You say "cognitive dissonance" like it's a *bad* thing.

[truepenny]

Bagpipes should not work in techno.

And yet they do.

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[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I guess Corvus Corax. Am I right ?

Since listening to the Shriekback song "Berlin", which makes a listenable track out of accordion, didgeridoo, and a decent synth beat, I've given up being surprised by anything. almost. The Gregorian chant version of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" at the Gravy Bath Coriolanus still stunned me.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I had a bet on with myself that you would be the first person to respond to this. *g*

Fiamma Fumana (http://www.fiamma.org/fiammafumana/): Tuscan group that does traditional Tuscan songs remixed as techno. With bagpipes and accordian. They played here recently; heres_luck went and fell in love and bought all their CDs, which she is graciously letting me borrow. The music is beautiful and goofy all at once, which suits my mood.

And it's not a surprising thing exactly. It's just that the cognitive dissonance isn't going away with repeated listening.

[heresluck]

I don't think they're from Tuscany, actually. They're from northern Italy, specifically Emilia Romagna, which appears to be north of Tuscany: http://www.italianmade.com/regions/map8.cfm.

Of course, looking at that map pretty much tripled my working knowledge of Italian geography; I'm not claiming expertise here.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I thought you said they were Tuscan. But perhaps I was listening with my stupid brain.

[heresluck]

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have said Tuscan, if only because I don't know enough about names of Italian regions/provinces to say something that specific. I would've said Northern Italian, since that's how Fiamma introduced them: "We say 'Italian' and people say 'Ah! the sun, the sea!' But no, we are from northern part of Italy, where there is mostly mountains and plains and no sea, but very much mist."

[libskrat]

You have more than one brain? Wow.

I've only got the one, and when it gets into Stupid Mode there's just no smartening it.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Stupid brain masquerading as smart brain on my end, then.

I *hate* when that happens.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Um. It's this whole theory, which is HL's and I can't do justice to it. But the problem is that there's a stupid brain and a smart brain; they time-share the head and don't talk to each other. It makes a frightening amount of sense, as much for my brain as for HL's.

[rliz.livejournal.com]

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Have you ever heard Laurie Anderson's "Sweaters"?

I no longer love your mouth!
I no longer love your eyes!