Dreams are sweet until they’re not Men are kind until they aren’t Flowers bloom until they rot and fall apart
Nov 2, 2018 – Eva Noblezada (Eurydice), Reeve Carney (Orpheus), Patrick Page (Hades), Amber Gray (Persephone), André De Shields (Hermes), Rosie Fletcher (Fates), Carly Mercedes Dyer (Fates), Gloria Onitiri (Fates) Ensemble: Sharif Afifi, Beth Hinton-Lever, Seyi Omooba, Aiesha Pease, Joseph Prouse, Jordan Shaw, Shaq Taylor Notes: First preview in London!
I’m still so in love with Eva and Hadestown so I want all of the audios of the new london production
can we petition them to release a cast album already because good god
Y’all, please listen to this song. This is Mongolian folk rock by a new band called the HU, it’s the only song they’ve got out so far but it is a strong start, holy shit.
According to one of the comments on the video, it’s sung from the perspective of the spirits of the ancestors, who are lamenting that politicians aren’t keeping their word, Mongolians are discriminating against each other over their provincial origin or bloodline, and the traditional wisdom of the elders is being lost. The English translation in the captions isn’t great, but you really don’t need it to enjoy the song. This is going to be stuck in my head all weekend.
IT’S ON SPOTIFY!!!!!! THEY’LL HAVE DATA TO KNOW HOW MANY TIMES IN A ROW WE LISTEN TO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
listen just because a song was written before 1920 and has a fiddle in it doesn’t make it a sea shanty
I saw a ‘sea shanty playlist’ with finnegans wake in it and I almost died
a sea shatny is an unaccompanied work song with a call and response structure just because a folk song is about the sea doesn’t make it a shanty
actual tall ship sailor here! this isn’t quite accurate. there are two main categories of sea shanty: working shanties and fo’c’sle shanties.
working shanties are (obviously) songs sung while working. they typically have a steady beat and a call and response format – useful not only for keeping a massive crew all hauling on a line / heaving on a capstan together, but also for not becoming mind-numbingly bored as you do this for hours on end (raising an anchor could literally take an hour in the days before hydraulic windlasses and propeller-driven ships. last time i did it, even with using the ship’s engine to get us over the anchor, it took about fifteen minutes of constant work to get the anchor up). there are subcategories of working shanty based on what kind of work you’re doing (short haul, long haul, capstan e.g)
fo’c’sle shanties (short for forecastle, where the common jack tar would sleep/hang out) are another story. they were sung purely for entertainment, sort of like campfire songs. as such, they are much freer in form – they often aren’t call and response, and they rarely keep as steady a beat.
either of these two categories can be accompanied! the shantyman would often play the fiddle while standing on the capstan as it rotated, and of course in fo’c’sle shanties anything goes. besides, if you wouldn’t slam a traditional irish tune for having guitar playing chords behind the melody (an innovation that only came about in the 1970s, and piano accompaniment in the 1920s, prior to which everyone just played the melody in unison), there’s no need to slam a shanty for having accompaniment, even non-traditional accompaniment. it makes stuff sound nicer!
Heres a gift from me to you that I made impulsively last night, its mostly 90s-00s indie/alt rock and with the exception of sara bareilles, ingrid michaelson, norah jones and some cover songs all the artists on this are wlw AND I didn’t put a single hayley k*yoko song on here
I’ll likely make an r&b/pop/whatever the kids are calling it nowadays playlist later but I’m musically exhausted
Many of these are retro-futuristic (or just retro), but I figured there’d be at least a few appreciators of electronica among my followers as well. All of these links go to YouTube to make them easy to add to your playlists, but it’s not difficult to find them on pretty much any other streaming or purchasing platform. Enjoy!
Don Giovanni, a cenar teco – Mozart (growly baritone/bass opera – the bit where Don Giovanni gets dragged to hell, both in the supernatural religious sense and in the modern internet slang sense)
Backstreet Bones: Everycorpse – Sim Gretina (uhhh…spoopy Halloween EDM remix of Backstreet Boys? If you click on nothing else, click on this one. It’s very worth it, I promise.)
“one man cannot bring in the anchor. ten men cannot bring in the anchor. but together we can.”
making this because it’s useful for my specific brand of dramaturgy and i generally have a good deal of feelings about sea shanties. these are the result of far too much time searching around for shanties that are both authentic and have a tune that can be found on the internet. organized by theme.
these can all be done a capella, obviously, but if you want accompaniment, getting your hands on a concertina would be ideal.
Heres the basic info on this balad, since I don’t actually have the time to do an in-depth analysis. The first time I heard this song was by The Dubliners.
This version is my favorite.
OMG I love this and I am possibly now stalking this band.
tora42's nonsensne 