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Inlander:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 07 Nov 2010, 17:17 ---kangaroo
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I know we're all chuckling now but I just want to tell you that if that was a dog instead of a person the kangaroo would probably hold its head under the water and drown it.
Jimor:
--- Quote from: David_Dovey on 07 Nov 2010, 02:53 ---Sarah Blasko- Fantastic lady makes haunting chamber pop, beats "sensitive"-type boys back with a stick, I presume. All I Want
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I'm enjoying a lot of these, but this one in particular, WOW.
I always gotten quite a bit of my music from Australia, but until fairly recently, it's been what has made it commercially, at least a little bit, here in the states, so I missed out on a lot of good stuff. Found a good bunch of 80s stuff via YouTube last year, and now starting to get a small sense of more current artists.
look out! Ninjas!:
Sarah Blasko is fantastic.
Inlander:
Oh hey have I mentioned the Mann brothers of Melbourne yet this week? I haven't? Great!
Paddy Mann performs under the name Grand Salvo and writes beautiful folky tunes of incredible emotional punch. He released an album a couple of years ago called Death which was a song cycle about a group of animals and a hunter and which was kind of an album for grown-ups disguised as a kid's story-time album. It's dense and delicate and absolutely and crushing and wonderful. Last year he released an album called Soil Creatures which was much a more straight-forward bunch of songs but which was equally amazing. His music is simple, often repetitive or minimalistic, and works by an accumulation and intensification of emotion which can become quite overpowering. Listen to the lyrics!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc08SK5PPqY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA8xo7B4Rp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4jasgYT3VI
His brother Oliver Mann performs under his own name. He has an amazing voice - he's a baritone who as well as doing his own music sings with the Victorian Opera - but unlike many classically trained singers who try to sing non-opera material, he writes his own songs which means that his voice become a perfect fit. Also unlike a lot of singers with amazing voices, he has enough taste to realise that the more he unleashes the full power of his voice the lesser the effect will be, so mostly he keeps it in check which means that when he finally opens up it's just flooring, especially live. A great example of this is his song "Shoes of Leather", which starts with a strange halting description of being arrested in China and then blossoms out into a mesmerising and incredibly powerful slow movement (for want of a better term):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEv3ggRJuB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBFIWd2F3ak
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