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Inspired by an old post of littlebutfierce, who has been looking for some new tunes lately.
Everybody likes an excuse to talk about their favorite music, right? Recommend me music, recommend other people music, make a specific request for music recommendations you might like, go for it!
Here, I'll go first:
(all links to youtube unless otherwise indicated)
Ziyoou-Vachi/女王蜂 play the kind of fantastically loud music you listen to when you really, really need something to be louder than the thoughts in your head. That's kind of a mundane description -- I do mean fantastic, it will be loud and driving and a little frenzied and then sometimes you get this snatch of beautiful slowed-down sweet melody in the middle. Or the beginning. Or during the entire song, in a few cases.
Disco (dailymotion link) is their really popular song, and it's very good, but I think Matsu Onna (guns/shooting cw) and Kuchisake Onna (knives cw) are more representative. The singer, Avu-chan (who is a biracial trans lady) has two different 'voices' she uses, one of them's really deep and rough and the other one is very high, so it almost sounds like two different people singing.
They have three (amazing!) albums out, but are currently on indefinite hiatus. :( Recently, Avu-chan has appeared on one track of the Sailor Moon 20th Anniversary album (which you should also listen to).
Everybody knows Shiina Ringo, right? No? Well, she does a lot of alternative and jazz kind of thing, lots of experimental music. Her songs make me FEEL THINGS in a very profound way that I find hard to describe -- one of my life goals is to write something that gives the same feel as a Shiina Ringo song. Recent favorites are Kodoku no Akatsuki (tumblr audio post), 青春の瞬き (ALL THE FEELINGS, mainly a kind of yearning that is not exactly nostalgia), and her two songs with SOIL &"PIMP" SESSIONS, a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOtO_TxQ6iM">殺し屋危機一髪 (contains guns/shooting, knives, big spiders) and MY FOOLISH HEART, which are two of my favorite songs on earth. Especially that last.
I was going to rec a lot more stuff, but I am getting some serious hand twinges, so I will leave you (for now) with a really fantastic jazz version of Moonlight Densetsu:
Also, if anybody wants to rec me some modern/new jazz, that would be lovely!
Please link this post to all your friends, etc etc., so we can get a wider pool of tastes (and more music).
littlebutfierce, who has been looking for some new tunes lately. Everybody likes an excuse to talk about their favorite music, right? Recommend me music, recommend other people music, make a specific request for music recommendations you might like, go for it!
Here, I'll go first:
(all links to youtube unless otherwise indicated)
Ziyoou-Vachi/女王蜂 play the kind of fantastically loud music you listen to when you really, really need something to be louder than the thoughts in your head. That's kind of a mundane description -- I do mean fantastic, it will be loud and driving and a little frenzied and then sometimes you get this snatch of beautiful slowed-down sweet melody in the middle. Or the beginning. Or during the entire song, in a few cases.
Disco (dailymotion link) is their really popular song, and it's very good, but I think Matsu Onna (guns/shooting cw) and Kuchisake Onna (knives cw) are more representative. The singer, Avu-chan (who is a biracial trans lady) has two different 'voices' she uses, one of them's really deep and rough and the other one is very high, so it almost sounds like two different people singing.
They have three (amazing!) albums out, but are currently on indefinite hiatus. :( Recently, Avu-chan has appeared on one track of the Sailor Moon 20th Anniversary album (which you should also listen to).
Everybody knows Shiina Ringo, right? No? Well, she does a lot of alternative and jazz kind of thing, lots of experimental music. Her songs make me FEEL THINGS in a very profound way that I find hard to describe -- one of my life goals is to write something that gives the same feel as a Shiina Ringo song. Recent favorites are Kodoku no Akatsuki (tumblr audio post), 青春の瞬き (ALL THE FEELINGS, mainly a kind of yearning that is not exactly nostalgia), and her two songs with SOIL &"PIMP" SESSIONS, a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOtO_TxQ6iM">殺し屋危機一髪 (contains guns/shooting, knives, big spiders) and MY FOOLISH HEART, which are two of my favorite songs on earth. Especially that last.
I was going to rec a lot more stuff, but I am getting some serious hand twinges, so I will leave you (for now) with a really fantastic jazz version of Moonlight Densetsu:
Also, if anybody wants to rec me some modern/new jazz, that would be lovely!
