Avi Amon | Musician

Dirty Loops - Cover of Adele’s, Rolling in the Deep

Literally, this forever. Damn they’re good.

Jenny & Tyler - Little Balloon

Hey friends, watch and listen to my friends.  Video quality is killer, too!

Black Earth / Kara Toprak - Fazıl Say

Beautiful piano work.  From the video’s description:

Black Earth was inspired by Kara Toprak, a popular song in Turkey. The composer of the song, Aşık Veysel (1891-1973), was one of the last great Turkish balladeers and the final link in a thousand-year tradition.

Veysel went blind during childhood following an attack of smallpox. He subsequently began to learn to play the Saz, a Turkish lute, and to study poetry, initially for his own amusement. He made acquaintance with a variety of folk poets, and, after 1928, also travelled from village to village with his songs. Through the years, he became a cultural symbol of the Turkish Republic.

In the song Kara Toprak, Veysel describes loneliness and loss. All that remains is the Black Earth, the color of the landscape in his native town of Sivas.

Fazil Say imitates the sound of the Saz through his selection of a muted effect in the Introduction and Epilogue of Black Earth - a meditation on the themes of a ballad. In contrast, folklore, Romantic piano style and jazz are entwined in the central sections to form a large-scale outburst. Fazil Say performs this works in both concerts of classical music and a jazz festivals: particularly in the folkloristic sections, he employs the improvisatory freedom which is inherent to both folk music and jazz.

(via my mom)

Understanding PIPA/SOPA & Why You Should Be Concerned

Really well done video.  I don’t condone theft (especially as a young artist) but there must be a better way to deal with this issue. Watch.

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Another one from the late-night youtube sessions….

David Russel - Tiny Desk Concert @ NPR Music in 2010

Brilliant performance! Listen and watch how he weaves the melody into the accompaniment.  Also loving his dynamic range.  He really shows off the guitar in a humble way, which doesn’t make much sense, but it totally does.

He also has one of the worst websites I’ve seen in awhile….  Happy listening!

christopherpeters:

2011 Extended Video Reel

Christopher A. Peters - editor/graphic designer
thechrispeters@gmail.com
302.242.7904

* Higher Ground - hgvets.org - Editor

* Deltones: The Documentary - deltones.com - Producer, Director, Videographer, Editor

*Project Unify - sode.org - Videographer - Editor

*Higher Ground (HG) is a nationally recognized veteran rehabilitation program that combines sports, family and coping therapies to restore and rehabilitate men and women of the armed forces who have been severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

*The University of Delaware Deltones was founded in 1991 by a group of five University of Delaware students affectionately known as “the origitones.” The group members pride themselves on their smooth tunes and their motto - friends first, singers second - a motto they have lived by for 20 years. They focus their energy towards singing on campus and in the Delaware community, as it is important for them to give back to those who support them. The group consists of five current UD students, seven recent graduates and three recent “alumnitones.”

*Special Olympics Project UNIFY is a national project funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The goal of Project UNIFY is to activate youth around the country in an effort to develop school communities where all young people are agents of change — fostering respect, dignity and advocacy for people with intellectual disabilities by utilizing the programs and initiatives of Special Olympics.

Look at my friend!

Baby - Dirty Loops Cover

Are you hearing this? Beasts. That’s it. It doesn’t matter that they have ridiculous haircuts. 

Also, their cover of Brittany Spears’ Circus (sounds a bit like the Pompalmoose cover of Telephone at points but I don’t care) and Just Dance from Lady Gaga.

Also, Sweden.

Here and Heaven - Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile 

Picked this off of my brother’s away message. Definitely one of the more wonderful things I’ve seen and heard in a while.  Watch.