Topic: The "I Saw This Bit Of Music On The Net" Thread

[patentlymn]

There is a Russian folk band Otava Yo formed from a bunch of St Petersburg street musicians..

https://youtu.be/6NE325M6JBo
?? ? - 50 ? ? / Otava Yo - 50 years of Alexey Belkin
2 hours 30 min.

[patentlymn]

Some ramblings about Russian and Polish groups.

Some Russian said that Alina Gingertail  had an insane number of YT subscribers  for a Russian. She has around 1.8M now which did not seem high.
The above folk group Otava yo is over 20 years old and has over 400K subs and fills small auditoriums in Moscow/St. Pete.
Chat GPT says that in the top 10 of Russian musical groups they listed between around 2M and 8M subs.

Polish folk metal group Percival Schuttenbach has 70K subs. Polish Zniwa has 5K subs which is pititful. They deserve so many  more.
https://www.youtube.com/@percivalschuttenbach/videos
https://youtu.be/EZZUe111VmI


So I guess 1.8M is high considering Alina is solo and located in the Russian Far East north of Vladivostok,  I only found her round a year ago so I wonder how she did it. She was limited by what instruments she could afford.

She took me back to listening to Roy Clark and Earl Scrugs long ago. She is nowhere near that good and knows it. She says she cant play the instruments she makes music with.

2013 gravel walk on 3 string domra in a park. Ya gotta start somewhere.
https://youtu.be/aEadQcDQT08
2013 cooleys reel
https://youtu.be/R0hXWJnur_Q

2014 Banjo and cat
https://youtu.be/BpEABQJQCwM

[patentlymn]

Here is a few seconds of what a Waldzither sounds like. I never heard it alone before, just a music video as one of many instruments or on stage in a folk group... I like the sound.  Turn sound on.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrevqGeIa1W/

[patentlymn]

L like this stuff. This is a Russian folk group formed from a bunch of St. Pete street musicians long ago by the player at far left playing a lap harp and a flute. The dancers are added on for this..
This song has corny lyrics you can see if you turn on CC.

https://youtu.be/P4aVqGAiAlc
?? ? ? ?? - ?? ?? (Otava Yo and Vasilisa - Do you love)

[patentlymn]

I think I posted this before. This is a folk tune Paddy Groves. I love it. Raunchy lyrics.
https://youtu.be/DDdX5iIOWDA
Eva Abraham - Matty Groves

[patentlymn]

I found the name of this instrument, Geyerleier. The video is 13 years old. Alina Gingertail had been playing it for years.

https://youtu.be/GpIRv1YngFY
introducing the Geyerleier - vultures lyre

Here is the most recent video music. Some simple video game music cover.

https://youtu.be/4cPObK-BFV8
The Witcher 3 - Silver for Monsters (Gingertail Cover)

[Pablo de Fleurs]

I make music mixes as a hobby - usually in the Ambient or Jazz categories. Over the holidays, I made a mix featuring a BIG name artist whom I've never mixed before -- and only own one of his albums ('Desire', bought in high school). I've never been a "fan" - but respect his music & poetic lyrics; and am looking forward to seeing the biopic movie "A Complete Unknown".

So, I thought I'd share a download link for anyone here who might want to give it a spin: made using Audacity software & exported @ 320 bps. Through discovery, my favorite track herein is "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" -- I laugh almost every time I hear the lyrics.

Enjoy!

d y l a n (d/l link on the blog page)

d y l a n | Folk/Rock/Art Rock | 76:53

“Oh, hear this Robert Zimmerman, I made a mix for you . . .“

Track listing:

01 [00:00] D. Robert Jones– Song for Bob Dylan (1971)
02 [04:06] Bob Dylan – The Times They are A-Changin’ (1964)
03 [07:16] …… …… …… …My Back Pages (1964)
04 [11:36] …… …… …… …Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright (1962)
05 [15:10] …… …… …… …One More Cup of Coffee (1976)
06 [18:49] …… …… …… …Gotta Serve Somebody (1979)
07 [23:58] …… …… …… …Like a Rolling Stone (1965)
08 [29:57] …… …… …… …Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965)
09 [32:11] …… …… …… …Tangled up in Blue (1975)
10 [37:47] …… …… …… …Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (1966)
11 [44:48] …… …… …… …Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (1966)
12 [48:35] …… …… …… …Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (1966)
13 [53:01] …… …… …… …It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (1965)
14 [57:0] …… …… …… .….Maggie’s Farm (1965)
15 [06:01] Lucky Wilbury (Traveling Wilburys) – Tweeter and the Monkey Man (1988)
16 [66:04] Mick Ronson (w/ David Bowie) – Like a Rolling Stone (1965/1994)
17 [70:12] The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower (1967/1968)
18 [74:04] My Chemical Romance – Desolation Row (1965/2009)

[Libertas]

It always amuses me when musicians criticize (Electric Dylan) other musicians/singers...as if they alone are the true arbiters of music in general...there is only one arbiter in the end - the people who like what they are hearing.

I am a tyrant on only one genre that begins with a "d" and ends with an "o" because I think it is canned garbage and anybody liking it is mentally deranged IMO...

[patentlymn]

I have some old Dylan vinyl. I have to get rid of the vinyl some how. I found his ads for Cadillac autos a little bit much. I do not like modern country.

My music tastes varied over the years. My favorite artist over the years was Sergio Mendes who recently died. I like his arrangements and Brazillian music. I fell into many genres by accident. E.g. there is a Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren. I never considered DJs musicians before him.

Since 2001, he has hosted A State of Trance (ASOT), a weekly radio show, which is broadcast to nearly 40 million listeners in 84 countries on over 100 FM radio stations.[2] According to the website DJs and Festivals, "the radio show propelled him to stardom and helped cultivate an interest in trance music around the world".[3]

I liked classical jazz big bands, many female vocalists, old drum and bugle corps, trance, some electronic, folk, now Slavic folk, some blue grass.

