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--On 13 January 2012 12:32 +0100 Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
Many good suggestions all through this thread. I'd like to add that Tom Verlain's modern solo albums are nice too. And shame on you all that no one mentioned Mogwai!!!! :-) If talking "guitar based sound painting" I'd like to throw in Explosions In The Sky as well. Mexican Cabezas De Cera is also cool IMHO; don't know about their album releases but on YouTube they have many nice clips posted where you can drool over their music and exotic instruments. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Philip Conway <Philip.Conway@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: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!