The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody -- BRILLIANT!!!

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

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3 years on Flickr - Cheers!

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Menn Ársins rehearsing and composing in Arnarholt in 2006 (@mennarsins)

I decided to dig out this old pictures since I'm going with Menn Ársins to this farm on the countryside to work on some new material and record some demos. I can hardly believe it's been 3 years. I didn't even have kids then! Now I have 2 boys! :-)

I had just recently joined the band at that time (November 2006). I hardly knew all their names and their phone numbers had not yet been stored in the mobile phone :-D

 Here's a short recording from that weekend

That song/jam later turned into the song "Allt að gerast"

This is how it sounds like after we had jammed on it for a whole another year and recorded it, mixed and mastered!

Add another year ... and few months... this video is from the release concert last January.

I'm looking forward to start working on the new tunes... in fact we've already started.
Now we're just gonna focus a little harder :-)

Cheers!

 

 

 

 

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Jaco Pastorius & John McLaughlin : Havana Jam 1979

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Ben Kenny [via @guerillabass posterous]

This is a great video that highlights the multi talents of Ben Kenny who currently plays with Incubus and previously the Roots. 

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Stage Door - A Film by Gildas Boclé. Piano & composition: Franck Avitabile, electric bass: Pino Palladino, drums: Manu Katché. Produced by Francis Dreyfus & Spedidam.

A Film by Gildas Boclé. Piano & composition: Franck Avitabile, electric bass: Pino Palladino, drums: Manu Katché. Produced by Francis Dreyfus & Spedidam

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demo nr. 4

Demo Nr. 4 by Sigurdór Guðmundsson   (6083 KB)
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Rough demo I put togeather today.

Drum loops, acoustic guitar + electric bass.

The original drums were in 120 bpm but I slowed them down to 100 bpm... so that explains the strange sound :-p

Is the sound to dark/warm ? ... I'm totally getting tired by now :)

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Portrait Of Tracy / Jaco Pastorius

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(Rodent problems?) -- Dailymotion - Creedocide

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Icelandic Language Day - Please enjoy some songs by Menn Ársins (@mennarsins), in Icelandic and celebrate the day with us!

Icelandic Language Day (Icelandic: dagur íslenskrar tungu or "day of the Icelandic tongue") is celebrated on 16 November each year in Iceland. This date was chosen to coincide with the birthday of the Icelandic poet Jónas Hallgrímsson.

The Minister of Education awards the Jónas Hallgrímsson Award to someone who has “in a unique way contributed to the Icelandic language”

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Mr. Moon – Dynagroove – Listen at Last.fm [From the mid 90's]

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Mr. Moon

Biography

Mr. Moon was an icelandic funk/fusion band that was active from around 1994-1998.

The original band members:

Sigurdór Guðmundsson - electric bass
Davíð Þór Jónsson - saxophone
Daði Birgisson - keyboards
Hrafn Ásgeirsson - saxophone
Guðmundur Claxton - drums.

Sigurþór Þorgilsson - trumpet
and
Einar Þór Jóhannesson - guitar.

The last two joined few months after the first gig.

Mr. Moon appeared on tv. and played the Reykjavík Jazz Festival (RúRek) in 1995.

Released one track;

Dynagroove, that they recorded after winning an talent competition at their school in Akranes, Iceland in 1994.

The Icelandic funk group Jagúar was formed on the ruins of Mr. Moon.

Most of the members are active in the Icelandic music scence as active freelance musicians and members of bands.

Sigurdór Guðmundsson is currently mostly active with Menn Ársins. He has also played his own music, as well with bands like Amalgam and Hjálmar (briefly).

Davíð Þór Jónsson plays mostly piano and organ for instance with Flís, Mugison, Jóel Pálsson, Tómas R. Einarsson (and countless others). He even played bass with Benni Hemm Hemm for awhile.

Daði Birgisson was busy with Jagúar for many years but is now freelancing and playing with B.Sig.

Einar Þór Jóhannesson is mostly playing with Buff and Dúndurfréttir, but has also played with Egó (Bubbi) and many others.

Hrafn Ásgeirsson played with Jagúar and later participated in the free jazz and experimental scene.

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This song (which I co-composed) , was also my first appearance on public (CD) release.
Bass used: Warwick Thumb 4 string through a Sadowsky bass pre-amp.