My strangest find is Alina  Gingertail. I am 70 and was never mesmerized by a musician before. I have been listening to her for over a year now.

update

I have noticed a few things about Alina Gingertail. Her viewer engagement is very strong. She has many YT subscribers compared to most Russian performers, likely in the top 20 and she is just one person in the Russia far east in Khabarovsk.  Musicians and even composers comment on her arrangement skills. She mostly does video game music covers now.

Engagement? In this video from 2013 she plays Gravel Walk on her 3 string domra. Most recent comment is 3 hours old for this 11 year old video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEadQcDQT08&list=PLVmg3ofLiKGoew6Oc4wg9vULZU6c1Dxkf&index=11

Most recent video is video game music. From Witcher 3 where she dresses up as Triss, one of the characters in the game..
https://youtu.be/4cPObK-BFV8

[patentlymn]

I found this Russian singer/song writer.. I cannot understand a word. Her name is ? ?? whatever that means. I like her for some reason.

? ??
https://youtu.be/MHcQfVMB5QA

[patentlymn]

Polish cutie playing a folk song on her wooden flute/whistle. She also plays violin well.
 https://youtu.be/-q8ZHNaiw7I
Taniec Nied?wiedzi (Branle de l'Ours) - ?niwa | Na trakcie ?niw | LIVE | koncert online 2021

[patentlymn]

This is  folk standard sung by a woman who fell down the stairs at 31 and died.
the song is kinda naughty.
https://youtu.be/79SmlOBvMus
Fairport Convention Matty Groves with Lyrics

Want to know more?- "Matty Groves" is a Border ballad probably originating in Northern England that describes an adulterous tryst between a man and a woman that is ended when the woman's husband discovers and kills them. This song exists in many textual variants and has several variant names. The song dates to at least the 17th century, and under the title Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard is one of the Child Ballads collected by 19th-century American scholar Francis James Child.

[patentlymn]

https://www.reddit.com/r/livemusic/comments/1ies7mw/johnny_cash_dressed_as_elvis/
Johnny Cash impersonating Elvis

[patentlymn]

I find this cute. A small folk group from Khabarovsk Russia travels to Vladivostok to play at Burns Night 2025 in a church to celebrate sottish poet Robert Burns.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DF_6GISohZz/

Dancing. Instruments are Irish Bouzouki, Nyckelharpa whistle/flute, and gudok or viola.
https://www.instagram.com/skogenvard/reel/DF-eN-1s56T/

[patentlymn]

Because of drum corps I get fed some you tube videos.

Some of the more recent videos can be kinda gay as some try to do Broadway music. The bands that have rifles often use real SKS with bayonets fixed.

there is  a yearly mostly military band festival with bands from different countries. Major weirdness.
Orchestras from more than 10 countries have launched anniversary X international military music festival "Spasskaya tower” near the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow

This is an isolated video of a Turkish band. Most have mustaches.
https://youtu.be/A4U_eA8G2VY
Turkish brass band "Mehter" at the military music festival "Spasskaya tower".

Long version 2017
https://youtu.be/FETx7sCl3T8
Long version 2019
https://youtu.be/Uvu7oGz8zkc

[patentlymn]

I do not know if I ever saw this video. This video is the performance at the intermission of Eurovision contest  that started the whole Riverdance and Lord of the Dance craze.

I really liked this stuff and saw Riverdance in Minneapolis.   In this video, I believe the first brunette singing was also in Minneapolis and married a local guy in Minneapolis.

https://youtu.be/zy79KKpQ988
On 30th April 1994, Riverdance, the original seven-minute performance was the interval act at the Eurovision Song Contest at The Point Theatre, Dublin (now the 3Arena) and was broadcast to an estimated 300 million viewers worldwide.
As votes were being counted around Europe, Riverdance burst onto the stage and took the audience by complete surprise. From the haunting vocals of Anúna, the graceful elegance of Jean Butler, the explosive arrival of Michael Flatley and culminating in a long line of Irish dancers beating the stage in perfect heart-stopping harmony,  a whole new genre of entertainment was born.

https://www.facebook.com/p/Katie-McMahon-100057847100938/
Katie McMahon was the original lead singer from the Riverdance show. Now she lives in Minneapolis, recording and touring with her band and Irish dancers.

[patentlymn]

I posted this before i think. I am older than dirt and I have never been so mesmerized by a musician.
What is surprising to me is that people still visit this 2013 video as often as they do. 4 comments in the last day.
She was just a Russian cute amateur musician playing her domra on the banks of the Amur river in the Russian far east.

This is a standard but not on a 3 string Russian domra.

https://youtu.be/aEadQcDQT08?list=PLVmg3ofLiKGoew6Oc4wg9vULZU6c1Dxkf
Gravel Walk

11 years later.... She plays a  geyerleier, nyckelharpa. gudok, bass rebec, accordion, ?(Svirel), Neapolitan
 mandolin. She dresses as a character Triss from the Polish video game Witcher 3. I never knew of videogame music as a thing before.

https://youtu.be/4cPObK-BFV8?list=PLWuGFckoU4Twsy1e1QR1Xr5R5zSkjXsOH
The Witcher 3 - Silver for Monsters (Gingertail Cover)

Another version by some Polish folk group backed up by  orchestra.
https://youtu.be/z6j-lvPP1i4




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[Libertas]

Not music, but it about a musician who has awakened with the red pill...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/this-iconic-rocker-has-gone-full-maga-conservative/

Good for you, Cherie!

OK, now music...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqEh8OBQfmY

A classic.