This is a special weekend edition of the ‘song of the day’ category on my blog. And for special editions, we certainly need special artists and special songs. Today it is time for one of the best voices of all times; it is time to talk about pure talent and musical genius; it is high time I shortly reminded you of Eva Cassidy and her story, a story sad and (ultimately) happy, at the same time.
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Song of the day: “De Bom”, by Doe Maar
My absolute favourite Dutch band (I’ll come back to Dutch bands with other occasions as well) is, by any measure, Doe Maar (chose the only rather complete bios in English to link here, the wiki one).
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Alison Goldfrapp, from the British band Goldfrapp (the other member of the duo is Will Gregory), could be the perfect woman. I just said it. Skeptical? Judge for yourself: looks, personality (sorry, PERSONALITY), style, voice- and you might sense part of these from Goldfrapp’s hits, among them “Black Cherry” or “Strict Machine” or “Number 1“, the latter from their very succesful most recent album, Supernature.
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What happens if you combine the musical genius of Astor Piazzola (“El Gran Ástor” needs no further introduction: a legend is a legend!) and the superhuman interpreting skills of, perhaps (with certainty, as far as I am concerned), the current best cello player in the world, Yo-Yo Ma (an amazing artist I saw twice performing in the famous Concertgebouw, in Amsterdam, artist about whom I’ll talk much more with another occasion)?
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Anima Sound System (they have an excellent website, btw- you can also listen to many of their musical pieces there) is one of my favourite Hungarian bands (if not THE favourite).
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