C Duncan

https://cduncan.bandcamp.com/album/architect

"Architect showcases a huge breadth in Christopher’s songwriting abilities. Lead singles ‘Say’ and ‘For’ are characterized by their gentleness and warmth, while ‘Garden’ (released as a single with the album) is bright, sunny, irrepressible. On the other side, ‘By’ and ‘Novices’ draw more overtly from Christopher’s interest in electronic music and modern composition. He references The Knife and Arvo Pärt as willingly as Burt Bacharach and The Carpenters. Add to that shades of Talk Talk, Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, The Ink Spots and the classical and choral compositions of Maurice Ravel and Gabriel Fauré, and a picture of the record collection that informs Christopher’s music starts to become clear."

The Disco Boys - For You

Jose Feliciano - "Chico And The Man" theme - stereo

10 de febrero 2014

Esta canción del compatriota José Feliciano es una de las memorias músicales más antiguas de mi niñez. Por muchos años creí que Chico and the Man era una película, y hasta me imaginaba que a lo mejor era un filme de acción a lo Serpico, una especie de drama policiaco. Pero después me enteré que no era una película sino una comedia televisiva clásica de los 70. El protagonista de la serie era el actor Freddie Prinze, boricua por su lado materno. Prinze terminó su vida trágicamente cuando se suicidó de un tiro en enero de 1977.

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - For You (Original Album Version)

Like "Blinded By The Light" and "Spirit in the Night" (on The Roaring Silence), this song was covered byManfred Mann's Earth Band for their album Chance.^[6] As with Manfred Mann Earth Band's previous Springsteen covers, they used a more forceful, rockier sound in "For You" than Springsteen did.^[6] The Earth Band version built from a more temperate beginning to an explosion of sound in the bridge, and incorporates five guitars and an impressive keyboard solo by Manfred Mann 3/4 of the way into the song.^[6] The song was also included on the compilation albums The Best of Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Blinded by the Light & Other Hits.^[6] However, the single release did not achieve the success of their other Springsteen covers.

Bruce Springsteen - For You

"For You" is a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen in 1972 for his debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., released in 1973. It was later included on the compilation album The Essential Bruce Springsteen. The song has been covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, The Format, and Greg Kihn.

"For You" was recorded at 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, New York on June 27, 1972, the same day as the rest of the album except "Blinded by the Light" and "Spirit in the Night".^[1] Musicians participating in these sessions included future E Street Band members David Sancious, Garry Tallent and Vini Lopez.^[1] It is a climactic, percussion-driven song. Unlike many other songs on Springsteen's debut album, it takes the time to pace and build.^[2]

The lyrics^[3] are about a woman who has attempted suicide.^[4][5] She does not need the singer's "urgency" even though her life is "one long emergency" as Springsteen sings in the chorus (along with "and your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free"). The singer is committed to doing anything to save her, and admires her ability to hang on.^[4] Once again, the lyrics are evocative of images and not details, and little can be said in description.

In many live concerts, including the critically acclaimed Hammersmith Odeon London '75, Bruce transformed the song into a tender piano ballad without accompaniment.

Ela Minus - Jamaica

Peter Baumann - "Repeat Repeat"

Baumann, veterano de Tangerine Dream y fundador del sello disquero Private Music.

Peter Baumann (born 29 January 1953) formed the core line-up of the pioneering German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976, while still touring with the band, and embarked on a solo career in 1977.

Since the early 2000s, Baumann has devoted his time to studying and promoting initiatives in science and philosophy that shed light on the human condition.

Star Wars Holiday Special - Review and Discussion

Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - Henry and James

Stewart/Gaskin

Serious pop from the other Dave Stewart

In 1985 I was attending college in New York, and in the great tradition of young people wasting the best years of their lives “experimenting,” I developed an addiction—to synthesizers. I bought what was to be the first of many keyboards and spent countless hours tweaking sounds when ordinary people my age were busy getting drunk and forming bad social habits. I wasn’t very interested in writing songs; what fascinated me most was the process of creating interesting timbres.

I subscribed to Keyboard Magazine, which encouraged my habit in two different ways. First, each issue convinced me that I absolutely needed the latest electronic musical gadgets, thus ensuring a state of perpetual credit card debt. But the magazine also taught me a number of practical skills for making music. One of the magazine’s features at that time was called a Soundpage—a tear-out plastic phonograph record. Each month, some well-known keyboard player would put together a special recording, along with an article describing the music and the techniques used to create it.

- From the Interesting Thing of the Day blog