Category: Other music

I stumbled upon this youtube clip this morning.  What a beautiful sound.  Steel drums like these have a magical quality when played properly.  This guy has the skills and the performance is wonderful.  It’s an older video with several views so you may have seen it before but I think it bears repeat listening / viewing.

Berlin – ‘take my breath away’. I’ve always loved this track, in no doubt in part due to the imaginary world where a smoking hot Kelly McGillis teaches me to fly fighter jets at a best of the best aviation academy whilst simultaneously falling for me. The sound of the record is however just awesome. The bright and long reverb on the snare and that on the synth that provides the main theme to the song make it come alive and adds a fantasy element that fires the imagination. It’s such a contrast to the homogenised sound of today. It has a sense of space, something modern-day chart pop doesn’t. A great melodramatic song.