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Post by steveternal on Aug 12, 2007 20:46:06 GMT -5
Bump, 'cause I just got back in town.
squirrel, I saw BMSR open for Architecture in Helsinki about 2 months ago-- pretty interested. I don't know how their recordings may differ from their live sound, but it seemed to me like they suffered from a common problem among more experimental indie bands: they have cultivated a rather ingenius sound, yet reproduce it almost exactly through every song. If you say their albums are better, I'll gladly check 'em out! And good call on Self. I love their album Gizmodgery, which, for the uninitiated, is a solid pop/rock record that was made entirely on mini and toy instruments. You wouldn't really know it, it rocks so good.
stallion... dude, give and take! Anything you know of that you think I might like, I'm all ears!
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Aug 13, 2007 12:56:02 GMT -5
steveternal said:
stallion... dude, give and take! Anything you know of that you think I might like, I'm all ears!
Fair enough ;D
I really can't stress the Residents enough. Check out the Third Reich and Roll LP. two extended medlies of classic pop and RnB tunes deconstructed to the point of near inpeneterablity. You will never listen to "Land of 1,000 Dances" the same way again!
While Frank Zappa has gone down mostly as either a comedy act or guitar solo god, his avant garde side is often forgotten. Check out Lumpy Gravy or Civilization Phaze III. Some great satire, musique concret and modern classical orchestral (or in the case of Civilization, synclavir) music, sometimes all in the span of a few mins. Freak Out and We're Only In It For The Money are also good, and tend to fall a little more toward the pop spectrum.
I recently redescovered my love for Man or Astroman's "A Spectrum of Infinate Scale" Their earlier stuff is more strait-ahead surf-rock, but this album is much more futeristic and odd. Plus it has a song recorded entrely on a dot matrix printer.
If yo have a lot of patience for sonic experements, try to find a copy of Alvin Lucier's "I am Sitting in a Room." Basicly a tape experiment where Lucier records a dialogue, feeds the recording into a different tape machine, then repeats the process for about 45 mins. The result is a sonic "melody" unique to the room the dialogue was recorded in, formed by the natural harmonic resonance of the room favoring certian frequencies and obliterating others as the sound is stacked upon itself over and over. Not exactly easy listening, but quite fascinating.
If you like Negativland and the Books, check out the Tape-Beatles, aka Public Works Productions. Beautiful ambient music formed entirely out of tape samples. Like the Books but w/out instruments. White Noise's debut (and only) album was recently reissued on CD. Recorded in 1969 by music engineers at the BBC, it features beautiful synth-pop tunes that sound 30 years ahead of their time, and all assembled from magnetic tape w/out synths!
I know there's a lot more, but I'm at work and don't have my library in front of me. I'll drop more names later.
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
Post by steveternal on Aug 14, 2007 8:46:17 GMT -5
Great recs. I'm a big Zappa fan (who isn't?), but the less illustrious moments of his career I have tended to overlook. That said, I do love "The Yellow Shark". Anyway, I'll be checking those out. Same with The Residents-- anything that monumentally anti-cultural must be acknowledged! I'm also down for Man or Astro-Man?, and the Alvin Lucier album sounds positively riveting. I couldn't track down any Tape-Beatles, though... perhaps you could sendspace them for me? A lot of what you mentioned could be called concept albums, and that makes me think you'd really enjoy the album by Mott the Hoople alum Morgan Fisher, called "Miniatures: A Sequence of 51 Tiny Masterpieces". Fisher is not so much the performer as the curator; he asked dozens of musical friends and contemporaries-- among them Robert Wyatt, Pete Seeger, members of The Rutles, Fred Firth, 1/2 Japanese, Robert Fripp, and even The Residents-- to contribute excactly one minute of music, the "music" being entirely their choice. These incomprehensibly varied recordings were then sequenced and released as a single work. It's really a fascinating record. In fact, the last track on the album is called "A Miniature's Miniature", and is one-second clips from each track strung together... kind of an exponential drawing into the the molecular level of the music. Anyway, check it out. Along the same lines is Chris Butler's album "The Devil Glitch", a single 69-minute song, making it the longest pop song ever recorded. It was all written and recorded by Butler, then cut up into pieces of about 5-10 minutes each and distributed to musician friends who edited, added to, or otherwise reinterpreted the pieces. Butler then re-compiled them into a single song. It makes for one hell of a listen, and even with just two or three chords over 550 choruses, it's still fresh and enjoyable to the end.
