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Hump Day Unusual Moment

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Hey, it’s harder than it looks:

Hump Day Unusual Moment: Pesnyary’s Rushniki

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Pesnyary was a nine piece Belarusian folk/rock band. Here’s their 1971 hit, Rushniki, featuring psychedelic/surf guitar over a distinctively modern sounding breakbeat. It ends with a bang, and then cuts to a rather hilarious shot of a completely underwhelmed audience.

Want to know what the lyrics are about? Here’s what Google Translate gave me. I don’t think it’s a perfect translation, but perhaps it has something to do with laundry?

Saturday Janka was driving near a river.
Under the willow Alain soap towel.
Share-Alain ford countryman,
Where is the horse to move to the river?

-Adchapisya, boy, go anyhow where,
NOT Musti I only clean water.
In mourning Janka head panic
Upustsila girl Belenky towel.

-Janka, my sakolik, help faster
Oh, floating-Rushnychok disappears from sight!
-Any Alain, but I’m afraid of water,
Potseluet first, because I utaplyus.

Supynivsya bay under the willow thick
Janke kissed on the river Lena.
So quietly on earth …
The river is far towel floated.

Hump Day Unusual Moment: Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Painfully cute but totally worth it, just for the voice alone:

Thanks to Andy Gregory.

Hump Day Unusual Moment: Leonard Cohen Meets Sonny Rollins

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

– broadcast live on “Sunday Night Live” (later known as “Night Music”) on February 13, 1989

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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

“The Love Boat” meets “Baretta”: Gavin MacLeod teams up for a duet with Robert Blake…

Thanks to Maurodean for the tip to this classic.

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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Here’s a HDUM from those off-the-beaten-path found-sound artists and sonic collagists the Books. “A Cold Freezin’ Night” is from their new album, “The Way Out”:

And don’t forget that you can catch the Books in action at Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Friday-Sunday, August 13-15.

Hump Day Unusual Moment

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Yup, that’s classical piano superstar Lang Lang playing “Flight of the Bumblebee” on his iPad using just two fingers. It was the first of three encores he performed in concert at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on April 19.

And here’s a close-up rendition that he recently performed in the WNYC radio studio:

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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Hmmmmmmm…

A tip o’ the hat to Paul Rapp

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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

This might be the best television commercial that we’ve ever seen…

Really…

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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Total drummer freakout:

Thanks to David Greenberger of Duplex Planet

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