Any particular info/text/article/video that you would recommend a neophyte to the channel?i find some of it intensely life-affirming
i’m a new convert, so a bit evangelical about it.
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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
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Rough theme of "self indulgence" following this post of your album
Enjoying it. Nice work.
are you on instagram? just go for it. most of the community vids are short.
Lots of their posts contain multiple videos. Pick a post and swipe through a few then move to the next. They don’t really highlight any single excellent performer or subject. It’s more of a collection of interesting things from around the world. A sampler plate, not an entree.
any favourite releases for you guys in 2022?
not necessarily stuff released in the past year but things you’ve been into…..
not necessarily stuff released in the past year but things you’ve been into…..
I could either put a lot of thought into this and come up with a list, or just pick the one album that I'd most likely put at #1. I'm feeling way too crappy to do the former, so I'll go with the latter:
#1 (probably): Wilderun "Epigone"
Because I still can't keep from listing just one, I'll also mention...
Bleed "Somebody's Closer" (get in here if you miss the 90s)
Astral Tomb "Soulgazer" (raw psychedelic metal one minute, synth weirdness the next)
Rough theme of "self indulgence" following this post of your album
Enjoying it. Nice work.
I totally appreciate anyone who bothers to listen to the stuff I put out, thanks.
For me, my favorite post-rock album of 2022 is Russian Circles - Gnosis
Russian Circles' bass tone is always mesmerizing. That heavy and brutal tone is amazing with the band.
My personal AOTY Metal for 2022 is An Abstract Illusion - Woe
Definitely shows how metal can be beautiful. I really like their doomy atmosphere and progressive riffs.
My personal AOTY Non-Metal is Alvvays - Blue Rev
Their nostalgic melody always makes me feel like dreaming. Great album to listen to every morning.
Bass noodling on a Friday. More about texture than composition.
This is a Nash PB63 into a Pigtronix Star Eater fuzz > Fuzzlord HM6 > Omni Cab Sim Dlx. Signal gets split to an Empress Reverb doing a swell/octave thing, then into my OTO BOUM/BIM/BAM chain. All that into the mixer then interface, then into your ear holes.
This is a Nash PB63 into a Pigtronix Star Eater fuzz > Fuzzlord HM6 > Omni Cab Sim Dlx. Signal gets split to an Empress Reverb doing a swell/octave thing, then into my OTO BOUM/BIM/BAM chain. All that into the mixer then interface, then into your ear holes.
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re: is getting up on stage to perform an inherently self-indulgent/pretentious act?
...I don't disagree; there is certainly some degree of self-indulgence/pretentiousness behind the sheer confidence -- or audacity -- of getting up on stage and essentially saying "look at me!" (or "listen to me!").
But I think it's misguided to correlate that mindset with whether or not the performer is a skilled, trained professional, and/or whether or not some combination of the Skill and Self-Indulgent components will yield a predictable result on the Is It Good Art? scale.
Those are three completely separate aspects of an artistic performance. They may be the three legs of the Performing Arts stool...though I would argue that it's a 4-legged stool and the Audience (and their wholly unpredictable and uncontrollable perceptions) are the fourth leg.
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I don't think any of the music I've been listening to lately was released this year, but fwiw I've mostly been binge-listening to Sonar, Thank You Scientist, Snarky Puppy, and Dave Holland's band. Also last night I fired up The Rolling Stones' Goats Head Soup for the first time since I was probably 16 years old.
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In two more weeks I'll be back in New York where all of my stompboxes have been gathering dust since September. Not making that mistake again!
...I don't disagree; there is certainly some degree of self-indulgence/pretentiousness behind the sheer confidence -- or audacity -- of getting up on stage and essentially saying "look at me!" (or "listen to me!").
But I think it's misguided to correlate that mindset with whether or not the performer is a skilled, trained professional, and/or whether or not some combination of the Skill and Self-Indulgent components will yield a predictable result on the Is It Good Art? scale.
Those are three completely separate aspects of an artistic performance. They may be the three legs of the Performing Arts stool...though I would argue that it's a 4-legged stool and the Audience (and their wholly unpredictable and uncontrollable perceptions) are the fourth leg.
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I don't think any of the music I've been listening to lately was released this year, but fwiw I've mostly been binge-listening to Sonar, Thank You Scientist, Snarky Puppy, and Dave Holland's band. Also last night I fired up The Rolling Stones' Goats Head Soup for the first time since I was probably 16 years old.
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In two more weeks I'll be back in New York where all of my stompboxes have been gathering dust since September. Not making that mistake again!
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Worked for me. Opened in my browser. I’ve seen that vid. It’s cool.
Just seeing the body of the instrument all scrapped and “damaged” made me smile.
Shows how much she put time on that thing.
yeah, i don't think they're necessarily aligned.
i don't think predictability is the thing i'm looking for when i'm performing/creating (ugh, pretentious!) music. consistency? intentional?
predictable implies safe and careful to me (which means (boring). "good art" . . . now i'm just overthinking things.
probably just my semantic load.
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new music?
well, new to me has been a few things, but not many: curtis roads was something i tried. not sure what i think.
the things i was spinning in the last month or so were the roots, erykah badu, jinjer, animals as leaders, schoenberg, tony williams and herbie hancock on blue note. and then there were a few live gigs i've attended plus friends' output.
truthfully, though, when i'm really into my working process, i find it hard to listen to much stuff at all.
Oh yeah, totally. I've probably mentioned this before here: When I'm in a writing phase, the worst thing for me to do is go out to hear new music. Because if the performance is meh, I get antsy and wind up thinking "Why am I here? I could be home writing!" And if the performance is stellar, I can't give it the attention it deserves because I start thinking "Ugh, I gotta up my game...I should be home writing!"
It's okay. We are all here being pretentious together. This is our pretentious thread.
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