Yay! Cool stuff #2! And this one is going to be a lot better than the last one! Utterly random, but better!!!
So, I started this adventure in diverse music by going to Youtube.com and searching for ‘Cool Native American Flute Music’. The first thing I found was this, which caught my attention.
Wolf Medicine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHNsLd-YoqcThis piece is called Wolf Medicine, and I thought it was really cool because some of the music from the flute sounds like wolf howls and yaps. This was interesting to me because 1) I love flute music, especially the ‘foreign’ kind, as in foreign to me. 2) I love wolves. So this made me very happy.
Another title caught my eye on the side of the Wolf Medicine page. So I clicked and listened.
Calling Snow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g6OlsENbRk This one is called Calling Snow. Knock on wood that I’m not jinxing us. ;)
Now this one caught my eyes and I laughed at first. I mean a Cherokee Irish jig….. Ooooooooooooooooookay then. But then I listened and I honestly fell in love with it. This Irish jig on a Native American (I’m assuming Cherokee) flute is really fun to listen to.
Cherokee Irish Jig - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cIUtau6PTYThis video is by the same guy who did the Cherokee Irish Jig. He plays two Native American flutes at once (which is just astonishing to me O.O) and plays a popular Beatles Song. I know you’ll see the name in the title, but see if you can hear the tune.
After all this Native American flute music, I searched African Flute Music (are you sensing a theme here?). I literally only found one relatively good video (there were a lot of techno remixes that were pretty cool, but I didn’t think it was all that appropriate for my blog.)
I found this, featuring a man playing a long tubal flute. I love the piece he plays.
Well, along the side of that page I found this. I know we’re not set to go to the Arab world for a while but I listened and fell in love with it, so I’m posting it because it makes me really happy. That and its sticking with my theme of foreign flutes.
Then I realized that I hadn't shown Latin American music any love. So guess what I searched… ‘Latin American flute music’. Yeah, the turnout was freaking terrible, so I changed the word from ‘flute’ to ‘panpipe’ and I found this.
I love the song Jai Ho (although I haven’t seen Slumdog Millionaire yet… ahh, the wonders of VH1 and MTV). And hearing this recording on the guitar and panpipes was like ‘Wow… that’s cool!’ Here is the original song for anyone who doesn’t know it… and also because it makes me happy :)
Oh, random fact – the lead guy in Slumdog Millionaire also stars in The Last Airbender as Prince Zuko. Just thought I’d let you know.
And now, my favorite find – This piece is written by Vic Mignogna, an anime voice actor and musician who is AMAZING!!! He wrote this piece to be the opening credits to a documentary that his friend was filming. It was in exchange for some help filming a little film he made called ‘Full Metal Fantasy’ which he shows at anime conventions and is hilarious!
The flute in this piece is much like the Native American flute we’ve heard – similar in timber. And the song overall is repetitive. It’s just beautiful, and I love it.
So, there’s my relative cool stuff… Now this last one is totally random! But it makes life happy! As many of you know, I went to my first anime convention (con) on the 7th, 8th, and 9th. Vic Mignogna (who is mentioned above) was a guest there and held a concert on Saturday afternoon. It was fantastic and for one song, he required some help from audience members.
I got picked!!! I got to go up and sing with him! This was the first recording I found on Youtube.com, my best friend Mari found another one, but here it is! Enjoy!
Oh, just so you know, I have the third verse:
The tracks are getting dense
The Walla is intense
The director says it’s time for my dying to commence
My death rattle simply was sublime
But the engineer blew it, so I’ll have to do it one more time!
Followed by the chorus. This is a fun song, I love it and I had the time of my life singing it up on stage with one of my favorite singers. :) Enjoy Solider A everyone!!!
Wow, that's a lot of cool stuff, Katie. It's great that you're taking a real interest in flutes of other cultures--I think you might be finding an area of personal study here, and it can consume the rest of your life.
ReplyDeleteDo remember that you need to keep other people in mind when you put something on the internet, and ease of access is always important (translation: embedding trumps linking.)