piano music is great! but is it that the sound you get out of one isnt very human?
Whistles and stringy things have a more human quality.
Piano's dont seem to have that living thing quality in the same way.
Unless you get the lid off and play with the insides!
You cant bend,hammer on pull off,cant breath up and slip into a higher octave cant slide to or blend the sound
I think it is probably too pure and mechanistic to to have a folky feel.
Lot of english folk music I hear is suited to piano beause it lacks the intuative played in the pub feel anyway.
Because it is not actuslly folk music.
It is music gathered in from the "folk" and decreed fit to be played on safe conformist instruments (piano)in middle/Upper class parlour's by genteel folk. Or modern stuff written about real labouring accidents and incidents,like cycling tragedies in the pyrenees for example.
Maybe considering the make up of FC audiences,the traditional music of today should be about staff room romances,irksome red tape and how the workers are bleeding the poor bosses dry with unending unreasonable demands for more pay ,time off,holidays etc.
I am a great admirer of RH's playing and love her music,but she is writing music for the piano and in a way that makes the instrument part of the emotion and feeling she puts into it.
Traditional stuff doesnt seem to work in the same way for piano.
Also I have had the pleasure of listening to some very well know and brilliant musicians, and you know what?
It is more fun to hear a less than perfect performance by someone who loves the music they are playing,than the cd quality,but somehow strangely lacking emotionaly, genius.
Hey did you all see the kiddy on telly who just passed his grade 8 piano exam,and still spoke like a child,
Grade 8 is v good isnt it?