‘El Camino’ by the Black Keys along with ‘Bad As Me’ by Tom Waits and Florence + The Machine’s ‘Ceremonials’, was one of the most anticipated album releases for me in some time. And all three released in the later part of last year and each one of them is delightful – a sort of…
Author: Bantering Ram
Music addict, devoted servant to our cats. Almost all that I do by way of 'work' is to allow me to indulge in writing, music, running, cycling...mostly
Strange, Love
My last post of year 2011 and I just have to draw a picture of the wonderfulness of human sentiment while yet filling it with the color of my own soul. And so I painted it black. Two songs, both by Death Cab for Cutie (ironic? You don’t say!), hold up to light two aspects…
On another note
There are many blogs out there that shed a shining light on music and sound. Four of my favourites are on my Blog Roll. I’m picky, aren’t I? I’m also lazy. Doesn’t matter – these four I’ve found to be excellent. Do read these and you’ll see why!
Draw your strings…Closing the loop
For those of you interested in a nice little vicarious trip, here’s George Clinton’s smoking rant at the beginning of ‘Maggot Brain‘ 🙂 GC’s Rant on Maggot Brain.mp3
Draw your strings…a little more
Following up on my last post Draw Your Strings, here are a couple more pieces which I find interesting. The first piece on the first CD of Western Classical music that I bought was Mozart’s ‘Rondo Alla Turka’ (or Turca). A search for something else (after hearing this I forgot about that original quest) led…
Draw Your Strings
When I was in school and college, my friends and I used to debate on end the relative merits of the big names of the guitar world as known to us then – Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Stevie Ray Vaughan…And for long, we swore by these and a few others. Every…
Return To Roots
I have been a little late with my posts the last 2-3 times for a variety of reasons, all unhappy. As usual, I prescribed myself an insane cocktail of the music drug to combat self-doubt and physical pain. There was Ali Farkah Toure and there was Jay-Z, Bach and Metallica, Pat Metheny and Zac Brown…
Right Now (Nov 9 2011)
I finally broke out of the Lindsey Buckingham loop 🙂 And it took some exceptional songs to pull me out of the ‘Seeds We Sow’ groove.
A change and a BIG Thank You
One big noticeable change to the blog – the graphic at the top. See, dyingnote.com is not really bleak 🙂 A huge THANK YOU to Manek D’Silva at http://therandomlines.com/ for design awesomeness and to Ashim D’Silva also at http://therandomlines.com/ for initiating this. This bird loves you guys. Manek unleashes his creativity also with his prog rock outfit Slain http://www.slainandbeyond.com/ as guitarist…
Return To Splendour
As much as I love Fleetwood Mac’s music, I’ve not followed the solo careers of its members. However, my very recent sampling of Lindsey Buckingham’s latest album ‘Seeds We Sow’ released this September had me intrigued enough to buy the CD from Amazon. What can I say but that it’s now on endless loop in…
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