{"id":35821,"date":"2017-08-07T14:10:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T19:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=35821"},"modified":"2017-09-03T17:51:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T22:51:46","slug":"name-that-tune-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/name-that-tune-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Name that tune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a pop quiz for a Monday afternoon. How many riffs can you identify?<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/faH2okcOy0A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>If you found that easy, try some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Clr9GYjsByc\" target=\"_blank\">classical standards<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WBrgCUBAHcg\" target=\"_blank\">Yes songs<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f1abb5urCu0\" target=\"_blank\">Black Sabbath<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P1V5wtx9W9E\" target=\"_blank\">Mahavishnu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progarchives.com\/artist.asp?id=5913\" target=\"_blank\">Tatsuya Yoshida<\/a> isn&#8217;t compiling medleys, he plays a Japanese version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progarchives.com\/subgenre.asp?style=11\" target=\"_blank\">zeuhl<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a concert by Koenji Hyakkei, one of his many projects.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IY7UfIq2L_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-35821-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wry-rye.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wry-rye.mp3\">http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wry-rye.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>I&#8217;ve become quite fond of songwriter and composer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masumi_It\u014d\" target=\"_blank\">\u4f0a\u85e4\u771f\u6f84<\/a>, a.k.a. Masumi Itou (or Ito, Itoh or It\u014d), though her singing voice does take some getting used to. Tunes she&#8217;s written include the ending themes for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mGKjPD_BNAE\" target=\"_blank\">Flip Flappers<\/a><\/em><span id='easy-footnote-1-35821' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/name-that-tune-4\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-35821' title='Someone else sings on this, but it&amp;#8217;s unmistakably an Itou song.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WHuRBuiL4Bc\" target=\"_blank\">Humanity Has Declined<\/a><\/em> and the openings to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2iOjEEMf-g8\" target=\"_blank\">Magical Nyan Nyan Taruto<\/a><\/em><span id='easy-footnote-2-35821' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/name-that-tune-4\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-35821' title='I never got all the way through the first episode, I&amp;#8217;m afraid. It takes more than a good opening song to hold my attention.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8qp52SAUO7k\" target=\"_blank\">Azumanga Daioh<\/a><\/em>. A quick search on YouTube will turn up many more. I recently found some of her recordings on Amazon.jp. Her album <i>Harmonies of Heaven<\/i> is mostly of her own compositions, but she does include the traditional tune &#8220;\u6545\u90f7\u306e\u7a7a,&#8221; above. It sounds oddly familiar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a pop quiz for a Monday afternoon. How many riffs can you identify? If you found that easy, try some classical standards, or Yes songs, or Black Sabbath or Mahavishnu. When Tatsuya Yoshida isn&#8217;t compiling medleys, he plays a Japanese version of zeuhl. Here&#8217;s a concert by Koenji Hyakkei, one of his many projects. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/name-that-tune-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Name that tune&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-9jL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35821"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36831,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35821\/revisions\/36831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}