Category Archives: SOUNDS

Music, video or voice recordings that relate to Life, Universes and Other Stuff

...and other stuff, ALIEN INTERVIEW BOOK, INSIDE THE BOOK, MOVING PICTURES, READING MATTER, SOUNDS, UNIVERSES

ALIEN INTERVIEW INTRO VIDEO

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Here is a short, introductory video to the book ALIEN INTERVIEW.  The sound track to the book is the actual ABC radio broadcast announcing the crash of the UFO at Roswell, NM on July 8, 1947.

See more videos related the the transcripts published in the Alien Interview book on the Alien Interview YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/AlienInterviewVideos/featured

...and other stuff, ART, LIVES, MOVING PICTURES, POETIC NONSENSE, SOUNDS, UNIVERSES

GUITARRA FLAMENCO

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I first hear Flamenco music in 1964 when the uncle and father of members of The Gypsy kings released their first record album in the US  titled: Manitas de Plata: Guitarra Flamenco.  It was recorded in a small room with a few invited guests, including the world famous artist Pablo Picasso.  His cousin, a carpet layer, Jose Reyes, who is the father of several of the members of The Gypsy Kings, was the vocalist.  When I heard the magnificent and authentic guitar playing on this record I was instantly electrified!  Memories of my past lives spent in Spain and France as a gypsy flooded back into my consciousness with overwhelming passion for this music and these beautifully crude, by free, peasants who were originally refugees from India and Egypt.  Here are two cuts from Manitas De Plata performing  Tarantas. This is the first US recordings ever made of Manitas De Plata — October 1963, in Arles, France, produced by Connoisseur Society (the recording engineer was David B. Jones). It was initially released as an LP (“Manitas de Plata aux Saintes Maries de la Mer“) on the Philips and Connoisseur Society labels.  To this day I have never heard a performance of authentic Flamenco guitar playing as flawlessly performed as those recorded on this record.

Here are TWO selections from that album:


In 2003 I attended a concert of the Gypsy Kings at The Greek Theater in L.A. as a birthday present to myself.  This is my favorite music group of all time!  They continue the proud heritage of the true gypsy spirit of freedom and passion and musical genius!  Here is the complete album of the Gypsy Kings Greatest Hits:

...and other stuff, ART, SOUNDS, UNIVERSES

TEARS OF JOY!

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10,000 VOICES and Orchestra performing “Ode To Joy” by Beethoven…..   Turn up the volume on your speakers to make the windows shatter!!!!   Tears of Joy!!!  Tears of Joy, My Beautiful Friends!!!!

The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (sometimes known simply as “the Choral”), is the final complete symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best-known works of the repertoire of classical music. Among critics, it is almost universally considered to be among Beethoven’s greatest works, and is considered by some to be the greatest piece of music ever written.  The symphony was the first example of a major composer using voices in a symphony (thus making it achoral symphony). The words are sung during the final movement by four vocal soloists and a chorus. They were taken from the “Ode to Joy”, a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with additions made by the composer.