Mostly, I’m quite conservative. Then I go on YouTube and only listen to songs I already know. But every now and then I’ll pick another one, suggested by YouTube, and sometimes this just blows me away. I found the song in this post thanks to that. A few days ago I had the courage again to click on a video I did not know, but I saw it was a Russian guy, so I sort of felt obliged to listen to it.
And o man.
I fell for the music, so fluent and beautiful, and a bit sad perhaps. Or wondering. Something like that. Then I watched the video. The sunset, the cigarette permanently balancing between his lips, the old piano and the birds flying away. His head moving along. An accordeon.
For me this creates the perfect atmosphere to study Russian. This wondering, almost existentialist mood, beauty but sad enough to not cheer you up, it’s just perfect.
Enjoy.
Michael Cargill
/ January 23, 2013That’s got a very WWII wartime feel about it.
If you like piano pieces, you might like this one from famed musician Tom Hiel. It’s from the film Swimming with Sharks, and plays right at the end. It marked the first and only time that I happily sat through the entire end credits for a film.
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/ January 24, 2013Yes, I like it a lot! Good music does indeed make you like the end credits. If I remember well, LOTR did this to me
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Thanks for this lovely piece of music, Michael.
A Gripping Life
/ January 24, 2013Yes!! I love that, too! Good find.
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/ January 24, 2013Hurray! Glad you liked it
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El Guapo
/ January 24, 2013I think without the video, that’s about how I’d have pictured the music…
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/ January 24, 2013That’s great! The music and the vid do in fact combine very very well. Powerful.
Le Clown
/ January 24, 2013A,
This is so fucking nice.
Eric
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/ January 25, 2013It definitely is. I’m totally addicted. Glad I could give something like this to you all.
Lily
/ January 26, 2013Oh yeah I like that a lot. Very melancholy but easy to listen to. I also like his cigarette casually hanging from his mouth.
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/ January 27, 2013Indeed! It’s so casual, as you say. Like ‘fuck life, fuck lungs, I’m playing the piano in a field’.
Lily
/ January 27, 2013hahahah so true!
Nicole Marie
/ January 28, 2013This. Is. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing!!
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/ January 28, 2013It is for sure! Glad I could spread a bit of beauty here
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