Saturday, 21 January 2012

Music in the Morning No. 231 – Hiromi

 

Hiromi? 

Who?

I hadn’t heard her music nor even heard of her until I stumbled across this video.  I stumble across, fall into, so much fabulous music this way.  I was gobsmacked, grabbed, by her brilliance and sheer exuberance.

Never!  Absolutely never, have I heard music remotely like this and I mean this in an immensely positive way.

Pachelbel can never have been played like this!

Pachelbel with guts!

After this build-up I would be disappointed if you didn’t love this too but I must be realistic: some will love and some won’t.

Sit back for 8m 30s of ……

Pachelbel: Canon in D                                                                        Hiromi

 

I did tell you!   Hiromi is brilliant. 

Need to listen to this again?  I can’t get enough of Hiromi!

12 comments:

Andrew said...

Wonderful. Thanks very much Calum.

CalumCarr said...

Wow!

She is amazing!

Somehow I didn't know you listened to the music posts.

Andrew said...

Occasionally. I am actually a complete piano fanatic, all classical stuff and some jazz. I have not listened much recently though. I go through phases (don't we all?).

CalumCarr said...

Do you play the piano?

Andrew said...

I actually do play it but I can't play it. Mum was a good player and I could spend hours entertaining myself with wild and mad creations, but I can't play anything by anyone else, and so, I guess the short answer, the version of answer I always tend to avoid, is "no".

Claude said...

Love it, love it, love it...

I actually play the Canon, but never like this. Maybe I should try????

Claude said...

I hope you don't mind, Calum. I shared this with my Facebook friends. Thank you for the fantastic post!

CalumCarr said...

Andrew

Never a 'short' when there is a 'long' :)

CalumCarr said...

Claude

She is abs brilliant. Of course, there's no problem with sharing. Blogposts, in general, are for sharing but music like this: tell the rest of the world who haven't found it yet.

Andrew said...

In return, I offer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUhEZOu-kkg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Forgot how to embed in comments but a copy and paste should work

CalumCarr said...

A great offering, Andrew. Hadn't heard (of) him.

Will look into his music.

Claude said...

@Andrew - As Calum says. Very interesting. Thank you!