Please link this post to all your friends, etc etc., so we can get a wider pool of tastes (and more music).
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Date: 2014-07-30 05:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-08-01 10:34 am (UTC)eeee the music you linked to all looks really exciting! I haven't had a chance to listen yet, because *cough* currently at work >_>, but I'm looking forward to doing so this weekend. Particularly Ziyoou-Vachi sounds riiiiiight up my alley.
Recs on my part (no youtube/music links, I'm afraid, bc again, at work, but most of these are easily google-able at least. Links go to artist sites. I may add youtube links later) (given your recs I dunno how much of this'll be of interest to you, but maybe someone else might find something new and exciting here!):
Omnia: Ok so I will always rec Omnia at the slightest provocation because they've been my faaaaaaaaavourite band for years now. They're a Paganfolk band based in the Netherlands and work a lot with celtic-inspired and folky tunes. Two of their older out-of-print albums aim to recreate Roman music & European music generally of that time. Their more recent albums are getting more and more pop-y, with less instrumental songs and more with English lyrics & such. Personally I'm perfectly happy with this development, though I know a lot of fans aren't. They're not perfect by any means - their politics are a bit to extreme anarchist for my taste, some of their songs are kind of ableist-faily, and the concept of not appropriating other cultures is... not one they've come across, I think, but I still love them rather a lot. My favourite of their songs is Dance Until We Die, though it's rather untypical in style for them. More indicative is Etrezomp-ni Kelted and Bran (older songs) as well as Old Man Tree and Xtatica (newer songs).
Rage: Power Metal! I do so love German metal bands, and I have great fondness for this band in particular (or, well, the music - I know nothing about the band itself). My favourite of their songs is Kill Your Gods, mostly for the line kill your gods don't kill your brothers. Because ♥ yes.
Poets of the Fall: Alternative Rock from Finnland. This is one of those bands I listen to a lot when I'm particularly depressed. ... I'm having a hard time choosing just a few of my favourites. Illusion & Dream, Sleep (this song was the reason I got into them in the first place), Dreaming Wide Awake (oh look can you spot a theme), Locking Up the Sun, More, Running Out of Time.
Caravan Palace: a French band wot does Electroswing! A genre I enjoy a lot. I don't really have much to say specifically about the band or the songs, though, as I mostly listen to this as background music. It's excellent background music, though. :D
Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa, aka Warsaw Village Band: as the name implies, a Polish band! They do Polish modern folk-inspired things & the Polish they use is the kind of dialect-y wonderfulness that I can barely understand at all. I only have one of their albums - Infinity. I vaguely remember not being very impressed by some of their other songs when I looked them up, but that albums is fantastic from start to finish. Pieśń Mądrego Dziecka gives a good impression of what the album is like, and I have great fondness for Poznałem because the female singers keep the male versions of the words (so the title, translated, is "I (male) met [someone]").
Hvarna (Bandcamp/Facebook): Slavic Paganfolk-type stuff! Their album Koła Viartańniaŭ is available as a free download from their bandcamp. Their music always feels very calm & whistful to me, I tend to listen to it when I can't fall asleep or when I have to be up early and have no brain for anything more exciting. Which... sounds like it's a criticism, but it's really not meant to be. :D Of the songs, I particularly like Viasna, dzie buvała. Also Na našym dvary, because I understand some of the lyrics :D
Tape Five: Apparently it's a "multinational German music project". I only have one of their albums - Tonight Josephine! but I highly rec it. More Electroswing, always makes me thing of queer ladies in the 20s, for some reason.
Faun: German Medieval Paganfolk! Some of their songs are super fucking gross if you understand German, because particularly in their earlier years they did a lot of original medieval/folky texts and uuuuugh rapey, but I just got rid of those songs from my playlist and there's still plenty left. :P Much like Omnia, their songs got more pop-y over the years - I hold some fondness for their new albums, but usually I listen to Renaissance and Licht, which are both very early albums. Licht was my bedtime/falling-asleep album for a long time. Specific songs: I adore Cernunnos (though that one may not be quite as great if you don't understand German), Egil Saga (I love this song sooooooo much), Satyros, and Andro II.