Hey! =) Music questions.. (and introduction)

Blank · Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 28

Heh, don't mistake my knowing bands with actually.. uh.. KNOWING them? I know nothing about them, I have listened to them though because slsk has a huge Eesti community, and almost every Estonian band there is! (Also I still haven't listened to all the stuff that I have, I take time for it so it goes slowly... I'm still in the phase of trying to remember which sound to attribute to which band, for many of them! lol)

I'm fortunate to have found it! lol. But when it comes to trivia... well I couldn't tell you the first thing about my favourite band, even, let alone all the other ones. All I have access to really in text form is last.fm, and usually the bands could have done with a lot longer descriptions than they've been given! That's the frustrating thing...there's so much information around for some of those bands, but I just can't read it!

So thank you for filling me in a bit there, it's real interesting! You're not musically challenged at all Cool

Ah, I see. Can't say I'm into chants and the such much... correct me if I'm totally off tangent here, but I have to envision a mixture between industrial sounds and gothic chants xD By the bands I've listed that I like.. do you think I'd like RAM? If so I'll look into it!

**Alex** · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:20 am Post subject:

Hey, I just got Selle aasta parimad lastelaulud (this years best children's songs) CD for my daughter. You want some rocking good tunes, that's the one right there. Razz

With lyrics like Miks ei ole jäätis soe, oh miks? (why isn't ice cream warm, oh why?) you can't go wrong. Laughing

Here's a good CD by composer Olav Ehala:
http://www.helitroop.ee/?m=prod&w=show&id=143203
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Arvi · Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 19

Here is a link with short clips of their various concerts:
http://www.metsatoll.ee/et/muusika/video.html
The first one is from concert I was writing about, but not from the name song.

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**Alex** · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject:

Arvi · Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 19

So you are all time trying to tie me to some band/music style? Laughing

I like some songs, because they have something to say. And for some bands the probability to hear something good from them is somewhat higher, and for some bands it is non-existing. But this isn't enough for me to sit on some concert and hear all crap too. And a good book is anyway better then any song Wink

About chants. Estonian genuine music has all its roots in chants. You had to chant to get corn to grow or to find a bear in forest, to get marriage happy and a baby born healthy, the axe to keep the edge or battle to be won. And of-course those chants were stronger when sung.
And because we all know that gods and spirits are especially pig-headed and not very bright lot, you hat to repeat all this them repeatedly and in all thinkable variations, to get the work properly done Smile

(And that bard did have additional time to compose the next dozen of verses was handy too). This was the way our 'regilaul' was born Wink

It was some 200- 250 years ago German liedertafel forced genuine 'regilaul' in the background and pawed the way for modern music. Currently old regilaul has last resorts in Sout-East Estonia (Setumaa) and on some islands. And in fair amount of choirs, etnographic ansambles, etc.

But the faith in the power of (song) words creeped in the new music too. P.e. in an old TV-movie "Siin me oleme" one character is saying to another (not so good one):
"Ma panen sind laulu sisse ja sealt ei saa sa ka saja aasta pärast välja"
"I'm putting you into an song, and you aren't getting out from there even after 100 years"

And of course you have to understand the words of "Raua needmine" to enjoy it - otherwise it is mote. Btw, as I did say before, the song is written for mens choir, and it was excellent performed by RAM alone too - Metsatöll did give it an additional quality only. (And in the link with clip wasn't "Raua needmine" performed, but some another song from same concert)

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**Alex** · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject:

I forgot about Hinkus who I like. Jazzy type stuff. One of the few Estonian CD's I like that is sung in English is this Hinkus one featuring Maarja. She normally doesn't sound that good in English but she pulls it off here. Jazz suits her more than the crap she used to sing when she was younger.

http://www.estmusic.com/index.php?0113372123313

Here is a nice song she sings in Estonian with legend Ivo Linna.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LgvshhzZKyE&feature=related
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**Alex** · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:41 pm Post subject:

News update on Padar:

http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/10974
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