we are the music makers
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Source: _Album of the Day: Zazou Bikaye CY1, “Noir et Blanc” « Bandcamp Daily_
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Source: ▶︎ Electric Intervals | Martyn Heyne
Hello, my weird jazz brothers from other mothers.
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Good stuff from Western Vinyl:
Source: ▶︎ Riparian | Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's formative years were spent communing with nature on Orcas Island in the northwest region of Washington state, a place she describes as "one of the most magical and peaceful places I have ever been."
Walks the line between:
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Off the top of my head.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKtB1Oij-Eg
Adding more.
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Acoustic shards, ground to bladerunner pulp.
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Source: AFFINITY DIAGRAM | NATURE BLISS
An affinity diagram is a way of finding commonalities among seemingly unrelated things. Usually, you grab a stack of post-it notes and listen / read through interview notes. You write down interesting quotes or insights. Then you group them in ways that seem to make sense. Often very pleasantly surprising what comes up.
So it is with this deep-churner of an album. Field recordings and resampled loops coalesce and then rip apart like shattered gold-leaf windows in a martini blender.
Good music for busy bees, drones, and honey chasers of all stripes.
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After college, I spent a couple months in Berlin and I still think back fondly on those wild times. Whenever I need a shot of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg beach bar, I reach for Ellen Allien und alles wird gut.
Jonny Jakobsen is a Danish-Swedish former Bubblegum dance/eurodance singer better known under his fictitious identity as Indian taxi driver Dr. Bombay. He began as a country singer called Johnny Moonshine, but became famous only after developing the persona of Dr. Bombay. His debut was in 1998 with the album Rice and Curry, hitting the charts with the title track, as well as Calcutta and SOS . Subsequently, he went on to record albums as faux-Scottish Dr. MacDoo and faux-Mexican Carlito.
Source: _Jonny Jakobsen - Wikiwand_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llTYfQI5IAM
This is what I've been using in the post-Rdio era. It seems pretty good.
Source: Gnoosic - Discover new Music
It's not like it only has like the top 10 charting artists. There's some pretty deep, obscure music to be found. I challenge you to find a fairly well known band that isn't represented.
Like every other service, the social powered music discovery features just aren't there. If you could get recommendations based on what your friends listen to, ah well that would be amazing.
God, I miss Rdio…
Summer in Abaddon ranks way up there among my all-time favorite albums.
Gloomy though.. I don't consider Rob Crow's music to be sad. Cathartic maybe. Mostly just mellow.
No – it makes me so darn happy to hear this.
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Source: You’re Doomed. Be Nice. | Rob Crow
Side-quest: I've had Prints on vinyl since it found it's way into my hands at my old music job, but just this week I discovered one reason why I keep coming back to it.
That reason is sometime Rob Crow collaborator Kenseth Thibideau, so I've been digging into his stuff.
Repetition is an good sounding rhythm trip, to me feels like a primeval Pinback.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-adtc551K9E&list=PLbSMnvtSuDARobJFcGw5zkqqTW0zz9keu
Also enjoying discovering Tarentel, which gives me the pleasant sensation of visiting a mist-shrouded ice-planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKla5BPg\_1I
Just discovering the music of Hank Roberts, and it's a pleasure to be introduced.
There's a lot of fertile crossover here between folk traditions, appalachia, avant jazz, downtown, and idiosyncratic tastes.
Source: Listen - I CAN'T PUT MY FINGER ON IT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8xUxuuokOU
…the thrill of being able to do anything musically and attempt things and accomplish it. And then you have to prove at one point or another that you're technically proficient. And then you go through an ego game type thing where you want to be the fastest gun in the west. And then you realize that it doesn't mean anything anyway, and all you really want to do is find an audience that likes your music that you think you're communicating to, and that you think enjoys what you do. And I think that's my purpose right now I like getting out and playing for people when they seem to be really enjoying it. That's the only thing that makes it worthwhile, especially going on the road… Chuck Greenberg of Shadowfax
I saw Shadowfax perform in the early 1990s at the Historic Everett Theater. It was one of my first concerts, and I remember the drummer tossing his sticks out to some kids in the aisles.
New age/jazz/world/whatever can be a pretentious genre, but Shadowfax and especially saxophonist / lyricon player Chuck Greenberg also seemed to genuinely enjoy being on stage, hanging with their audience. I think that pure joy comes through in their music and sets it apart from a lot of other similar music that can come off as sterile and distant.