I recently commented on a post on the music think tank blog about whether fans want anything from musicians other than their music. My view is that if your music is good enough, then fans will tell you if they want anything else - if your music isn't good enough, if your performance isn't compelling, if you don't move the listener - then no matter how interesting your life is or how awesome your merchandise - nobody cares. What I am seeing in the destruction of music's economic model over the last decade is, funnily enough, more music. Music no longer has to fit the system - music can be what it is, and if it is compelling, it will get out. If you love music then I cannot recommend this movie highly enough - I admit to bawling my eyes out - but by the end I couldn't stop grinning and thinking that everything was going to be alright. Check out the Young at Heart page at Mahalo for more information and take a couple of minutes to watch the trailer below.
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Another musician Last.fm lists as similar to music2work2 is Nuno Lupi. His music is piano driven and is quite lovely.
My favorite piece of his is “Ballerina.” The tempo is fast and the melody is rhythmic and beautiful.
I suppose because of my love and appreciation of nature, when I listen to music, the images that are evoked for me are often nature-related. Listening to “Ballerina” the image that comes to mind is of the ocean. I can visualize the constant movement of the waves breaking on the shore, and the water more slowly and silently returning back to the sea. This image is evoked from the periods of hesitancy in the music followed by the piano runs.
I find this an uplifting piece of music; there is a sense of hopefulness about it. Due to it’s title, I doubt that Nuno Lupi had this same sort of image in mind while composing this piece. But, that is the wonderful thing about music. It can be heard differently at different times and by different people.
This piece reminds me of music2work2's session 1218. There are similarities between the music of Nuno Lupi and music2work2; Last.fm was right. You might want to check them out and see if you think so.
- is brilliant. My old computer crashed over the weekend and my entire iTunes library is currently unavailable. While I'm busy working out how to get everything off my iPod into the new iTunes (thanks Neil and Michele) I'm listening to some great "music2work2" - namely Beach House Radio - perfect for what I'm doing. I love how necessity breeds serendipity. I'm also trying out a new blog interface - Scribefire - digging it so far.