Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Music from my Country, Sweden

Nisse Nordström spelar nyckelharpa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZoigDmYxx8


And "nyckelharpa" is the instrument, a bit like a crossbreed between violin and piano .../HGL

(Since he is from Uppland and my ma from Sörmland - the regions North and South of Stockholm - we speak about the same dialect, although I spent most of my life in Malmö).

Update: More Nyckelharpa.

Slängpolska från Närke
Jonas Malm | added / Ajoutée le 23 févr. 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1OMw6MGQV8


However, with this one, the composer could be an anonymous person who already died./HGL

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Happy Name's Day, Paul McCartney!

Let It Be (The Beatles)
http://www.paroles-musique.com/paroles-The_Beatles-Let_It_Be-lyrics,p10790


A fine song. I was even wrong to see something necessarily non-Christian about lines like:

And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be
For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see


Yes, there is a chance that they will see how the solutions offered by Melinda Gates and George Soros just suck.

And if that was not quite what you meant, it is still not bad for the world to know that hearing one's mother's voice is not a mental disease, despite some erroneous definitions among certain people.

However, I also very much like, and musically prefer:

Mull Of Kintyre ~ Song "Mull Of Kintyre" (c/o mrtibbs6912)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Y6xFOPPW0

http://www.breizh-partitions.fr/partition/486_Mull_of_Kintyre