#jazz soundtrack

[mde-creative-video]

Driving Downtown - Street Traffic 1933

[lackadaisycats]

LACKADAISY Pilot Soundtack

The LACKADAISY Pilot soundtack is up on Spotify! 

"Olive Branch" by Sepiatonic  "Sunset Rose Cocktail" by @MWGewehr 

 We're cooking up something for YouTube too!

[haveyouheardthisband]

[lithiumandsushi]

[rrcraft-and-lore]

Monkey Man and why I loved the heck out of it

At it's core, it's a Bollywood flick presented to the West with familiar nods to previous action films - I definitely picked up hints of Tony Jaa's influence on Asian action flicks throughout.

It's heavily focused on police corruption, something commented a lot about in India, and here, more importantly, Indian films. Just like America has its love affair with mobster flicks, Bollywood has a long history featuring films that showcase police corruption, sometimes tied into political extremism, fanatical or greedy religious leaders, and Monkey Man comments on all this as well and pays nods to that commonality. We've got televangelists and religious leaders in the states funnelling money, preaching prosperity gospel, and using it to influence politics and fund lavish lifestyles here.

Monkey Man shows this happening in India, and is filled with Indian culture and symbolism through out. The focus on Hanuman, the god and one worshiped by the strong, chaste, wrestlers, champions, and fighters. It's a common thing to have a household deity if you will. Some families might choose to focus worship on Ganesh, others Hanuman, some might do Mata Rani or Lakshmi. Here, it's the divine Vanara (monkey people race) - one of the Chiranjivi - immortals/forever-lived.

Hanuman. Themes of rebirth, common in South Asian history and mythology are present from Kid being a ringer, beat up fighter getting whooped for money to being reborn and facing his trauma through a ritual/meditate process that I don't want to get too much into to not spoil the movie. Post that, he begins his own self alchemy to really become the true Monkey Man. Nods to Ramayama, and an unapologetically Indian story featuring dialogues throughout in Hindi - don't worry, there are subtitles.

And of course a love for action flicks before it, all the way back to Bruce Lee. A beautiful use tbh of an autorickshaw (and you might know them as tuk-tuks in Thailand) which are popular in India with an added kick...I swear, that thing had to be modified with a hayabusa motor. Which is an actual thing people do - modding those dinky rickshaws with motorcycle engines, and considering they weigh nothing at all, they can REALLY FLY once you do that.

Monkey Man brings to the big screen other elements of India people might not know about, such as the gender non conforming and trans community that has a long history in India, presenting them as action stars as they go up against a system of corrupt elites oppressing part of the city, marginalized communities, and minority voices as depicted in the film. I'm not sure if people are going to get all of that without having the context, but I love that it does it without holding anyone's hands.

It's a fun action flick to see in the age of superhero films, and I say that as an obvious superhero/sff nerd. Also loved that Dev included a little bit about Hanuman's own story in the film, and the loss of his powers - almost mirrored by Kid's own loss of self/skills, strength until he confronts his trauma and is reborn, and in fact, remade (not necessarily the same). Also, the use of music was brilliant, including one scene with a tabla (the paired hand drums of south asia) - and Indian music is central to Indian stories.

This is a culture with evidence going back to the Paleolithic with cave murals showing art of Indian dance nearly 30,000 years ago. Yeah, that far back. As well as Mesolithic period art depicting musical instruments such as gongs, lyres, and more.

Indian music is some of the earliest we can find that has high developed beat and rhythm structures such as 5, 7, 9 and now the extremely common and known 4/4 and 3/4 - which so much of Western music is built upon. The foundations and experimentation of/in Jazz. John Coltrane and John Cage were heavily inspired by Indian music and incorporated a lot from it into their works. And Monkey Man blends Eastern and Western music through the narrative as comfortably as it does an Indian story in a very familiar Western accessible structure.

Dev did a wonderful job. And thanks to Jordan Peele for bringing it to screens.

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

🎧 Listen to 誘惑 temptation, a playlist by chu-lan-maria on #SoundCloud ♫ ◠‿◠ hope you'll like it.

我真正愛的人很少，覺得有好感的人更少。 我對這個世界看得越多，就越不滿意； 就所有人類性格都是不一致的，每一天都證實了我的信念，以及能夠對外觀的優點或感官寄予很少的依賴。

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice 《傲慢與偏見》

(PS. I don’t own any music and songs right, I just make the playlist for listening easily and enjoy all musicians your works and love to share it only. all copyright belongs to musician & singer. If you want me do delete yours from the playlist, please tell me then I will do it. Blessings! Thanks! Lan~*)

📌 photo: unkown sorry. (If you know who's the photographer tell me please. Thanks.)

[fuchinobe]

Beatmania Soundtracks: The Sound Of Tokyo! (2001, Konami, KMCA96) Compiled by Yasuharu Konishi (Pizzicato Five, Readymade) Track produced by Tatsuo Sunaga and Eitetsu Takamiya (Little Big Bee, Flower Records)

[connorsnothereeither]

If the Brink bloopers reel contained all the footage of me just sitting there singing to myself under my breath it would be like 10+ hours long istg I need to get better at not wasting time while it’s recording lmao

[sirartwork]

When that synth lead kicks in on Lena Raine’s “Aerie”

b r e h . . .

[phonographica]

Elements Of Desire - The Soundtrack (1994)

[puppyeared]

Get sillay

Xīn Yá (left) belongs to me, Little Sailor (right) belongs to @crow-cap

Song: piranha creeper creek from super mario 3D world

[n64retro]

K.K. Jazz Toru Minigishi どうぶつの森 とたけけミュージック / Doubutsu no Mori: Totakeke Music (2001)

[anotherpapercut]

the thing about people complaining that it's gatekeeping to say you should listen to goth/punk/emo music if you want to claim to be a part of the subculture is like. the bar literally could not be lower. you are just being asked to listen to the music of a music based subculture lmfao. and we want you to do it! we're actually begging you to!

the gate may look closed but it's unlocked and no ones fucking guarding it we're just suggesting that you open it and walk in instead of trying to vault yourself over the top or smth lmfao idk this metaphor got away from me

[haveyouheardthisband]

[nerds-yearbook]

On May 21, 1998, the first soundtrack (ost) for the popular anime series "Cowboy Bebop" was released. One of the standouts of the series was the jazz inspired music. The show would kick off with these words, "I think it's time we blow this scene. Get everybody and the stuff together. Okay, three, two, one let's jam," and then launch into the driving theme "Tank!" The theme was even used by the figure skater Kevin Reynolds, dressed as the show's lead Spike Spiegel, in one of his short programs. Most of the music was performed by composer Yoko Kanno's band "Seatbelts" that she put together for the show. The first album contained the tracks "Tank! (opening theme)", "Rush", "Spokey Dokey", "Bad Dog No Biscuits", "Cat Blues", "Cosmos", "Space Lion", "Waltz for Zizi", "Piano Black", "Pot City", "Too Good Too Bad", "Car24", "The Egg and I", "Felt Tip Pen", "Rain (lyrics by Tim Jensen and performed by Steve Conte)", "Digging My Potato", and "Memory - music box". ("Cowboy Bebop OST", Music, Event)