GarageDragon
| | Posted: May 19, 2013 - 09:22 | |
This sounds exactly like Mike Oldfield |
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meloman
(Warsaw, Poland) | | Posted: Feb 14, 2013 - 05:48 | |
tapatia1072 wrote:
That's Ms. "Know-It-All" to you, thank you very much. And you are most welcome - after all, a little education never hurts anyone. Of course, if you willfully shut your mind, I'm sure cracking the nut of your skull to open that mind within can be a little bit painful. Maybe in the end you'll find it's worth it to discard that shell of unenlightenment.
Good reply. I appreciated your initial post very much. Thank you. |
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hightail
| | Posted: Nov 12, 2012 - 04:07 | |
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LongGoneDaddy
| | Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 07:01 | |
ick wrote:What's with the New Age music Robbie? more like Old Age music...as in timeless... |
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caregiver
(near contentment now) | | Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 06:08 | |
coloradojohn wrote:I just love the steady horse-walking rhythm, the heart-beat drums, the masterful use of guitar and other instruments, and all the fantastic ethereal Native American singing on this and every song on this masterpiece album that cracked my brain wide-open way back when it came out and still sends me into rapture every time I hear it. This is Rock Medicine. Listen: I am dancing beneath you...  |
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coloradojohn
(Tokyo till Jan. 29, then it's back to Rocky Mtn Way!) | | Posted: Jan 01, 2012 - 00:45 | |
I just love the steady horse-walking rhythm, the heart-beat drums, the masterful use of guitar and other instruments, and all the fantastic ethereal Native American singing on this and every song on this masterpiece album that cracked my brain wide-open way back when it came out and still sends me into rapture every time I hear it. This is Rock Medicine. Listen: I am dancing beneath you...
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greenlake
| | Posted: Feb 19, 2011 - 11:44 | |
This is one of my favorite albums as well as my 22 year old son's! We played it while driving toward the red rock cliffs in Sedona Arizona..what a great family memory!
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ick
(The 619) | | Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 06:06 | |
What's with the New Age music Robbie?
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sandyclaws
(On our way back home . . .) | | Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 06:04 | |
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cirruss
(Curacao, Netherlands Antilles) | | Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 06:03 | |
Is the soundtrack for a Titanic remake?
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mgkiwi
(French Alps - rivet rivet) | | Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 06:03 | |
A little tedious!  |
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hbs47
(SE England) | | Posted: Nov 17, 2010 - 02:54 | |
Well said tapatia.
Superb and spiritual album and a great track to boot.
The Band wasn't going any where. Robbie , has moved on.
I saw a recent(ish) documentary, he seemed very at ease with himself.
He has found a connection with his early roots, and used his musicianship to bring that to many others.
For that I thank him.
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mirland
(Denmark) | | Posted: Nov 17, 2010 - 02:45 | |
Argh!  |
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nate917
(2,815 miles from home) | | Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 10:28 | |
tapatia1072 wrote:
That's Ms. "Know-It-All" to you, thank you very much. And you are most welcome - after all, a little education never hurts anyone. Of course, if you willfully shut your mind, I'm sure cracking the nut of your skull to open that mind within can be a little bit painful. Maybe in the end you'll find it's worth it to discard that shell of unenlightenment.
OK, thanks, Zamfir. Now pipe down. BAAAAAAAhahahahahahahahahahaha |
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derekd
(Just Visiting This Planet) | | Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 10:25 | |
As I recall from the liner notes, Robbie has some native american roots. So he went back to research them and this album is a consequent collab with a lot of different well known artists in the native american scene. I don't think this is the best track off that album. But there is some neat stuff there. What IS amazing is the follow up album to this one called, Songs from the Redboy Underground or some such. He uses these same native american artists and adds a DJ for some tasteful electronica programming. String arrangements were then added by David Campbell (famous arranger). THAT one is an amazing album in my humble opinion.
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tapatia1072
| | Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 10:25 | |
cattail321 wrote:Thank You Mr. Know-it-all
tapatia1072 wrote:
For the record: What you and other listeners are hearing and labeling as "panpipes" is actually Native American flute. May sound like "New Age" garbage to your ears, but if you listened to other recordings by indigenous North American flautists, you would find many contemporary artists of that genre using this traditional instrument employ a similar sound and style, both of which are influenced by their cultural roots. "New Age" is for the most part a Western, non-indigenous movement which appropriates the artistic and spiritual traditions of other indigenous and pan-Asian cultures and dilutes them into derivative and mostly inferior - and in some cases downright offensive - forms. Given the artistic and cultural forces and history which shaped this music and the album itself, this song is anything but "New Age."
