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Re: Music We Listen to

komakino, I liked that, I'll check that band when I can.

OK, this is a classic one, from the 70's/80's, but I'm becoming very fond of it. Pioneers in electronic music, Tangerine Dream emerged from the Krautrock style that was becoming increasingly popular with Kraftwerk and Vangelis, for example, and developed a new approach to ambient music. This is creativity and improvisation at work. No sampling or copying, only piano, guitar and synth. Electronic music haters, don't dare to tell me this isn't pure art! :)
 
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet 2

Vladiswar Nadishana

I came across this great musician, he's so creative and he plays so well, I simply had to post about it:

 
"Vladiswar Nadishana is a russian virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and composer from Siberia in direction of modern world fusion and ethnic jazz. He plays on more than 100 instruments of the world, including self-invented.

Re: Did you know?

Mindblowing! Thank you for posting this.

Music We Listen to

As suggested in class, here's a topic to post music we like or are listening to at the moment. I'll start:

And the live version:

They're the best Portuguese band ever, with great music, concepts and performances. I absolutely love their music! I would post their whole discography as music I really like, but it would just be an incredibly long post.

Now it's your turn, what do you like to hear to lift up your mood or to get that feeling?

Re: New album by The Prodigy coming out February 23

I bought the album last week and was surprise. It's really good, a nice turn in their sound, but it has that Prodigy spirit in it.

Re: Cambridge CPE 5

Maybe in Coimbra but I don't think anyone has it in our class.

Re: buddha and gandhiji

Great thought, there are plenty  of books spreading this new idea. it's not modern, but it's spreading now. Watch "The Peaceful Warrior". It's a very good movie conveying this very idea.
Why Buddha and Gandhiji for title by the way?

Re: Money- Pink Floyd

The Wall even spawned my weirdest nightmare ever!

Wow... What "happened"?

Re: God did not create yellow lizards

There's an interesting article about Darwin's dicoveries back on the HMS Beagle in this month's National Geographic.
Nat. G. February 2009

New album by The Prodigy coming out February 23

"Invaders Must Die" is the title. it sounds kind of punky but I hope it's as good as the previous ones. I went to their concert in gaia in July. It was really good, but I walked out of it completely deaf/incaple of hearing whatsoever. Until the next day, al least. Info and tracklisting at Wikipedia and Discogs.

Cambridge CPE 5

The new exercise book is out. The CAE one helped me out last year, hope this one is as good. Answers included.

Re: God did not create yellow lizards

Creationism is the relligious bramch of the fixist theories for explaining biodiversity. It was acceptable until the 19th century or so but we know differently now. We know where they come from. There are dozens of arguments and proof for the validity of evolutionary theory, accounting for paleothology, biochemistry, genetics, embriology and much more. The fact that people are unaware of this is caused either by misinformation or fanatism. There is no reason nowadays to refuse evolutionism and no flaw whatsoever in it. It's like denying gravity. And it doesn't have to go against relligious beliefs. The two are not imcompatible and sending hate mail to a credited scientist is fanatism.

There are some nice YouTube channels that explain evolutionary theory and try to educate people and fight ignorance:
www.youtube.com/donexodus2
www.youtube.com/cdk007
www.youtube.com/thunderf00t
Unfortunately there are still lots of people who just cover their ears and refuse to believe. American republican , bible fanatics are an example.

Re: Juno

Re: Indecision 08 - Obama vs. McCain : Who's the best for the charge or Who's not the worst?

New Scientist Video