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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Anyway.... what do you have piping into your proverbial workshop?
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I've been searching! For whatever reason, I've developed annual tastes in music. It started with Christmas music around the holidays, but expanded quickly from there. I listen to a lot of Afro-Cuban jazz during the summer, particularly when I have barbecues and such. I listen to Romantic classical music in early autumn, and then dark ambient around Halloween.
Late Winter and early Spring, though, have gone without genre for a while now and I'm looking to rectify that. After New Years, I started jumping around my music collection trying to find something that clicks. I listened to Billie Holiday, then Allice in Chains (which I discovered is better suited to Summer for some reason), then Edvard Grieg. Greig wasn't bad, but it feels more like a late Spring kind of thing. Bob Dylan was a lot of fun, but the lyrics are way too distracting to be played while I'm balancing my finances or doing other work. He was more a poet than he was a musician, imho. I have the same lyrical problem with Gilbert and Sullivan.
Maybe I'll take a page from Baraka's book and go for boroque. I recently bought the Keith Jarrett 24 Preludes and Fuges CD from either iTunes or Amazon, I can't remember, and it's outstanding. It's light, but it's also stimulating. Like an Asian girlfriend.