MuuSK

Combining my love for blogging and music. Maybe thoughts, maybe just videos. My only promise is music. 

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“A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it’s the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.”

–Glen Hansard

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Glen Hansard’s Takamine NP15 acoustic guitar. Beautiful.

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These two are ... wow. Both Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova have desperate passion in their voice, and that bridges the gap of the contrast of their individual voices that makes them work so well together. 

I love it.

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BANKS - Beggin For Thread (Lyric Video)

I REALLY wanted to post this yesterday for Woman Wednesday. Forgive me, friends. 

I wish I could tell you all how overwhelming school is right now. Finals start Monday for me, before finals even start. 

If you look at my Pinterest and Tumblr, it definitely does not appear that I’m overwhelmed, but I am. I’m working on stuff. I promise. 

Wow. Rant here. This is supposed to be my music blog, not my personal blog. 

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This opening riff has followed me around all day. It was inspiration in my writing today. It picked up my feet and put them one in front of the other from class to lesson to meeting. I carried it with me on my back, in my arms, and even now as I write to you. "Where I Belong"

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Rend Collective - Simplicity

I’m keeping on the Rend Collective Experiment train for this Sunday School of Worship. This song is one of my husband’s favorite RCE songs. 

What I love about this about this video in particular is the passion that these worship leaders express. It’s great. They really love what they are doing, and that is what makes worship so effective. It’s supposed to be honest and real and reach out to all different kinds of people, leading them to the sole purpose of worshipping Christ. That is exactly what these worship leaders are doing. 

Fun Fact: Their worship leader proper is the drummer. His passion for worshipping in song is awesome. 

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Community, Ministry, Life as an Introvert: an interview with Patrick | Rend Collective

This is a great interview with Patrick, a member of Rend Collective Experiment. As a musician and part of a worship team that worships with over 1500 people in a weekend. That’s an incredible honor, but one exhausting thing I share with Patrick is being an introvert. 

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Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Happy Subdued Saturday! I love the laid-back vibe of this song. 

This is the kind of lullaby I want for my kids. Simple, laid-back melody and rhythmic, something you can just stand and sway in an open field with 5000 of your closest friends, they’re your brothers and sisters, united by a tune and words, swaying to the same beat. 

I guess I could say I want for my future children an awareness that we’re all what makes up the world. The planet was made for us to inhabit, and we all inhabit together, making us a big family. 

Music -- the music we love, the music that inspires us -- is the soundtrack we so desperately want someone to make for us, like in a movie. The cool part about not being in a movie is that our soundtrack is what we want it to be. It doesn’t have be strictly like an indie flick or a romance movie. It can be long or it can be a few of our favorite moments. 

Music is just awesome.

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My dream studio would have a chalkboard wall for running ideas and dreaming.

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Oblique Motion is my Favorite Thing!

OnMusic Dictionary's Word/Term of the Day is "Oblique Motion", which means " In part-writing, oblique motion occurs when one voice (or more) remains on the same pitch while he other ascends or descends." I LOVE THIS. I hear this a lot in Eric Whitacre's compositions, which add such complexity and enjoyment to my listening time.

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I discovered in today’s Throwback Thursday… An incredible driving song.

Try it. Spotify, YouTube, old albums, new albums, I dare ya’. Try it.

Can you believe this song was originally out in 2000. It doesn't seem like this could possibly be a Throwback song, BUT IT IS FIFTEEN YEARS OLD THIS YEAR. If that doesn't make you feel old, think that kids born in 2000 are 15. Making kids born in the 90s heading quick toward their 20s, or already well into their 20s. Whoa.

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Marketa Irglova: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

With the help of Iranian singer-percussionist Aida Shahghasemi, Marketa Irglova crafts a lovely mix of the exotic and the familiar; of sweetness and longing....

I’d thought of Ingrid’s “Parachute” for today, but then I was drawn back to Marketa Irglova, and I couldn’t leave. 

This is an incredible performance, the NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Go peruse the NPR Tiny Desk Concerts if you’re interested in hearing artists just being awesome.

The song that hooks me from this concert is a traditional Iranian song “Dokhtar Goochani” which means “A Girl from Goochan”, a region in Iran, and it is sung in Farsi. That song really turned on my appetite for middle eastern music. The use of rich sadness and longing that reaches me in a place satisfied by mysterious, unexpected things.  

Enjoy!

P.S. That keyboard model is LEGEND-wait for it-DARY. 

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MuuSK Begins

As a principle, I can promise music. 

This is my current outline for posting.

ManBand Monday

Tunes Tuesday

Women Wednesday

Throwback Thursday

Friday Free Pick

Subdued Saturday

Sunday School of Worship