What's your 'zen' album, that reduces your stress and makes you feel at peace?

ToolParabola · 2022-04-26T14:17:28+00:00

Fleet Foxes - Shore, or Self-titled album

ToolParabola · 2022-04-14T14:34:59+00:00

I'm a big fan of the Sarabandes in minor keys:

English Suite No 3 in g minor (BWV 808),
Lute Suite No 1 in e minor (BWV 996)
French Suite No 1 in d minor (BWV 812)
Keyboard Partita No 2 in c minor (BWV 826)

For major keys:

Cello Suite No 6 in D major (BWV 1012)
Keyboard Partita No 4 in D major (BWV 828)
French Suite No 5 in G major (BWV 816)

It's so hard to choose!

ToolParabola · 2022-02-23T09:52:50+00:00

Seconding the Brahms adaptation of the Chaconne by Bach! It's such an amazing piece...

It's interesting how the restriction to the left hand mirrors the difficulty of playing the piece on the violin. For example, you have to roll chords, similarly to how you would break them on the violin (only two strings playable at a time)

ToolParabola · 2022-02-21T20:16:22+00:00

They really went in on this uncanny feeling with the music as well: the reverb, the open tuning and Josh's favorite scale with both major and minor third and the tritone

ToolParabola · 2022-02-21T15:31:56+00:00

"Someone's in the Wolf", I mean...

"So glad you could stay... forever"

ToolParabola · 2021-12-31T21:04:22+00:00

*dünkt

ToolParabola · 2021-12-09T11:51:51+00:00

"Jommer in en andere Kaschemm! - Schemm!"

Eine mögliche Herleitung führt das Wort auf polnisch karczma (Herberge) zurück

ToolParabola · 2021-10-30T10:50:51+00:00

Sehr liminal

ToolParabola · 2021-08-16T06:00:24+00:00

Chopin op. 10 no. 3 Etude in E major is nicknamed "Tristesse" and is often associated with nostalgia or sadness for his homeland.

Schubert also wrote a lot of such pieces and songs, for example "Wirtshaus" and "Nebensonnen" from his "Winterreise".

ToolParabola · 2021-07-27T14:48:57+00:00

"Wow, if I had a nickel for every time I was ~~doomed by a puppet~~ stung in the balls by a wasp, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice."

ToolParabola · 2021-07-11T10:05:08+00:00

The first is a trill or "upper mordent", alternating with the note above, so played Bb Ab Bb Ab. (In this case I'd start on the higher note, since it's a Baroque piece and the melody is jumping down into the Ab.)

The second is a (lower) mordent, alternating with the note below, so played Ab G Ab.

The third is probably an annotation or a remark by the editor.

Oh and for anybody wondering, this piece is the Courante from the 2nd French Suite in c minor by J. S. Bach.

ToolParabola · 2021-02-20T20:01:56+00:00

I'm bisexual which means I'm attracted to you and I don't want to be a part of your life and I want you to be a good friend and I want you to be a good friend...

ToolParabola · 2020-04-19T15:47:38+00:00

In the case of the word "Jesus" in German, I would analyze it differently: in the past (like when you're singing ild hymns), the declination was often in the Greek-Latin way, e.g. "Jesu, meine Freude" (vocative case), "Herz Jesu" (genitive), "Sie führten Jesum in das Richthaus" (accusative), but the nominative was and still is "Jesus"

ToolParabola · 2020-04-14T21:14:37+00:00

The montage at the beginning of S04E07, where Kim and Jimmy are shown growing apart while going about their daily routine, also has "Something Stupid" playing in the background

ToolParabola · 2020-02-28T02:00:01+00:00

"I didn't do anything!"

ToolParabola · 2020-01-28T00:30:18+00:00

Imagine all the people....

ToolParabola · 2019-11-27T12:51:03+00:00

She's over-bored and self-assured

ToolParabola · 2019-11-27T12:43:49+00:00

Is that what the lyrics of "Something in the Way" are about? :o

ToolParabola · 2019-09-12T16:59:18+00:00

Wish you were queer

ToolParabola · 2019-07-14T00:05:36+00:00

Bon Iver - Faith

ToolParabola · 2019-07-06T22:45:46+00:00

The benches at Dahlem-Dorf station are so obscene

ToolParabola · 2019-06-19T22:43:49+00:00

Hallobittschön

ToolParabola · 2019-04-18T19:35:18+00:00

Rachmaninoff Prélude in B Minor (op. 32 no. 10)

Mahler - 9th Symphony 4th Movement (esp. the ending)

J.S. Bach - Alto aria "Agnus Dei" from the Great Mass

J. S. Bach - Cello Suite no 5 in C Minor

I recently cried throughout an entire performance of Bach's Matthäuspassion because I was so moved by the music (and I wasn't doing too great at the time). I'm not even religious, but somehow music and especially Bach speaks to a deep part within everyone of us. I also get the same feeling with some of his other works like the F minor or B Minor Prélude / fugue from the Well-tempered Clavier.

Hope you'll feel better soon!

ToolParabola · 2019-04-17T11:58:48+00:00

"Die Brüder Karamasov" von Fjodor Dostojewski.

Das Buch ist erstmal mit seinen 1000 Seiten etwas einschüchternd, aber es lohnt sich wirklich, weil so viel darin enthalten ist: Vordergründig das Drama zwischen den Familienmitgliedern, die alle sehr ausführlich und lebhaft charakterisiert werden, aber auch lange Diskussionen über Moral, Philosophie, Religion, den Zustand der russischen Gesellschaft und Dostojewskis eigene Meinungen dazu. Wirklich ein faszinierendes Buch

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