The "What are you listening to?" thread- Part 4

[PoetPhilosopher]

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

At first, this sounds like "huh??"
But once I internalised these riffs / melodies and understood what was going on in all those pieces, I was like "WOW!!"

Actually, this is insanely brilliant.

 

[Flame]

 

[Firemorphic]

Fantastic! When they do proggy songs like this:

 

[Firemorphic]

 

[Shiranui117]

 

[Firemorphic]

At first, this sounds like "huh??"
But once I internalised these riffs / melodies and understood what was going on in all those pieces, I was like "WOW!!"

Actually, this is insanely brilliant.

It's been ages since listened to them but Unexpect are a top-notch avantgarde metal band

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

It's been ages since listened to them but Unexpect are a top-notch avantgarde metal band

I know right...

First time I ever heared them was live.
A small prog metal festival with Liquid Tension Experiment as headliner. They were actually the reason I went.

We were a little late and when we got in, Unexpect was on stage and they just started their final song.
Blown away.... And bummed that I missed the whole set.

Immediatly went back out and bought a cd at the merchandise stand.

 

[Firemorphic]

I know right...

First time I ever heared them was live.
A small prog metal festival with Liquid Tension Experiment as headliner. They were actually the reason I went.

We were a little late and when we got in, Unexpect was on stage and they just started their final song.
Blown away.... And bummed that I missed the whole set.

Immediatly went back out and bought a cd at the merchandise stand.

Yeah LTE is damn good (IMO back in DT's best days)

Are you a prog guy?

Unexpect are 'unexpected', great band in the vain of bands like King Crimson, Naked City, Mr Bungle and Idiot Flesh (who predated Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum). Unexpect have a bit of that kinda gothic metal (quasi-Nightwish) thrown in there (like the song I linked) but they go all-out, definitely not pop song structures

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

Yeah LTE is damn good (IMO back in DT's best days)

Are you a prog guy?

I'm an everything-guy as long as real instruments played by human hand are involved
I don't like computer-sequenced tracks. They are far too "perfect" and thereby "inhuman". They lack soul, emotion and depth imo. I just don't feel it. They don't.... groove.
I don't necessarily consider it "less worthy" or something. Just not my thing.

But I'm probably kinda biased as a drummer myself.

Unexpect are 'unexpected', great band in the vain of bands like King Crimson, Naked City, Mr Bungle and Idiot Flesh (who predated Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum). Unexpect have a bit of that kinda gothic metal (quasi-Nightwish) thrown in there (like the song I linked) but they go all-out, definitely not pop song structures

Always loved Mr Bungle! Kinda weird, but still with a clear story to tell.

From a musical perspective, Unexpect is quite impressive. I love how they manage to go from almost death core into free style jazz with a metal flavour, with just a single 2-chord bridge.

The pieces are extremely well written and very creative.

There's this one song, don't remember the name, that has a part in it that everytime I hear it, I get a mental picture of some medieval witch in some castle tower ruin, stirring in her cauldron with a big wooden spoon with that song playing as the soundtrack, LOL!

I don't know, it just has that feel haha.

 

[Firemorphic]

I'm an everything-guy as long as real instruments played by human hand are involved

As a person that listens to a ****load of live jazz and classical, I couldn't agree more.

I don't like computer-sequenced tracks. They are far too "perfect" and thereby "inhuman". They lack soul, emotion and depth imo. I just don't feel it. They don't.... groove.
I don't necessarily consider it "less worthy" or something. Just not my thing.

But I'm probably kinda biased as a drummer myself.

Well I'm a composer (and I've played in bands before) so I know your specificity
I like my drums dynamic and clarity from the various timbres, not a dry gunk of a sound

Always loved Mr Bungle! Kinda weird, but still with a clear story to tell.

From a musical perspective, Unexpect is quite impressive. I love how they manage to go from almost death core into free style jazz with a metal flavour, with just a single 2-chord bridge.

The pieces are extremely well written and very creative.

Yeah Bungle are crazy but very concise and not a note wasted, they're humorous but not comedy and none of what they do has any randomness....some of their songs are literally history lessons on various topics too, lol.

And with bands like them, Unexpect etc as a composer I literally see the music in my head when I listen to them, but I've dug deep into the polyphony, rhythm, form, polytonality, polymeters etc that bands like that employ (and their counterparts in jazz and classical).

There's this one song, don't remember the name, that has a part in it that everytime I hear it, I get a mental picture of some medieval witch in some castle tower ruin, stirring in her cauldron with a big wooden spoon with that song playing as the soundtrack, LOL!

I don't know, it just has that feel haha.

Lol I know what you mean Ever heard Stolen Babies?

Well this conversation is good, I learn't something

 

[anna.]

This blew me away, and apparently from the youtube comments, I wasn't the only person to look for this after seeing the trailer for Gemini Man.

 

[Firemorphic]

 

[Firemorphic]

 

[Firemorphic]

 

[Firemorphic]

Great band imho

 

[dybmh]

Dr. Rabindranath Tagore: "The world by day is like Europeans music-a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music: one pure deep and tender raga... Our music draws the listener away beyond the limits of every day human joys and sorrows and takes us to the lonely region of renunciation which lies at the root of the universe, while European music leads us to a variegated dance through the endless rise and fall of human grief and joy.”

Gurbani: Indian Music versus Western Music

 

[robocop (actually)]

Brain.fm is the greatest thing to happen to music in its entire history. People create some basic sounds and the computer turns them into a complicated tune that's hard to get your head around. Your productivity goes up like 3 times. The tune changes every once in a while so you never get it. They have like 800,000 tracks. It requires headphones or earbuds.

I listen to it when I work on my books.

 

[Firemorphic]

Dr. Rabindranath Tagore: "The world by day is like Europeans music-a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music: one pure deep and tender raga... Our music draws the listener away beyond the limits of every day human joys and sorrows and takes us to the lonely region of renunciation which lies at the root of the universe, while European music leads us to a variegated dance through the endless rise and fall of human grief and joy.”

Gurbani: Indian Music versus Western Music

Indian Classical is amazing. The two primary styles/genres that make it up are called "Carnatic" and "Hindustani". One of my favorite genres of music, aside from classical, prog rock/metal and jazz.

 

[dybmh]