Free mp3: http://freedownloads.last.fm/download/202512261/Dynagroove.mp3

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BBC Horizon - Why Do We Talk? (Part 1/6) (playlist)

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"Talking is something that is unique to humans, yet it still remains a mystery. Horizon meets the scientists beginning to unlock the secrets of speech - including a father who is filming every second of his son's first three years in order to discover how we learn to talk, the autistic savant who can speak more than 20 languages, and the first scientist to identify a gene that makes speech possible.

Horizon also hears from the godfather of linguistics, Noam Chomsky, the first to suggest that our ability to talk is innate. A unique experiment shows how a new alien language can emerge in just one afternoon, in a bid to understand where language comes from and why it is the way it is."

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The calm mouse takes the staircase with the 12 steps. To the liquor store... genius!

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The song Calm Mouse was performed by the band Amalgam. The recording is an audience recording from a concert in Vejle, Denmark. (More songs from that concert here)

The horn arrangement was inspired from Chris Speed's tune "Staircase Genius". The bass part had also originally somehow been inspired by Skúli Sverrisson's approach on some of his material.... not that I can really pin point it.

Staircase Genius by Chris Speed   (4631 KB)
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Few years later the song evolves into a song called "12 Steps to the Liquor Store" by Menn Ársins.

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What The Duck - Mind Over Matter

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Based on a true story? http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthia/313262049/

:-D

 

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James Randi: You Can't Prove a Negative

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James Randi lecture excerpt from a 2 hour lecture at Caltech in 1992. James Randi explains why you can not prove a negative. The burden of proof is on the person presenting the claim. He then goes into an example of how you can't prove that Reindeer can fly.

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The National Bank - "Family"

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Great band from Norway.

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YouTube - Intelligence Squared Debate: Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry vs. The Catholics

Play all videos: http://bit.ly/1qP7kA -

Aired November 7, 2009 on BBC World -

The Catholic Church is a force for good in the world?
A new debate, presented from London by Zeinab Badawi

It stands up for the oppressed and offers spiritual succour to billions say the Church's supporters. But what about the Church's teachings on condoms, gay sex and women priests, ask the detractors.

Speaking for the motion, Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Anne Widdecombe MP. Speaking against the motion, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry.

From Telegraph:

The voting gives a good idea of how it went. Before the debate, for the motion: 678. Against: 1102. Dont know: 346. This is how it changed after the debate. For: 268. Against: 1876. Dont know: 34. In other words, after hearing the speakers, the number of people in the audience who opposed the motion increased by 774.

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Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry vs. The Catholics

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Miles Davis and Marcus Miller: Mr. Pastorius live [Via: @notreble]

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In the late 80’s, Marcus Miller and Miles Davis performed live on David Sanborn’s TV show. This video includes the conversation between Marcus and Miles before they jumped into a performance of “Mr. Pastorius”, from the Amandla album.

Good stuff.

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Demo nr. 3 (intro)

Demo Nr. 3 (Intro) by Sigurdór Guðmundsson   (1318 KB)
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Short intro or verse from a song idea I'm working on.

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So that's why we have soul ... :-p .... in our playing

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From The Basement : Radiohead - The Gloaming

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How Science Thinks with Richard Dawkins, Friedrich Nietzsche and Others

How Science Thinks with Richard Dawkins, Friedrich Nietzsche and Others

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What are the ideas behind the scientific revolution? Featuring interviews with Richard Dawkins, John Polanyi
and Lee Smolin from the TVO archive

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Social Media Revolution: Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? This video details out social media facts and figures that are hard to ignore.

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Thomas Dybdahl - Cecilia

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Cecilia,
You didn't wanna give your heart away
You tear apart, angel eyes like bluebells
Trembling hearts, leave your empty shells
Cecilia
You didn't wanna give your heart away
Cecilia,
You didn't wanna leave it all behind
Here I am
Flesh and bones
Here I am
Flesh and bones
Did he touch you?
Shameful and disgraced?
Did he rob your joy of the embrace?
Cecilia,
You didn't wanna give your heart away
Cecilia,
You didn't wanna leave it all behind
Here I am
Flesh and bones
Here I am
Flesh and bones
Here I am
Flesh and bones

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50 Years of Space Exploration

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http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day/index

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