The Orient ExpressShoutbox
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blue_fandango Hello! I'm glad to be a member, it's a swell place. Please, take a look at our sister group Golden Tunes Vertigo.
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sir_ks Good Evening =)
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SirAlecHendrix waving hello :)))
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SirAlecHendrix
.•*¨).•´¸.•*´¨).•´¸.•*´¨) happy new year to everybody .•*¨).•´¸.•*´¨).•´¸.•*´¨)
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niallcrazyhorse i c u still have gud taste buds \m/ (*-*) \m/ hope u and yours ave a happy xmas and an even beter new year 2 cum
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SirAlecHendrix
hi
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musinum I just ran across that bottom picture myself while looking for an image for "jazz radio"... that's the first White House radio, installed by Harding, and it popped up on Google. (Was looking for an image for my new group Clifford Brown.) Small world!
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Tarkovsky86 I created a group in honor of Enrico Caruso. Join if you want http://www.lastfm.es/group/Enrico+Caruso
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wwaynesworld Greetings nice work that you have done here ~ peace ~
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selirend What a lovely group...
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LoveDownTempo Really like the new changes, this group goes from strength to strength...
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tideghost The Orient Express reminds me of how music would sound if it were done Art Deco style. I like it.
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LoveDownTempo
Just Wow!!!!!
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musinum
Looking mighty fine! It's a good-looking page, and the 185 artists give a nice rounded feel to the zeitgeist... I hope the Library Bot craze will spread to all of Hendrikhstan!
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Peristeraki Thanks for the warm welcome :) I'm glad I've found you guys.
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SirAlecHendrix
cool, now we are going to intensify the show !
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VickyBN1 Must add a new carriage the first one is now full :-))
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SirAlecHendrix
i'm wondering what our next stations will be ? as soon as 20 passengers ride on the train, i will add a nice streamed compilation.
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SirAlecHendrix
happy new year to you all !
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VickyBN1
Thanks urbanitas for the greeting and song, hope you visit again soon :))
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urbanitas Merry Christmas to Vicky and all the group! I dedicate a song appropriate for the occasion ''The Good Life'' from Tony Bennet.
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SirAlecHendrix
passing by and waving hello ,,,
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vieille-chipie Out Of The Blue Great review on Girlsingers.org ! Highest recommendation by -- Doug Boynton --
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SirAlecHendrix
toooot ...
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musinum
Somewhere at the juncture of New Age, World Music, Devotional, and sheer musical mastery lies a font of profound wonderment and evergreen spirit... Experience Deep Listening. (Great, great lineup here! My compliments to the chef!)
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VickyBN1
Of course, you've got a season ticket !
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SirAlecHendrix
thanks, so does that mean, i'm on the ride, too ?
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VickyBN1
Congrats to Sir on being the groups very first Top Artist !
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VickyBN1
Hi everyone, if there is an artist you think I've missed do let me know -suggestions always welcome :)
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vieille-chipie
Wow - The Orient Express was always a dream of mine!!! :-) Thanks for invitation
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musinum
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VickyBN1
Hi Guys, appreciate you're enthusiasm and expertise:) Suggestions always welcome here as there'll always be a piece of music that's new to someone! Will try to react promptly -but as you know life sometimes gets in the way :D
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musinum
Vicky, ou've been looking at the same tango artists as I have (not an area of expertise for me, just navigating tags)... I've been in awe of the mix you're creating... I thought about Bizet and especially Offenbach, evn tho they were much earlier... certainly they would have been listened to, as would Rachmaninoff (sp.?), Bela Bartok was also on my radar, but I didn't know how far you wanted to go there... Brian Setzer and Squirrel Nut Zippers certainly... There's a jump blues outfit called Five Guys Named Moe but I don't know if they're here... I'm not doing the links cuz I've got group duties of my own way backed up and so I'm just dashing thru... I think this is a terrific lineup, and I hope there'll be a tag radio eventually, here and in the rest of the Hendrix Galaxy... I know how much work those are, believe me...
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SirAlecHendrix
just some quick thoughts without the intention to control vicky's decisions :) -- regarding late romanticist / early modernist composers of the train's heyday, you might consider if Gabriel Fauré fits well, and maybe even Béla Bartók who relied on folk music of hungary/romania and, say the northern balkan, same with Zoltán Kodály. Olivier Messiaen represents a post-modern era outside the western tradition. Charles Ives finds a posthume recognition in this train. Stravinsky on a train ? inspires me for a title of my next track ... maybe the Orient Express is in some way a parisian cafe or viennese kaffeehaus on a ride ? if so, there are also Smetana, Martinu etc, but i feel Johann Strauss II, Richard Strauss, Georges Bizet, Jacques Offenbach (vintage track:
Barcarolle) are realistic regarding time, audience and route.
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SirAlecHendrix
playing of that time ? Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Indigo Swing, The New Morty Show, The Puppini Sisters, Bernadette Seacrest (and Her Yes Men)
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SirAlecHendrix
Villa-Lobos from his Bachianas Brasileiras had another small train riding through Brazil :
IV. Toccata - O Trezinho do Caipira
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VickyBN1
Either you've done this before or you've been peeking in my library :D If you're on a roll and got a few ideas for dance, world, opera, or quirky, from the era, or todays musicians playing 'of that time' , that would be great :)
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musinum
Heitor Villa-Lobos would be right at home. I think...you know he started as a cocktail pianist... oh, and Jelly Roll Morton... and you've probably already considered Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius
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musinum
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musinum
Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Sergei Prokoffiev, Charles Ives, Olivier Messiaen....?
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musinum
I think you cherry-picked the best ones from that lot! (It can be fun later on rounding out the byways once you've got the tone established. as I know from my three sister SlowSound groups).
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VickyBN1
Hi musinum, many thanks for suggesting such quality artists, some really fit in well and have been connected , the others feel a liitle too "rock n' roll " for now but may be included as we go along - who knows in time we may end up taking a detour and end up somewhere quite unexpected :)
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SirAlecHendrix
Vicky is our Chef de Musique du Train, she will decide upon your honorable requests, Mr. Musinum.
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musinum
and I meant LaVern Baker, but she's a little anachrnonistic maybe.... how about Alberta Hunter?
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musinum
oops, you got Bix already!
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musinum
Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Jordan, LaVerne Baker, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Ike Quebec, Dr. John, Professor Longhair... I'm just throwing 'em out there to see if anything sticks :)
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musinum
might I suggest Leon Redbone and The Ditty Bops?
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VickyBN1
Let's relax and enjoy !
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SirAlecHendrix
choo choo ... our routes : (1) london - paris - vienna - bucarest ... (2) paris - venice - sofia - istanbul ... (3) zurich - budapest - belgrade - athens
