#piazzolla

SONG OF THE WEEK: “It’s in Your Hands”—https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/its-in-your-hands-variations-on-satie …Our hands can perform great feats: we can build a house, write a symphony, whack a ball into the outfield, or find a cure for a disease. It's in our hands. This is also about the love, resources, and skills that God empowers us with. In other words, I am not afraid to take risks with these skills and abilities, and I am thankful that God gave them to me in the first place—that is my edge. Musically it’s a rock-tango adaptation of Erik Satie’s “Gnosseinnes #1.” My goal was to mingle Satie’s melodicism with influences from glam rock, Nuevo Tango, and Astor Piazzolla. Felipe Torres called the song “elegant” and told me to make it the last track on my album I LIKE THE STREET.

"All this happened to me because of music."--Erik Satie…The playing instructions for Satie’s “Gnosseinnes #1” are "open your head" and "perform with astonishment." For more of the back story go to…

A masterpiece based on the bandoneon by the Argentine composer Piazzolla. The interplay between Yo-Yo Ma's cello and bandoneon is thrilling and worth listening to. It's an undeniably great performance, no complaints. The bandoneon, representing Argentina, tends to be in short supply as tourists buy it as a souvenir from Argentina, but the bandoneon, which has a complicated structure, can only be made in Germany, and there is a risk that this instrument will run out.

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