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!
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!
5 comments:
Oh and the name of the song by spoon (piano one)is The Way We Get By
Hey!I liked London Calling too, when i heard it in the series. But never really went looking for it.
That's because the vela music hasn't caught up with you yet :D
Vela music...atleast now you gave a name for it! I do it too, but most of the times I cant find the bits of music that I heard. For instance, the instrumental piece that played in FRIENDS, when Emily walks down the aisle. Its by a band called 'The Hormones' and the song was called 'Tired old souls'. Where can I find such music??
@pallo: Not really sure where you can find them, usually depends on your luck!
But you could try Wikipedia, if you're lucky or if what you're looking for is popular enough, someone might've mentioned it in the trivia/ misc section of the episode or whatever you're looking up.
Also, you could try midomi. It's a fairly new service ( not very, but quite; a few months old now, I think ). It offers 'Query By Humming' wherein you can sing/ hum into a mic and the service tries to locate the song. I couldn't get it to work but then I'm no Pavoratti :D
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