TinySickTears

i admit i am pretty snobby when it comes to music. i know what i like and i know what i dont. having said that i will also say that i like a LOT of different genres of music. i will also say that i am a big fan of musicianship, technique, knowledge of theory....that kind of thing.

though i put a lot of stock in those things one of my favorite bands is the white stripes for the exact opposite. sloppy. stripped down....love it


i am usually late to the party when it comes to 'new'(new to me) stuff.

frank zappa is by far my favorite musician. my biggest influence in more than music but i didnt even get into him till about 10 years ago.

once i get into a musician or a band i get obsessed and i have to acquire everything i possibly can from them...it becomes a thing with me.

so i will discover something that is new to me and them become obsessed with it and kick myself for coming across it at an earlier time and dismissing it.

so here are a few within the last 6 months or so that i am just enthralled with.

esperanza spaulding---jazz singer. double bass. electric bass

conlon nancarrow-----very complicated player piano composer. many etudes.

henry cowell--------music theorist. pianist. composer. played what he called stringed piano. he would play pizzacato on the strings instead of using the keys. would use his elbows and forearms to achieve atonalities and polytonalities....just amazing ****

tosin abasi------8 string guitarist...just a monster

jaco pastorius------electric bass. known for his natural harmonics all over the board.

just a few recent discoveries. please share yours because i am in the mood to find new stuff.

thanks

MicShazam

Esperanza Spalding is pretty great! I got into her stuff myself a little over a year ago.

Here's some recent-ish discoveries of mine. I'm not sure you'll like anything here, but I found all of them pretty eye-opening:

Islaja
Finnish acid folk or something. The two newest albums are electronic. All of it is somewhat strange but very interesting. She's on her way to become one of my favourites.

Faun Fables
I also saw this described as acid folk, but it has nothing to do with Islaja, so... What I do know is that the album I've got (Light of a Vaster Dark) is really growing on me. Beautiful stuff.

Olga Bell
Russian/american artist. Her first album is some kind of weird, russian voice driven progressive stuff. Very hard to describe, very awesome. Her EP and her second album are both electronica. The second album feels quite dance music inspired, which I believe was intentional.

Madder Mortem
A very good Norwegian metal band that I can't believe I've remained oblivious to for so many years! Kind of like a female fronted Opeth, except they sound a lot more modern in their riffing style and have no growling.

That's all I can think of right now.

Frownland

^Absolutely love Islaja.

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MicShazam

Getting my hands on the Ulual Yyy album is still the most memorable album-moment for me in the last couple years.

Key

I swear we have 3 or 4 threads exactly like this one.

ChelseaDagger

Lately I've discovered the hypnotic draw of mainstream sensation Lana del Rey. That cheesy, wanna-be vintage music coupled with that hair and that puppy dog expression... Makes me want to put mermaid waves in her hair with my GHD iron, then paint her eyelids in leopardprint using gel pigment liners before drowning myself in a mysterious pool filled with alligators.

It just doesn't get more robustly romantic than that.

Blank.

Qwertyy, I found chelsea.

Key

She was hiding in this thread the whole time. Who woulda thunk.

Blank.

ikr!

ChelseaDagger

Blast it all to hell! Plot thwarted.