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My choice of the day is "Avrix mi galanica", a song of the Sephardi Jews with roots in Medieval Spain. It is telling of a pair of lovers. The young man wants to visit his lover but she is afraight her family might hear them. He thus tells her how to get her father, mother and brother to sleep so...

Me again. I once already had posted Western Classical Music by Japanese composers, but seeing as it is such wonderful music and we are on a webside dedicated to Japanese popular culture, among others, I will do so again. My choice today is music Ifukube Akira, or Akira Ikufube as he is known in...

Today I have chosen likely the most ancient music yet. In fact, the "zaluzi to the gods", also known as "Hurrian Hymn 6", belongs to some of the oldest notated music known. The Hurrians were a Syrian and Anatolian ethnicity of the second millennium BC, in other words of the Bronze Age in the...

When Bach meets Brazil you get something far more Brazilian rather than Baroque. At least this is the case for the "Bachianas Brasileiras" composed by Bazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. Today I have chosen the "Tocata (Desafio)" from the "Bachianas Brasileiras No. 7", here performed by the...

A haiku with rhyme Surely is unusual. Let's try it this time. Though far from sublime, For now it is going well. Some say it's a crime.

My choice today is "Mná na hÉireann", an Irish folk telling of a man who loves all women in Ireland. It is sung in Irish Gaelic by Kate Bush. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shV-tT8cY-A

I have gotten used to the default site theme from the time when I was reading manga here without being a member, thus Light it is.

Well, I did read through the planned features first but I seem to have overlooked it.

Hello, I got the idea that it would be useful to implement some kind of search function in the forums, particularly if you are looking for some older thread where you have read something good you want to reread but which is buried under newer threads. This could use either words present in the...

My choice of the day this time is inspired by the worldwide racism debate. Thus I want to give one example of historical intercultural musical exchange. "Cumbées", composed by 17th/18th century Mexican Santiago de Murcia, is undeniably influenced by the music of the African slaves in colonial...

It has been some time since I posted the last song here. Seeing as we have such wonderful summer weather (at least in Germany), my choice is "Willekomen summerweter süeze" composed by the minnesänger Neidhart von Reuental and performed by Ensemble für frühe Musik Augsburg. This song, whose title...

@pandascepter: Congratulations! This is the correct answer.

To my knowledge Traditional Chinese is still in use in the Republic of China (AKA Taiwan) as well as in Hongkong and Macao while Simplified Chinese was introduced in the People's Republic of China (AKA Mainland China). As for what is the difference, Traditional Chinese Characters are rather...

In gipsy belief bald people reincarnate as fish after death.

It came how it had to come: The onee-san lost her footing, tumbling to the ground and sending both the tea tray and a broken heel flying. Confronted with the hot tea (like in boiling hot, far too hot to drink) flying in her direction, Hope did the only thing she could do: take the tray, block...

@pandascepter That much is true though it doesn't suffice as the answer yet.

On a tree without leaves there sits a bird without feathers which will be eaten by a woman without mouth. What is this?

@pandascepter I guess the answer is: death.

That's interesting. Why didn't I see the thread any earlier. Well, first of all, nobody really told me any scary stories as a child because I tended to have nightmares for weeks on end. But there were a lot of rumors here and there and also a curious situation I experienced myself. When I was...

@Teddy: I think it would be a good idea to put the lingk to the writing thread in this one and vice versa so that if they might be seperated one day can soon be found again. I believe best would be when you as the OP edit your first post to add the link since this would be far easier to find...