What Music are you listining to right now

Huge Roberta Flack fan here, and also a big fan of Pomplamoose; this is the first time I've seen this.
 
https://youtu.be/puc-3_Kv3Kg?si=8QGFdbqueJH_bSWv

Any Rush fans here?  
 
https://youtu.be/5N7D4JXpLRc?si=ctpqFZRRCvGLHtYK

BlueRidgeSmokers said:

A little more Cake

https://youtu.be/0kUib8lh168?si=NV4YhJx3WeH7OUQA

This gave me a muppet-sized Smile!  

https://youtu.be/ZN7a9gomlB0?si=FjJC-aeKXEA33ZMv

 Not a huge KISS fan here, but a talented bass player I worked with in Albuquerque turned me on to some of their music, in '87-'92.  Saw them here in UT, the tour where the original members rejoined and put the makeup back on.  My date stood me up, but I went anyway and was absolutely floored by their show.  The crowd was still whooping and hollering as we exited the Delta Center (something I'd never seen before) and then, walking back to my car, I noticed the Moon was in a lunar eclipse, blood-red.  

I'll never forget that night, even though I was by myself.  

Most modern western music is based on 12-tone Equal Temperment, where an octave is divided into twelve equally-spaced "steps".  It is actually a compromise, so that a harpsichord, piano, glockenspiel, marimba etc could play in any key, equally out-of-tune (if only slightly), something good horn, string, and vocal performers can adjust for automatically (I did not learn this until my last year of college jazz band, and admit I couldn't hear what the director was yelling at me about; sigh).  

Here is a Bach guitar piece played on an infinitely-adjustable fretboard guitar; see if you can hear the difference.  

https://youtu.be/aSWoSV7bLxs?si=6b0WG7cogCjHSmnA

I've noted that Henrick, the bass player for The Dirty Loops, plays a bass that has microtonally-adjusted frets, but they're embedded (not adjustable), so (from what I've read) his bass sounds much better in certain keys, but worse in other keys (the human ear is not as finely tuned to pitch in the lower registers, and if its worth the bother, well, I can't hear it personally.)

 It's even more fun to recognize that dividing an octave into 12 equally-spaced steps... why twelve?  Well, that was arbitrary!  African scales were divided into five steps between octaves (not sure if they were equally-spaced, @rm5 or other trained musicians here can correct me) and early slaves in the US, while trying to play their own music on instruments designed for 12-tone equal temperament, tried to bend certain notes (like the 3rd, and the 7th, downwards) and that gave us... the Blues!   

 Wendy Carlos released an album in my early twenties where she experimented with different tunings, both twelve-tone, but not equally-spaced, and scales that were divided into, say, 19 pitches per octave.  I listened to that CD a lot, and suddenly could hear where, on pop/rock radio, those standard tunes sounded, well, OUT of tune!  Give Beauty in the Beast a listen, if you want to stretch your ears for fun (while looking up that album title I noted she has released a lot more albums than I realized, and now that I can stream I've got some exploring to do).  

Played this in Jr High jazz band, and drove my Dad crazy trying to learn it all on my Mom’s upright piano; I’m 65 now.  This track still kills, what a fantastic recording!  

https://youtu.be/Lytb0fgJ6vY?si=zi6vlNGeRrJBydrV

This is the first time I've heard the whole song.

https://youtu.be/ERmHiaKJwtU?si=r648VxXyR6f4plCx

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state

Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started (wait)

The Earth began to cool

The autotrophs began to drool

Neanderthals developed tools

We built a wall (we built the pyramids)

Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries

That all started with the big bang!

Bang!

Since the dawn of man is really not that long

As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song

A fraction of a second and the elements were made

The bipeds stood up straight

The dinosaurs all met their fate

They tried to leave but they were late

And they all died (they froze their asses off)

The oceans and Pangea

See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya

Set in motion by the same big bang!

It all started with the big bang!

It's expanding ever outward but one day

It will pause and start to go the other way

Collapsing ever inward, we won't be here, it won't be heard

Our best and brightest figure that it'll make an even bigger bang!

Australopithecus would really have been sick of us

Debating how we're here, they're catching deer (we're catching viruses)

Religion or astronomy, Descartes or Deuteronomy

It all started with the big bang!

Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology

It all started with the big bang!

It all started with the big bang!

Found this in the soundtrack bin when I was searching for Les Liasions Dangereuses by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. The film had three soundtrack - wild story behind that. The Thelonius Monk version was lost until a few years back when the master tapes were discovered. 

But I digress.  This album was a find I did not expect:



some really great 60's Jazz. 

Santana - Abraxas vinyl.

@Botch - Bought this box set in 1973 after first deployment to the Mediterranean Sea. Spent time in Barcelona, visiting the Anton Gaudi's under construction cathedral although I could only walk around it and marvel at the construction and scale of the building, the park he designed, and his work shop. Also searching out Flaminco bars and performers and as an enthusiastic amateur was interested in most music genres. Haven't listened to this in a long time but it will be played again.

Have four of their albums, as early as it is I probably should have started with “Catching the Sun” album. 
Edit- Now listening to the A&M 25th Anniversary CD of Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66-'86. So cool that Herb Alpert took Brazil '66 on tour with him in 1966.  

Hard to believe it was ten years ago this month...