I still think that every cafe should have a jukebox. For that reason I've decided to restore in a slightly different format the Jukebox that some of you perhaps already know:
I will try to avoid playing banal records on this machine. Under banal I mean music available in every music shop around the world from the USA to China. For example the Music album by Madonna isn't for my Jukebox (sorry, Madonna fans) while music played by Tadeusz Nalepa is just the thing as in most countries this great Polish bluesman is not known and his recordings are not so easy to be found even in Poland. At the same time if I've managed to find something peculiar (say it a CD with Madonna singing Armenian folk songs) I will not hesitate to load the Jukebox with that gem.
I hope that the records you can hear in my Jukebox in MP3 will help you to learn about music from various corners of the world. If you like what you hear, you can later buy that music in first-rate sound quality on CDs or vinyl at record shops or online...
NK
[Edited by Nikita Kobrin on November 24, 2007 6:21 AM]
Country: Russia Genre/Style: Reggae, Blues, Rock, Neo Folk Web
Where To Go? from Scherzo-girl We'll All Follow Jah from Batakakumba Spacesuit from A & B Winter's Coming from Kon-Tiki Hey, Little Apple from Krutitsya-vertitsya
Olga Arefieva and Kovcheg take you on an acoustic journey spanning traditional folk songs to reggae-influenced modern acoustic rock. Kovcheg's older songs have a classic, '70s-rock sound with reggae rhythms, expressive lyrics and limited instrumentation (think "The Police", in their early years). The classic rock style was prevalent in Eastern Europe and Russia through the '80s and still is quite popular today. A great asset for an often unplugged band like Kovcheg is that Olga Arefieva is one of those performers who does her best in front of an audience, rather than in a studio. The spirit of the performance has carried across surprisingly well into the digitized format. A diminishing artform in this age of platinum records and stadium concerts, audience playing is still highly popular in Russia and Europe. Olga's vocals are very empathic, conveying every nuance of sadness, joy, or even cynicism or sarcasm. This plus the great choice of expressive supporting instruments make the Kovcheg a truly enjoyable alternative to today's electrified and over-commercialized standard fare. Leonard Cohen would be pleased.
Chris Jones
We have been weaned off the notion that in beautiful melody there can be pride, and dignity, and - by far not always tender - sweetness. In their desperate melodism Olga Arefieva's songs sound like fierce endorsement of the good and the harmony, they bear something from the belief in Messiah's arrival, as if the Egyptian darkness of the Soviet rock has been penetrated by a powerful ray of light. And even rock-n-roll itself acquires a new supreme meaning coming back to its origins. Not the formal rhythm-and-blues origins, but the origins of the human soul. It's hard to find an analogy for this music. It doesn't exist even there where this music directly relates to - in the folk-rock, which is an indisputable virtue in our time of imitators.
A. Korshun
NK
[Edited by Nikita Kobrin on July 31, 2007 4:06 AM]
Sort of Technical Stuff: How to play records in the Jukebox
Sort of Technical Stuff: How to play records in the Jukebox
If you click icon in posts you will get to another page where it's possible to listen to a record online:
Please note that previews are made with substantially reduced bit rate and thus the sound quality is far from Hi-Fi level but still enough to grab the general feeling of the music and artist.
The MP3 file isn't downloadable.
NK
[Edited by Nikita Kobrin on April 7, 2007 2:53 AM]
The Swingle Singers - Anyone for Bach, Mozart, Handel, Vivaldi?
The Swingle Singers - Anyone for Bach, Mozart, Handel, Vivaldi?
And anyone for scat? I adore this kind of ad lib singing and The Swingle Singers are definitely among my favourites.
A French vocal group famed for tackling all manner of classical material (baroque, fugues, madrigals, orchestral overtures) and switching them to an a cappella swing setting, the Swingle Singers was formed in Paris during the early '60s by American expatriate Ward Swingle. By the time of their 1963 album debut, the group comprised eight voices — Swingle, Christiane Legrand (sister of Michel), Jean-Claude Briodin, Anne Germain, Claude Germaine, Jean Cussac, Claudine Meunier and Jeanette Baucomont. That album, Jazz Sebastian Bach (titled Bach's Greatest Hits in America), earned the group a Grammy award and almost made the Top Ten.
Country: France, now UK Genre/Style: Jazz, Scat, Classical Release Year: 1986 Fugue from Sonata no. 37 by W. A. Mozart
The novelty inherent in an eight-voice scatting choir resulted in dozens of television and radio appearances around the world during the mid-'60s. Somehow the group also managed to record follow-up LPs Going Baroque in 1964 and Anyone for Mozart? one year later. Both were Grammy winners as well — though Best Performance by a Chorus definitely wasn't the most competitive category at the awards ceremony. In an era when vocal choruses increasingly slipped down the easy-listening slope however, the Swingle Singers moved in precisely the opposite direction. In 1969, a subsidiary group called Swingles II premiered Sinfonia, a composition by the avant-garde composer Lucianio Berio that also utilized the New York Philharmonic.
After a move to England in 1973, Ward Swingle recruited a new Swingle Singers and changed musical direction, incorporating material from the avant-garde as well as the Renaissance era and jazz. Swingle himself retired from active performance in 1984, but continued on as music director. The group continued to tour the world into the '90s, performing operas by Azio Corghi and Berio, appearing in compositions with ballet companies, and holding various classes and workshops as well.
