Interactive poll team

@Mila: I like your "multi-instrumentalist" idea and I'm already thinking of an artist that might fit the bill. I'm less inspired regarding the "acoustic songs" theme, but I can see the interest of it. I'm just not approaching/listening to music with a "acoustic/non-acoustic" dividing principle in my head, so it would need a bit more of thinking (which doesn't hurt, yet)...

Edited by suitkees - January 29 2022 at 04:42

^ The multi-instrumentalist idea made me think of songs from musicians that play several instruments on an album. Like for example Dan Swano that did the debut Nightingale album all by himself. Or Geddy Lee that played bass, Keyboards, pedals and sang, something like that... 

Or a track in which somebody plays several instruments?

suitkees wrote: ^^ As I understand it, it is about choosing an artist (solo or in a band) and a couple of songs/pieces that illustrate his instrumental prowess... So that can be very wide ranging, actually.

Edited by Mila-13 - January 29 2022 at 05:19

@Cristi

Edited by Mila-13 - January 29 2022 at 05:27

@Cristi

Edited by Mila-13 - January 29 2022 at 05:53

Mila-13 wrote: @Cristi I see, but it is still more likely to find less-known artist if you are not limited to just one source (youtube). Mp3 is another option but that would work only if you have it on cd. I could also upload the mp3 to youtube for you by the way.

It seems to me that we are discussing so many possibilities, which makes it all rather tiring.
I think it's worth deciding if you want the poll on acoustic songs or on multi-instrumentalists. In the first case, it's really easy to find songs for everyone. Do we want to choose that one? Or do we want to choose the one on the multi-instrumentalists?

In the second case, the situation is more complex. Do you want to choose a song where a musician plays two or three or more instruments? Or do you want to choose two songs? If you choose two songs, as has happened in some poll, you have to spend a lot of time listening, especially if prog songs or songs without time limits are allowed (I am always in favor of time limits because it is difficult to vote for songs of 3 minutes togethet to others of 12 minutes). Then you should choose the limits in the widest possible way because it doesn't seem so easy to me to find two songs where, for example, the same artist who wrote the piece plays only the guitar in one and only the piano in another. I should think about it. Mila gives me the example of Branduardi, a violinist present here on Pa: it is not easy to know when he plays the guitar in a song without a violin. Usually other guitarists who collaborate with him play it. Springsteen on two of his albums plays guitars, piano and keyboards, bass and harmonica. But he does it on almost every song, which pair of songs should I choose? I should choose one without harmonica and one with harmonica, I suppose. In my opinion it would be easier to choose a single song where a musician (it doesn't matter if the author of the song or one of his collaborators or a session man) plays two or three instruments.

Anyway, I don't want to set limits, I just say to Mila that now it's time to make a choice and if you want a poll with two songs please specify precisely the terms.

Edited by Mila-13 - January 30 2022 at 10:06

Snicolette wrote: Hello folks: Mila has asked for final selections to be made by tomorrow morning, so I've contacted Logan to see if he's available to host the next round. If he is not, Özgür (Shadowyzard) is up next, also subject to availability.   I will keep everyone posted.

Edited by Cristi - February 05 2022 at 11:20