What are you listening to at the moment?

Cal Tjader Sounds Out Burt Bacharach
Album by Cal Tjader

Track list:
Moneypenny
What the World Needs Now is Love
Anyone Who Had a Heart
Don't Make Me Over
A Message to Michael
My Little Red Book
I Say a Little Prayer
Walk on By
You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)

These days I primarily listen to instrumental albums. Mostly pop from the '60s.

All the best,
Mike
 
i watched the movie 'Let the Bullets Fly', and ask myself...Who wrote the music? it's just Great! well,
this could be the First Chinese movie that scored by...Joe Hisaishi 久石 譲, you know him, great music composer working with Hayao Miyazaki 宮崎 駿, (Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke)

Director Jiang Wen 姜文 hired Joe to write for his 2007 movie 'The Sun also Rises', He re-used the same score in his 'Let the Bullets Fly' (2011), Some how the movie was a Hit!

Jiang explained later why he re-used the music...1) The two movies are related to each other 2) (jokingly saying) Joe Hisaishi is Expensive!

i only watch part of 'The Sun also Rises', Jiang Wen is an exceptional talented young Chinese director (he also staring himself in 'Let the Bullets Fly' with Chow Yun-fat)

Trailer and music, ' Let the Bullets Fly'
https://youtu.be/Qgkvqb7rhh4

Music here by Joe Hisaishi

https://youtu.be/Qgkvqb7rhh4?t=137


(love this poster image a Lot)

by Taipei-metro
 
The Baja Marimba Band – Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

1. I Say A Little Prayer
2. Sunrise, Sunset
3. San Fernando
4. Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
5. In A Vera Cruz Vein
6. The Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde
7. Yes Sir, That's My Baby
8. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
9. Sunday Mornin'
10. For Bud
11. There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This

It's a great album!
Mike
 
i'm listening to, Faye Wang's 'Dream Lover' (in Cantonese) from the movie she also stars, 'Chung King Express' ('重慶森林' 1994, Dir. Wong Kai-wei)

Quite interestingly, 3 excellent movies came out in 1994 had the same structure; 3 stories in the same movie related to each other, revolving around...

1) Pulp Fiction
2) Before the Rain (Macedonian, dir. Milcho Manchevski),
3) Chung King Express (Hong Kong)

for me, the Best movie is 'Before the Rain'...but i like 'Chung King Express' a lot just because of Faye Wang...and the super creative story by Wong Kai-wai

'Dream Lover' Faye Wang ( 'Dreams' Cranberries Cover in Cantonese)
https://youtu.be/81bIkX4dvkQ

In 1994, Live, 'Dreams' by Cranberries (RIP Dolores O'Riordan)
https://youtu.be/k5WIUFsGB3c?t=25

'Before the Rain' trailer
https://youtu.be/3U5qi9YhGmg?t=9

Faye Wong in 'Chung King Express'

image by Taipeimetro
 
My love of music began back when I was in grade school. It is impossible for me to guess just how many hours, weeks, months, years even, that I have spent listening to music since then. My love of music even played a big part in the decision to move to Austin more than three decades ago (that lasted 11 years). Now located in Portland, Oregon, I just returned home from an evening of listening to Jazz. The Tony Pacini Trio has been a Portland institution for more than two decades and it is great to see them once again playing out in public following the lockdown. This evening proved yet again, that despite all of the money I have invested in hifi equipment (not to mention the records, tapes, CD's, etc.), nothing can replace the joy of taking in live music.
 
'如果有來生' ( If There is a Next Life ) is a 2007 Hit song by Tan Wei-wei ( 潭維維 ),
There are many covers of the slow tempo song thru the years, only this guy Hsio Jing-ten 蕭敬騰 's version is different,
This is a very good song, and Hsio's version is just Great with all new arrangement...

'If There is a Next Life'
Tan Wei-wei original;
https://youtu.be/F1fcCUUcBEo?t=12

Exciting Hsio Jing-ten version;

https://youtu.be/3kVAu_sNeF4?t=4

Hsio Jing-ten

image by Taipei-metro
 
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