That's Ms. "Know-It-All" to you, thank you very much. And you are most welcome - after all, a little education never hurts anyone. Of course, if you willfully shut your mind, I'm sure cracking the nut of your skull to open that mind within can be a little bit painful. Maybe in the end you'll find it's worth it to discard that shell of unenlightenment. |
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nalle
(Malmo, Sweden) | | Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 10:25 | |
Overrated, sorry Robbie. This is a 3 and going down,
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cattail321
| | Posted: Mar 07, 2010 - 19:24 | |
Thank You Mr. Know-it-all
tapatia1072 wrote:
For the record: What you and other listeners are hearing and labeling as "panpipes" is actually Native American flute. May sound like "New Age" garbage to your ears, but if you listened to other recordings by indigenous North American flautists, you would find many contemporary artists of that genre using this traditional instrument employ a similar sound and style, both of which are influenced by their cultural roots. "New Age" is for the most part a Western, non-indigenous movement which appropriates the artistic and spiritual traditions of other indigenous and pan-Asian cultures and dilutes them into derivative and mostly inferior - and in some cases downright offensive - forms. Given the artistic and cultural forces and history which shaped this music and the album itself, this song is anything but "New Age."
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tapatia1072
| | Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 07:45 | |
iscoot4peace wrote:Let me guess? Zamfir...master of the Pan flute?
Robbie, Robbie! You left the band to do this? Mein Gott, man! 3
For the record: What you and other listeners are hearing and labeling as "panpipes" is actually Native American flute. May sound like "New Age" garbage to your ears, but if you listened to other recordings by indigenous North American flautists, you would find many contemporary artists of that genre using this traditional instrument employ a similar sound and style, both of which are influenced by their cultural roots. "New Age" is for the most part a Western, non-indigenous movement which appropriates the artistic and spiritual traditions of other indigenous and pan-Asian cultures and dilutes them into derivative and mostly inferior - and in some cases downright offensive - forms. Given the artistic and cultural forces and history which shaped this music and the album itself, this song is anything but "New Age." |
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coy
(san antonio) | | Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 07:34 | |
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papaman
(Downstate New Mexico) | | Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 07:32 | |
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EssexTex
(Gitche Gumee) | | Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 07:29 | |
ziggytrix wrote:
I have a similar reaction to an Asian-influence Pandora station I'm working on. Seeded with Yoshida Brothers and trained from there. It gets a lot of these generic Eastern Meditation CD tracks in the mix, which I usually thumb down, but very occasionally there's a really good song on one of those things.
I suppose my point is that while there is a metric crapton of rubbish in the genre, there are also a few real gems.
It's like the sex scene theme from a movie about Sittingbull. |
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ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX) | | Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 12:27 | |
celadonstone wrote:New age and similar music totally for a massage studio with the ubiquitous mini-fountain from Target flowing? New Age doesnt have a real good rap perhaps because its nothing in particular. Muzak usually waters down what was a real song once.
There isnt much to new age to water down. I see how this tune runs close to that style and why it is similarly loathed. This one doesnt bother me, but after a few more listens, it might.
I have a similar reaction to an Asian-influence Pandora station I'm working on. Seeded with Yoshida Brothers and trained from there. It gets a lot of these generic Eastern Meditation CD tracks in the mix, which I usually thumb down, but very occasionally there's a really good song on one of those things. I suppose my point is that while there is a metric crapton of rubbish in the genre, there are also a few real gems. |
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iscoot4peace
| | Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 12:19 | |
Let me guess? Zamfir...master of the Pan flute?
Robbie, Robbie! You left the band to do this? Mein Gott, man! 3
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keller1
(In A Gadda Da Vida, Baby) | | Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 12:17 | |
Good music, but I can't hear anything Robbie Robertson is involved in without thinking how he screwed the rest of The Band. |
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Sloggydog
(UK) | | Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 12:16 | |
Do you know i think i might just hate panpipes? Well at least i can't think of a time i heard them and wasn't instantly irritated.
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derekd
(Just Visiting This Planet) | | Posted: Oct 01, 2009 - 13:20 | |
There is another song on this album where they literally recorded crickets, slowed them down about 20X and then had a Native American opera singer sing along. Wild...
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philbertr
(Hurricane Target Florida) | | Posted: Nov 19, 2008 - 11:28 | |
mandolin wrote:
Contemporary Native American music doesn't get any more authentic nor heartfelt than this. From Paul Corio's Rolling Stone Review:
The TBS documentary "the Native Americans" was gorgeous, unsettling, provocative. So is Robertson's music for it. Robertson's mother was a Mohawk raised on Canada's Six Nations reservation; he now reclaims an earlier America and his own heritage. Heading the Red Road Ensemble Priscilla and Rita Coolidge, the Silver Cloud Singers, Ulali, and Douglas Spotted Eagle among its members Robertson combines the heartbeat percussion and keening vocals of indigenous music with pop and classical elements. Like Ennio Morricone, he has a gift for sound that's both stately and hip, primal and intricate. A shuddering sadness underlies such pieces, and that's proper this is primarily a chronicle of profound loss. But in the Native American poetry and the fused strength of guitar, strings, natural elements and found sound, there is celebration a ritual summoning of a spirit that lives yet.
Thank you! That is truly enlightening commentary. |
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TeleFrank
(Allgäu, Germany) | | Posted: Oct 18, 2008 - 23:11 | |
Perfect guitar-sound! Telecaster on neck position?  |
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Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet waiting for the ticket home) | | Posted: Jun 14, 2008 - 14:14 | |
Great track from a brilliant album.
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