Topic: The Music Thread

@Thrillho Superb stuff, mate, it's always great to hear from you.

There's never any pressure to reply here, by the way. You've already provided lots of fantastic band and album recommendations to me over the years, anyway.

There've been a few Winona Fighter songs that popped up on my YouTube feed via Rise Records, so it's good to know that we're on the same wavelength, yet again. I've heard the songs Hamms In A Glass, R U Famous and Talk, so far.

L.S. Dunes are new to me though, and I've just found the Gaffa Tape Sandy 'Family Mammal' EP on a YouTube music channel called Dead Beat Club. Cheers, as always!

Have an excellent weekend, bud, and have fun listening to the new Anxious album when you pick it up.

Been listening to a lot of Duckman (the rapper) and Bruce Edwards (jazz guitarist, formerly a member of Sun Ra's Sextet) lately. Loving both their sounds. It's just a shame that there are so few examples of Edwards' playing available. Contemporary black jazz guitarists seem to be too far and few between.

Never heard of this artist before. It is one hell of a music video.

ifa - Faith

That new Lady Gaga album sounds pretty much exactly like I want a Lady Gaga album to sound. Pretty much wall to wall pure camp bangers.

Fantastic metal guitar-work on this hip hop album.

Also, I saw Wynton Marsalis live the other night, fantastic gig. Amazing horn-work from premiere musicians.
He told humorous asides in-between the songs, and let the younger guys in the band do most of the soloing, one of his albums even features his original spoken-word poetry. Man of many talents, from a very talented family.

Love Kurt Rosenwinkel's work as Sideman on this album.

Sometimes when I listen to a jazz song and skip to the guitar solo, it's like eating a burger without the bun, sauce or salad, you need to hear the whole thing, i.e the 'head' of the song and the other musicians solos, to get the full experience, even if your primary instrument is the guitar!

Amazing new release from Duckman, Black Soprano Family Hip Hop EmCee.

BSF/Griselda artists, i.e Benny the Butcher, Rome Streetz, Boldy James, Conway the Machine et al. are basically the contemporary equivalent to the 90s/00s Wu Tang, who, also, by the way, have a new album coming out soon.

@Herculean I saw Black Country New Road when they supported Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds back in November. Didn't really know anything about them at the time, but really enjoyed the performance. I believe most of what the play live now is newer material since their original singer left. Based on what I saw back in November, I'll definitely be picking up the new album.

I feel like I may have enough hip hop artists in my pantheon, and am keen on discovering new jazz artists, instead. Speaking of jazz, Nels Cline's new group, the Consentrik Quartet, recently just released this.

In fact, the top ten hip hop artists that I shall most probably rotate between are:

Boldy James
Benny the Butcher
Rome Streetz
Conway the Machine
JAY-Z
Wu Tang Clan/Wu Tang Clan Members' Solo Careers
Ja'King the Divine
Freddie Gibbs
Jay Royale
Duckman

@Jimmer-jammer As a rock, metal fan, I'd figure this energetic offering would be right up your street, let me know what you think, it's basically just good, solid, guitar-driven instrumental rock.

@Jimmer-jammer No problem. Their other releases on Spotify are really good too.

@Jimmer-jammer A jazz guitarist I really like is influenced by Meshuggah, according to interviews. As a long-term metal/rock fan, where do you stand on the band? I always used to love them when I listened to the stuff. Considering bringing them back into rotation aas the only metal band I will choose to listen to, simply for the sheer intelligence present in the music.

If you haven't heard them already, I'd love to get your thoughts on this record.

destroy erase improve by meshuggah is worth a spin also

@Jimmer-jammer Second what @Skarasny said, possibly a better starting point.

So encouraging to see musicians like Josh Meader and Shubh Saran mixing their jazz with other influences such as rock and Hindustani classical ,it's really inspiring to see so many different genres going into the melting-pot to create visions that are truly unique.

Edit: Shubh Saran and Westside Gunn have more or less 'duo-handedly' reinvigorated my interest in music, wanting to engage with it as both a listener and participant on the free jazz guitar. Such talent and creativitiy! Truly magnificent!

so, i have been listening alot to Schammasch, which is a swiss black metal band. ITs not hardcore norwegian black metal, but more black metal with mostly clean vocals and chanting. Songs are usually 6 mins and longer. Their own/record companys word: "although their roots can be found in forward-thinking black metal whilst balancing a razor sharp hybrid of dark atmospherics, doom and Hermetic mysticism".

I bought the record (Contradiction) on bandcamp a couple of years ago, but didnt listen to it a whole lot. My Mistake. Its a really good record and being a faithful listener to classic black metal, its just something else. I have also listened alot to Black Sabbaths Sabotage record. I have never been a diehard Sabbath fan, but i have bought Paranoid and listened to various songs and records through the years. Anyways its a kick ass record if you enjoy heavy metal and some lovely riffs provided by Iommi and crew.

I have also started watching this new documentary about Little Richard, which is also kickass in my opinion. The struggle is real and who doesnt like the song Tutti Frutti. Which actually is a song about analxxxx (wikipedia says no, but the interviews in the film says yes) Anyways its well worth seeing this documentary if you like music in general. Little Richard has been a great inspiration for many artists and music in general.

Iam going out with a bang: https://napalmdeath.bandcamp.com/track/the-kill-7

Two quality hip hop records dropped today. Here they are.

@Jimmer-jammer No problm at all, im glad to help. music brings joy

@Jimmer-jammer Glad you liked them, man. Obzen by them is good as well, and more along the same lines as those two. Apparently when they started they were quite thrashy! Destroy Erase Improve is an early record, and reflects that to a certain extent, I believe.