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The perfect music combo

This is quite odd: I cannot fully explain it to myself. The thing is, these two songs that you can find below, represent for my mind the most effective, exhilarating, emotional combination that I could possibly find. A perfect marriage between two deeply contrasting flavors. Try listening to them, strictly without interruption, one after the other; please don’t paying attention to the videos that add nothing, if anything they take away. Have a good fight, have a good future! I know, I’m weird.

No one noticed Satan hidden in this pop album

This story challenges your assumptions. I’ve kept this article on the back-burner for years. Had I published it 10 years ago it’d have had a different, less astonishing ending. I had many doubts about making my findings public; but I’m convinced that sunlight is always a good thing, especially when dealing with a subject that is distressing and possibly dangerous. Please, read the entire piece before passing a judgment: I’m a rational person, I don’t chase ghosts. This is the story of a scandal that never erupted. A story from 15 years ago. First of all, let’s set the stage. The Festival di Sanremo (Sanremo Music Festival) is a 5-days…

Nora the Cat and a lesson about God

Nora the Cat in Catcerto, by Mindaugas Piečaitis

Yesterday I presented the adorable Nora, a pianist cat. Today’s video is even better: Mindaugas Piečaitis, a Lithuanian composer, managed to put together a piece inspired by and containing various fragments of music that Nora spontaneously executed. A live orchestra was used to accompany the video montage of Nora’s own solo improvisations. What makes this “Catcerto” unique is the fact that Piečaitis came up with a compelling, catchy music composition, while at the same time retaining the flavor of the original inspiration… something that came from a cat! Nora tends to play on keys that are close together, due to her physical limitations (being a small animal!) which translates into melancholic tunes; at…

Nora the Cat Genius, playing the piano

Plus some thoughts about the artists’ brains… You need to see this, if you don’t know about Nora already. Nora is a genius cat, capable of playing the piano, sorta. She got adopted by a music family. She had the opportunity to observe and eventually imitate the students that were getting piano lessons at her home. A piano isn’t designed for a cat, her paws are too big to begin with. But it’s remarkable how she’s trying, producing somewhat convincing sequences of notes. Of course she can get easily distracted, but you must admit her performances are quite extraordinary. Other cats may walk on keys, even step on a key producing a sound…