Sunday 15 November 2015

EVENSONG, ACOUSTIC HEAVY METAL. Rodrigo y Gabriela on Later with Jools Holland


9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Welcome back Mr Ishmael, I was worried about you.
You sir are unique on the net, and thank you so much for Rodrigo y Grabriela. made my day.
All the very best, Mick.

call me ishmael said...

Thank you, mr mick. I know little of this style of music but I thought that hers was the harder part, mr mike is a student of the European form, maybe he knows; in any event, although I only found it at midnight, it made my day too, exhilerating, and a relief from skymadeupnewsandfilth's crocodile tears francais.

Alphons said...

Gabriela seems to be a master of the rhythm method !

mongoose said...

Very nice, Mr I, though I do not know what you would call the lady playing the box as much as the strings like that.

Holland is an irritatingly eclectic git. (Saw him live in Squeeze in 1979? The Post Punk Years. Aw, bless.) The dross quota on his show though seems to be rising.

call me ishmael said...

There was another clip, sans the prat Holland, but it was not, otherwise, as good. I stopped watching him years ago. There will be a technical term for Gabriel's percussive technique, which seems to me like a synthesis of Flamenco hand-clapping and heel-stomping. Makes Seasick Steve look seasick, whatever it's called.

call me ishmael said...

Mistress, surely, m alphons?

Alphons said...

Mistress, surely, m alphons?

" à chacun son goût "

Je pense.

Mike said...

Thanks for that, Mr I; I generally prefer traditional flamenco rather than the nouveau style which approaches jazz, but I enjoyed this piece.

For anyone who thinks clapping is easy, try to keep up with this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG9ctrS0xQE

call me ishmael said...

I had seen that one, mr mike, it was what I was referring to in my comment above; the heel stomping, I think I refer to a Flamenco dancer, from my childhood, Antonio, I believe, a staple on variety shows, he did with his heels what Paco's guys do with their hands.

I guess these two are a bit down-market, populist and they also play electric guitars with fiddles, so it's not the purist stuff which you are studying but, especially amongst all this death fetishism, I found it absolutely, brightly and delightfully exhilerating.