Music that makes your jaw drop.

Thunderbird91 · #1 04-12-2010, 11:23 PM

We've all had moments when we were just blown away by the power of music. What's blown your mind recently?

My most recent jaw-drop was this 3 piece instrumental band from Tokyo called Mouse on the Keys. They are insanely!!! talented. Here is a website with some free videos and mp3's.

http://denovali.com/mouseonthekeys/

And their myspace.

http://www.myspace.com/mouseonthekeys/

Deluge Of Sound · #2 04-12-2010, 11:33 PM

I just spun King Crimson's Red for the first time in a couple years.

My jaw was safely on the floor from the first few moments on.

uethanian · #3 04-12-2010, 11:46 PM

toby twining - chrysalis requiem

not very well known (although i think it should be!) choral work. a little difficult to explain in a few words, but the composition is in 'extended just intonation' using harmonics 1-13. it is otherworldly how accurately these singers harmonize the 11th and 13th harmonic. please hear this album.

owen pallet - heartland

on a completely different note, this guy blows me away. basically a solo effort, he's a singer/violinist that has created this mix of pop and orchestral that's good the whole album through

TAOspeedwagon · #4 04-13-2010, 12:15 AM

www.myspace.com/snarkypuppy

watch the video "whitecap"

basste · #5 04-13-2010, 12:29 AM

Hadrien Feraud. This guy is awesome. He plays like he would be 60 years old with 50 years playing bass..

basste · #6 04-13-2010, 12:30 AM

Hadrien Feraud. This guy is awesome. He plays like he would be 60 years old with 50 years experience playing bass..

Alvaro Martín Gómez A. · #7 04-13-2010, 11:32 AM

Not that recently, but this still leaves me speechless.

santucci218 · #8 04-13-2010, 01:47 PM

Any time i see stevie vai anything. he has straight liquid motion. I dont care if he is overrated or has a fan blowing his hair back, he is one of the best. I have never seen anybody play as smoothly as that guy.

DRafalske · #9 04-13-2010, 02:02 PM

I'm always awestruck by some tricky change or turn in a song.

"Jessica" by The Allman Bros. Band comes immediately to mind. It blows me away every time.

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jumbosilverette · #10 04-13-2010, 03:42 PM

Miles Davis, Gil Evans 1959
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFaK4q0pxcQ

Infiltration12 · #11 04-13-2010, 03:49 PM

These albums come to mind:

Akercocke- Antichrist
Anaal Nathrakh- Eschaton
Ihsahn- The Adversary

knumbskull · #12 04-13-2010, 03:54 PM

i can't find a link for them, but Norwegian noise/jazz band MoHa! for me...

oh wait, here's a myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/themoha

they are BRILLIANT live.

thedrones · #13 04-13-2010, 03:55 PM

The Band- Music From Big Pink, The Brown Album
Scott LaFaro- The Bill Evans Trio Sunday at the Village Vanguard

benc · #14 04-13-2010, 06:12 PM

I'm posting mainly to subscribe to this thread. I'm looking forward to checking out all the links above and the ones to come.

Though it wasn't a recent discovery, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring certainly drops my jaw. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjX3oAwv_Fs
It starts slow but gets pretty jaw-dropping about 3 minutes in.

nic salsus · #15 04-13-2010, 06:19 PM

Brian Bromberg hammering a walking bassline with his right hand while chord soloing with left....at a fast tempo.....on the double bass........for several minutes. It's the only time in my whole life I've had to keep remembering to close my mouth.

stinger12345 · #16 04-13-2010, 06:56 PM

It's not really bass orientated, but Comfortably Numb. It's perfectly titled because I can't even move during the last solo. The feeling, the tone, the performance....just proves why Gilmour and Pink Floyd are some of the bests of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJZYG5qwHHI

megadan · #17 04-14-2010, 06:56 AM

Good thread.

I would say, the first time I heard them: Miles Davis, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Deerhoof (live), the Mercury Program.

IconBasser · #18 04-14-2010, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stinger12345

It's not really bass orientated, but Comfortably Numb. It's perfectly titled because I can't even move during the last solo. The feeling, the tone, the performance....just proves why Gilmour and Pink Floyd are some of the bests of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJZYG5qwHHI

Oh god, yes! I saw that one live with the Australian Pink Floyd show, and they extended the guitar solo. F****** incredible.

standupright · #19 04-14-2010, 10:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nic salsus

Brian Bromberg hammering a walking bassline with his right hand while chord soloing with left....at a fast tempo.....on the double bass........for several minutes. It's the only time in my whole life I've had to keep remembering to close my mouth.

link?

nic salsus · #20 04-14-2010, 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by standupright

link?

Never seen one. He was playing with Gonzalo Rubalcaba in a club when I witnessed it.