Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
There are many cheeses, then there’s Feta. There are many genres of music, then there’s Heavy Metal (and Bach, and the Hammond Organ).
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I like it, especially the Bodom heritage![ℌ]
ℌ The transition of the Latinate gastronomic term pecorino into the Baltic-Finnic toponym bodom (famously preserved in the Finnish Bodominjärvi / Lake Bodom) represents a classic, albeit highly obscured, case of trans-European lexical drifting driven by medieval trade routes and systemic phonetic degradation.
The linguistic lineage can be scientifically mapped through four distinct chronological phases from the 12th to the 17th century:
[Late Latin] pecorīnum
↓ (Apocope & Intervocalic Lenition)
[Low German] *begor-m
↓ (Finnic Consonant Harmony & Labialization)
[Old Finnish] *pootoma
↓ (Swedish Orthographic Monophthongization)
[Modern Toponym] Bodom
Inside carbonara joke. And yes, this was AI generated. Apologies, could not resist … 
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Is this real, I will test it, could be pretty bizarre if it is!
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Released today: Elder - Through Zero 
Just checked if they were touring and yeeeesss. 23 June at Gaswerk in Winterthur and 14 August at some lovely meadow above the Val de Bagnes in Valais
Already bothering a fried to take the baby and let’s go for some sun and music haha
Of course it’s real, how dare you doubt me sheep milk cheese[
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What do you think? That I’m goofing around?!
Anyway, this topic is about music and it’s finally time for a high quality epic classic, especially since it’s Friday:
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I’ll … uh … see myself out. Off to a Japanese dishes dinner with friends who recently spent a weekend in a Japanese cooking class (and who have been to Japan a gazillion times). I’m gonna offend them by bringing the Japanese cucumber salad I made for the first time yesterday.[Y] It’s actually really yummy.
According to Wikipedia they’re allowed to add goat’s milk for φέτα? Whaaat?
Y In my defense, we only got invited spontanously today, so bringing a fooby.ch dish is legit, right?
As the good piggy that I am, I have not a care in the world what it’s made of 
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Now totally OT. Hmmm…I like the addition of miso–peanut butter I’d have to try once. I always degorge cucumbers, then rinse and pat dry so they don’t water down the dressing. Have you tried Nagi’s smashed salad? It’s delicious, but I might sneak in that miso…
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Metalhead since the early 90s here, mixed in with Baroque, hard/prog rock and some very select choices from other genres, but heavy metal is my oxygen.
The song may be somewhat comedic but the sentiment isn’t. Metal is here, never in fashion but never out of it. Last weekend we had Iron Maiden (used to be my favourite band, then I soured on them due to their stance on Brexit, but have seen them 4 times already) in Athens, the weekend before it was Metallica (never liked them). The Athens Observatory recorded mild seismic vibrations when they were playing. You had literally anyone who could get their hands on tickets turning up, including various nobodies (musically) who just turned up because…the metal!
There are quasicrystals, there are no quasi metalheads. In the concerts you had 60+ year olds, bringing their kids and grandkids, with “OTHER BANDS PLAY - MANOWAR KILL” tattooed on their chests with a rusty nail in 1986. That’s metal!
Where’s grunge now? Where’s rap/trap/crap? Where’s techno and psydelic trance and rave?
You can’t kill the metal.
What has always puzzled me is how come heavy metal, which evolved from hard rock, which evolved from blues - so a totally different musical tradition to anything European - transposes classical music (and Baroque, Romantic) SO WELL?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjCf7cWaINI&list=RDvjCf7cWaINI: we got Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Verdi, Chopin, Wagner and Tchaikovski not missing a beat here 
How some melodies are picked up and reused many times.
I’d known this melody since…forever, then randomly heard a guy in the street blasting it and scared him by asking him to tell me what he’s listening to, turns out it was Scooter How much is the Fish.
Then I tracked down the original (recording of it), and branched out to learn of this guy.
Been fascinated with the La Folia melody too, considered the world’s most enduring melody, and can’t get enough of it.
Believe it or not, DJ Bobo and Yello are not the only musical artists Switzerland has produced. Here are my faves:
Martin Schenkel (RIP) : https://youtu.be/eRVI-XuRSOg?si=u_6vRSWzLCVPKWhv
Rival Kings (if you like Kings of Leon) : https://youtu.be/QjxGp4W06Ro?si=ZDkkmqGlINQ01WgJ
Elvett (if you like Amy Winehouse) : https://youtu.be/o_uNkZxNMvs?si=l9Xd9Uz6NdiIeNFY
My Heart belongs to Cecilia Winter: https://youtu.be/5gMnjnZS-yk?si=ojNDlB42aTqE6m-s
Seven dollar Taxi: https://youtu.be/fx0IDz5b0rk?si=ioIBK8A6DU0Q9JEv
Samael
Celtic Frost
Krokus
Eluveitie
Great Swiss bands!
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Maybe I shouldn’t admit this, but I was a fan of Switzerland’s Patrick Juvet in my teens. Then again it was the 70s and I made up for it with listening to guys like Bowie and Roxy Music 
I have an Apple-curated playlist called “Classical concentration” that I sometimes listen to at work, through the ANC headphones.
Subscribed to Apple Music just for Apple Music Classical.
I usually listen to Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” for concentration and masking any ambient noise (although I mostly don’t have to anymore).
I especially like the Glenn Gould interpretations.
I take it you mean the second one (in the clip you shared) and the first one where he’s younger, less Gouldy in terms of tempo, and with less crooning?
Oh, I’m not that deep into classical music and couldn’t really talk in technical terms how his style is different over his life time or compared to other interpreters.
The music is – for this purpose – just supposed to be a background sound landscape that doesn’t distract me from the work I actually want to accomplish while sufficiently distracting me from any ambient noise (especially voices). Somehow the Gould interpretations do that for me better than others, say, Murray Perahia, which is very nice, too, but somehow lures me more into listening to the music than continuing on my actual work at hand.
Probably a brain wiring thing.
Oh Gould is…unique! The guy had a planetary-sized ego, to the point where he’d flip the order from “BACH by XYZ” to “GOULD plays Bach”. Gould liked to play pretty unconventionally, keeping to the music as written (naturally!) but adding his own tempo (old pieces, particularly by Bach, often missed a tempo designation). If you hear the old Goldberg Variations recording you’ll see what I mean. That I have no issue with, what I (and so many people!) have an issue with Gould, is that at a young age he learnt to hum and croon the music while playing, and never managed (or wanted…) to let it go, so this is captured in the performances. I can’t say I like it but take it as part of the Gould package. Gould did counterpoint like few ever have.
Perahia is very different, especially very different from Gould! Perahia is, you could say, more respectful of the composer. Both are greats! As is Andras Schiff who’s pretty strict overall.
And all this talk of Bach made me search for an old favourite: Scarlatti’s K175, found a version that’s a real gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF3p4pGd838
Domenico Scarlatti spent a lot of his life in the Spanish court, where he wrote his 555 sonatas as exercises for a princess. You can hear the Spanish and Portuguese influence in Scarlatti, he often makes the harpsichord sound like a guitar (and it is a plucked instrument, after all!).
A student of Scarlatti, Padre Antonio Soler, whose music I don’t know well enough wrote an incredible Fandango, this is an interesting interpretation which adds what’d most likely be present when the Fandango was played for real, at the time: castanets. I can almost visualise beautiful Spanish laddies in flowing flowery dresses stamping their feet at the music.
Thanks Goofs, now you set my listening for the day to Baroque
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Savall will keep me going for a good long while
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