Ooh, ooh! There are leaf buds beginning to uncurl on the medlar tree. I barely got my apricot tree replanted in time because there are buds there too. They're still tightly clenched but they're visible in a sort of lovely plum bronze colour.
Snowdrops and crocuses are carpeting the graveyard of the church in our village. We've nearly made it, folks. These last couple of weeks are the worst, but the end is in sight.
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Challenge 3:
Make a Top Ten list for your favourite music picks and share what you love about them. This can be in any format - songs, artists, albums, music videos, soundtracks, scores, something else not mentioned here. If it's vaguely related to music, it ticks the box, so go with whatever you like!
This is hard! Like a lot of people I stopped being passionately interested in music some time in my youth (around my 30s, I think.) So a lot of these will be from before that drop-off, when I was heavily into prog rock.
Having said that, I'm starting with one of my favourites from right now. Amanati, who I found through sword dancing and immediately wanted to belly dance to as well. Cretan trance music - Fos by Amanati
Speaking of belly dance music, this lady is my current favourite MENA musician Maro Hereira with Bladi What can I say, it's my trance background coming out again.
I am not a big fan of Western trained opera or choral singers, but I make an exception for the counter-tenor voice, which I think sounds like angels. For example Andreas Scholl - Who may abide the day of His coming?
I quite enjoy bardcore as long as it uses actual instruments rather than synth, and it puts a bit of effort into its language. Hildegard von Blingen with Pumped Up Kicks
This is not really music so much as it is someone talking about ancient music in a way that helps me understand music theory and history. He makes music too but I have to confess to not having listened to that part except for some of his medieval tavern music. Which is infinitely superior to bardcore. Farya Faraji getting heated about the duduk
Okay, now back into the far distant past, during which my second favourite group in all the world was Hawkwind, a band whose musical style my mother described as "music that sounds like you're listening to it through two walls." Hawkwind - The Psychadelic Warlords Disappear in Smoke
My first favourite band in those days was Emerson Lake and Palmer, and despite the intense nostalgia rush I had when I first re-heard the beginning of this album, I have no idea why. God, it's horrible - ELP with Tarkus
Surely this one is still beautiful? I remember Yes as being almost too pretty for my tastes. Close to the Edge by Yes Oh no, I'm not sure I like that either. Thank goodness Hawkwind still holds up.
Basically the only things I'm listening to now are belly dance music and the tracks of fanvids. So here is a fanvid I have singled out because I really love the music: The Future will be Silent - a fanvid by Wyomingnot
And here is a belly dancing track that I particularly like. Ya Hassan by Yassir Jamal
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