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If you’re into Guitars this is fab.

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Loved piano music from my childhood…even thought I might have inherited my great aunt’s exquisite playing DNA at one stage…I was wrong :slight_frown:

This along with Satie’s other well known piece (Trois Gymnopedies) is wonderful at the end of a hectic day…or a Saints loss.

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I’m with you 100% 'slowlane.

I’ve got to throw a few contemporary ones at you - I’m sure youy’ll know most/all of them.

Firstly, Japan’s hommage to Satie (Gynompedie II - I think), but I recognise thatSylvian’s vocal isn’t everyone’s CoT:

I’m a massive fan of Ludovico Einaudi and have seen him perform live many times and also met him backstage in Brussels.

Most people won’t be familiar with the name, but if you watch TV and film, his work has been used countless times. He’s not the most accomplished pianist I’m sure, but there is a simplicity to his work that a stressed and overwrought Bletch finds amazingly relaxing.

I would even go on to say that the last time I saw him was probably the most complete ā€˜gig’ I’ve ever been to. i.e. Top. i.e. #1. i.e. The best. Really.

Some of his more well-known pieces… (but not necessarily his best):

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Remeber, 'slowlane. You started this.

Yann Tiersen, doing a more than passable impression of Einaudi, taken from the wonderful soundtrack for AmƩlie.

This is probably a little out of character for Tiersen, but I also really enjoy his French peasant music stuff (accordion).

Ahhh…I’ve been soaking all of this up this morning, (wallowing really) Bletch…feeling down as I’ve just heard an old friend I worked with since 1967 was killed in a car smash on Friday.

Had heard David Sylvian’s hommage before and liked it but Einaudi is new to me…very beautiful…I like it a lot. First heard of Satie on the first track of Blood Sweat & Tears eponymous first album in 1968. Found an early electronica album in 1970 called ā€œThe Velvet Gentlemanā€ which featured his music in a mix of traditional and electronic instrumentation by The Camarata Chamber Group…still have the vynal. My favourite Satie is interpreter is Pascal Roge.

Just to lift spirits a bit but still keeping emotions raw I thought in true ā€œchain styleā€ I’d throw this piano and accordion (bandoneon) into the mix…featuring Pablo Ziegler on piano and the maestro himself on bandoneon…

Sorry to hear about your pal, 'slowlane. That’s a shocker.

Wallow a while, but remember where you left the ladder.

That Chin Chin was mad. What is that syncopated-French-Jazz-folk???

Talented that’s for sure.

You’ve got a load of great stuff to choose from with Einaudi.

If you’re going to play some stuff, I’d recommend diving into the Divenire album, and then perhaps In a Time Lapse, then Nightbook.

So pour yourself something medicinal, put your feet up and give this a listen…

To absent friends.

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Einaudi’s sublimely beautiful pieces feature prominently on this soundtrack

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I like the piano on this as well

… and this:

Originally posted by @saintbletch

That Chin Chin was mad. What is that syncopated-French-Jazz-folk???

Talented that’s for sure.

You’ve got a load of great stuff to choose from with Einaudi.

If you’re going to play some stuff, I’d recommend diving into the Divenire album, and then perhaps In a Time Lapse, then Nightbook.

So pour yourself something medicinal, put your feet up and give this a listen…

https://youtu.be/ASMxy15gQLg

To absent friends.

Yep thanks Bletch…weeks away from his retirement too…he introduced me to Prefab Sprout for which I will be ever grateful.

Chin Chin is pure Nuevo Tango from the maestro of modern Tango the late Astor Piazzolla…truely wonderful emotive music…his best album Tango: Zero Hour

Matt Rollings…one of the most beautiful, sympathetic piano accompanyists in the business…

I love a good blubb…sniff

Prince manages to put so much feeling into his guitar playing. There is a longer version somewhere, I can’t find it on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8BMm6Jn6oU

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Good stuff, Ted. Quite reassuring to see how some seemingly sloppy playing can sound so good.

BB is dead right about Rickenbacker 12-strings. I had one (a 360/12) and couldn’t get rid of it fast enough. Horrible action, too narrow a neck and couldn’t be properly tuned.

God only knows how George Harrison got anything out of it, or how Tom Petty used it so regularly on stage.

This is for ā€œKRGā€ in case he’s missed this. I haven’t had time to listen to this yet but will give it a go after my Windows 10 upgrade…

…I may be gone some time :wink:

I’m really enjoying the stuff that NPR 'slowlane just posted, KRG, so perhaps it was just the song you chose. (Or my mood!)

Yesterday’s violence reminded me to dig into The Fall again.

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The Maccabees long awaited album - marks to prove it.

It is a bit of a grower.

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