#music history

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Redman was born April 17, 1970

#today in hip hop history #todayinhiphophistory #hiphop #hip-hop #hip hop #hip hop music #hip hop history #music #history #hip hop culture #music history #redman #bornday #birthday #emcee #mc #rap #rapper #new jersey #newark #1970

[aleprouswitch]

BEFORE GRUNGE WAS BIG, IT WAS BLACK

L: Tina Bell, Bam Bam R: Doug Pinnick, King's X

#80s #tina bell #bam bam #king's x #doug pinnick #grunge #proto-grunge #black history month #music history

[disease]

EMS: SYNTHI AKS | est. MAR 1972

#advertising #synthesizer #music history #retro tech #70s #EMS #synthi aks #black and white #monochrome #technology #nun #u #FAVE

[twistingcells]

Kate Bush at home using her Fairlight CMI synth (c. 1980)

#Kate Bush #Fairlight CMI #synth #1980 #music #Music history #photography #vintage #keyboard #harp

[primordialfather]

Piano for the Bedridden

#piano #disability #music history #sincerely wish I had one of these #wonder if chopin ever played something like this for George Sand

[cumberbatchitis]

Please Help Me Find This Mysterious Song

Tumblr, I do not do this often, but please please can you help me with this? I know you are better than other websites who have all failed me so far... For many years I have been looking (alas, in vain) for a certain song. Very likely a novelty one, though I do not know – I have never caught its name nor the name of the singer. I heard it once or twice on a radio station which only aired retro songs, so it was probably from 1960–80s. Now this one song was sung from a first-person perspective – the singer (almost as desperate as I am) was a classical violinist who longed to be a rock n roll star, which is what he soulfully crooned in the refrain. It was a fun, bittersweet song and always reminded me of Kinks stylewise (though it is very likely not their song).

Nobody seems to know this song, no website or forum dedicated for searching for lost songs has ever helped me, whenever I type in the snippets of the lyrics I remember (for example, something like "the duke told the duchess that he thought that I had talent, the duchess winked at me and said Oh yes, it's quite apparent"), Google pretends it has never heard of it. But I know it exists (I have a witness who heard it with me) and I MUST find it. I will not have peace to die until I find this song. I will continue haunting this Earth as a mournful wraith unless I find it, which is a distressing notion.

Do you have any idea what it might be?

(My eternal gratitude for reblogs.) EDIT (30/11/2023): I think I might have lead all of you astray with the focus on duke and duchess. They are not that important, really. The singer himself, his desire to be a rock n roll star while he is stuck playing classical violin is the important part. But thank you all and please keep this post going, maybe someone will remember what godforgotten old song this is...

#music #obscure music #mysterious song #what song is this? #music history #music help

[amphibimations]

can you draw klavier gavin ?!

yeah sure :-)

Also, as a side note: if any of you ace attorney fans out there want to listen to a courtroom/law themed love song, theres one from the 1920’s called ‘my fate is in your hands’ !!! (link)

(the best cover imo is by josephine baker. Also if any of you don’t know who that is, you should read the wikipedia page for josephine baker because she was like the coolest woman of all time)

With lyrics like ‘wanting you is my offense, you have all the evidence, now i wait for you to sentence me.’ And ‘there’s no use pretending, love needs no defending, what is the verdict? My fate is in your hands.’ i feel like this is a song every ace attorney fan should listen to.

(Also my real motive here is that i just want everyone to listen to more 20s music. i love 20s music)

#ace attorney #ace attorney fanart #ace attorney comic #apollo justice #aa4 #aa4 fanart #klavier gavin #ace attorney klavier #aa klavier #ema skye #klapollo #music history #1920s #1920s music #comic #comics #webcomic #fanart #video games #visual novel

[lilyisfine]

I wish more people talked about opera. like why aren't there more books and tv shows and movies about opera. opera is so fucking cool and it IS actually for everyone. thinking of opera as some elitist rich people ritual makes the problem worse and you miss out on so many opportunities to feel and experience art!!

the most frequent comment I hear is about the language barrier and not understanding what's going on, which I sooo get, but there is so much more to opera than the words and to think otherwise is to ignore how much other work goes into telling a story. in every direction there are people who have dedicated their lives to their craft. musicians and singers who have spent decades learning their instrument, designers and technicians who are creating the space, composers, conductors, stage managers, librarians. there is so much story that can be told through vocalization, instrumentation, setting, costume, lighting... and every performance is a showing of someone's life work. it's beautiful.

and yeah, the storylines are crazy and there's tropes out the wazoo but hey

it's opera

#opera #music history #performing art #theater

[svartmalt]

Einstürzende Neubauten at Slurpen for “Tidskonsept II”, Oslo 1983.

Artist collective Lambretta invited Einstürzende Neubauten and Holy Toy to perform in their studio that they converted into a gallery space for the evening.

The locale was decorated with painted tv-screens, painted tarps, sheet metal and hanging oil drums, and playing documentary and propaganda clips from wartime Germany and the Soviet Union.

The performance was attended by the art elite, punks, and a tv-crew from the Norwegian national broadcasting network NRK.

The night ended with band members from Einstürzende Neubauten throwing Molotov-cocktails into the crowd, and the crowd reacting similarly by setting fire to the instruments and set design by Lambretta.

Videoclip taken from the NRK archives, Pan, episode “Musikk blir bilde”.

#einstürzende neubauten #einsturzende neubauten #neubauten #Lambretta #lakkergata skole #slurpen #Blixa Bargeld #f.m. einheit #mark chung #n.u. unruh #alexander hacke #industrial music #industrial #experimental #experimental music #music history #art history #this is like… my favorite artist collective in Norway… and I think it’s incredible they invited Neubauten #en #Blixa

[violadagoomba]

Put your [Guidonian] hands in the air!

#planet of the bass #dj crazy times #all of the dream #gregorian chant #music history #music major #guidonian hand #violadagoomba

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

DJ Kool Herc was born April 16, 1955

#today in hip hop history #todayinhiphophistory #hiphop #hip-hop #hip hop #music #history #hip hop music #hip hop history #hip hop culture #music history #dj kool herc #kool herc #bornday #birthday #dj #bronx #the bronx #1955

[disease]

PANASONIC RS-261US TAPE DECK USED BY AFRIKA BAMBAATAA [MFG. ~1973 | plastic/silver | 3 × 12 × 10 1/4"]

#afrika bambaataa #music history #retro tech #70s #hip hop #breakbeat #cassette deck #music gear #panasonic #technology #u

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

January 8th, 1947: English singer-songwriter David Bowie was born.

#history #music history #david bowie

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Violin.

Place of origin: Austria, Vienna

Date: 1749

Manufacturer: Wenceslas Kowansky

#18th century #18th century art #music #history of music #music history #musical instruments #violin #austria #vienna #Wescelas Ki #Wenceslas Kowansky #1749

[mmondely]

Slash on stage with a black Les Paul guitar

#slash #gnr #guns n roses #guns and roses #slash gnr #80s #90s #rock #rock music #music history #90s rock #80s rock #80s music #90s music

[amphibimations]

Hildegard von Bingen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

she was a nun and a scientist and a musician and poet and invented her own language and alphabet. which i think is pretty neat. this drawing is based on a specific medieval illustration: (link)

#medieval #hildegard von bingen #history #medieval art #manuscript #middle ages #music #music history #lingua ignota #medievalcore #medieval europe #9th century #women in history #art #illustration