The things you find when you go rooting through computer folders.
This was, of course, a play on the Motörhead album Bomber, and the fact that Lemmy had a similar ‘tash.
Bombur
Category: Music
Concerts, albums, music, guitar… music! You know! MUSIC!
Lamb of God in quarantine
One of my favourite bands, Lamb of God’s latest, self-titled, album dropped on Friday. It’s good.
Here are some songs the band have recorded remotely in quarantine. “Checkmate” (track 1) and “New Colossal Hate” (track 3) from Lamb of God (2020), and “Laid To Rest” from Ashes of the Wake (2004).
Shenandoah by NYCGB Alumni lockdown virtual choir
Over the last two months, I have been involved in a project with the NYCGB Alumni to record one of our favourite pieces, the American folk song “Shenandoah” arranged by James Erb.
We asked 404 (or so) singers to video their part of the piece, singing along to a backing track created by the tremendous Will Dawes. Then we had a technical team piece it all together, Ben worked on the audio, Tom on the video.
We thought we started this because we wanted to have some fun. We thought that we could possibly use it as a fundraiser or to encourage more people to take up singing but then we realised:
• We did it because we love singing.
• We did it because we love our alumni family.
• We did it because we love this piece of music.
I hope you love it too.
Feel free to share it far and wide.
Oranssi Pazuzu
Last night I was reviewing (for my 195 metal CDs project) a forthcoming EP from IDOLOS, an atmospheric black metal band who claim to come from the planet Venus (whose atmosphere, I learned today, is so hot it would cook a pizza in seven seconds).
After listening to their EP, which was an unlisted video, the YouTube algorithm served me up this glorious chunk of Finnish psychedelic black metal from Oranssi Pazuzu. It is wonderfully different.
The band takes its name from oranssi, which is the Finnish word for ‘orange’ and Pazuzu, a Babylonian wind demon. In the words of Barry Norman, and why not!
Anyway, that’s my listening sorted for this week: working my way through their back catalogue.
Led Zep-a-thon
I’ve always been more into albums than singles; I like to listen to complete collections of music than a more radio-like random playlist. And even better if I can listen to the whole body of an artist’s work, to hear how they have developed over the years.
This week, inspired by waking up to a Led Zeppelin song on the radio, I’ve had a Led Zep-a-thon.
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