Interactive Poll XIII - Surprise, surprise

Re Diethelm/Famulari: I'm happy that some of you like this so much... I think if I had to nominate my favourite 3 seconds keyboard part ever, I'd go for what Santino Famulari does between 0:43-0:46 of that track (and later again). These three seconds alone already justify this track being among my all-time favourites.

Awesome with the playlist and love hearing the alternates.

Already shared my thoughts on the music and there is so much great stuff, but these five are so very, very strong for me.

- Bruno Pernadas - Spaceway 70. I absolutely adore this -- it's so my bag, Ilove the jazzy tropica qualities and playfulness. Luminous. For sheer enjoyment, it's likely my favourite of the series. It brightened my day. So fresh

- A Filetta, Paolo Fresu, Daniele di Bonaventura - I vostri sguardi. A very remarkable piece of music. Amazing. I knew that would be a top one as soon as I heard it. Definitely one of my very favourites of the series. I absolutely love it.

- Dvar - Gyandarvaal. Again, I pretty much knew this would be in my top three as soon as I heard it. Love it. It does remind me of Pierre Henry and Urban Sax as said. I love it. It wowed me.

- Diethelm/Famulari - Portrait. I loved it and again it is really remarkable. It also wowed me.

- Mahk Jchi - Heartbeat Drum Song. Listening again, the wondrous nature of this hit me hard. I love it.

It's so hard, and I can't make a final decision yet. At first I thought that Portrait while almost there might not quite make it, but having listened again my decision became much harder.. The fact that I want to listen to it again and again has to mean something. Loving it more and more. And utterly wowed by it. Third play now. Oh yeah, that's the stuff. And then listening to Mahk Jchi again, ahhh, too good. Fabulous.

Holding off, those five are just way too dang good and each wowed me in its own way. Wish I could vote for five. All five of those are favourites of mine, and the more I listen the more I love them. I think I have achieved music Nirvana, and I don't mean the band. I feel too passionately about those five to choose but three at this time, and maybe ever. All five are favourites of mine this series.

EDIT: okay, even though all five of those winners and I didn't want to vote for only three, those are the rules and so I went with the first three that I mentioned in this post. There really was so much very good for me music this round. Thanks for a great round.

Edited by Logan - July 25 2020 at 20:51

TCat wrote: I must say there have been some great surprises this time around, and I am glad that Lewian did this as a theme because it has brought out some great tracks.  It's probably going to be the toughest one to decide on only 3. It's going to be tough for me to make comments on all the entries for the next several weeks (months), so I am going to have to just keep it down to the "vote-able" tracks.  My wife is going in for knee surgery, so she is going to be laid up for a while, and even though that's not for a couple of weeks, we have been going to a lot of appointments and etc to get prepared for this.  They are doing her left knee during the first week in August and then her right one about 3 months later.  She has been waiting a long time for this, and it was actually supposed to be done several different times, but was put off because of other issues, the last one being this dratted COVID crap.  Now, it looks like it might actually happen.  So here we go..... My time in here will be limited compared to what it has been in the past, plus the New Release reports and the genre teams are my priorities in the Archives.  But I will still be participating in these threads as much as I can.  And I will listen to all posts when possible, but will probably only be able to comment on the tracks put up for voting.  Sorry that I won't be able to comment on all of the postings or adding comments as much as I would like.

Lewian wrote: Let the voting begin! (Should I put together a playlist with nominated tracks only, or Mathman are you on the job? Great work by the way.)  Again heard a few more... Imagine cover and Detachable Penis... I have so much fun here with your stuff!

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I must say there have been some great surprises this time around, and I am glad that Lewian did this as a theme because it has brought out some great tracks.  It's probably going to be the toughest one to decide on only 3.

Wow, thanks for the playlist, mathman. Will be fun going through this - will do it this weekend too.

Logan wrote: Even though I very actively search for anything Krautrocky in both modern and past music, I didn't know it, Samuel. The name rings a bell, but that might just be thinking of Kraftwerk's Autbahn or even the Italian Automat. By the way, you might have caught my embarrassingly gushy reaction, but I absolutely loved Spaceway 70. Wow! That made my day. It's my most enjoyed of the series, and believe me, I have enjoyed a huge amount that has been posted.

I never suggested him here, I meant to listen to more of his work but never got around to it. There are just some moments that are more on the Post Rock side.