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Great taste!Sigur Ros, Boards of Canada, Mum, Low, Efterklang - some of my favourites there. Sigur Ros especially. They remind me time after time of just how amazing music can be. Their singer, Jonsi, has a solo album under his own name as well as a side project called Riceboy Sleeps. The latter is a really beautiful ambient album, the former is a kind of explosive, twee, almost kitsch pop version of Sigur Ros, which sounds awful but is actually quite brilliant.
Others in a similar vein: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, My Bloody Valentine, the Verve's first album A Storm in Heaven.
On a more rock 'n' roll theme I've been listening to a lot of Television lately. Marquee Moon and Adventure, two fantastic albums with some really incredible guitar work from both Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine. Of the latter Patti Smith supposedly once said that "Tom plays guitar like a thousand bluebirds screaming." I desperately want to be able to play guitar like that man! Check out the solo on the song Fire from Adventure from 3:30 onwards. Amazing.
Also, as an almost on topic aside, Alan Sparhawk from Low uses a Zvex Lofi Loop Junky. (I know that's just about the most primitive looper going but it's also one of the most fun!) Not unrelatedly, he also has the most fantastic live electric guitar tone I've ever heard.
For a more 'world music' kind of thing, my guitar teacher's band Zun Zun Egui are pretty good - and madcap verging on chaotic!
Cheers, Philip.
On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, marcus kirby wrote:
I listen to a lot of ambient, both past and modern. I have a little
bit of soul music and jazz as well, but I feel like I'm missing out on
a lot of stuff.
Any suggestions for good experimental, world, classic stuff in general?
Big fan of satie, arvo park, gorecki, talking heads, belong, slowdive.
Bands/albums would be cool.
some favorites of mine:
Classical:
Ralph Vaughn Williams "The Lark Ascending" "Third Symphony"
Maurice Ravel most of his orchestral works
Claude Debussy piano works and orchestral works "La Mer"
Aaron Copland "Third Symphony"
Singer Songwriters:
Jose Gonzalez, Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Brian Blade ("Mama
Rosa")
damn near everything but the last two or three records by Joni Mitchell
Newer Jazz:
Ambrose Akinmusrie, Cuong Vu, Brian Blade, Bill Frissell,
Scandinavian Electro-Jazz:
Nils Petter Molvaer, Eivind Aarset, Arve Henriksen, Arild Andersen, Jaga
Jazzist
Electronic Music:
Trente Moller, Boards of Canada, Bola, Aphex Twin
Ambient Pop:
Sigur Ross, Mum, Low, Efterklang (their 1st especially), David Sylvain
Things currently on my playlist:
Baths, the Weekend, How To Dress Well (I"m on an ambient soul with
beautiful harmonies kick right now and
there's a whole movement of young artists who are currently mining this
approach)
Tycho "Dive" beautiful downtempo record
Sufjan Stevens ('7 Swans' and 'Illionoise'), Richard Youngs (experimental
singer-songwriter),
Brian Blades (the exquisite and
aforementioned 'Mama Rosa' , a singer songrwriter project that he never
intended for release
until his good friends bugged him to release it.)
and a long DVD of mp3s of very rough takes of everything I've written
instrumentally on
four string instruments this past year or so listened to over and over in
an attempt
to inspire lyric writing.
There's a lot more..........world music would take a long time to write
out, but
I'm off to play pool now............yeah!!! I made two difficult Masse
shots last night.
it's coming....it's coming!