What music are you listening to?

Oml these girls and their dancing ..gotta love 'em

Mexican by birth and upbringing but based in the Netherlands for many years, Marcela Bovio is an amazing singer. I have heard her do everything from baroque arias to power metal, even death metal growls, all with equal skill and energy. She has gone from basically unknown to me to one of my top five or so singers in just a few months. This is Marcela's latest, from an upcoming EP.

More Marcela, here covering a song by the Dutch symphonic metal band Epica. The pianist is Epica's keyboard player, who was available since she was in the studio recording backing vocals for an Epica track. She really goes all over her vocal range on this one.

And for comparison, here's Epica themselves with the voice of the also quite wonderful Simone Simons belting it out. She is speaking Dutch, her native language, in the intro since this is from the Pinkpop festival in Landgraaf, Netherlands.

And, yes, that is the same pianist, back when he still had hair.

Solemn Oath - Band of Horses

Favorite contemporary choral composer? Check

Favorite choral group? Check

Lyrics adapted from a favorite poet? Check

This piece really hits all the right buttons for me. Tears happened as I listened for the first time. Composer (and conductor of this performance) is Christopher Tin. Choral group is the wonderful British octet Voces8. Lyrics are a setting of an Emily Dickinson poem.

Heehee something on the live podcast ..missed the announcement

A song I have always loved. The Hollies, The Air that I Breathe.

Turn Into - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Was Listening to this one by Roxette. Lover, Lover, Lover.

As it played I began to wonder if it was written by George Harrison, so I Googled it. I was amazed to find that it wasn't! It was written entirely by Per Gessle! He had to have been influenced by George, surely?

Feist - I Feel It All

Fanfare for the common man - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.

Soft Shock - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Otherside - Chili Peppers

Just watching shuffle clips