Landini and Italian Ars Nova (14th Century Medieval Music)
Seventeen pieces of music from the 1300s, seven of which were composed by Francesco Landini. Released 1992. Ensemble: Alla Francesca Musicians: Brigitte Lesne, Pierre Hamon, Catherine Joussellin, Emmanuel Bonnardot. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeWLspjiPvI
Fra Landskappleiken 1992.
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hardingfele / norsk folkemusikk / Hardanger fiddle / Norwegian folk music
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFjkoJZt1ig
From the BBC Radio 4 series "The Voices of...". Broadcast September 2016. The editing choices are a bit strange at times, but it's well worth hearing for anyone interested in Anne Briggs (possibly English folk music in general).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXQ2KO-G_SY
Legendary Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen died on a rescue mission for his Italian rival Umberto Nobile in the Arctic in 1928. The equally legendary Fridtjof Nansen held his memorial speech a few months later; this is a shortened version which he recorded on the 9th of January 1930. It has been unavailable (in this quality) for several years, but luckily I recently found a copy which I saved to a hard disk in 2017. I transcribed and translated it years before I made a channel, so you could say this video has been a long time in the making. I have added film from Amundsen's expedition to the Arctic with the ship "Maud", 1922-1925.
The Robert Service poem which Nansen quotes is "The Call of the Wild", albeit highly abbreviated and re-worded by Nansen. The Thomas Carlyle references must be at least partly to his work "The Early Kings of Norway" -- incidentally I have a copy of it, but unfortunately the font in my edition is too damned large to bear reading it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9caIUdBmZgo
From "Impressions. Pour le piano" by Norwegian composer Alf Hurum (1882-1972). Art by Henrik Sørensen (1882-1962). I don't know who the performer is.
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classical music / impressionism / Norway
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeK6Tqij6fE
Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985) plays «Let Me Fall» and talks about the old days.
I’ve previously uploaded a video of the man playing «The Drunken Hiccups», here:
https://youtu.be/CLsAn5-ym4E
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Df3cmhWkx0
Gravferdssalme etter Enok Olsen Vestre, innspilt 2020. Ikke til forveksling med Åshild Wetterhus. Kilde for opptaket er «Min Folketone» på fb, ved Norsk kvedarforum.
Recorded in 2020. The direct translation of the title is "I know a rest".
Paintings by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840).
norsk folkemusikk / Norge / Norway / traditional music / religious / funeral / funereal even
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI4foFc8xu0
This one's for those already into Wire, really. Sort of a missing link between 1977's "Pink Flag" and 1978's "Chairs Missing", with more of the sound of the former (pretty bare-bones, not yet so gloomy and experimental), but with tons of ideas and very different versions of songs that ended up on the latter as well as their third album in 1979, "154".
00:00 Oh No Not So (Save the Bullet)
01:35 Culture Vultures
03:41 It's the Motive
05:00 Love Ain't Polite
06:06 French Film (Blurred)
07:20 Underwater Experiences
10:34 Stalemate
12:49 Options R
14:37 Indirect Enquiries v1
16:20 Chairs Missing (Used To)
20:29 Being Sucked in Again
24:08 Ignorance No Plea (I Should Have Known Better)
28:10 Once is Enough
30:49 The Other Window
32:59 Stepping Off Too Quick (Not About to Die)
34:22 On Returning
36:11 Former Airline
37:23 Two People in a Room
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punk / post-punk / English / England
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTk-txXCg8k
The title translates as "Here I Was Born". It is an ode to the place where the singer is from; the mountains, heath, marshland etc., and the peace that the landscape brings to the soul. When "other homes" call her spirit away, she will rest in homely soil.
Sung and with lyrics by Brita Bratland (1910-1975) from Vinje in Telemark, over a traditional melody.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sRPufCdewY