Category: Music

How’s your Icelandic?

Feel like a howl-along?

More crazy Finns. These play surf music.

A live recording of a tune Satriani wrote back when he had hair.

Like Leo Kottke, Peter Lang was discovered by John Fahey over fifty years ago.

… and now — Mozart?

The Bothy Band returns.

The opening to Satoshi Kon’s Paprika, featuring Susumu Hirasawa’s “Mediational Field.” You can hear the full-length version of the tune here.

So that no one will ever think of me as “cool.”

David Lindley, without Kaleidoscope.

Kaleidoscope from a reunion album, without David Lindley, as wacko as ever.

More favorite Schubert.

Their big hit was “Mexican Radio,” but this is what I remember them for.

How is your bird’s lumbago?

… and now some high culture, with balloons. Tchaikovsky had it coming.

Tommy Emmanuel and Stephen Bennett were both regulars at Winfield years ago. Sometimes they did a set together. Bennett would play “You Really Got Me,” and Emmanuel would follow with “Day Tripper.”

The sound is not as good as I would like, but the energy in this live performance compensates.

A song Malcolm Dalglish wrote for his infant potato.