The 23rd Carnival of Music has a host! Starling Hunter at The Business of America is Business will be hosting our next edition of the Carnival, next Monday (December 5).

Please submit posts here.

Also, we REALLY need some more hosts for future editions of the Carnival. This is more than a link-whoring traffic-generator for the participants involved. It has so far been a remarkably diverse celebration of all kinds of music, from the highbrow to the low, the player's perspective to the listerner's, the composer's to the critic's. Please help make this Carnival a lasting success and volunteer here.

Spread the word!

Thanks!

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Sorry for the belated posting. Please check out Brian Sacawa's Thanksgiving edition of the Carnival, posted two days ago at Brian's Sounds Like Now.

We'll be on temporary hiatus next Monday, but I hope to have a host lined up by the first Monday in December.

As always, go to the Carnival's home page to peruse earlier editions and for more information about hosting or submitting posts for the Carnival.

Thanks, and have a happy Thanksgiving!

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The Music Carnival turned 21 yesterday at Owlish's place. I like how he visited the blogs of past hosts to find some additional linkable material. Check it out.

The 22nd Carnival will be held at Brian Sacawa: Sounds Like Now next Monday.

Please volunteer to host future carnivals and submit your posts for next week's carnival here.

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Ray Kurzweil offers this nice eulogy of one of the twentieth century's most influential inventors.

(Via Mixolydian Don).

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Have you ever listened to Neil Diamond's Tap Root Manuscript? Do yourself a favor and get a copy.

I have been listening to it as long as I can remember (it was released when I was in my terrible two's), and I have long associated it with fun family road trips to Colorado, other parts of the Southwest and Rocky Mountain states, and Canada. (Yes, Canada. We drove 3 days from Texas to visit family in Ontario at Wasaga Beach on the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron).

Putting aside nostalgia, and acknowledging that this marks me as tragically unhip, this album by Neil Diamond is one of my top-25. The high point of the album is the African Trilogy (actually 7 discrete songs), which I would cover in an instant, were I a progressive metal band. The instrumental Madrigal could certainly stand up to some re-arrangement for performance by a group like Yes or Rush.

(Yes, I am procrastinating on the novel).

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Please be sure to visit Elisa Camahort's Personal Weblog to review this week's edition of the Carnival of Music.

She has put together a nice arrangement of diverse themes, including a couple of posts from yours truly.

Next week the Carnival returns to Owlish Mutterings for an encore performance.

As always, check out the archive page for previous editions and to submit posts or volunteer to host.

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