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Itzhak Perlman

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   It is very hard to talk about masters. You try to say words adorned with praise but it beggars description. Nevertheless, I will try to write about Itzhak Perlman.          Itzhak Perlman is widely considered the greatest living violinist. He started to play violin when he was four years old. At the same age he was struck with infantile paralysis but he didn't give up playing violin. At this point, he had pretty difficult times. Because children want to run or want to play.On the other hand, being handicapped was a big obstacle for his career. Nevertheless, his talent surprassed all obstacles.He says that people who assert their inabilities as the reason of their failures should take a lesson from his life. Here one of his performance when he was 13.                                                     ...

Orfeas Peridis

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    "The best songs are usually written in moments of pain.This is something that applies generally in art. The songs that have the pain as dominant characteristic are the most honest." says Orfeas Peridis. If you check the world of letters,painting,musics,movies or any other arts, you will see he is right. Because pain is something inimitable. We can laugh in a fake way but we can't shed tears in the same way. Pain brings us closer to our pure face. That is why it effects us unconsciously. AH NA SE DO From the souls depth and from the mind's heights from the bottom of the sea up to the mountain peaks I am looking for you.   A wet sphere around the earth a celestial deposit where the souls shower before they disappear in to the universe with a morning jump i will plunge in there from the bottom of the sea, see everything upside down to find all the losses maybe find you too   Oh! To find you Oh! to find you jus...

Elena Ledda

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    One of the most interesting and mysterious element in this world is miracle. Many of us believe miracles while many of us doesn't believe them. Maybe we contextualize the things we haven't met as miracle until we meet it.  Even so, we would like to coincidence with a miracle. When I listened Elena Ledda for the first time, I found her songs miracle-like.      Elena Ledda is an Italian composer. She usually sings traditional Sardinian* folk songs. Actually she was an opera singer but went for an other way. She chose singing Sardinian songs. I think she discovered something we can't see in folk songs. Maybe her root pull her into that genre of music.      Elena Ledda is also a special name. As you know, Helen was daughter of Leda and Zeus in Greek mythology. I don't know whether it is her real name or not but seems it is not her real name.      Elena has many different songs. She has both joyful folk songs...

Orange Blossom

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    It is pretty hard to be unique in today's world where everything looks like each other. Authors,architectures,sportsmen,musicians even artists are reiterate things what have been done in the past.Even so, there are some people try to do something different although the number of them is very few. Today we will listen a band which has specific songs.    Orange Blossom is a specific music group which consisted of members from different countries.It founded in Nantes(France) in 1993. The name of Orange Blossom came from a train: "Orange Blossom Special" was a passenger train between New York City and Miami.There is also a charming fiddle tune with the same name.Anyway, although it was founded in 1993 the band hadn't created any remarkable music until 2005. They tried to make Franco-Arabic music in acoustic style with violin,guitar and accordion at first.Then they lost some members of the band. After that, they changed their music. They started to mix their ...

Simple Three

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   Hi guys.It's been long time since I have written last blog. Time goes pretty fast. It is mostly good to recover your pain. Nevertheless, time is one of the most valuable element in our life dear friends. We need to use it delicately. Or else time will be an other pain in our life and it will be our enemy.    This week we will listen Simple Three. This group has three members Glen McDaniel(violinist), Nicholas Villalobos(bassist) and Zack Clark(cellist). They make covers with a perfect synergy.  Their music is a kind of classical touching to popular  music. In other words, you feel like listening postmodern classical music. As a classical music lover I am happy to discover this trio. They convinced me about necessity  of pop music.In addition I like the covers from Adele's Rolling in the Deep and One Republic's Counting Stars very much. They also had some nice cooperation  with esteemed musicians like Jeff Smith and Kellindo Parker. ...

A Movie With Nice Musics: In The Mood For Love

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     Hi dear friends. Today we will have a different topic. We will discuss about a movie. The topic is not only movie but also soundtracks of movie. The name of movie is In the Mood for Love.      Have you ever fallen in love desperately? Have you ever felt pain because of despair? Even have you ever cried in such situations? You will certainly find something from yourself in this movie. As you guess, it is a romantic movie which is my favourite romance-drama movie. The movie was released in 2000. It was shot in China,Hong Kong ,Cambodia. Especially, Angkor Wat Temple fascinated  me.      The story happens in Hong Kong. Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen are main characters. Chow and Lizhen move into same building at the same day with their spouses. When they were carrying stuff they met by chance. Their spouses often have business travel. So Chow and Li-zhen usually spend their free times together as two friends. One ...

Anna RF

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        There is an unusual Japanese word: Boketto. It means gazing vacantly into the distance without thinking. Sometimes you listen some sort of musics and boketto mood occurs. When I listen Anna RF it happens to me. So, who is Anna RF? Let's discuss about it.         Anna RF is a band which has three main members. I told "main members". Because you can see different faces in their movie clips.         Anna RF means "I don't know" in Arabic-Hebrew language.         Their music is basically mid-east music although they use electronic instruments. They try to mix East music and West music but they are well known with their Eastern style musics. Moreover, they wear Eastern style clothes in their most of movie clips. I like their traditional trousers, vests and dresses) Sometimes they looks so funny and enjoyable in these clothes. I like "jump" and "gozleme" as their funny movie clips.   ...