Yesterday I have found a picture with a mandolin at tumblr, the tags said that it was a picture of Skyler Skjelset from the band Fleet Foxes. I tried to find music by this band and found the following concert at NPR, a radio session at KCRW hat has been filmed and is availble on […]
Three mandolin methods from the 18th century, the methods by Gabriele Leone, Giovanni Fouchetti and Pietro Denis are now available at musicaneo.com. The printed edition by Edition Minkoff is no more available as the Minkoff company has ceised in 2010. Those methods can be used to study the mandolin technique used in the 18th century
Some time ago I have discovered another great popsong from Japan that has been arrangend for mandolin orchestra – Song of the Wheel by Bump of Chicken. The famous Japanese rock band Bump of Chicken used the mandolin for the recorded version of this song, the mandolin is also used in the official video of
Wheel Song – Bump of Chicken – With Mandolin – Great Version for Mandolin Orchestra Read More »
Tumblr is a great way to collect and present pictures and links to interesting videos and other sites. Here is my tumblr archive for September 2012 – click to pictures to open the complete post in a seperate window: http://mandoisland.tumblr.com/archive/2012/9 My tumblr site – just scroll down to view: http://mandoisland.tumblr.com/ One topic for me was
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On August 22nd the weekly Music City Roots Live Radio Show was dedicated to Bluegrass. It featured bands who contributed a track to the Putumayo Bluegrass CD that has been published recently. Putumayo has been founded in 1993 and has published many CDs with music from all over the world. Here’s the beginning of the
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Durning my holidays this year I had taken with me a book from which I like to play every now and then: 300 Fiddle Tunes – Fiddle Songbooks published by Hal Leonard. This book is a collection of 300 Irish pieces for fiddle or mandolin, and almost every piece in this collection sounds great and
On Sept. 7, 2012 the Brazilian Music Day was organized by the ARChive of Contemporary Music: The Archive of Contemporary Music has called for participation in the Brazilian Music Day and has organized and collected all kinds of events about the music of Brazil. As the result the special Brazilian Music day Website was launched.
Discover the Music of Brazil – Brazilian Music Day Sept. 7, 2012 – Choro and Bandolim Read More »
In the youtube channel of Smithsonian Folkways I have discovered some videos with a group named Quetzal. I was immediately fascinated by the music of Quetzal, and so I want to present those videos here. In those videos you can see a number of Mexican pucked strings instruments, but I am not completely sure which
A picture with a mandolin – Dan The Mandolin Man! – shared with twitter led me to the new album by The Noisettes. The Noisettes will release their new album Contact tomorrow on Aug. 27th. The album was available as streaming audio for the last days at graziadaily.co.uk. I think this is a great album
On tumblr I have found a picture of Ray Lunsford – a cover from an EP that says: Ray Lunsford – The King of the Electric Mandolin I have found one youtube video with Ray Lunsford – the Carroll Country Blues: Ray Lunsford – Carroll Country Blues Ray Lunsford is also referenced in videos with
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