Category: Tune of the day

The Dutch band Supersister, featuring Robert Jan Stips on keyboards, were among the best exponents of the Canterbury school of prog rock.

It’s an old story: man meets mermaid, and the inevitable happens. It’s not quite like Hans Christian Anderson.

Continue reading “Tune of the day #179”

Szymanowski’s take on the Scheherazade story is quite a bit different from Rimsky-Korsakov’s.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard released five albums in 1917, each with a different gimmick. Polygondwanaland‘s is that it’s “name your price,” i.e., free.

Country Joe McDonald, who was named for Joseph Stalin, died Saturday.

The archetypal Raymond Scott piece, as arranged for Paul Whiteman’s orchestra.

From Holdsworth’s first proper solo album.¹

Although Arthur Farwell wrote settings of Emily Dickinson poems and music for a play by Lord Dunsany among many other works, he is probably best-known today, insofar as he is remembered at all, for his “Indianist” music.

Pioneering fusion by the fiddler who worked with both Frank Zappa and John McLaughlin.

I’ve never been able to take Metallica seriously.

It’s hard to sit still listening to The Bothy Band.

Another tune from my childhood sojourn with the Martian side of the family.

See Dave Barry for the historical background.

Godowsky’s music probably isn’t excessively difficult for pianists with three or four hands. For those with only two, it’s more of a challenge.

Bill Nelson from his BBD days.

So you think you’ve heard everything?

“Hot Smoke and Sasafrass” (sic) was their big hit, but I liked the flip side, too.

Another barcarolle by Gabriel Fauré. He wrote thirteen of them, all worth hearing. Fauré’s music is not easy to play; Franz Liszt said of his first attempt at one of Fauré’s pieces, “I’ve run out of fingers.”

One of the curious facts about the composers of game music is that Nobuo Uematsu, probably the best-known and most popular (except maybe for Koji Kondo) had the least formal training.

A laid-back tune from Gatton’s second and last Major Label Recording.