moritherapy/music

A FANTASTIC video of the Swiss drum corps at a festival in a Scottish castle - great setting, too.

This is my favourite music blog right now. Combines good thinking with good music. This post here about the Kingston Trio's song about transit fares shows how musicians have always used their talents for political purposes.

great, gentle song by manu chao: Politik kills politik kills politik kills; politik need votes; politik needs your mind; politik needs human beings; politik need lies

thats what my friend is an evidence politik is violence
what my friend is a evidence politik is violence

politik use drugs
politik use bombs
politik need torpedoes
politik needs blood

politik need force politik need cries
politik need ignorance politik need lies

Liza is a talented music student who sings, composes and plays piano. She once organized a benefit to collect instruments for needy students at her own school, and then heard about the need for instruments in New Orleans, where schools struggling to rebuild had few funds for "extras" like music programs. She was horrified to find out that in the city that spawned Louis Armstrong, there were students who had never so much as heard a live piano.

"When I was growing up if I needed a book or an instrument, or wanted to study with a music teacher, it was easily done," she explains. "To hear that there was a school that had no music program at all was really shocking."

If you like Jazz, classical music and mildly experimental music, this is a great blog to hang out and explore!

A long and very comprehensive blog post - really, a bit of a treatise - on the connection between poetry, sound and music. Of great interest to any enthusiast of poetry, literature and music, particularly modern classical music.