What kind of music do ancient collectors listen to?

I also have my "Room" with my ancient coins, historical pieces, library, etc. Sacrarium Spiritus sanctificationem tuam. Carthage, Parthia, Rome are all alive and well there.

 

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Like my collecting tastes, it is varied. I can appreciate most music, but big band, early country/western, most rap is just not my taste. I think most people default back to the music they went to high school/college with, so 80/90s is my main jam, with liberal Beatles/Wings and metal thrown in.

Whatever it is, it has to be loud. My ears got tore up in the Gulf War, (I should be wearing hearing aids due to constant ringing but I don't want to). Besides, you cannot listen to Disturbed/Zombie/Fear/Norwegian Death Metal at a low level.

 

Rediscovering Ancient Greek Music: Sounds from the Past

 

Sometimes I find Heavy Metal gets a little too sophisticated for my tastes...

 

Music of Ancient Rome by Synaulia.

 

This post is a gas!

 

I'm all over the place depending on my mood and what sounds good at the moment. I had a video game room/pizza business once and allowed the kids to bring albums to play. This was in the early 1980s. By the end of the day, I needed something soothing to listen to so would put on classical, get one of my leather-bound African Hunting Books, a drink, and try to even out.

I like the 60-70's stuff too, as that was just after high school and on my own.
I stay away from most country because it seems to all have the same theme, at least to me. Some poor guy just lost his girl and his only cow and feels real bad. Or something like that. I think "Senior Santa and His Space Cadet Reindeer" Tipped the scales for me.

I decided I wanted to be different so told everyone I want Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole played at my funeral. Also Amazing Grace.


Or, Phil Collins...


How's that for eclectic Lord MarCovan?

And let's finish with some traveling music.....

 

Oldies of course. The fifties and early sixties. Then of course there is the music from the Big Band era and my favorite group, the Andrew Sisters.

 

Gregorian chant. That's close enough to ancient for government work.

 

The skirl of bagpipes are fun for me too. Like I said, kinda everthing.




Relaxing background...

 

Some of my all time favourites are Scott Walker, The Fall, John Coltrane, Joanna Newsome, Robert Wyatt, Bjork. I like interesting music, particularly music with a strong and interesting vocal element.

Music is one of the true loves of my life. I have probably spent more time listening to and playing music than anything else.

Recently I've become rather enamoured with an electronic duo from north west England called Autechre. They make somewhat procedural music made from combining hand programmed patches that they run through custom software and manipulate in real time. A few years ago they did a residency at the London based online radio station NTS, and it debuted 8 hours of new material, 2 hours each week for a month. It was a remarkable experience plugging in headphones and experiencing 2 new hours of exploratory music (noise to many I'm sure) communally with others online. It was the closest I've come to a concert experience since I've been unable to attend them.

 

I liked heavy metal growing up, so of course liked this Mongolian heavy metal band that combines heavy metal with Mongolian guttural singing and traditional Mongolian musical instruments.

 

Bach of course, on a very very expensive all band communications receiver (10khz-3000mhz), with an inexpensive low fi monaural speaker as its output; because the receiver is on my desk and easy to reach to turn on and off.

 

Those would be my choices also but the passing of IZ makes that hard. I do like Amazing Grace to the tune of House of the Rising Sun as played at our church.

I also enjoy YouTube covers where young people can update old favorites and improve on new music where the original artist left room.

 

Popular: Blind Faith, Allman Bros, Pink Floyd, Light'n Hopkins, Richard Thompson, Prine, Randy Newman, Classical; The 3-B's, Handel, Hildegard von Bigem, Lully, Tallus, Ives, C. Barber & Stockhausen.....Etc, etc (All the Good-stuff)
J.T.

 

AM Radio of course, duh...

 

Moi, born in Detroit and grew up there at the very beginnings of soul music. Sang in a choir singing Gregorian Chant and Latin Mass music. My father loved music of all kinds from the pre-war jazz and big bands. At home we had Classical, popular, jazz, Beatles, Brahms, Bach, Beetovan, Mozart and many others including metal, and the list goes on.

I always listen to music in my office working on coins, photography, models, and research of all of the above. As a recommendation for 24 hour classical on the radio and streaming service I highly recommend All Classical.org in Portland, Oregon. Try it, You will Like it for classical.

I just love music of many genre's from metal to Mozart. It's a gift for the soul, and singing it has been a gift. Can't do it any more as copd has screwed up my voice; I do miss it a lot as I sang in civic theatre productions from The Princess and the Pea, to a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan. My wife is a Suzuki violin teacher, and so is my son who is in a metal band here in PDX.

Coin wise I am working on Byzantine period "military mint" bronzes. I'll leave you all with that. I have attached a military mint issue of Maurice Tiberius. These things go from subtle to obvious as well as those that fit into the "what the heck is it" category.

Music rocks, and always has a different beat. So much music, so little time.

 

One of my favorite songs is the Comeback Kid by The Midnight

 

Frank Zappa, Patti Smith, the Rolling stones and Janis Joplin have been a favorites of mine for decades now.
Also David Bowie and some blues.

From the more recent ones, I love Agnes Obel, AltJ, Mark Knopfler

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