@Voltan What sort of weird fusion stuff are you referring to? And in terms of "complex" music, do you like jazz? You say you're a musician yourself, what do you play, and for how long?
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@LordSteev@nessisonett@Th3solution@Jimmer-jammer What have you been listening to recently? FYI ness, K-pop shoegaze isn't really my thing so I left that one. Loved Microphones in 2020, from a previous recommendation, though.
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@nessisonett R.I.P .By the way, I think they used that song in an episode of King of Queens, if you've ever seen that, great use of the song.
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@TheBrandedSwordsman I do like jazz but I'd rather listen to modern stuff than most classics (which I do appreciate). The "weird fusion stuff" - I very much enjoy artists who blend jazz harmony with other genres and, having grown up listening to a lot of heavy metal, I do like when they can give it a bit of that heavier edge
Sooo I guess it can be anything from classic Return To Forever to the likes of Plini, with a whole bunch of nu-jazz, neo-soul, jazz pianinsts influenced by Armenian folk music etc in between
I can post some stuff if you'd like.
For now, here's Plini:
And here's my favorite album of 2018:
As a musician, I've been playing keyboards for about 23 years now, and I've been in bands for about 18 years - it's mostly heavy metal and hard rock but I'm writing a much more complex album now, hopefully to be recorded in a few months.
Also my current side-gig is writing orchestration for a pop ballad - making a very simple song sound like it could be in a Disney movie, lol
@Voltan Have you heard Tony Williams 'Emergency' album? or Birds of Fire by Mahavishnu Orchestra? Those both feature John McLaughlin and are about as heavy as jazz gets, there is also A Tribute to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis which features McLaughlin as well. Surely you must already know of McLaughlin if you have an interest in heavier jazz?
Edit: I listened to the Plini track, good mix of jazz and classic rock, feel free to post more!
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@TheBrandedSwordsman yeah, I got a couple Mahavishnu albums on my shelves That's about as heavy as jazz got in their day though and we're in a very different time now
I don't think I've heard that Tony Williams album - I'll check it out.
@nessisonett Where do you stand on Frank Zappa? Sorry if I've asked you before. Have you heard One Size Fits All? Highly recommended if you haven't. Brilliant jazz fusion/prog rock.
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@Voltan Which Mahavishnu albums do you have? Looking forward to you posting more jazz-metal!
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@TheBrandedSwordsman I got Birds of Fire and The Inner Mounting Flame. TBH I haven't listened to any of those in some time.
I was busy unitl late last night so I didn't post anything but I will this evening for sure.
Just finished recording some vocal harmonies in Finnish (which I don't speak and have no idea what the lyrics mean lol).
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@TheBrandedSwordsman I work with some Finnish musicians in one of my bands (see below) and one of them was asked to produce a song for someone and I got "hired" to work on the arrangement... which is most of the work tbh
Anyways - that included arranging harmonies for some parts of the song and it's all in Finnish. My vocals won't be featured in the final mix though, they will record an actual singer doing the same thing
Here's that band of mine - the singer and the guitarist are Finnish, the rest are Polish. I wrote and produced this myself, btw. Also made the video (my 1st ever After Effects project) - we're all DIY like that
Also, I failed to post the jazz stuff again... I promise I'll get to it
@Voltan Good stuff, really catchy song, heavy metal isn't it? Loved your keyboard work on the song, are you Polish yourself then? How did you meet the other guys in the band? Still looking forward to the jazz stuff!
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@TheBrandedSwordsman Yeah, I'm Polish. The band started here in Warsaw a looong time ago. Long story short - when our previous singer left the band, we had trouble finding someone to fill his shoes so we decided to contact a guy we found on the internet. Later I learned he was friends with a guitarist whose work I was familiar with, so when our original guitarist quit for personal reasons, I got him join too. Remote work is nothing new for metal bands tbh
Anyways, let's get started with some Arch Echo...
Nova Collective...
And Tigran Hamasyan's wild mix of jazz piano, Armenian folk, Indian Carnatic music and even modern metal to some extent
@Voltan It's all great stuff but I don't know how I feel about mixing jazz and contemporary metal together, it's like the two styles are pushing in fundamentally different directions. On a side note, I have a headless Steinberger guitar like the guy in the first video, but mine has a smaller body. Headless guitars in jazz fusion started in the 70s with Allan Holdsworth and continued with bands like Paul Masvidal's Cynic. Are you a fan of either of those artists? Holdsworth had some dynamite keyboard players back in the day, especially on the album Atavachron. I think I am stuck somewhere in the 70s, bands like Mahavishnu Orchestra and some John Scofield and Bill Frisell took jazz and rock fusion as far as it could go at that time, and with the exceptions of acts like Last Exit and Frisell's work in Naked City I don't think jazz fusion works if it gets much heavier than Mahavishnu, and even though I say Naked City worked that's just because the metal of the time, 70s & 80s metal music, which they drew from throughout their career was about as far as they could get away with, mixing with jazz, and, yeah I am not so sure about djent and jazz, the creativity is there, though, the creativity is great.
Edit; Plus Naked City was overall an "experimental rock band project" and not deliberately setting out to be jazz fusion or jazz-core.
Edit 2: Nova Collective sounds a bit like a more relaxed version of Atheist on their Unquestionable Presence album ,which is excellent jazz-metal.
Edit 3: The last track was absolutely crazy, but I don't know how far we can get away with pushing the boundaries of music and still call it music, quite the mashup nonetheless.
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> it's like the two styles are pushing in fundamentally different directions
See, I don't agree. Jazz and metal are both very expressive styles of music - jazz being mostly about expression through harmony and metal being all about dynamic contrasts and strong, very defined rhythms. I think they complement each other and I love hearing them together. And I actually like it when they take it to extremes sometimes
It's all a matter of personal taste though. I was definitely a metal fan first so there's that
I am familiar with Holdsworth and Cynic - great stuff.
I do have some "softer" stuff that goes in interesting directions too.
Like... GoGo Penguin - a traditional trio at a glance (piano, bass, drums) but doing something quite unique
The drum-focused but chill music of Richard Spaven
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