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Requesting music suggestions
casull:
--- Quote from: Cerulean on 02 Jan 2008, 00:56 ---I apologize if my topic choice of "requesting music suggestions" misled you into assuming this thread was something besides a request for music suggestions.
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If you like the clicky, beepy sound of the postal service, you might try some IDMish stuff like Telefon Tel Aviv, The Album Leaf, and (taking it somewhat to an extreme) BT's This Binary Universe
I have been loving a track from Nightwish's new album that has some nice vocal harmonies.
Also, the one really recognizable song of Imogen Heap's that is just voice and vocoder is cool.
Actually, I'll zip and host a track from all the bands I just mentioned, and throw in a track from my college choir as well. Package inc in half an hour or so.
Cerulean:
--- Quote from: casull on 02 Jan 2008, 02:01 ---If you like the clicky, beepy sound of the postal service, you might try some IDMish stuff like Telefon Tel Aviv, The Album Leaf, and (taking it somewhat to an extreme) BT's This Binary Universe
I have been loving a track from Nightwish's new album that has some nice vocal harmonies.
Also, the one really recognizable song of Imogen Heap's that is just voice and vocoder is cool.
Actually, I'll zip and host a track from all the bands I just mentioned, and throw in a track from my college choir as well. Package inc in half an hour or so.
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Wow, that's really nice of you! I look forward to checking them out.
casull:
ho hum, upload upload upload. Honestly I think it would be great if everyone would be as cool as me and upload demo tracks when they rattle off a long list of bands- otherwise it's a pain to try to find anything by all those bands and you probably won't listen to them, or you won't hear the best track.
Welcome to the forums, btw. This is one of very favorite places on the net, after waffles.
Edit: here be muzix.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ehxm34okkvn
Uber Ritter:
--- Quote from: Cerulean on 02 Jan 2008, 00:22 ---I'm looking for some new music and thought it'd be a good idea to ask this community.
I like narrative music like Marty Robbins's El Paso. Music that tells a story appeals to me greatly if it's a good story.
I like vocal harmony. Gregorian chant is a good example, as is African tribal music.
I like unusual voices because singing along exercises my ability to imitate. (Bright Eyes, Rammstein, Leonard Cohen.)
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I think you might mean Renaisance music (like Palestrina, Byrd, Des Prez), not Gregorian Chant, since Gregorian Chant is usually monophonic. But anyway, I'd suggest bluegrass if you like vocal harmonies and interesting voices. For the former I'd got with the Seldom Scene (who have been around for a while) perhaps their album Act I or their live album At The Cellar Door, and for the latter maybe Ralph Stanley's more recent albums (if the Seldom Scene have been around for a while, Stanley's been around for fuckin' ever). The big minus I could see given your description of your tastes is that most bluegrass song structures are pretty verse/chorus oriented (if someone did bluegrass-based postrock that didn't turn into a hippy jam session, I'd listen to it), but I'm also not a huge fan verse-chorus-verse etc. but Bluegrass is still probably one of my favorite genres.
A decent intro to the genre as a whole (along with gospel, et al) is probably the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack, which you've probably heard already.
Also, for weird vocal Tom Waits is pretty well-known and at least on some albums (Alice, for instance) pretty accessible.
IronOxide:
Umm, not to burst your bubble, but both Gregorian Chant and African Tribal music is actually largely noted by its lack of vocal harmony.
That being said, I'm going to recommend the same three groups that I recommend for everyone: Sigur Ros, I'm From Barcelona, and Soulwax.
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