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Jesse Cook — Byzantium Underground
Album: Vertigo
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Released: 1998
Length: 3:50
Plays (last 30 days): 2
(instrumental)
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 bahadir wrote:

awesome pick from Jesse Cook, thanks RP :) didn't hear him before. i live in Istanbul, I know a lot about Byzantine history, this song really catched the soul of empire, bulls eye! 




Cool!  GREAT TUNE!!  Gunaydin (Good Morning)  Thanx RP!   
awesome pick from Jesse Cook, thanks RP :) didn't hear him before. i live in Istanbul, I know a lot about Byzantine history, this song really catched the soul of empire, bulls eye! 
 poetdancer wrote:

Go see him live if you get a chance. He's incredible, and has a fantastic band with him as well. 



I see him every time he comes to town...8 times and counting.
The more I hear this tune, the more I like it!!  Thanx RP!   
 Greengrowth wrote:

pfft, I can play that fast with my toes                   NOT




I can't chair dance that fast!!      
Excellent!! I never heard of him before. Thanx RP!
Saw him live years ago. Small venue. It was magical. 
Slow it down Jesse you are making me dizzy!
pfft, I can play that fast with my toes                   NOT
Go see him live if you get a chance. He's incredible, and has a fantastic band with him as well. 
Great stuff
 sarahbean26 wrote:
This is so cheesy!! I want to rip my hair out!!!
 
DO IT!

Cut off your nose  to spite your face.

Please send us a picture of you without 
- hair
- nose

LMAO

Dumb enough to be an American!
Unexpected stuff like this is why RP is my favorite. It is different
Awesome guitar playing
and the band is fantastic
you can not  stop body parts
from moving all on there own 
I play a Darbuka from time to time (the Turkish drum playing in the background). I just love the energy it gives and this track has reminded me to dust it off and annoy the neighbours. 
I like Jesse Cook!
This is so cheesy!! I want to rip my hair out!!!
JEEEZ - you guys spend too much time listening to weather on the phone. Maybe you got the Turkish weather channel?
I dream of Byzantium........Weather Channel music? What?? Are you nuts?
It gets me moving at my desk!
Mugro wrote:
"Currently in your area...................It is ...............78 degrees.........." Or: "Please continue to hold. Your call is important to us."
LOL! That is exactly what this is, this song was commissioned by the Weather Channel.
huh, well I liked it
Rusty420 wrote:
sounds like weather channel local forecast music, or put you on hold forever music.
"Currently in your area...................It is ...............78 degrees.........." Or: "Please continue to hold. Your call is important to us."
Nope. Does nothing for me. I can't stop envisioning some middle-eastern airline advertising all the wonderful sand-filled destinations they travel to. Whilst simultaneously intermixing a stomach-jiggling veil-swooshing woman fluttering her eyes erotically. :-k
This is awesome. If this is what on-hold music sounded like, I would start calling Qwest for fun.
sounds like weather channel local forecast music, or put you on hold forever music.
pezz wrote:
How on earth could you think this is that awful? No @#%&*+ way! Fabulous in my mind, full of rhythm and sway and passion!
The sort of music they play on certain radio stations, when they've (unforeseen) got time left before the commercials or news
Originally Posted by nexxia: the actual name is 'byzantium underground' :)
Which is also more accurate, referring to place rather than culture, since the influences sound more Ottoman than Greek. Wonder if he's been in the Great Cisterns(I once dreamed of Byzantium myself) One of the best of Jesse's I've heard.
Originally Posted by hcg11: I bought a Jesse Cook albulm only because he did a remake of Crowded House's "Fall at your Feet". It's probably one of the best remakes I have ever heard and the rest of the album is very enjoyable.
Hey! I uploaded that very song hcg11 and Rebecca accepted it. I love it as well. Fall At Your Feet
Originally Posted by gjh3676: Isn't this the soundtrack from Red Shoe Diaries?
NO
the actual name is 'byzantium underground' :)
beautiful