Study music continues. If the last one wasn't long enough of a youtube clip, well this one is almost an hour and a half long. Behold, Dmitri Shostakovich's glorious Leningrad Symphony! Conducted by the legendary maestro Bernstein. If you don't know who that composer is, shame on you, you uncultured ape. Now go to wikipedia and become a cultured chimpanzee like myself.
Originally, Shostakovich dedicated this piece to the life and deeds of Vladimir Lenin, so there's something for you Leftists in there too.
In any case this won't be the last Shostakovich post, so stay tuned. What? You didn't think this was a classical music blog? You must be mistaken. This is a music blog. Anything goes.
Okay so I'm going to keep this short and sweet. By short I mean sometimes I'll just literally have a sentence or two. Yeah, I can be lazy like that. For the next month. I'm going to do this thing called, the study music collection, where I will post youtube videos that are album lengths long. Often, they will be what I think, (mind the 'I' please) is good for studying. This will probably go on until exams are over, which is in June. So if one day I decide that Metallica's Master of Puppets album is a great study music, then for those who don't agree with that, tough luck.
So first up is Fennesz + Sakamoto. We've already had Mr. Sakamoto's music up here. He seems to have done a lot of collaborations with other artists, so he'll be coming back from time to time. Fennesz is an Austrian guitarist who does a lot of electronic music. What happens when you combine the two? See for yourself. Or I mean, hear for yourself.
