Topic: The Music Thread

What I've heard so far is amazing.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN an album a friended recommended to me a second ago, liking it so far, thought it might be up your alley!

https://open.spotify.com/track/6id5pXbA0OxMzaygPPpahx?si=b8YZ...

@Yousef- Thanks! Already in my Spotify library. I love Freddie Gibbs! Long-time fan. In fact he is on my profile as one of my top 5 rappers - you should check out it's sequel, Bandana, by Freddie "Gangsta" Gibbs and Madlib as well. Apparently the third entry in the trilogy, Montana, is coming out sometime before the end of the year! .😃

You’re right. This was an addictive listen Even on free Spotify. I still need to figure out how to sub again. Spotify makes it really inconvenient for some overseas users.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN another one that was recommended to me this evening (that I liked):

@Yousef- Oh yeah I know JID, a friend recommended him to me, as well! Thanks, though. 😃

Does anyone really love listening to anime songs a ton? I’ve been listening to Gera Gera Po Song from Yo-kai Watch about five or six times now and it’s so dang catchy.

@Pastellioli J-rock is my haven. And gintama is heaven. Giving the OPs/EDs a listen is an absolute must in my book!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuj7tKZO1pJUCeRURBUpaxOGHA...

@Yousef- Thanks for the recommendations! I’ll check them out.

@Pastellioli since I’m a GIGANTIC Naruto nut, I’m obligated to give a few other mentions as well!

My personal favorite:

DOES and Joe Inoue are phenomenal btw. They both do openings for both Gintama and Naruto. They’re legends in my opinion and you can tell my passion for all artists and animes I’ve mentioned.

Tom Ford: Making Jazz accessible, since, presumably, the early 2020's

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN good shout. I’ll try to find a YouTube music upload, since I’m currently unable to re-sub to Spotify. Great listen so far based on the samples though.

@Yousef- Oh ,thanks! Glad you liked it. I really like how he blends his guitar parts in with what the other guest artists on his tracks are doing. Really gives a sort of communal feeling to the music.

Great EP. Reminiscent of Bill Frisell. With greater fluidity and rapidity across the fretboard.

Normally not a Metheny fan, but I think Zorn has brought his best qualities to the fore. And this is truly an exceptional record.

I love how the end of the Jimi's Headband track features an electric guitar solo. It's absolutely pure art, this hip hop album, which was released by Rome Streetz & Daringer this week.

This album is also amazing. Contemporary jazz from rising star Nubya Garcia.

I have recently, in the last few years, well maybe 7 years or so now, moved on from rock and heavy metal, as I have said several times on here, to jazz and other musics. It was initially a more dissonant form of jazz that I liked, coming from that sort of background, but I'm starting to properly appreciate more cheerful music now, and this is something I thought I'd like to share.

Edit: As a side-note, and with further regard to the quote I have as my forum signature - music, as "purposeless play" works extremely well, and I think that can be said for all the art forms, with the exception of specific musics such as various forms of metal wherein specific rules and criteria have to be met in terms of getting the respect of your peers. I don't know what I'm trying to say here, but, hey! let's have try and have some fun and find out as I write this. I think video games, if you consider them to be an art form, are a form of 'purposeful' play, because there are objectives and rules outside of the overall artistic presentation and story of the games, within the game mechanics, that is.

I think abstract forms of music such as free jazz and abstract art ,to a lesser extent are definitely defined as defying categorizations within the traditional counterpoints of the art forms (jazz, traditional painting) that they have branched off from. Breaking the rules of those more traditional structures.

So yeah, I see things such as jazz and experimental classical music as purposeless play, because, unless they are socio-economically/politically motivated works of art, then the artist's who have created them have simply created art for art's sake, without a view to changing the world, and more to moving people.

Coming off the back of seeing the rather brilliant The Book of Mormon recently I’ve gone and booked tickets for my Mother in Law and I to see Moulin Rouge next year. Not a sentence I thought I’d type a few years ago 😂

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Seeing your "Moby Dick" update in the "Books..." thread reminded me that I forgot to give you my impressions of Mastodon's "Leviathan".
I listened to it over two-three days last week and while it didn't pull me in initially, it was definitely an album that evolved as one listened to it over time and I wound up liking it quite a bit.
As I mentioned in the aforementioned thread, Mastadon has been a bit of hit and miss for me. Not typically the type of metal I listen to the most, I previously found that their later albums, "Emperor of Sand" and "Hushed and Grim" in particular, were easily accessible (though maybe slightly uninteresting) while their earlier stuff wasn't really my thing. Will definitely give the earlier albums a new chance down the line, as I suspect they will grow on me like "Leviathan" did.