This week’s Spotify playlist is a mostly-fiddle-driven instrumental set. Although the orchestration is somewhat focused in this regard, the scope is quite diverse, both geographically—with tunes from America, Ireland, Scotland, and even Norway—and temporally, running the gamut from ancient traditional tunes to contemporary acoustic. “N.M.I.” – We begin with an instrumental from Sean Watkins (of […]
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I was introduced to Jon Hopkins while watching the organ donor scene in the series finale of NBC’s Mercy. The scene was accompanied by a droning violin track, the kind of bagpipe-emulating, medieval-viol-esque drone I have been known to bust out on my own fiddle ever since I was started getting into celtic music about
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Did you know that U2’s second album October was actually sold in “Bible bookstores”? (I read that Evanescence’s second full-length album Fallen was actually intentionally distributed in the Christian market, too, until the band went and made a scene. Where have I been? That’s okay, I don’t like Evanescence anyway. Your sound and your music
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