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Rastus - Dave "Smokey" Smelko was one of the best drummers! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9hFlyLNI1Hk |
@hifiman5 ive been listening to the artists via Tidal, and haven’t been able to find any of the compilations on their discography. We still have a couple of record/cd stores around here and I’ll check and see if they have any Stockfisch holdings. I’ve really been enjoying Sara K., Allen Taylor and Sammy Vomacka thus far. |
simonmoon, it is my opinion that it was primarily Emerson's keyboard playing that displayed and contained his classical training and knowledge, his writing less so. I find the ELP songs devoid of the musical sophistication, wit, and wisdom found in the work of Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, Randy Newman, Frank Zappa, Gary Brooker and Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum), and a few others. As always, just one opinion. It's all good! |
rob, I like your style. Further down the rabbit hole of epic stoner Doom Metal: Sons of Otis -- Songs for Worship Conan -- Blood Eagle Bongripper -- Miserable And, no one on this forum will like or be ready for this, but super fresh absolutely brilliant technical death core: Rings of Saturn -- LugaL KI En So many metal subgenres in my collection, don't tempt me to share further. Resolving a violin concerto is one thing, but take one of these titles to a dealer to audition some gear. They might give you the piece for free to get you out of the store (almost a true story). |
@bdp24 " Emerson got a lot of credit for being a "Classically" trained keyboardist playing Rock music. He did that, though, not by using Classical compositional knowledge to create new, song-form music, but rather by playing music written by Classical composers for an orchestra, in a Rock band." This was only a small amount of Emerson's material. Most of his output were original compositions, informed by classical composition. Tarkus, Karnevil 9, Take a Pebble, The Endless Enigma, Trilogy, just to name a few. |
Les Nubians
first album:Princesses Nubiennes, was released by Virgin worldwide in France,
Switzerland, and Belgium in June 1998 before coming out on Omtown/Higher
Octave in the U.S. in September of that year. It became America's most
successful French-language album in more than a decade. Total love-making music. Strongly suggested you listen with another human of your choice. |
I also like Vas - In the Garden of Souls -. Her name is Azam Ali, she is also Iranian, grew up in India. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR7Le2ownH0 |
Inna, since you had one record I was familiar with I had to check the rest. Sussan Deyhim got a thumbs up, I'll have to get that. Steve Roach- Jorge Reyes is worth another listen in a different mood. In order to get into Helborg/ Velez, a few tokes on the hash/hish pipe would most certainly help; that music is other worldly. |
There is an absolutely incredible album from 1997 that few people are aware of: Greetings From Planet Love, by The Fraternal Order Of The All. The album’s title and the group’s name should give you a hint as to what the music and lyrics sound like! It is a tongue-in-cheek parody of the psychedelic era, done superbly well. It is the product of Andrew Gold, a name that will be familiar to listeners of a certain age. For you younger listeners, look him up. You have GOT to hear it! Especially you, whart!! |
+1 Chicken Shack. Stan Webb is fantastc. The Blue Horizon sessions is a great box set. I also have several other albums and a live DVD of Stan and sone of his current crew. Maceo Parker has some fantastic albums. Fred Wesley too. Jean Michel Jarre Imelda May The Waifs Tony Allen Nils Landgren Hey Nigreta/Curse of Lono The Boogie Patrol Ron Armus |
Shout out for SnackeyP on Chicken Shack. I love the combo of Christine McVie's vocals and Stan Webb's guitar. I'd add Zachary Richard to the list. He's a Cajun musician who plays across a great many styles and often sings in French. His early live album "Fatras!" is great, high energy Cajun dance music featuring an impossibly young Sonny Landreth on guitar. Much later, he recorded "Cap Enrage", a lovely collection of French language ballads. In between were a series of great crossover records that blended pop, blues, rock, and Zydeco. |
Yes! The Muleskinner album is fantastic, and that live TV appearance was put out on VHS tape. I don't know about DVD. Speaking of Peter Rowan, he joined Seatrain in time for their second album (s/t, produced by George Martin), and the version on that album of Lowell George's great song "Willin' " is my favorite. |
@toddverrone Likewise about meeting another with similar interests in "electronica" (though I'm all over the map on any given day, week, month)... Hope you do spend some time at A Closer Listen. Will be surprised you don't come away with a candidate for purchase. In turn, I will see what I can find from djrum A few others for you (and anyone else that's interested)... Coppice Halifax - High Hawaiian Fog Tangent - Collapsing Horizons Fort Romeau - Insides (kinda old school sounding synths at the start) |
Jimmy LaFave Start with "Cimarron Manifesto" or "The Night Tribe" Poetic Austin (by way of Oklahoma) songwriter/rocker/Dylan devotee. His voice may not be to everyone’s taste. Think of a male early Lucinda Williams, the way his voice breaks and cracks. I like it just fine. He made great, rich music. He left us last May but his music deserves to live on and on. |
Yup Bill, Emerson got a lot of credit for being a "Classically" trained keyboardist playing Rock music. He did that, though, not by using Classical compositional knowledge (ala Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, Randy Newman, Gary Brooker, a few other Pop and Rock keyboardists, especially Garth Hudson of The Band) to create new, song-form music, but rather by playing music written by Classical composers for an orchestra, in a Rock band. For me, that didn’t work---it sounded silly. Pictures At An Exhibition, written by Mussorgsky for solo piano, but better known in the version orchestrated by Ravel, played by a Rock band? Uh, no thanks. In contrast, Garth Hudson used his knowledge of music theory to play great Classically informed parts in his organ playing in The Band. Matthew Fisher did the same in Procol Harum. That’s more like it! For me, at any rate. |
@bdp24 - nope, didn't even know of Emerson 'til the first ELP record. Emerson was an amazing pianist and keyboard artist. There are video clips of him performing works of a classical nature. The whole "prog rock" thing got overdone, and lost traction, but I still listen to early ELP, I have a couple of The Nice on early UK pressings. Leslie West- a whole other story. Lon-guy-land boy as I remember. I first saw him and Mountain (with the great Felix Pappalardi) open for Tull right before Aqualung was released. (I think Glenn Cornick was still playing bass). Leslie was a tone monster. No shredding, no impeccable fingering technique, but he could pull more soul out of a few notes than many more technically proficient guitarists. (The leads in Theme for an Imaginary Western come to mind). FWIW, we went to hear Crimson a couple weeks ago. I wasn't a long time fan, only really cared about the first album, though I had passing familiarity with Red, Larks Tongue and a few other tracks from the Wetton era. (Greg Lake's voice on the first album was gorgeous, but got lost in the mix). This band put on one of the best shows I have ever attended- well produced, no sonic overload, tighter than hell- three drummers, everybody, from the woodwind player to the bassist, played dead on-- Very few "old" acts that are still around can even approach what they did in their heyday. These guys, from what I gather, are in better form than ever. Fripp, of course, was as inscrutable as ever- looking like a retired haberdasher or banker, sitting on a stool, conducting and occasionally playing these psychotic, psych fills on vintage Les Paul's that were run through synthesizers. Crazy good show if you can catch it. |
@ghosthouse Yeah, it's funny about that label name. The Ulrich Schnauss album came out before the record label existed.. not sure about the connection. It's great to meet another member who appreciates electronic listening music. If you like a bit more movement to your chill electronic music, check out djrum. His ep 'mountains' strikes a great balance between calm and energetic. The tracks and nice and long too, so they develop at a stately pace. I'll certainly be checking out 'a closer listen'. Thanks for the tip! |
