they come in three's #2 almost

was listening to bel canto again today, somehow. if i could find all the pieces, i would make it one of "they come in three's" posts, but i'm not sure if i can. anyway, this bel canto's agassiz piece is.. it reminds me so much of something natively and naturally greek, or, at least, balkan, should i say? not sure which is which. but it made me search among Hatzidakis tracks I have - i didn't find something very much close to bel canto's piece, but i don't know - maybe you can understand what these pieces have in common.. maybe.. or well, i remembered some Kyriakos Sfetsas' tracks from the soundtrack of that intense and memorable "Paraggelia" movie. i can't quite identify why. maybe you can't too :) and i am at a loss here.



(i don't know for how much the above video will stay online, because it was identified as copyrighted) but well, anyway, bel canto are from somewhere in Scandinavia, i think, and they are kind of.. like Dead Can Dance, with those neo-classical/new-age/ethnic elements, but with more cheer and playfulness at times. yeah, i'd say they are less sombre, and that's why i like them, perhaps, but again, maybe not. agassiz reminded me of ubiqutous Cantara, Dead Can Dance's staple on-the-forehead piece - the second part of it

another piece i remembered was the one we heard on the 11th Jazz Festival in Technopolis, Athens, Greece, by some guys called Nils Berg Cinemascope (or a guy called Nils Berg, obviously) who employed some videos from youtube, allegedly, having cut, hacked and remixed them (both sound and video) - and playing along on sax (er, some kind of clarinet as a friend corrected me), contrabass and drums. actually they were interesting, and the last piece featured santouri (on video) - and it was such a delightful tune, and the video was edited in such a delightful way that you couldn't.. :) help smiling and watching and clapping in the end etc. - but i still can't find it on youtube. so be it...

another thing i remembered... is Hood's "Rural colours" and iLiKETRAiNS' "A rook house for Bobby" will be into my top 5 indie/alt/rather moody pieces with killer intense endings, if i were to make one (remembering High Fidelity :P)