Tosca Tango Orchestra - Waking Life Soundrack

"Orchestra" from Texas, Austin.
Tango at times I suppose (Duh), classical at others—notably Chopin's Nocturne No. 2 in E-flat major, Op.9—but overall very moody, fitting for the film. The film is a set of dreams featuring monologs as well as dialog, even some scenes with no words. Thoughtful subjects. Animated. This is an interesting film worth checking out if you can. Even the band makes an appearance in the film.
As a soundtrack this is great, good consistency of theme. As music more generally this holds up too, a few weak spots, I feel, but these are few and nothing bad at all.
The best part of all of this is the accordion.

ACCORDION by GLOVER GILL
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here is a scene from da movie. [Via youtube]

Chopin - Complete Preludes and Nocturnes

Chopin.
Polish composer. Lots of piano. Great.

Complete Preludes and Nocturnes.
Op. 28 is the well known piece here, rightfully so. Some very great piano work. Op. 28, like the previous Bach piece, is also in all 24 keys, major and minor. The Nocturnes I am less familiar with, but are also good. Nos. 2 and 3 may be familiar to you. This is the piano work of Garrick Ohlsson, I think he does a good job, how about you?

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