lotta sense there. Good poetry too, I like stuff like that, that is real.
Xicha Says:
Thanks, joetoad. Inspired by those kids in Paris a few years back. Mass arrests – one kid got electricuted near a power station while hiding from the cops. Some of the comments reminded me.
For the record, I agree with all the perspectives here. Relaxing with meaning, even if that’s just relaxing. Simon reminded me of the tuvan throat singers and that blind bluesman who went to Mongolia to learn about it. There’s a good documentary about that story I’ve seen. I’ll look for it and follow up…
Xicha Says:
And thanks PJ for the selections each week. Maybe we’ ll need to add the Monday wake up and drive edition