Covid19 Lockdown Music - 2 : twitch edition

 

It's been so long since I last blogged here. I plan to catch up with some album and artist posts, but today, I present the second part to my lockdown music findings, as I've  been expanding my search on twitch, and also discovering new musicians via the streamers' raids into other channels. 

Covid19 Lockdown Music

These past couple months have been trying to most of us. Even as an introvert, there have been times that I struggled with the imposed changes in routines and other impacts on daily life. 
One of my coping tools this entire period, like mentioned in my mental health blog entry 427, has been listening to music. 

The Idan Raichel Project (1)

Idan Raichel Project's 1st album was first released in 2002,  with an eponymous album-title. 

Hélène Grimaud (album 23) - Brahms: Piano Concertos

Another project I want to find on cd, I reserved on the media library's website, is Hélène Grimaud's Brahms Piano Concertos, released on dual cd edition (EAN 028947910589), released in 2013 on Deutch Grammophon, just like her 8 previous albums. 

She presents this project in this interview also available on the label's website, where you can listen to the entire album on streaming.

I counldn't find a better picture for the backcover, and all amazon websites only offer this one, with the sticker over the track listing 

Hélène Grimaud (album 22) - Water

I just discovered a very interesting trailer for the pianist Hélène Grimaud's album Water, for which she selected pieces with water as a guideline and philosophical exploration, as she explains In this trailer.

Kate Havnevik (album 1) - Melankton

Kate Havnevik's first album, released in Norway in 2006 is called Melankton and has subsequently received 3 other release dates in the world :

2006 (UK) ; 2007 (USA & Canada); and finally, 2010 (Poland)

I loved every single song on my 12 track version, and my favorites are Kaleidoscope, and New day... but, really, I love it all...with its radio friendly tunes, as well as the more original creations Kate gave form to....

Soundtrack - Intersetllar

Hans Zimmer's composition for Christopher Nolan's Interstellar is absoluetely fabulous : it has it's very own personnality and accompanies beautiflluly the imagery in that movie. For my review, here's the direct link

Hans even plays the piano, accompanied by no less than 42 other musicians as you can read on Wiki

Tori Amos - (part 3) - Boys for pele

Album # 3, ''Boys for Pele'' which my wife thought I’d hate… Well, I liked.... ***roll drums*** 13 out of 18 songs, a score neither of us imagined.

Here, I prefer to display the back cover.

Tori Amos - (part 2) - Under the Pink

Album # 2 ''Under the pink''.

A) I loved all 12 songs on it, tho I liked less ''the waitress'' (rated 8) ; ''past the mission'' & ''Cornflake girl'' (rated 7), ALL the other ones I really liked and scored them... 10/10 !

total score of ''under the pink'' 100% of the songs are loved, total score 112/120 = 93.3% 

Tori Amos - (part 1) - Little Earthquakes

The first song I heard was Crucify, and… I just wasn’t ready for this acquired taste! Indeed, her voice blended with a piano didn’t appeal to me, back in the 1990’s. I never tried to listen to her again until I married a Toriphile… 

My wife’s an Ears with feet, a Tori Amos fan, who was shocked to hear my dislike. Knowing that I liked some 1980’s music, she came up with the idea to introduce me to ‘’Y kant Tori read’’, which I liked and helped push me to try the rest of her career. For the past 15 or so months, I started listening to the cd’s in chronological order and learned to love Crucify, the very song which had made me wince, and expand from 1 song to several, and very gradually liking 2 songs per album to liking a majority.

Tori Amos - (part 0)

The only musical entry I had on my media garden belonged to Tori Amos, which I had posted on her birthday last month. With this brand new music garden, I shall split it into its components as I decided to discuss the various editions per album.