John Bush
This 16-track, 63-minute CD is compiled from the best material off of the Swingle Singers' classic mid-'60s LPs. The sound is excellent (and offers a serious edge over the original LPs which, unlike later Philips classical releases, were pressed in America and were usually fairly noisy), and the repertory is chosen perfectly.
Bruce Eder
Track Listing: 01 - SONATA NO. 15 - (W. A. Mozart) 02 - AH! VOUS DIRAIS-JE MAMAN - (W. A. Mozart) 03 - ALLEGRO (from Sonata no. 14) - (W. A. Mozart) 04 - FUGUE (from Sonata no. 37) - (W. A. Mozart) 05 - EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK - (W. A Mozart) 06 - BADINERIE (from the Suite in B minor) - (J. S. Bach) 07 - AIR (from the Harpsichord Suite in E major) - (G. F. Handel) 08 - GIGUE (from the Cello Suite in C major) - (J. S. Bach) 09 - LARGO (from the Harpsichord Concerto in F minor) - (J. S. Bach) 10 - PRELUDE NO. 19 (from the Well-Tempered Clavier, 1st book) - (J. S. Bach) 11 - PREAMBULE (from the Partita no. 5 in G major) - (J. S. Bach) 12 - FUGUE (from the Estro Harmonico, op. 3, no. 11) - (A. Vivaldi) 13 - PRELUDE NO. 7 (from the Well-Tempered Clavier, 2nd book) - (J. S. Bach) 14 - SOLFEGGIETTO - (Ph. E. Bach) 15 - DER FRUHLING - (W. F. Bach) 16 - PRELUDE NO. 24 (from the Well-Tempered Clavier, 2nd book) - (J. S. Bach)
NK
[Edited by Nikita Kobrin on April 7, 2007 3:05 AM]
If you are into Texas Boogie and hard juicy Blues Rock this CD is for you!
Country: Estonia Genre/Style: Blues Rock Release Year: 1994 If You Don't Like ...
Kolumbus Kris is a little-known outfit from Estonia but in my opinion it's one of the best - if not the best - Blues Rock band in the territory of the former USSR...
Track Listing:
01. Soft Legs 02. Cruising Around 03. If You Don't Like ... 04. Payday 05. Telephone Blues 06. Cigarettes And Liquor 07. Easy 08. Long Way From Home 09. Night-time 10. Blue Monday Blues 11. Beer Drinking Boys 12. Good Lookin' Baby 13. Burn The Breeze 14. Mojo
Entering the frills-free sound world conjured up by Estonian band Kolumbus Kris means stepping into a Boogie-Party Land. Southern Boogie Kings they once called an album of theirs. And they have, more than once actually, strutted their stuff on that side of the Big Pond where all their musical inspiration comes from. Honest and workaholic house-rockers, this lot.
NK
[Edited by Nikita Kobrin on July 31, 2007 4:14 AM]
Regular Mother tongue: Spanish Posts: 89 Joined: March 30, 2006 Location: United States
RE: Omega - Omega 6: Nem tudom a neved
Nikita:
Thanks for such a wonderful Forum. My thirteen yrs old daughter is thrilled with ALL the music that she is able to access thanks to you. Some she truly enjoys, others not as much but she is mature enough to appreciate the differences and open herself to the world. And we do it together in the process.
This is a breath of fresh air in such a confusing world (and forum lately!)
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RE: Nikita's Jukebox
Nice to see the Jukebox back in full swing, Nikita. I had listened to Kris Kolumbus before, thanks to you, and find his music right up my alley My favourite so far.
I can see why Olga Ariefa is compared to Janis Joplin and beyond!!! Love it. The Swingle Singers are so easy to listen to. Omega 6 is so beautifully Hungarian with the accordion wooing us. Thanks and keep them coming.
Regular Mother tongue: Spanish Posts: 89 Joined: March 30, 2006 Location: United States
RE: Nikita's Jukebox
Hum, tough! I'll say Olga, Kris, Omega in that order. She has a good laugh with the Swingle Singers just because its "old people music" but she loves Elvis and anything jazz/blues/early rock besides her father's mexican music from the 50's and the mariachis. We might not understand the lyrics but music is universal.
She asks is you can please offer her some French music, similar to these....she will love to share them with her French class.
إبراء ذمة المنتدى: وجهات النظر الواردة في المنتديات تعبر عن وجهات نظر مؤلفيها وليست بالضرورة وجهات نظر مالك الموقع و/أو المشرفين. إذا اعتبر القارئ أن مشاركة ما تشكل إساءة، فيتعين عليه/ا تقديم شكوى لمشرف المنتدى المعني. يتم التعامل مع الشكوى خلال 24 ساعة، ولكن يرجى مراعاة أن المشرف قد يقطن في منطقة زمنية مختلفة. استخدام المنتديات يجسد موافقتك على قواعد نشر المنتدى.
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but she loves Elvis and anything jazz/blues/early rock besides her father's mexican music from the 50's and the mariachis. We might not understand the lyrics but music is universal.