link one song you’d like to share with everyone and give an explanation of why you enjoy it. explanation can be simple or complex, doesn’t matter

i’ll start: my song is the tom and jerry show by hiromi uehara. here is a longer version with a beautiful melodic section in the middle

basically i like it because it’s completely badass haha. extremely virtuosic, in a way that you don’t really see in contemporary (and tonal) solo piano pieces anymore. it’s also incredibly fun and you can tell how into it she is in the first recording. that’s always what’s most impressive to me, when people make slight mistakes but are so in the zone that no one notices and the whole experience is unchanged. the jazz harmonies and rhythms in the melodic section of the second version are just so juicy too.

    • chinawatcherwatcherOPM
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      2 years ago

      i think i get what you mean, lots of contrasts everywhere. on the one hand the lyrics that i understand are super depressing (“bound to die alone”) haha, and whenever the guitar is present it’s so distorted and changes pitches so infrequently that it kind of overpowers everything else and has a lot of unpitched sound. at the same time, the way it’s sung, the way there’s call and response, and the way it’s kind of intimately recorded, and being in major makes it sound happy and hopeful. very interesting, thank you for sharing!!!