Post by easymorningrebel on Aug 17, 2007 19:27:55 GMT -5
good thread, most posting here will already be familiar with Captain Beefheart, Mike Patton, Praxis and the like...
there are a few bands listed here that I will have to take a closer look at. I'm having trouble thinking of "weird" bands to name...Sleepytime Gorilla Museum has been mentioned...
Vusi Mahlasela - profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=73922162 in between his politically charged folk songs he has crazy african beatbox and scatting jams i saw this guy at big summer classic and was the only one up front that was dancing so he came in front of me sung three songs to me personally, he'd play harder and laugh at my facial expressions, trippin face
not to mention my friends say that im weird for listening to zappa, nustrat fateh ali kahn, and anything that John mcglaughlin touches (shakti, mahavishnu orch, and latin collabs)
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Aug 18, 2007 15:09:05 GMT -5
bawnuhrew said:
Vusi Mahlasela - profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=73922162 in between his politically charged folk songs he has crazy african beatbox and scatting jams i saw this guy at big summer classic and was the only one up front that was dancing so he came in front of me sung three songs to me personally, he'd play harder and laugh at my facial expressions, trippin face
Vusi played Bonnaroo in 2003. we caught most of his set, though it was mostly his acoustic folk stuff. He has an amazing voice, and like most African musicians I have seen, he looks like he's having the time of his life everytime he's on stage.
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
Post by steveternal on Oct 2, 2007 10:38:10 GMT -5
stallion said:
If yo have a lot of patience for sonic experements, try to find a copy of Alvin Lucier's "I am Sitting in a Room." Basicly a tape experiment where Lucier records a dialogue, feeds the recording into a different tape machine, then repeats the process for about 45 mins. The result is a sonic "melody" unique to the room the dialogue was recorded in, formed by the natural harmonic resonance of the room favoring certian frequencies and obliterating others as the sound is stacked upon itself over and over. Not exactly easy listening, but quite fascinating.
This is a month past due, but I gotta say that I checked out this recording... and I about shat myself. It was easily one of the most fascinating pieces of music I have heard in a very long time. Thank you for the recommendation, it has helped change my definition of music.
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Oct 8, 2007 15:26:10 GMT -5
steveternal said:
stallion said:
If yo have a lot of patience for sonic experements, try to find a copy of Alvin Lucier's "I am Sitting in a Room." Basicly a tape experiment where Lucier records a dialogue, feeds the recording into a different tape machine, then repeats the process for about 45 mins. The result is a sonic "melody" unique to the room the dialogue was recorded in, formed by the natural harmonic resonance of the room favoring certian frequencies and obliterating others as the sound is stacked upon itself over and over. Not exactly easy listening, but quite fascinating.
This is a month past due, but I gotta say that I checked out this recording... and I about shat myself. It was easily one of the most fascinating pieces of music I have heard in a very long time. Thank you for the recommendation, it has helped change my definition of music.
No problem. I'm glad you enjoyed it. It really is not a piece of music for the faint of heart. I remember listening to it for an Electro-acoustic music class in college for the first time. I couldn't believe what I was hearing as the piece evolved over all that time. About 15 mins in my wife comes in and asks "What are you listening to and how much longer is it going to be?" when I told her it would be another half-hour, she just rolled her eyes. She's actually a great sport about oddball music, but that one was pushing it, even for her.
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
Post by steveternal on Oct 19, 2007 12:33:44 GMT -5
^^^Hah, my wife is the same way. To her credit she's come a long way to accepting the weirder stuff I play, but still there are limits. She tires of John Zorn easily, hates Irish rock (no Pogues or Black 47), and never wants to listen to any heavy metal. However she did appreciate the Lucier, so go figure.