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wasn't this supposed to be an epic year for music?

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what are some good releases? we're halfway through summer and don't even have a definitive sexy summer jam. and weren't we supposed to get new music from smashing pumpkins and blink 182 and sade? this is pretty late in the year to have not had a single or interview or hell even a promotional tweet.

any 2023 music you guys excited about or should i just hibernate til 2024?
 
What are your thoughts on Luke Combs’ cover of Fast Car charting higher than the original on Billboard?
 
Sebazz said:
What are your thoughts on Luke Combs’ cover of Fast Car charting higher than the original on Billboard?
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a black artists' music generating massive success for a white artist? STOP THE PRESSES!

I gave it a fair listen. Not really here for Ray Lamontagne 1.0.
 
I keep waiting for something good to peak my interest. I listen to all kinds of music from all over the world but this year has been very bland so far. I hate to admit that I have had "Padam, Padam" stuck in my head for a few days. My go to album in the last couple of weeks has been Alison Goldfrapp, it is a solid album all the way through. Another one that I really like is "Tempus" by Skerrybore, they are my friends but their music is great.
 
My preferred genres dried up years ago. I've been mining the past for stuff I missed.

I never know who the fuck any of the artists are on this thread.

Don't bother, I'll see myself out.
 
I have to say that a lot of my listening time these days is Dowland, Purcell and lots of real, classical jazz.
 
Peloso said:
My preferred genres dried up years ago. I've been mining the past for stuff I missed.

I never know who the fuck any of the artists are on this thread.

Don't bother, I'll see myself out.
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I just downloaded on my phone a bunch of old music I used to have on my iPod. Dolly, Johnny Cash and Hall & Oates.
 
rareboy said:
I have to say that a lot of my listening time these days is Dowland, Purcell and lots of real, classical jazz.
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So who are your favorite Dowland singers? And your favorite Purcell singers?
 
I really enjoy classical music especially baroque. I recommend Christina Pluhar and her assemble L'Arpeggiata, they perform all sorts of classical and world music with some amazing singers, Phillipe Jarousky, and the absolutely gorgeous Jakub Josef Orlinski and the always yummy Vincenzo Capezzuto. I watch them on youtube but I also buy their albums to support them.
 
Oh, boy, @Maklaar13, now you're gonna get me going ...

Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata are excellent musicians and often very exciting, but they do sometimes thrown some jazz elements into their Baroque music that I don't think work. They've never done any Dowland, and I didn't think they'd done Purcell, but I just checked and they have! They even did Dido and Aeneas at a festival in 2015. So, @rareboy, their "Music for a While" album is worth checking out. It will have some good examples of the jazzy unorthodoxies I mentioned, so be prepared..

Those three countertenors are really good. Jaroussky was king for close to 20 years (and is openly gay). Orlinski is hot -- and ostentatiously straight; he probably feels driven to be that way because (a) he does tend to read as gay, at least to American eyes, and (b) he used to post lots of shirtless pictures of himself on social media and then was surprised when he started getting unsolicited dick and ass pics from gay men. (He described this in an interview as "things that you can't unsee.") Capezzuto really is yummy: he was a primo ballet dancer before he turned to music full-time. Now we just need to get him to do some erotic video with singing and dancing. (Frontal nudity mandatory, of course.)
 
rareboy said:
I tend to listen to mostly the instrumental pieces...Can you recommend good singers for (Dowland and Purcell)?
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To give the thorough answer I really want to give would take me a couple of hours of searching and listening, and it would end up being way more than you wanted to know. But here's a start.

You can always do well with the guy The Guardian once described as "everybody's favorite early-music tenor," Paul Agnew.

And Emma Kirkby, who was for almost 30 years basically the standard-bearer for the vocal division of the early music revival.

Her best duet partner, the late Judith Nelson, was a favorite of mine, and she did some very fine work recording Purcell's theatre songs. Here's a link to the YouTube search results. (Feel free to skip "Man is for the woman made, and the woman made for man.")

Julianne Baird didn't record a lot of Dowland or Purcell, but she did some. And not only is she good, she's always been braver than most colleagues about embellishing the melody, especially on repeats. (That's one of her specialties as an academic researcher as well as a singer.)

The countertenor Iestyn Davies has done a good bit of both Purcell and lute songs lately, and he's one of the best there is.
 
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