Background Music

Maybe it's because I've been watching too many movies, but I keep expecting and wising for some sort of background score to accompany my doings throughout the day.

Wouldn't it be great though? Imagine striding into a boardroom meeting to the Imperial March! That would certainly make people more accepting of your ideas!

Or consider the possibility of being aware of your boss lurking around because you can hear the 'dum-dum dum-dum' from Jaws!

The music would also be a great way for people to know how you're feeling at the moment; happy, sad, filled with great expectations. This does have actual possibilities though. Maybe with time, we'd have progressed far enough with AI algorithms for music to have personal devices that can be set to randomly generate music based on a particular mood, soundtrack-style.

Of course, the problem with brilliant ideas, like this one, is that they're short-sighted and never factor in all the other people. With everyone playing out their own theme, it'd just lead to cacophony.

Vela Music

Vela Music.

Let me introduce you to this term. I have a penchant for downloading music that I happen to hear (& like) on the tv. Obscure serials. Bits from movies here and there. Usually unknown songs by anonymous artists.

One of my friends' sisters happened to look at my play list, and commented that she had never even heard of these artists before. What did i listen to? Vela music?

And thus the term was born.

Now, one thing I have to tell you, the music is really good. Really good. I thought I'd share some of my vela music with the world.

If you like instrumental music, especially if it's heavy on the violin and guitar (clean guitar though) have a listen to Yoko Kanno. Songs like Tsume Na Suna, Escape and Face On are really good. She's japanese, as you might have guessed going by the names of the tracks.

Another good piece of music I came across was while watching the 2006 film Stranger Than Fiction. It is by a greek composer, Vangelis. If you like slow, haunting instrumentals listen to his Apocalypse des Animaux (Apocalypse of the Animals) . Very like a piece I heard from Swan Lake on some CD somewhere.

I'm currently trying to find another song from Stranger Than Fiction called The Book I Write by some indie band called Spoon. It's a really nice song. They have this really cool song very heavy on the 50s Great balls of Fire (forgive the date if I'm wrong)

piano-ey and beautiful dum-da-ba-dum beat (withs lots of hi hat). Feet tapping and can't stop. I'm listening and typing to the beat, with the hands clapping Ala Beatles' Hey Jude. Spoon ain't have bad a band. In fact the only thing bad about the song is that it's length is 2:40.


Also listen to the Brit band the Clash. London Calling is be them. The song that plays when the FRIENDS cast goes to London? Also in Die Another Day, when Gustav Graves' jet is landing.

Okay, now I'm kinda sleepy, seeing as how I gotta go work tomorrow, be seeing all of you musical folk later.
PS Any fan on the Rolling Stones should really listen to Laugh, I Nearly Died from A Bigger Bang. Very VERY Good!