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[SueC]

Another lovely song...

[Ulrich]

[Ulrich]

As for the weather, it's mostly cloudy, occasionally sunny...

[dsanchez]

one of the best party songs

[Ulrich]

I'm travelling appallingly alone on a singular road
Into the lavender fields that reach high beyond the sky

People ask me how I changed, I say "it is a singular road"
And the lavender has stained my skin and made me strange

[SueC]

The track I really love by this fiddler is called Whipped Cream and Norwegian in origin but it is so niche it's hard to find on YT.

However, here's something else I like and did find...

[MeltingMan]

[SueC]

Beautiful ode to music. ♥

These guys are around 60 now and still sounding as good as ever.

[SueC]

I caught The Music Show on Radio National earlier this week, featuring Vika & Linda, Tongan Australian sisters who've been singing together since they were children (it's a cultural thing). I didn't know this, but they were the backing vocalists I much admired in some tracks by The Black Sorrows which were popular here in the early 90s:

They first came to my attention when they contributed this track to the Australian comedy/drama classic Seachange:

They still sound completely amazing in their mid-50s, as you can hear during this sample of their lockdown singing, from Linda's house:

 

On the RN show this week they were discussing singing harmonies versus singing in unison. They sang separately and then in unison, and it was like there were three different people!

[Ulrich]

[Ulrich]

"Pull the shades of grey together
If you want to live forever
Let's pull the shades of grey together"

[SueC]

Wow, I actually really like that sound - and have never heard of these people before, must look them up!

I've been listening to Cure songs today - all of Wish again (while digging a trench), some live stuff, various B-sides. But I'm also listening to The Church a fair bit because I've got two back catalogue albums from them that came in the mail last week. Here's something from an album of theirs I've had 20 years and recently really took to after being lukewarm about it previously.

Guitarist Marty Wilson-Piper doing the vocals on this one.

[Ulrich]

Wow, I actually really like that sound - and have never heard of these people before, must look them up!

Used to be an 80s band (guitar wave), reunited around 2000 and released this album (co-produced by David M Allen, btw) in 2001.

[Ulrich]

Demi-gods on golden thrones
Spend most of their time all alone
We're living through them until a descent to hell
Becomes our breakfast thrill

[SueC]