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Theta9:
I've been listening to that great pioneer of electronic music, Wendy Carlos.
Somebody aggressively polices YouTube and scrubs her work from it, so I have no links to share. But I've been grooving to her Switched-On Bach albums, and her Sonic Seasonings album which may be the first instance of ambient music (before Brian Eno even!)
It's quite provoking that her records are all out of print and fetch ludicrous prices on the used market. The only thing I can stream is the soundtrack to the movie Tron.
Morituri:
Hildegard vong Blingin' is a modern artist, but I'm loving what she does with the fusion of ancient and modern styles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqQlB5fpuc&list=UUJ_jwWjf8u5mdtac71Be8QA&index=1
The dialect of English she uses is more 1700s than 900s but to be fair, what was spoken in the 900s, 3 centuries before Chaucer, we wouldn't even recognize as English.
Listening to this is an experience for me, because although there are several other artists doing "Bard Core" as they call it, most are handling the language in a kind of slapdash approximate style Americans have probably heard at Rennaissance Festivals from actors who don't actually know that dialect trying to fake it. But Hildegard in particular is writing lyrics in approximately the same dialect my grandparents spoke (deliberately fossilized in 1693). It even has a few of the same errors/differences/colloquialisms, which makes me wonder whether the artist may also have had Amish grandparents, or even closer connection to that tradition.
They have a strong tradition of absolutely beautiful a capella singing which they flatly refuse to record. And this ... isn't that, for several reasons. She has instrumental accompaniment, performs vocal solos instead of choral parts, and sings insistently secular lyrics. But there's a very precise kind of control of breath and tone that's either from that tradition or from formal training in a very particular matching style.
I think of them from time to time, but to that community I am now an Auslaender. I have cousins whom I will never meet.
Grognard:
honestly, I'm watching competition drum corps from 2019.
My kid is the one in the blue, and I'm in yellow in the stands.
https://youtu.be/pkHysWmNcks
...for a behind the scenes view and to get a real appreciation of the effort expended...
https://youtu.be/lZvUChF-OZ8
And I'm clearly visible from 11:51 - 12:02....I hadn't realized how visible that shirt really is.
Gyrre:
Peter Pringle
This first one is him performing Namárië (Galadriel's Lament) from J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion played on the cristal baschet. I honestly don't blame anyone who's not into it.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=g51mF6X3d0o
Here's him performing the Hurrian Hymn to Nikal. A song from 1400 B.C. It's appropriately haunting.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8tfBLvlN98
Thrillho:
So having been resistant to Spotify for ages due to feeling like it would kill the fun of physical ownership, I realised the real new fun was in finding genuinely rare shit that isn't on there.
The KLF were/are a music act/art project/crime wave in the mid-late 80s to the early 90s, and their career culminated in the early 90s in their deleting their entire catalogue in the UK.
As such I've got my local vinyl place keeping an eye out for anything by them, and he just recently got in something super rare - their first album, an album so rare it's actually illegal.
Why is it illegal, might you ask? Well, the world of sampling was still pretty new in the 80s due to how recently the technology entered the mainstream, so one of the singles trailing the album itself was this.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4OF0Fnq0UM
You may be thinking two things - firstly, this barely even qualifies as music. You are correct. The closest comparison I have to the experience of the listening to the album itself is the greatest pop music festival of all time, but taking place in Hell - assuming, that is, that Hell is a rap label in Scotland.
Secondly, yes, that is an enormous Beatles sample, and no, they did not in any way seek permission for this sample. The album is made up almost entirely of samples that were not cleared, featuring some of the most infamously litigious music acts of all time (not just the Beatles, but also Zeppelin and ABBA, as well as loads of others). The famous possibly untrue story is that they flew to Europe to find ABBA in order to convince them, failed to do so and chucked the remaining copies of the album overboard.
It's brilliant and terrible at the same time, I really don't know what to think of it - their properly acclaimed work came not long after, but this is now by a wide margin the rarest record I own and whether or not it's listenable is kind of immaterial to me. I'm into a new phase of music listening and it's a weird place to be :psyduck:
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