shoot, I derped a bit. the trance descriptor was actually something someone gave me to describe the second song and the song "Synchrogazer". which are clearly more like that descriptor.
and yeah, Magia would definitely be rock or metal of some sort, less trance...i think. i'm not really certain of my way around genre labels anymore...
Yeah I need to get a good listen to the Kalafina song when I get home. Not as an ending theme or background theme, and not as something used to combat something playing horribly loudly over the PA system.
i think i'd like it much more without the guitar, when i hear it my brain is primed to expect the heaviness level to ramp up and it never comes
anyways if you want stuff that has the same vibes as that song my dad had this album that i listened to a lot as a little-ish kid, Ishtar's The Voice Of Albania that had similar kinds of orchestration IIRC, though a lot of it was songer-songwriter-y and acoustic and there were nouvelle chanson influences maybe?
And yeah I know what you mean by something feeling cheesy and overdone and not really that interesting as a song. I can't think of a great example of such a song off the top of my head but I've definitely heard a lot of them. They feel "gimmicky", for lack of a better word. Sometimes it just sounds like they're like a ton of interesting ideas crammed into one song.
lots of j-pop (and some american pop) gives me that same kinda static vibe that i lack the musical vocabulary to express effectively. it feels like while the music does follow a structure and resolves itself neatly it doesn't really go anywhere dynamically speaking, if that makes any sense.
it has that thing that lots of anime soundtrack music has where it's got a j-pop thing going on but with a bit of metal-style electric guitar fairly unobtrusively in the mix to add more oomf
the thing is most actual bands with a that sort of guitar work going on build the music around it
if you don't mind a more guitar-focused sound i'd advise you to check out Blood Stain Child: youtube.com/watch?v=raY-vZ3Ox6o
Well, I just got back and i'm listening to Forever Free now.
It's definitely more guitar-focused. I don't mind this. Another difference from Meteor Light is that it has less melodic complexity, though that's not something I necessarily dislike, and it's fine here.
Though I'm not a fan of the screamed/growled vocals. If they took that out, I would probably like the song more.
Interesting that I actually discovered the term "melodic complexity" from Pandora.
Well, it's not like I didn't notice it before. I did usually notice that I liked more melodic "figuration" as I'd call it; Pandora just gave me a better name to call it.
Also unconfirmed but a suggestion from Pandora -- I might have a taste for "vocal harmony", by which I think it just means two or more voices moving together. I don't really know why it'd call just two voices moving together "harmony", but...whatever.
Yeah, it's great for mood-setting but doesn't really have a strong musical narrative itself.
That said, right now I'm not really in the mood for that sort of song. I'm in the mood for Bach's Well-Tempered Keyboard at the moment. So maybe I'll try again later.
Listened to Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam again, and while I continue to understand why they get on some people's nerves... I still love this album, if more after "For Reverend Green". I will give particular credit to "Cuckoo Cuckoo" for nailing exactly what scares and upsets me about death.
Well, to be fair, there's also the weird phenomenon of people who sound like they have a different accent when they sing except for a few very specific words. I elide the "r"s at the ends of my words when I sing sometimes even though they're very clear when I speak.
i am listening to Tayi Bebba by Clap! Clap! very much in the vein of the whole awesome tapes from africa/afrobeats thing going on atm but with a heavy juke undertone, very very well put together. recommended if you like dancey/jukey stuff/samples of ancient scratchy african music
and it has an intriguing 'online story' attached to it, about... an african island thaat floats into space or something? mystic volcanos? sorecerors? its cool http://www.tayibebba.com/
Canadian practitioners of noise/hardcore/whatever-you-wanna-call-it KEN Mode also announced the recording of a new record yesterday, with the legendary Steve Albini (High on Fire, Nirvana, etc.). They’re set to enter the studio November 23 to begin tracking Success, which is what they’ve elected to call the new LP. They’ve also handed off mastering duties to Bob Weston, and artwork to Randy Ortiz as well.
In a statement, Jesse Matthewson described
Success as “a decidedly stripped-down northern noise rock apocalypse to be unleashed on the world. Time to take this back to our roots”.
yeh, stunning: one of those albums i played again straight away. probably lawrence's best work, and blows a lot of the more recent drone ive heard clean out of the water. it has an incredibly fluid quality; the whole album seems to ebb and flow between tracks. very liquid, very reflective, yet somehow tangled, muddled, impossible to quite disentangle anything from it. and beautiful, of course. wilderness of mirrors is right
So I'm listening to MC Ride's first group, Fyre, who released some stuff way back in 2000 or so, and you know what's disconcerting? He's the mellowest rapper in the group: His flow is consistently easygoing, a bit on the slow side, and fairly quiet throughout. His lyrics are the weirdest in the crew, to be fair, but he's very laidback.
The production is also... weirdly vaporwave-y, I kid you not. The one solo track of his I can find (MxlPlx, "Civic Duties") is harder-edged in the beat department, not too far from something on Ex-Military, but it's probably one of his weakest lyrically.
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and yeah, Magia would definitely be rock or metal of some sort, less trance...i think. i'm not really certain of my way around genre labels anymore...
the guitar riff is very simple and it never really goes anywhere, the orchestration is overbearing and the middle eastern-ish vibes are cheesy
it sounds very much like soundtrack music designed to create an atmosphere and doesn't feel like a complete thing on it's own at all
update after 3 minutes i couldn't take it anymore
anyways if you want stuff that has the same vibes as that song my dad had this album that i listened to a lot as a little-ish kid, Ishtar's The Voice Of Albania that had similar kinds of orchestration IIRC, though a lot of it was songer-songwriter-y and acoustic and there were nouvelle chanson influences maybe?
it's been a while
it has that thing that lots of anime soundtrack music has where it's got a j-pop thing going on but with a bit of metal-style electric guitar fairly unobtrusively in the mix to add more oomf
the thing is most actual bands with a that sort of guitar work going on build the music around it
if you don't mind a more guitar-focused sound i'd advise you to check out Blood Stain Child:
youtube.com/watch?v=raY-vZ3Ox6o
please tell me that there will be a kids bop version
It's definitely more guitar-focused. I don't mind this. Another difference from Meteor Light is that it has less melodic complexity, though that's not something I necessarily dislike, and it's fine here.
Though I'm not a fan of the screamed/growled vocals. If they took that out, I would probably like the song more.
Well, it's not like I didn't notice it before. I did usually notice that I liked more melodic "figuration" as I'd call it; Pandora just gave me a better name to call it.
Also unconfirmed but a suggestion from Pandora -- I might have a taste for "vocal harmony", by which I think it just means two or more voices moving together. I don't really know why it'd call just two voices moving together "harmony", but...whatever.
Yeah, it's great for mood-setting but doesn't really have a strong musical narrative itself.
That said, right now I'm not really in the mood for that sort of song. I'm in the mood for Bach's Well-Tempered Keyboard at the moment. So maybe I'll try again later.
i got 39/100
not bad
despite this i have never really dug into the rest of their catalogue which is probably something i should do considering how much i love kd/hanl
the blackened drone doom morton feldman mashup thing you never knew you needed until just now
also in case you missed it they dropped a new single last night, the first fan to name all 24 samples in the first track gets a unique piece of merch