Topic: The Music Thread

Another 10/10 from Rome Streetz.

Amazing prog album.

@Jimmer-jammer Very welcome, man! The guitar-work's excellent, is it not? 😃

I have just discovered Gunship. How have I not heard these guys before. Love their music and their videos are amazing.

@MightyDemon82 Randomly chose a YouTube video, landed on "Dark All Day", and that sounded really interesting! Very 80's vibe visually, but with a nice amalgamated retro/modern sound. Will absolutely check them out further. Thanks for the tip!

@FuriousMachine No problem. I can't believe they've been around for a decade, they popped up on my youtube feed randomly the other day.

This artist has really fired me up to make new music again. He's an IDM artist.

New Muse single sounds like about three songs from the Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack mixed together at once. I don't think I've ever cared about a Muse song for like twenty years but I think this is actually pretty good.

I flew to London on Thursday morning to see Ado perform at the O2 Arena on Thursday night (flew back home Friday evening) and it was genuinely the best concert I’ve ever been to. The atmosphere was incredible. Ado’s voice is nothing short of amazing and her vocal range is otherworldly.

The post-concert depression has well and truly set in and I’m still tired from the trip and having a great time at the concert. I hope she’ll come back again soon! I’m glad I bought some merch to remember the trip by.

What a night!

I went to a gig recently, great jazz concert by the Tom Smith Big Band. But, for now, here's the Jazz Metal Maniacs.

And also, some essential hip hop.

Watched a bit of Glasto over the weekend. Pulp were obviously brilliant but I thought Supergrass and CMAT were good too on the main stage. Bob Vylan were proper good too, hadn’t listened to them before yesterday but I’m not sure anyone can dispute punk status when the literal government are trying to shut them down. I was a little mixed on Charli XCX’s set though, the music was as good as it normally is but I think the size of stage does her a disservice, her music is built for clubs and the enormous stage and crowd sort of swallowed her up.

Amazing album from one of the GOAT.

Really like this guy's guitar sound.

Inna, love her.

Yeesh, this really is 2016 all over again. RIP Ozzy, not entirely sure how he made it to this age to be fair. At least they had that farewell tour.

Black Sabbath were very important to me in my musically formative years. RIP Ozzy ,indeed.

@RogueCooper Thank you, man, I am very much a jazz and hip hop guy ,rather than a reggae or soka guy, so it isn't exactly what I usually go for, but he has a nice voice, and the melodies are nice. My mother, however, is very much into this type of music, so I will pass along the recommendation.

Great guitar-work here.

For those interested in the notorious free improvisation guitarist, Derek Bailey, RIP.

This and the self-titled album from Argia mark Tara Cunningham as the literal successor to his throne in terms of guitar style and assorted musical shenannigans, she has a lot of other work too, but on those two albums her work is the most reminiscent of his style.

Edit: I also realised that in jazz, the guitar isn't exactly up-front right and center, it's more compartmentalised, and to be a jazz guitarist, you have to realise you're not gonna be the star of the show in a band, if it features horns as well, you're more the co-star or in the secondary lead-type position, contributing to the organic sound of the whole, and essentially limited by playing that free jazz/free improvisation/experimental type stuff on you're own, of course the sound can expand in a lineup with two guitars, a bassist and a drummer of course, but that kind of set up is quite rare to find in jazz. Anyway.... just my 'two cents..

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation Music that's horn-focused, such as this, is definitely allowed though! 😂

I went to see the aforementioned Tara Cunningham tonight, fantastic gig, absolutely amazing guitar-work. Loved the set, The gig was organised as an event focused around launching her new EP. which I have shared below.